--- title: Why MSAA Should Be In EVERY Deferred Renderer | The... description: Threat Interactive Video 28 discusses the butchered MSAA implementation inside Crysis 3 to isolate where improvements can be made in a modern deferred... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-msaa-should-be-in-every-deferred-renderer-the-incompetence-of-crysis-3-s-implementation--soho5mwlw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why MSAA Should Be In EVERY Deferred Renderer | The Incompetence Of Crysis 3's Implementation. | daily.dev og:description: Threat Interactive Video 28 discusses the butchered MSAA implementation inside Crysis 3 to isolate where improvements can be made in a modern deferred... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-msaa-should-be-in-every-deferred-renderer-the-incompetence-of-crysis-3-s-implementation--soho5mwlw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SohO5mWLw.png og:image:alt: Why MSAA Should Be In EVERY Deferred Renderer | The Incompetence Of Crysis 3's Implementation. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why MSAA Should Be In EVERY Deferred Renderer | The Incompetence Of Crysis 3's Implementation. **[Threat Interactive](https://daily.dev/sources/threatinteractive)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Threat Interactive Video 28 discusses the butchered MSAA implementation inside Crysis 3 to isolate where improvements can be made in a modern deferred renderer. ------- Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/THREATINTERACTIVE Our Website: https://threatinteractive.wordpress.com Our Bonfire: https://www.bonfire.com/store/threat-interactive/ All official accounts can be found here: https://linktr.ee/ThreatInteractive ------- For Updates or Questions, contact our studio or founder on with these links: Email: ThreatInteractive@gmail.com X / Twitter: https://x.com/ThreatInteract Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/ThreatInteractive/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/threat-interactive Studio Founder: X / Twitter: https://x.com/TheKevinJimenez ------- Chapters Recap on MSAA Myths & What We're Debunking Next: 0:00 Poor MSAA Performance 1: 2:09 Poor MSAA Visuals 1: 3:48 Poor MSAA Visuals 2: 5:28 Poor MSAA Performance 2: 8:31 Poor MSAA Performance 3: 9:09 Poor MSAA Visuals 3: 13:08 3 Topics That Need Mainstream Attention: 14:22 How Half-Res Effects Work In Fox Engine: 11:23 Why Supporting Us Fights Against Complacency: 12:23 ------ Credits & Resources: https://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/2015/Alex_Vlachos_Advanced_VR_Rendering_GDC2015.pdf https://gdcvault.com/play/1017626/Advanced-Visual-Effects-with-DirectX https://jcgt.org/published/0001/01/02/ http://tesseract.gg/ https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/conservative-morphological-anti-aliasing-20.html https://www.iryoku.com/smaa/downloads/SMAA-Enhanced-Subpixel-Morphological-Antialiasing.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20121003055536/http://techreport.com/review/6672/ati-radeon-x800-graphics-processors/22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nef6yWYu0-I https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2017/DecimaSiggraph2017.pdf https://www.iryoku.com/aacourse/downloads/13-Anti-Aliasing-Methods-in-CryENGINE-3.pdf https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lljBWG Understanding Uncanny AA edges:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDByyuwT7Q4 ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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