IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT specifies that the image will be backed using sparse memory binding.

IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_RESIDENCY_BIT specifies that the image can be partially backed using sparse memory binding. Images created with this flag must also be created with the IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT flag.

IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_ALIASED_BIT specifies that the image will be backed using sparse memory binding with memory ranges that might also simultaneously be backing another image (or another portion of the same image). Images created with this flag must also be created with the IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT flag

IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a ImageView with a different format from the image. For multi-planar formats, IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT specifies that a ImageView can be created of a plane of the image.

IMAGE_CREATE_CUBE_COMPATIBLE_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a ImageView of type IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE or IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_CUBE_ARRAY.

IMAGE_CREATE_SUBSAMPLED_BIT_EXT specifies that an image can be in a subsampled format which may be more optimal when written as an attachment by a render pass that has a fragment density map attachment. Accessing a subsampled image has additional considerations:

• Image data read as an image sampler is undefined if the sampler was not created with flags containing SAMPLER_CREATE_SUBSAMPLED_BIT_EXT or was not sampled through the use of a combined image sampler with an immutable sampler in DescriptorSetLayoutBinding.
• Image data read with an input attachment is undefined if the contents were not written as an attachment in an earlier subpass of the same render pass.
• Image data read as an image sampler in the fragment shader will be additionally be read by the device during PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_SHADER_BIT if ::subsampledCoarseReconstructionEarlyAccess is TRUE and the sampler was created with flags containing SAMPLER_CREATE_SUBSAMPLED_COARSE_RECONSTRUCTION_BIT_EXT.
• Image data read with load operations are resampled to the fragment density of the render pass if ::subsampledLoads is TRUE, otherwise they are undefined.
• Image contents outside of the render area become undefined if the image is stored as a render pass attachment.

IMAGE_CREATE_SAMPLE_LOCATIONS_COMPATIBLE_DEPTH_BIT_EXT specifies that an image with a depth or depth/stencil format can be used with custom sample locations when used as a depth/stencil attachment.

IMAGE_CREATE_CORNER_SAMPLED_BIT_NV specifies that the image is a corner-sampled image.

IMAGE_CREATE_DISJOINT_BIT specifies that an image with a multi-planar format must have each plane separately bound to memory, rather than having a single memory binding for the whole image; the presence of this bit distinguishes a disjoint image from an image without this bit set.

IMAGE_CREATE_PROTECTED_BIT specifies that the image is a protected image.

IMAGE_CREATE_EXTENDED_USAGE_BIT specifies that the image can be created with usage flags that are not supported for the format the image is created with but are supported for at least one format a ImageView created from the image can have.

IMAGE_CREATE_BLOCK_TEXEL_VIEW_COMPATIBLE_BIT specifies that the image having a compressed format can be used to create a ImageView with an uncompressed format where each texel in the image view corresponds to a compressed texel block of the image.

IMAGE_CREATE_2D_ARRAY_COMPATIBLE_BIT specifies that the image can be used to create a ImageView of type IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D or IMAGE_VIEW_TYPE_2D_ARRAY.

IMAGE_CREATE_SPLIT_INSTANCE_BIND_REGIONS_BIT specifies that the image can be used with a non-zero value of the splitInstanceBindRegionCount member of a BindImageMemoryDeviceGroupInfo structure passed into bindImageMemory2. This flag also has the effect of making the image use the standard sparse image block dimensions.

IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT specifies that two images created with the same creation parameters and aliased to the same memory can interpret the contents of the memory consistently with each other, subject to the rules described in the Memory Aliasing section. This flag further specifies that each plane of a disjoint image can share an in-memory non-linear representation with single-plane images, and that a single-plane image can share an in-memory non-linear representation with a plane of a multi-planar disjoint image, according to the rules in https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions/html/vkspec.html#formats-compatible-planes. If the pNext chain includes a ExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo or ExternalMemoryImageCreateInfoNV structure whose handleTypes member is not 0, it is as if IMAGE_CREATE_ALIAS_BIT is set.