VkVertexInputAttributeDescription(3)

# VkVertexInputAttributeDescription(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkVertexInputAttributeDescription - Structure specifying vertex input attribute description

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## C Specification

Each vertex input attribute is specified by the `VkVertexInputAttributeDescription` structure, defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef struct VkVertexInputAttributeDescription {
        uint32_t    location;
        uint32_t    binding;
        VkFormat    format;
        uint32_t    offset;
    } VkVertexInputAttributeDescription;

## Members

- `location` is the shader input location number for this attribute.

- `binding` is the binding number which this attribute takes its data from.

- `format` is the size and type of the vertex attribute data.

- `offset` is a byte offset of this attribute relative to the start of an element in the vertex input binding.

## Description

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkVertexInputAttributeDescription-location-00620
  `location` must be less than `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits`::`maxVertexInputAttributes`

- VUID-VkVertexInputAttributeDescription-binding-00621
  `binding` must be less than `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits`::`maxVertexInputBindings`

- VUID-VkVertexInputAttributeDescription-offset-00622
  `offset` must be less than or equal to `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits`::`maxVertexInputAttributeOffset`

- VUID-VkVertexInputAttributeDescription-format-00623
  The format features of `format` must contain `VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_VERTEX_BUFFER_BIT`

- VUID-VkVertexInputAttributeDescription-vertexAttributeAccessBeyondStride-04457
  If the `VK_KHR_portability_subset` extension is enabled, and VkPhysicalDevicePortabilitySubsetFeaturesKHR::`vertexAttributeAccessBeyondStride` is `VK_FALSE`, the sum of `offset` plus the size of the vertex attribute data described by `format` must not be greater than `stride` in the VkVertexInputBindingDescription referenced in `binding`

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkVertexInputAttributeDescription-format-parameter
  `format` must be a valid VkFormat value

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkFormat, VkPipelineVertexInputStateCreateInfo

## 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 2014-2025 The Khronos Group Inc.

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