VkImageView - Opaque handle to an image view object

Image objects are not directly accessed by pipeline shaders for reading orwriting image data.Instead,image views representing contiguous ranges of the imagesubresources and containing additional metadata are used for that purpose.Viewsmust be created on images of compatible types, andmust represent avalid subset of image subresources.

Image views are represented byVkImageView handles:

VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE,VK_VERSION_1_0,VkDescriptorImageInfo,VkExportMetalTextureInfoEXT,VkFramebufferCreateInfo,VkImageViewCaptureDescriptorDataInfoEXT,VkImageViewHandleInfoNVX,VkRenderPassAttachmentBeginInfo,VkRenderingAttachmentInfo,VkRenderingFragmentDensityMapAttachmentInfoEXT,VkRenderingFragmentShadingRateAttachmentInfoKHR,VkVideoEncodeQuantizationMapInfoKHR,VkVideoPictureResourceInfoKHR,vkBindOpticalFlowSessionImageNV,vkCmdBindInvocationMaskHUAWEI,vkCmdBindShadingRateImageNV,vkCreateImageView,vkDestroyImageView,vkGetImageViewAddressNVX

For more information, see theVulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification.Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.