# VkImageViewType(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImageViewType - Image view types

## C Specification

The types of image views that can be created are:

    typedef enum VkImageViewType {
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_1D = 0,
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D = 1,
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_3D = 2,
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE = 3,
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_1D_ARRAY = 4,
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D_ARRAY = 5,
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE_ARRAY = 6,
        VK_IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_MAX_ENUM = 0x7FFFFFFF
    } VkImageViewType;

## Description

The exact image view type is partially implicit, based on the image’s type and sample count, as well as the view creation parameters as described in the image view compatibility table for vkCreateImageView. This table also shows which SPIR-V `OpTypeImage` `Dim` and `Arrayed` parameters correspond to each image view type.

## See Also

VkImageViewCreateInfo, VkPhysicalDeviceImageViewImageFormatInfoEXT

## 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.