---
title: 'VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod Vulkan extension released'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/vk_ext_image_view_min_lod-vulkan-extension-released'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/vk_ext_image_view_min_lod-vulkan-extension-released.md'
date: '2021-12-07'
---

#  VK\_EXT\_image\_view\_min\_lod Vulkan extension released 

  December 7th at 11:20am

 One of the extensions released as part of Vulkan 1.2.199 was VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod extension. This extension allows clamping the minimum LOD value accessed by an image view to a minLod value set at image view creation time. 

 [ Read More  ](https://blogs.igalia.com/siglesias/2021/12/02/VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod-extension-released/)

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