VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV(3)

# VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV - Structure describing shading rate image features that can be supported by an implementation

## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_NV_shading_rate_image
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        void*              pNext;
        VkBool32           shadingRateImage;
        VkBool32           shadingRateCoarseSampleOrder;
    } VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV;

## Members

This structure describes the following features:

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `shadingRateImage` indicates that the implementation supports the use of a shading rate image to derive an effective shading rate for fragment processing. It also indicates that the implementation supports the `ShadingRateNV` SPIR-V execution mode.

- `shadingRateCoarseSampleOrder` indicates that the implementation supports an application-configurable ordering of coverage samples in fragments larger than one pixel.

## Description

See Shading Rate Image for more information.

If the `VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV` structure is included in the `pNext` chain of the VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2 structure passed to vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, it is filled in to indicate whether each corresponding feature is supported. If the application wishes to use a VkDevice with any features described by `VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV`, it must add an instance of the structure, with the desired feature members set to VK_TRUE, to the `pNext` chain of VkDeviceCreateInfo when creating the VkDevice.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_SHADING_RATE_IMAGE_FEATURES_NV

Structure Chaining

Extends the structures

  - VkDeviceCreateInfo

  - VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2

## See Also

VK_NV_shading_rate_image, VkBool32, 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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