#196·renderdoc

Feature request: renderpass visualization

Author: kbiEludeCreated Feb 29, 2016Updated Jul 2, 2026
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Renderpasses can grow pretty complex and debugging them quickly becomes time-consuming, so it would be awesome if RenderDoc could present a graph visualizer for any of the renderpasses, used to render the analyzed frame. Since renderpass data is multi-dimensional, in order to prevent the visualization from quickly getting cluttered, RenderDoc could expose a number of checkboxes, indicating what kind of data should be annotated on the graph. For example:

  • external dependencies
  • image layout used for each subpass
  • inter-subpass dependencies
  • self-subpass dependencies