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title	date	draft	tags
Vulkan Deep Dive: SMAA	2022-10-05	true	Vulkan C++ Deep Dive

In this Vulkan deep dive, we'll go over a simple but important technique - anti-aliasing. FXAA is a popular and cheap choice for a post-processing AA solution, but SMAA is another popular option used in many games. Not only is it cheap (but not as cheap as FXAA), it's also extremely easy to implement. It has a HLSL and GLSL version, but of course we're just worrying about a Vulkan implementation here.

How SMAA Works

Compared to FXAA, SMAA requires extra post processing passes, let's go over all of them and their purpose.

Implementation

Getting Files

Choosing Passes

Setting up new Render Passes

Testing

Conclusion