Creating a 2D image and view

The most common image type that is used in many popular applications or games is typical 2D textures with four RGBA components and 32 bits per texel. To create such a resource in Vulkan, we need to create a 2D image and a proper image view.

How to do it...

1. Take a handle of a logical device and use it to initialize a variable of type VkDevice named logical_device.
2. Select the data format used in the image and initialize a variable of type VkFormat named format with the selected value.
3. Choose the size of the image. Store it in a variable of type VkExtent2D named size.
4. Choose the number of mipmap levels that should compose the image. Initialize a variable of type uint32_t named num_mipmaps with the selected number of mipmaps.
5. Specify the number of image layers using a variable of type uint32_t named num_layers.
6. Select the number of per texel samples and store it in a variable of type VkSampleCountFlagBits named samples.
7. Think of all the purposes for which the image will...