VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures(3)

# VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures - Structure describing the shader demote to helper invocations features that can be supported by an implementation

## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_3
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        void*              pNext;
        VkBool32           shaderDemoteToHelperInvocation;
    } VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures;

    // Provided by VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
    // Equivalent to VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures
    typedef VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeaturesEXT;

## Members

This structure describes the following feature:

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

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

## Description

- `shaderDemoteToHelperInvocation` indicates whether the implementation supports the SPIR-V `DemoteToHelperInvocationEXT` capability.

If the `VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures` 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 `VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures`, 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-VkPhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeatures-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_SHADER_DEMOTE_TO_HELPER_INVOCATION_FEATURES

Structure Chaining

Extends the structures

  - VkDeviceCreateInfo

  - VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2

## See Also

VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation, VK_VERSION_1_3, 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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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0