digraph "Vulkan" {
RP[label="RenderPass"]
DSL[label="Descriptor Set Layout"]
PL[label="Pipeline Layout"]
P[label="Pipeline"]
I[label="Image"]
IV[label="ImageView"]
FB[label="Framebuffer"]
CB[label="CommandBuffer"]
PL -> DSL
P -> PL
P -> RP
IV -> I
FB -> IV
RP -> FB [style=dotted]
CB -> FB [label="Where to render to"]
CB -> RP [label="What to render with"]
}A RenderPass is an object that defined the rendering process, what the outputs are. It does not specifiy the object that will be rendered to. It only specifies the formats and types.
This one defined the inputs to the shaders. Each of the binding numbers will be configured to a buffer. (Uniform-, Storage-, SamplerBuffers) and at what shader type it will be accessed at (vertex, fragment, etc.).
This convertes Descriptor Set Layout to a pipeline type.
The Pipeline uses Pipeline Layout and the RenderPass. The Pipeline defined how the GPU will render the scene (viewport, rasterizer, multisampling, colorblending, etc.). The Pipeline also contains the shader code.
An Image specifies how a block of bytes can be interpreted as a image. A memory block will be attached to this object.
With this one you can address pixels instead of bytes.
An ImageView is a intermediate type for specifying how images look for shaders. Basically a middlehand between the shader and the Image.
A Framebuffer specifies a number of outputs, they are of the type ImageView. These outputs can be both color and depth. These outputs is what the RenderPass references.
This specifies the Pipeline that will do the rendering, and it specifies the Framebuffer that will be rendered to.