VkBufferViewCreateInfo

The VkBufferViewCreateInfo structure is defined as:

typedef struct VkBufferViewCreateInfo {
    VkStructureType sType;
    const void* pNext;
    VkBufferViewCreateFlags flags;
    VkBuffer buffer;
    VkFormat format;
    VkDeviceSize offset;
    VkDeviceSize range;
} VkBufferViewCreateInfo;

• sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.
• pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.
• flags is reserved for future use.
• buffer is a VkBuffer on which the view will be created.
• format is a VkFormat describing the format of the data elements in the buffer.
• offset is an offset in bytes from the base address of the buffer. Accesses to the buffer view from shaders use addressing that is relative to this starting offset.
• range is a size in bytes of the buffer view. If range is equal to VK_WHOLE_SIZE, the range from offset to the end of the buffer is used. If VK_WHOLE_SIZE is used and the remaining size of the buffer is not a multiple of the texel block size of format, the nearest smaller multiple is used.

The buffer view has a buffer view usage identifying which descriptor types can be created from it. This usage can be defined by including the VkBufferUsageFlags2CreateInfo structure in the pNext chain, and specifying the usage value there. If this structure is not included, it is equal to the VkBufferCreateInfo::usage value used to create buffer.