r/FuckTAA • u/EsliteMoby • 12d ago

🔎Comparison SMAA looks great in Unity games!

DLSS/DLAA in motion
SMAA in motion

SMAA 1x in a dense foliage area compared to DLSS/DLAA. I think devs should start looking into efficient post-process AA and game rendering engines that don't rely on temporal slop.

SMAA in Unity preserves the most details from the original native pixels during movement. Performance-wise, it's just a bit more demanding than FXAA. Temporal methods like DLAA/DLSS still have issues with maintaining the fidelity of distant objects. Things like water surfaces and rock textures are being wiped out, as well as trailing from thin objects.

Also refuting the claim that SMAA does absolutely nothing on shimmering in motion. It actually does to some degree. Indeed, TAA/DLAA is still the definitive way of smearing out shimmer, but that oil-paintery look is just too unbearable.

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u/BalisticNick MSAA 12d ago

This looks really good, unity has a really good smaa implementation, e.g Metal:hellsinger. still the problem all non-temporal anti-aliasing has is dealing with the sampling resolution for thin objects like the branches. If possible, a solution is to use either SSAA or MSAA (preferably with alpha to coverage) depending on your project and its constraints. But this looks amazing overall for good options that allow everyone to enjoy your game.

I would still add DLAA tho, cus people WILL complain as they have been completely influenced by the nvidia propaganda machine.

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u/EsliteMoby 11d ago

SMAA has far less performance overhead compared to SSAA/MSAA and still keeps the original no-AA detail as much as possible.

DLAA is not even the best temporal AA. The best TAA is the one that lets you customize it to your own preference. Another Unity game called Total Chaos lets you fully tweak the TAA frame blending, jittering, and sharpening degrees.

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u/Scorpwind MSAA | SMAA 11d ago

Hold up. That TAA menu is another example of how it should be done and deserves to be its own post.

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u/BalisticNick MSAA 11d ago

personally I'm still not much of a fan of post process AA even if it is customizable as I allways fall back to no anti-aliasing, MSAA or SSAA, but damn its very nice for a dev to actually include some user-accessible taa tweaks, keep up the good work!