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VkImageViewUsageCreateInfo::usage

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VkImageCreateInfo::usage

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT specifies that the image can be used as the source of a transfer command.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT specifies that the image can be used as the destination of a transfer command.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for occupying a VkDescriptorSet slot either of type VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE or VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_COMBINED_IMAGE_SAMPLER, and be sampled by a shader.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_STORAGE_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for occupying a VkDescriptorSet slot of type VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for use as a color or resolve attachment in a VkFramebuffer.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_DEPTH_STENCIL_ATTACHMENT_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for use as a depth/stencil or depth/stencil resolve attachment in a VkFramebuffer.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSIENT_ATTACHMENT_BIT specifies that implementations may support using memory allocations with the VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_LAZILY_ALLOCATED_BIT to back an image with this usage. This bit can be set for any image that can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for use as a color, resolve, depth/stencil, or input attachment.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for occupying VkDescriptorSet slot of type VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT; be read from a shader as an input attachment; and be used as an input attachment in a framebuffer.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_FRAGMENT_DENSITY_MAP_BIT_EXT specifies that the image can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for use as a fragment density map image.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_ATTACHMENT_BIT_KHR specifies that the image can be used to create a VkImageView suitable for use as a fragment shading rate attachment or shading rate image

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_DST_BIT_KHR specifies that video decode operations can use the image as an output picture for video decode operations.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_SRC_BIT_KHR is reserved for future use.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_DPB_BIT_KHR specifies that video decode operations can use the image as a DPB Video Picture Resource, representing a reference picture. If an implementation requires separate allocations for DPB and decode output, indicating this by returning VK_ERROR_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED to any vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoFormatPropertiesKHR call with both VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_DPB_BIT_KHR and VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_DST_BIT_KHR usage bits, then VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_DPB_BIT_KHR must not be combined with any other VK_IMAGE_USAGE_* flags. Otherwise, VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_DPB_BIT_KHR must be combined with VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_DECODE_DST_BIT_KHR, if the DPB image is required to coincide with the decoded output picture. In the case where DPB coincides with the decoded output picture, image resources can be used as reference pictures only after acting as targets for video decode operations, where its image view must be set to both VkVideoDecodeInfoKHR::pSetupReferenceSlot->pPictureResource->imageViewBinding and VkVideoDecodeInfoKHR::dstPictureResource.imageViewBinding.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_ENCODE_SRC_BIT_KHR specifies that the image can be used as an input picture for video encode operations.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_ENCODE_DST_BIT_KHR is reserved for future use.

VK_IMAGE_USAGE_VIDEO_ENCODE_DPB_BIT_KHR specifies that video encode operations can use the image as an output to hold a reconstructed picture that can subsequently act as an input reference picture.