C Specification
Drawing can be achieved in two modes:
-
Programmable Mesh Shading, the mesh shader assembles primitives, or
-
Programmable Primitive Shading, the input primitives are assembled
as follows.
Each draw is made up of zero or more vertices and zero or more instances,
which are processed by the device and result in the assembly of primitives.
Primitives are assembled according to the pInputAssemblyState
member
of the VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo
structure, which is of type
VkPipelineInputAssemblyStateCreateInfo
:
typedef struct VkPipelineInputAssemblyStateCreateInfo {
VkStructureType sType;
const void* pNext;
VkPipelineInputAssemblyStateCreateFlags flags;
VkPrimitiveTopology topology;
VkBool32 primitiveRestartEnable;
} VkPipelineInputAssemblyStateCreateInfo;
Members
-
sType
is the type of this structure. -
pNext
isNULL
or a pointer to an extension-specific structure. -
flags
is reserved for future use. -
topology
is a VkPrimitiveTopology defining the primitive topology, as described below. -
primitiveRestartEnable
controls whether a special vertex index value is treated as restarting the assembly of primitives. This enable only applies to indexed draws (vkCmdDrawIndexed and vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect), and the special index value is either 0xFFFFFFFF when theindexType
parameter ofvkCmdBindIndexBuffer
is equal toVK_INDEX_TYPE_UINT32
, 0xFF whenindexType
is equal toVK_INDEX_TYPE_UINT8_EXT
, or 0xFFFF whenindexType
is equal toVK_INDEX_TYPE_UINT16
. Primitive restart is not allowed for “list” topologies.
Description
Restarting the assembly of primitives discards the most recent index values
if those elements formed an incomplete primitive, and restarts the primitive
assembly using the subsequent indices, but only assembling the immediately
following element through the end of the originally specified elements.
The primitive restart index value comparison is performed before adding the
vertexOffset
value to the index value.
See Also
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
Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.