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Vulkan Cookbook

You're reading from   Vulkan Cookbook Work through recipes to unlock the full potential of the next generation graphics API—Vulkan

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468154
Length 700 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pawel Lapinski Pawel Lapinski
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Instance and Devices FREE CHAPTER 2. Image Presentation 3. Command Buffers and Synchronization 4. Resources and Memory 5. Descriptor Sets 6. Render Passes and Framebuffers 7. Shaders 8. Graphics and Compute Pipelines 9. Command Recording and Drawing 10. Helper Recipes 11. Lighting 12. Advanced Rendering Techniques

Specifying a pipeline multisample state

Multisampling is a process that eliminates jagged edges of drawn primitives. In other words, it allows us to anti-alias polygons, lines and points. We define how multisampling is performed (and if at all) through a multisample state.

How to do it...

  1. Create a variable of type VkPipelineMultisampleStateCreateInfo named multisample_state_create_info. Use the following values to initialize its members:
    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PIPELINE_MULTISAMPLE_STATE_CREATE_INFO value for sType
    • nullptr value for pNext
    • 0 value for flags
    • The number of samples generated per pixel for rasterizationSamples
    • A true value if per sample shading should be enabled (only if sampleRateShading feature is enabled) or false otherwise for sampleShadingEnable
    • A minimum...
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