# VkSampler(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkSampler - Opaque handle to a sampler object

## C Specification

`VkSampler` objects represent the state of an image sampler which is used by the implementation to read image data and apply filtering and other transformations for the shader.

Samplers are represented by `VkSampler` handles:

    VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkSampler)

## Description

## See Also

VkDescriptorImageInfo, VkDescriptorSetLayoutBinding, VkImageViewHandleInfoNVX, vkCreateSampler, vkDestroySampler

## 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.