Module vulkano::render_pass

Description of the steps of the rendering process, and the images used as input or output.

Render passes and framebuffers

There are two concepts in Vulkan:

• A render pass describes the overall process of drawing a frame. It is subdivided into one or more subpasses.
• A framebuffer contains the list of image views that are attached during the drawing of each subpass.

Render passes are typically created at initialization only (for example during a loading screen) because they can be costly, while framebuffers can be created and destroyed either at initialization or during the frame.

Consequently you can create graphics pipelines from a render pass object alone. A Framebuffer object is only needed when you actually add draw commands to a command buffer.

Structs

• AttachmentDescription
  Describes an attachment that will be used in a render pass.
• AttachmentDescriptionFlags
  Flags specifying additional properties of a render pass attachment description.
• AttachmentReference
  A reference to an attachment in a subpass description of a render pass.
• Framebuffer
  The image views that are attached to a render pass during drawing.
• FramebufferCreateFlags
  Flags specifying additional properties of a framebuffer.
• FramebufferCreateInfo
  Parameters to create a new Framebuffer.
• RenderPass
  An object representing the discrete steps in which rendering is done.
• RenderPassCreateFlags
  Flags specifying additional properties of a render pass.
• RenderPassCreateInfo
  Parameters to create a new RenderPass.
• ResolveModes
  A set of ResolveMode values.
• Subpass
  Represents a subpass within a RenderPass object.
• SubpassDependency
  A dependency between two subpasses of a render pass.
• SubpassDescription
  Describes one of the subpasses of a render pass.
• SubpassDescriptionFlags
  Flags specifying additional properties of a render pass subpass description.

Enums

• AttachmentLoadOp
  Describes what the implementation should do with an attachment at the start of the subpass.
• AttachmentStoreOp
  Describes what the implementation should do with an attachment after all the subpasses have completed.
• ResolveMode
  Possible resolve modes for attachments.