A few weeks ago I ran into a frustrating problem in the Untold Engine.
Thin geometry would shimmer noticeably on Apple Vision Pro, and no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the results I wanted. I experimented with SMAA, explored a few other options, and eventually reached a point where I wasn't sure what to do next.
So I stopped working on the problem.
Instead, I focused on performance.
What happened next surprised me.
A renderer optimization led me down the path of implementing Tile-Based Deferred Rendering, and somewhere along the way I realized that the architectural changes might finally allow me to use MSAA in the engine.
This video is the story of how a performance project unexpectedly became the solution to a completely different rendering problem.
Building a game engine is funny sometimes. You spend weeks looking for an answer in one place, only to discover it while working on something else entirely.
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Untold Engine is a Swift + Metal renderer and engine focused on XR, streaming, and real-time rendering for Apple platforms.
Untold Engine: https://github.com/untoldengine/UntoldEngine
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