VkBorderColor(3)

# VkBorderColor(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkBorderColor - Specify border color used for texture lookups

## C Specification

Possible values of VkSamplerCreateInfo::`borderColor`, specifying the border color used for texture lookups, are:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef enum VkBorderColor {
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_TRANSPARENT_BLACK = 0,
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_TRANSPARENT_BLACK = 1,
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_OPAQUE_BLACK = 2,
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_OPAQUE_BLACK = 3,
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_OPAQUE_WHITE = 4,
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_OPAQUE_WHITE = 5,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_custom_border_color
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_CUSTOM_EXT = 1000287003,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_custom_border_color
        VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_CUSTOM_EXT = 1000287004,
    } VkBorderColor;

## Description

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_TRANSPARENT_BLACK specifies a transparent, floating-point format, black color.

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_TRANSPARENT_BLACK specifies a transparent, integer format, black color.

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_OPAQUE_BLACK specifies an opaque, floating-point format, black color.

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_OPAQUE_BLACK specifies an opaque, integer format, black color.

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_OPAQUE_WHITE specifies an opaque, floating-point format, white color.

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_OPAQUE_WHITE specifies an opaque, integer format, white color.

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_FLOAT_CUSTOM_EXT specifies that a VkSamplerCustomBorderColorCreateInfoEXT structure is included in the VkSamplerCreateInfo::`pNext` chain containing the color data in floating-point format.

- VK_BORDER_COLOR_INT_CUSTOM_EXT specifies that a VkSamplerCustomBorderColorCreateInfoEXT structure is included in the VkSamplerCreateInfo::`pNext` chain containing the color data in integer format.

These colors are described in detail in Border Replacement.

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkSamplerCreateInfo

## 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 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

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