VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand(3)

# VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand - Structure specifying an indexed indirect drawing command

## C Specification

The `VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef struct VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand {
        uint32_t    indexCount;
        uint32_t    instanceCount;
        uint32_t    firstIndex;
        int32_t     vertexOffset;
        uint32_t    firstInstance;
    } VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand;

## Members

- `indexCount` is the number of vertices to draw.

- `instanceCount` is the number of instances to draw.

- `firstIndex` is the base index within the index buffer.

- `vertexOffset` is the value added to the vertex index before indexing into the vertex buffer.

- `firstInstance` is the instance ID of the first instance to draw.

## Description

The members of `VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand` have the same meaning as the similarly named parameters of vkCmdDrawIndexed.

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand-pNext-09461
  If the bound graphics pipeline state was created with VkPipelineVertexInputDivisorStateCreateInfo in the `pNext` chain of VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo::`pVertexInputState`, any member of VkPipelineVertexInputDivisorStateCreateInfo::`pVertexBindingDivisors` has a value other than `1` in `divisor`, and VkPhysicalDeviceVertexAttributeDivisorProperties::`supportsNonZeroFirstInstance` is VK_FALSE, then `firstInstance` must be `0`

- VUID-VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand-None-09462
  If shader objects are used for drawing or the bound graphics pipeline state was created with the VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_VERTEX_INPUT_EXT dynamic state enabled, any member of the `pVertexBindingDescriptions` parameter to the vkCmdSetVertexInputEXT call that sets this dynamic state has a value other than `1` in `divisor`, and VkPhysicalDeviceVertexAttributeDivisorProperties::`supportsNonZeroFirstInstance` is VK_FALSE, then `firstInstance` must be `0`

- VUID-VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand-robustBufferAccess2-08798
  If the `robustBufferAccess2` feature is not enabled, (`indexSize` × (`firstIndex` + `indexCount`)) must be less than or equal to the size of the bound index buffer range, with `indexSize` being based on the type specified by `indexType`, and the other parameters sourced from this command

- VUID-VkDrawIndexedIndirectCommand-firstInstance-00554
  If the `drawIndirectFirstInstance` feature is not enabled, `firstInstance` must be `0`

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect

## 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 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

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