VkImage(3)

# VkImage(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImage - Opaque handle to an image object

## C Specification

Images are specialized resources that have multi-dimensional access, as outlined in the https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/latest/html/vkspec.html#images chapter. Images can be used for various purposes, such as rendering attachments, for copy operations, or accessed through shaders via resource descriptors.

Images are represented by `VkImage` handles:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkImage)

## See Also

VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE, VK_VERSION_1_0, VkBindImageMemoryInfo, VkBlitImageInfo2, VkCopyBufferToImageInfo2, VkCopyDeviceMemoryImageInfoKHR, VkCopyImageInfo2, VkCopyImageToBufferInfo2, VkCopyImageToImageInfo, VkCopyImageToMemoryInfo, VkCopyMemoryToImageIndirectInfoKHR, VkCopyMemoryToImageInfo, VkDedicatedAllocationMemoryAllocateInfoNV, VkExportMetalIOSurfaceInfoEXT, VkExportMetalTextureInfoEXT, VkFrameBoundaryEXT, VkHostImageLayoutTransitionInfo, VkImageCaptureDescriptorDataInfoEXT, VkImageMemoryBarrier, VkImageMemoryBarrier2, VkImageMemoryRequirementsInfo2, VkImageSparseMemoryRequirementsInfo2, VkImageViewCreateInfo, VkMemoryDedicatedAllocateInfo, VkResolveImageInfo2, VkSparseImageMemoryBindInfo, VkSparseImageOpaqueMemoryBindInfo, vkBindImageMemory, vkCmdBlitImage, vkCmdClearColorImage, vkCmdClearDepthStencilImage, vkCmdCopyBufferToImage, vkCmdCopyImage, vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer, vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectNV, vkCmdResolveImage, vkCreateImage, vkDestroyImage, vkGetImageDrmFormatModifierPropertiesEXT, vkGetImageMemoryRequirements, vkGetImageOpaqueCaptureDataEXT, vkGetImageSparseMemoryRequirements, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout2, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout2, vkGetImageSubresourceLayout2, vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR

## 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

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