VkPipelineCreateFlagBits - Bitmask controlling how a pipeline is created

Description

• PIPELINE_CREATE_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION_BIT specifies that the created pipeline will not be optimized. Using this flag may reduce the time taken to create the pipeline.

• PIPELINE_CREATE_ALLOW_DERIVATIVES_BIT specifies that the pipeline to be created is allowed to be the parent of a pipeline that will be created in a subsequent pipeline creation call.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_DERIVATIVE_BIT specifies that the pipeline to be created will be a child of a previously created parent pipeline.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_VIEW_INDEX_FROM_DEVICE_INDEX_BIT specifies that any shader input variables decorated as ViewIndex will be assigned values as if they were decorated as DeviceIndex.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_DISPATCH_BASE specifies that a compute pipeline can be used with cmdDispatchBase with a non-zero base workgroup.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_DEFER_COMPILE_BIT_NV specifies that a pipeline is created with all shaders in the deferred state. Before using the pipeline the application must call compileDeferredNV exactly once on each shader in the pipeline before using the pipeline.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_CAPTURE_STATISTICS_BIT_KHR specifies that the shader compiler should capture statistics for the executables produced by the compile process which can later be retrieved by calling getPipelineExecutableStatisticsKHR. Enabling this flag must not affect the final compiled pipeline but may disable pipeline caching or otherwise affect pipeline creation time.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_CAPTURE_INTERNAL_REPRESENTATIONS_BIT_KHR specifies that the shader compiler should capture the internal representations of executables produced by the compile process which can later be retrieved by calling getPipelineExecutableInternalRepresentationsKHR. Enabling this flag must not affect the final compiled pipeline but may disable pipeline caching or otherwise affect pipeline creation time.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_LIBRARY_BIT_KHR specifies that the pipeline cannot be used directly, and instead defines a pipeline library that can be combined with other pipelines using the PipelineLibraryCreateInfoKHR structure. This is available in raytracing pipelines.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_NO_NULL_ANY_HIT_SHADERS_BIT_KHR specifies that an any hit shader will always be present when an any hit shader would be executed.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_NO_NULL_CLOSEST_HIT_SHADERS_BIT_KHR specifies that a closest hit shader will always be present when a closest hit shader would be executed.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_NO_NULL_MISS_SHADERS_BIT_KHR specifies that a miss shader will always be present when a miss shader would be executed.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_NO_NULL_INTERSECTION_SHADERS_BIT_KHR specifies that an intersection shader will always be present when an intersection shader would be executed.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_SKIP_TRIANGLES_BIT_KHR specifies that triangle primitives will be skipped during traversal using OpTraceKHR.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_RAY_TRACING_SKIP_AABBS_BIT_KHR specifies that AABB primitives will be skipped during traversal using OpTraceKHR.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_INDIRECT_BINDABLE_BIT_NV specifies that the pipeline can be used in combination with https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions/html/vkspec.html#device-generated-commands.
• PIPELINE_CREATE_FAIL_ON_PIPELINE_COMPILE_REQUIRED_BIT_EXT specifies that pipeline creation will fail if a compile is required for creation of a valid Pipeline object; PIPELINE_COMPILE_REQUIRED_EXT will be returned by pipeline creation, and the Pipeline will be set to NULL_HANDLE.
• When creating multiple pipelines, PIPELINE_CREATE_EARLY_RETURN_ON_FAILURE_BIT_EXT specifies that control will be returned to the application on failure of the corresponding pipeline rather than continuing to create additional pipelines.

It is valid to set both PIPELINE_CREATE_ALLOW_DERIVATIVES_BIT and PIPELINE_CREATE_DERIVATIVE_BIT. This allows a pipeline to be both a parent and possibly a child in a pipeline hierarchy. See Pipeline Derivatives for more information.

See Also

PipelineCreateFlags