Vulkan Cookbook

How it works...

Storage texel buffers allow us to access and to store data in very large arrays. Data is interpreted as if it was read or stored inside one-dimensional images. Additionally, we can perform atomic operations on such buffers.

Storage texel buffers can fill descriptors of a type equal to VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER.

To use a buffer as a storage texel buffer, it needs to be created with a VK_BUFFER_USAGE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER_BIT usage. A buffer view with an appropriate format is also required. For storage texel buffers, we can select one of the mandatory formats that include the following ones:

• VK_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM, VK_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_SNORM, VK_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UINT, and VK_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_SINT
• VK_FORMAT_A8B8G8R8_UNORM_PACK32 ...