# vkCreateImageView(3) Manual Page

## Name

vkCreateImageView - Create an image view from an existing image

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## C Specification

To create an image view, call:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    VkResult vkCreateImageView(
        VkDevice                                    device,
        const VkImageViewCreateInfo*                pCreateInfo,
        const VkAllocationCallbacks*                pAllocator,
        VkImageView*                                pView);

## Parameters

- `device` is the logical device that creates the image view.

- `pCreateInfo` is a pointer to a `VkImageViewCreateInfo` structure containing parameters to be used to create the image view.

- `pAllocator` controls host memory allocation as described in the Memory Allocation chapter.

- `pView` is a pointer to a VkImageView handle in which the resulting image view object is returned.

## Description

Valid Usage

- VUID-vkCreateImageView-device-09667
  `device` must support at least one queue family with one of the `VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_ENCODE_BIT_KHR`, `VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_DECODE_BIT_KHR`, `VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT`, or `VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT` capabilities

- VUID-vkCreateImageView-image-09179
  VkImageViewCreateInfo::`image` must have been created from `device`

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-vkCreateImageView-device-parameter
  `device` must be a valid VkDevice handle

- VUID-vkCreateImageView-pCreateInfo-parameter
  `pCreateInfo` must be a valid pointer to a valid VkImageViewCreateInfo structure

- VUID-vkCreateImageView-pAllocator-parameter
  If `pAllocator` is not `NULL`, `pAllocator` must be a valid pointer to a valid VkAllocationCallbacks structure

- VUID-vkCreateImageView-pView-parameter
  `pView` must be a valid pointer to a VkImageView handle

Return Codes

On success, this command returns

  - `VK_SUCCESS`

On failure, this command returns

  - `VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY`

  - `VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY`

  - `VK_ERROR_INVALID_OPAQUE_CAPTURE_ADDRESS_KHR`

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkAllocationCallbacks, VkDevice, VkImageView, VkImageViewCreateInfo

## 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 2014-2024 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0