# VkImageCreateFlagBits(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImageCreateFlagBits - Bitmask specifying additional parameters of an image

## C Specification

Bits which can be set in VkImageCreateInfo::`flags`, specifying additional parameters of an image, are:

    typedef enum VkImageCreateFlagBits {
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT = 0x00000001,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT = 0x00000002,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_ALIASED_BIT = 0x00000004,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT = 0x00000008,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT = 0x00000010,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT = 0x00000400,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPLIT_INSTANCE_BIND_REGIONS_BIT = 0x00000040,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BIT = 0x00000020,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT = 0x00000080,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT = 0x00000100,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_PROTECTED_BIT = 0x00000800,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_DISJOINT_BIT = 0x00000200,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CORNER_SAMPLED_BIT_NV = 0x00002000,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SAMPLE_LOCATIONS_COMPATIBLE_DEPTH_BIT_EXT = 0x00001000,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SUBSAMPLED_BIT_EXT = 0x00004000,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPLIT_INSTANCE_BIND_REGIONS_BIT_KHR = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPLIT_INSTANCE_BIND_REGIONS_BIT,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BIT_KHR = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BIT,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT_KHR = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT_KHR = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_DISJOINT_BIT_KHR = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_DISJOINT_BIT,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT_KHR = VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT,
        VK_IMAGE_CREATE_FLAG_BITS_MAX_ENUM = 0x7FFFFFFF
    } VkImageCreateFlagBits;

## Description

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT` specifies that the image will be backed using sparse memory binding.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT` specifies that the image can be partially backed using sparse memory binding. Images created with this flag must also be created with the `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT` flag.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_ALIASED_BIT` specifies that the image will be backed using sparse memory binding with memory ranges that might also simultaneously be backing another image (or another portion of the same image). Images created with this flag must also be created with the `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT` flag

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT` specifies that the image can be used to create a `VkImageView` with a different format from the image. For multi-planar formats, `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT` specifies that a `VkImageView` can be created of a plane of the image.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT` specifies that the image can be used to create a `VkImageView` of type `VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE` or `VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE_ARRAY`.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BIT` specifies that the image can be used to create a `VkImageView` of type `VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D` or `VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D_ARRAY`.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_PROTECTED_BIT` specifies that the image is a protected image.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPLIT_INSTANCE_BIND_REGIONS_BIT` specifies that the image can be used with a non-zero value of the `splitInstanceBindRegionCount` member of a VkBindImageMemoryDeviceGroupInfo structure passed into vkBindImageMemory2. This flag also has the effect of making the image use the standard sparse image block dimensions.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT` specifies that the image having a compressed format can be used to create a `VkImageView` with an uncompressed format where each texel in the image view corresponds to a compressed texel block of the image.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT` specifies that the image can be created with usage flags that are not supported for the format the image is created with but are supported for at least one format a `VkImageView` created from the image can have.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_DISJOINT_BIT` specifies that an image with a multi-planar format must have each plane separately bound to memory, rather than having a single memory binding for the whole image; the presence of this bit distinguishes a disjoint image from an image without this bit set.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT` specifies that two images created with the same creation parameters and aliased to the same memory can interpret the contents of the memory consistently with each other, subject to the rules described in the Memory Aliasing section. This flag further specifies that each plane of a disjoint image can share an in-memory non-linear representation with single-plane images, and that a single-plane image can share an in-memory non-linear representation with a plane of a multi-planar disjoint image, according to the rules in https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions/html/vkspec.html#formats-compatible-planes. If the `pNext` chain includes a VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo or VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfoNV structure whose `handleTypes` member is not `0`, it is as if `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT` is set.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SAMPLE_LOCATIONS_COMPATIBLE_DEPTH_BIT_EXT` specifies that an image with a depth or depth/stencil format can be used with custom sample locations when used as a depth/stencil attachment.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_CORNER_SAMPLED_BIT_NV` specifies that the image is a corner-sampled image.

- `VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SUBSAMPLED_BIT_EXT` specifies that an image can be in a subsampled format which may be more optimal when written as an attachment by a render pass that has a fragment density map attachment. Accessing a subsampled image has additional considerations:

  - Image data read as an image sampler is undefined if the sampler was not created with `flags` containing `VK_SAMPLER_CREATE_SUBSAMPLED_BIT_EXT` or was not sampled through the use of a combined image sampler with an immutable sampler in `VkDescriptorSetLayoutBinding`.

  - Image data read with an input attachment is undefined if the contents were not written as an attachment in an earlier subpass of the same render pass.

  - Image data read with load operations may be resampled to the fragment density of the render pass.

  - Image contents outside of the render area become undefined if the image is stored as a render pass attachment.

See Sparse Resource Features and Sparse Physical Device Features for more details.

## See Also

VkImageCreateFlags

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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

## Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.