VkAccelerationStructureCreateInfoKHR

The VkAccelerationStructureCreateInfoKHR structure is defined as:

typedef struct VkAccelerationStructureCreateInfoKHR {
    VkStructureType sType;
    const void* pNext;
    VkAccelerationStructureCreateFlagsKHR createFlags;
    VkBuffer buffer;
    VkDeviceSize offset;
    VkDeviceSize size;
    VkAccelerationStructureTypeKHR type;
    VkDeviceAddress deviceAddress;
} VkAccelerationStructureCreateInfoKHR;

• sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.
• pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.
• createFlags is a bitmask of VkAccelerationStructureCreateFlagBitsKHR specifying additional creation parameters of the acceleration structure.
• buffer is the buffer on which the acceleration structure will be stored.
• offset is an offset in bytes from the base address of the buffer at which the acceleration structure will be stored, and must be a multiple of 256.
• size is the size required for the acceleration structure.
• type is a VkAccelerationStructureTypeKHR value specifying the type of acceleration structure that will be created.
• deviceAddress is the device address requested for the acceleration structure if the accelerationStructureCaptureReplay feature is being used. If deviceAddress is zero, no specific address is requested.

Applications should avoid creating acceleration structures with application-provided addresses and implementation-provided addresses in the same process, to reduce the likelihood of VK_ERROR_INVALID_OPAQUE_CAPTURE_ADDRESS_KHR errors.

Applications should create an acceleration structure with a specific VkAccelerationStructureTypeKHR other than VK_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_TYPE_GENERIC_KHR.

If the acceleration structure will be the target of a build operation, the required size for an acceleration structure can be queried with vkGetAccelerationStructureBuildSizesKHR. If the acceleration structure is going to be the target of a compacting copy, vkCmdWriteAccelerationStructuresPropertiesKHR or vkWriteAccelerationStructuresPropertiesKHR can be used to obtain the compacted size required.

If the acceleration structure will be the target of a build operation with VK_BUILD_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_MOTION_BIT_NV it must include VK_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_CREATE_MOTION_BIT_NV in createFlags and include VkAccelerationStructureMotionInfoNV as an extension structure in pNext with the number of instances as metadata for the object.