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vkCreateImageView(3)
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Name
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vkCreateImageView - Create an image view from an existing image.

C Specification
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// refBegin vkCreateImageView Create an image view from an existing image.

To create an image view, call:

include::../protos/vkCreateImageView.txt[]


Parameters
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  * pname:device is the logical device that creates the image view.
  * pname:pCreateInfo is a pointer to an instance of the
    sname:VkImageViewCreateInfo structure containing parameters to be used
    to create the image view.
  * pname:pAllocator controls host memory allocation as described in the
    <<memory-allocation, Memory Allocation>> chapter.
  * pname:pView points to a sname:VkImageView handle in which the resulting
    image view object is returned.


Description
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Some of the image creation parameters are inherited by the view. The
remaining parameters are contained in the pname:pCreateInfo.

include::../validity/protos/vkCreateImageView.txt[]


See Also
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slink:VkAllocationCallbacks, slink:VkDevice, slink:VkImageView, slink:VkImageViewCreateInfo


Document Notes
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For more information, see the Vulkan Specification at URL

https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/xhtml/vkspec.html#vkCreateImageView

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification.
Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification,not directly.

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