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title: "Vulkan Deep Dive: SMAA"
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date: 2022-10-05
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draft: true
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tags:
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- Vulkan
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- CPlusPlus
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- Deep Dive
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In this Vulkan deep dive, we'll go over a simple but important technique - anti-aliasing.
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FXAA is a popular
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and cheap choice for a post-processing AA solution, but SMAA is another popular option used in many games. Not only is it
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cheap (but not as cheap as FXAA), it's also extremely easy to implement. It has a HLSL and GLSL version, but of course
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we're just worrying about a Vulkan implementation here.
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## How SMAA Works
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Compared to FXAA, SMAA requires extra post-processing passes, let's go over all of them and their purpose.
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## Implementation
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### Getting Files
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### Choosing Passes
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### Setting up new Render Passes
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### Testing
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## Conclusion
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