VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo(3)

# VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo - Structure specifying parameters of a newly created pipeline tessellation state

## C Specification

The `VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef struct VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo {
        VkStructureType                           sType;
        const void*                               pNext;
        VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateFlags    flags;
        uint32_t                                  patchControlPoints;
    } VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo;

## Members

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `flags` is reserved for future use.

- `patchControlPoints` is the number of control points per patch.

## Description

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo-patchControlPoints-01214
  `patchControlPoints` must be greater than zero and less than or equal to `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits`::`maxTessellationPatchSize`

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PIPELINE_TESSELLATION_STATE_CREATE_INFO

- VUID-VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo-pNext-pNext
  `pNext` must be `NULL` or a pointer to a valid instance of VkPipelineTessellationDomainOriginStateCreateInfo

- VUID-VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo-sType-unique
  The `sType` value of each structure in the `pNext` chain must be unique

- VUID-VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo-flags-zerobitmask
  `flags` must be `0`

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo, VkGraphicsShaderGroupCreateInfoNV, VkPipelineTessellationStateCreateFlags, VkStructureType

## 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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