VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV(3)

# VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV - Structure specifying command buffer inheritance information

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## C Specification

The `VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_NV_inherited_viewport_scissor
    typedef struct VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV {
        VkStructureType      sType;
        const void*          pNext;
        VkBool32             viewportScissor2D;
        uint32_t             viewportDepthCount;
        const VkViewport*    pViewportDepths;
    } VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV;

## Members

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

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

- `viewportScissor2D` specifies whether the listed dynamic state is inherited.

- `viewportDepthCount` specifies the maximum number of viewports to inherit. When `viewportScissor2D` is VK_FALSE, the behavior is as if this value is zero.

- `pViewportDepths` is a pointer to a VkViewport structure specifying the expected depth range for each inherited viewport.

## Description

If the `pNext` chain of VkCommandBufferInheritanceInfo includes a `VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV` structure, then that structure controls whether a command buffer can inherit the following state from other command buffers:

- VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_SCISSOR

- VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_SCISSOR_WITH_COUNT

- VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_DISCARD_RECTANGLE_EXT

- VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_DISCARD_RECTANGLE_ENABLE_EXT

- VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_DISCARD_RECTANGLE_MODE_EXT

as well as the following state, with restrictions on inherited depth values and viewport count:

- VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_VIEWPORT

- VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_VIEWPORT_WITH_COUNT

If `viewportScissor2D` is VK_FALSE, then the command buffer does not inherit the listed dynamic state, and should set this state itself. If this structure is not present, the behavior is as if `viewportScissor2D` is VK_FALSE.

If `viewportScissor2D` is VK_TRUE, then the listed dynamic state is inherited, and the command buffer must not set this state, except that the viewport and scissor count may be set by binding a graphics pipeline that does not specify this state as dynamic.

Note | Due to this restriction, applications should ensure either all or none of the graphics pipelines bound in this secondary command buffer use dynamic viewport/scissor counts.

When the command buffer is executed as part of a the execution of a vkCmdExecuteCommands command, the inherited state (if enabled) is determined by the following procedure, performed separately for each dynamic state, and separately for each value for dynamic state that consists of multiple values (e.g. multiple viewports).

- With i being the index of the executed command buffer in the `pCommandBuffers` array of vkCmdExecuteCommands, if i > 0 and any secondary command buffer from index 0 to i-1 modifies the state, the inherited state is provisionally set to the final value set by the last such secondary command buffer. Binding a graphics pipeline defining the state statically is equivalent to setting the state to an undefined value.

- Otherwise, the tentatative inherited state is that of the primary command buffer at the point the vkCmdExecuteCommands command was recorded; if the state is undefined, then so is the provisional inherited state.

- If the provisional inherited state is an undefined value, then the state is not inherited.

- If the provisional inherited state is a viewport, with n being its viewport index, then if n ≥ `viewportDepthCount`, or if either VkViewport::`minDepth` or VkViewport::`maxDepth` are not equal to the respective values of the nth element of `pViewportDepths`, then the state is not inherited.

- If the provisional inherited state passes both checks, then it becomes the actual inherited state.

Note | There is no support for inheriting dynamic state from a secondary command buffer executed as part of a different `vkCmdExecuteCommands` command.

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV-viewportScissor2D-04782
  If the `inheritedViewportScissor2D` feature is not enabled, `viewportScissor2D` must be VK_FALSE

- VUID-VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV-viewportScissor2D-04783
  If the `multiViewport` feature is not enabled and `viewportScissor2D` is VK_TRUE, then `viewportDepthCount` must be `1`

- VUID-VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV-viewportScissor2D-04784
  If `viewportScissor2D` is VK_TRUE, then `viewportDepthCount` must be greater than `0`

- VUID-VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV-viewportScissor2D-04785
  If `viewportScissor2D` is VK_TRUE, then `pViewportDepths` must be a valid pointer to an array of `viewportDepthCount` valid `VkViewport` structures, except any requirements on `x`, `y`, `width`, and `height` do not apply

- VUID-VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV-viewportScissor2D-04786
  If `viewportScissor2D` is VK_TRUE, then the command buffer must be recorded with the VK_COMMAND_BUFFER_USAGE_RENDER_PASS_CONTINUE_BIT

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkCommandBufferInheritanceViewportScissorInfoNV-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_COMMAND_BUFFER_INHERITANCE_VIEWPORT_SCISSOR_INFO_NV

Structure Chaining

Extends the structure

  - VkCommandBufferInheritanceInfo

## See Also

VK_NV_inherited_viewport_scissor, VkBool32, VkStructureType, VkViewport

## 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.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0