C Specification

Applications can also control the sample locations used for rasterization.

If the pNext chain of the VkPipelineMultisampleStateCreateInfo structure specified at pipeline creation time includes a VkPipelineSampleLocationsStateCreateInfoEXT structure, then that structure controls the sample locations used when rasterizing primitives with the pipeline.

The VkPipelineSampleLocationsStateCreateInfoEXT structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_EXT_sample_locations
typedef struct VkPipelineSampleLocationsStateCreateInfoEXT {
    VkStructureType             sType;
    const void*                 pNext;
    VkBool32                    sampleLocationsEnable;
    VkSampleLocationsInfoEXT    sampleLocationsInfo;
} VkPipelineSampleLocationsStateCreateInfoEXT;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • sampleLocationsEnable controls whether custom sample locations are used. If sampleLocationsEnable is VK_FALSE, the default sample locations are used and the values specified in sampleLocationsInfo are ignored.

  • sampleLocationsInfo is the sample locations to use during rasterization if sampleLocationsEnable is VK_TRUE and the graphics pipeline is not created with VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_SAMPLE_LOCATIONS_EXT.

Description

Valid Usage (Implicit)

See Also

VK_EXT_sample_locations, VkBool32, VkSampleLocationsInfoEXT, VkStructureType

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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