C Specification

To dynamically set enable or disable depth clamping, call:

// Provided by VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3, VK_EXT_shader_object
void vkCmdSetDepthClampEnableEXT(
    VkCommandBuffer                             commandBuffer,
    VkBool32                                    depthClampEnable);

Parameters

  • commandBuffer is the command buffer into which the command will be recorded.

  • depthClampEnable specifies whether depth clamping is enabled.

Description

This command sets whether depth clamping is enabled or disabled for subsequent drawing commands when drawing using shader objects, or when the graphics pipeline is created with VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_DEPTH_CLAMP_ENABLE_EXT set in VkPipelineDynamicStateCreateInfo::pDynamicStates. Otherwise, this state is specified by the VkPipelineRasterizationStateCreateInfo::depthClampEnable value used to create the currently active pipeline.

If the depth clamping state is changed dynamically, and the pipeline was not created with VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_DEPTH_CLIP_ENABLE_EXT enabled, then depth clipping is enabled when depth clamping is disabled and vice versa.

If the maintenance11 feature is enabled, the above statement is further clarified to state that the depth clipping state is only affected by the current value of depthClampEnable if the pipeline was not created with the VkPipelineRasterizationDepthClipStateCreateInfoEXT structure. If VkPipelineRasterizationDepthClipStateCreateInfoEXT was included in the pipeline creation then the depth clipping state is set explicitly by VkPipelineRasterizationDepthClipStateCreateInfoEXT::depthClipEnable and not changed when the depth clamping state is modified.

Valid Usage
Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-vkCmdSetDepthClampEnableEXT-commandBuffer-parameter
    commandBuffer must be a valid VkCommandBuffer handle

  • VUID-vkCmdSetDepthClampEnableEXT-commandBuffer-recording
    commandBuffer must be in the recording state

  • VUID-vkCmdSetDepthClampEnableEXT-commandBuffer-cmdpool
    The VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must support VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT operations

  • VUID-vkCmdSetDepthClampEnableEXT-videocoding
    This command must only be called outside of a video coding scope

Host Synchronization

  • Host access to commandBuffer must be externally synchronized

  • Host access to the VkCommandPool that commandBuffer was allocated from must be externally synchronized

Command Properties
Command Buffer Levels Render Pass Scope Video Coding Scope Supported Queue Types Command Type

Primary
Secondary

Both

Outside

VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT

State
Conditional Rendering

vkCmdSetDepthClampEnableEXT is not affected by conditional rendering

See Also

VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3, VK_EXT_shader_object, VkBool32, VkCommandBuffer

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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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0