Understanding image resources

This section will cover the Vulkan APIs used to create an image resource. Here, we'll look into the concept of a data image, image view, and image layout in detail.

Creating images

An image resource in Vulkan is represented using the VkImage object. This object supports a multidimensional image up to three-dimensional data arrays. Images are created using the vkCreateImage() API. Here's the syntax to do this:

VkResult vkCreateImage( 
    VkDevice                     device, 
    const VkImageCreateInfo*     pCreateInfo, 
    const VkAllocationCallbacks* pAllocator, 
    VkImage*                     pImage); 

The following table describes the various fields of VkCommandPoolCreateInfo:

Parameters	Description
device	This refers to the logical device responsible for creating an image.
pCreateInfo	This refers to a VkImageCreateInfo pointer.
pAllocator	This controls the host memory allocation process.
pImage	This returns the...