VkImageTiling(3)

# VkImageTiling(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkImageTiling - Specifies the tiling arrangement of data in an image

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## C Specification

Possible values of VkImageCreateInfo::`tiling`, specifying the tiling arrangement of texel blocks in an image, are:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef enum VkImageTiling {
        VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL = 0,
        VK_IMAGE_TILING_LINEAR = 1,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier
        VK_IMAGE_TILING_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_EXT = 1000158000,
    } VkImageTiling;

## Description

- VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL specifies optimal tiling (texels are laid out in an implementation-dependent arrangement, for more efficient memory access).

- VK_IMAGE_TILING_LINEAR specifies linear tiling (texels are laid out in memory in row-major order, possibly with some padding on each row).

- VK_IMAGE_TILING_DRM_FORMAT_MODIFIER_EXT specifies that the image’s tiling is defined by a Linux DRM format modifier. The modifier is specified at image creation with VkImageDrmFormatModifierListCreateInfoEXT or VkImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT, and can be queried with vkGetImageDrmFormatModifierPropertiesEXT.

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkImageCreateInfo, VkPhysicalDeviceImageFormatInfo2, VkPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatInfo2, VkVideoFormatPropertiesKHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalImageFormatPropertiesNV, vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties, vkGetPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatProperties

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

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

## Copyright

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