I recently added a rendering pass in my engine to compute volumetric shapes via raymarching.
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I recently added a rendering pass in my engine to compute volumetric shapes via raymarching. Mostly to cast volumetric shadows with spot lights.
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I recently added a rendering pass in my engine to compute volumetric shapes via raymarching. Mostly to cast volumetric shadows with spot lights.
I render them at half resolution to save a bit on performance and keep it cheap. However I'm struggling to find a good upscale algorithm. Bilateral weights based on the differences on the depth buffer isn't enough.
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I render them at half resolution to save a bit on performance and keep it cheap. However I'm struggling to find a good upscale algorithm. Bilateral weights based on the differences on the depth buffer isn't enough.
I'm not sure what I could do better, without temporal anti-aliasing. I'm open to suggestions ☺️
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I'm not sure what I could do better, without temporal anti-aliasing. I'm open to suggestions ☺️
@froyok Do you have access to the zbuffer when you do it? Maybe you can do it like msaa and only do full res at edges maybe? Not sure what the best way to to get coherency though…
This only works if edges are the problem though. Upscaling and noise doesn’t play well together sometimes.
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@froyok Do you have access to the zbuffer when you do it? Maybe you can do it like msaa and only do full res at edges maybe? Not sure what the best way to to get coherency though…
This only works if edges are the problem though. Upscaling and noise doesn’t play well together sometimes.
@breakin I have the zbuffer yes, but I can't toy with msaa unfortunately. Here the issue is around edges of geometry, noise isn't a problem.
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@breakin I have the zbuffer yes, but I can't toy with msaa unfortunately. Here the issue is around edges of geometry, noise isn't a problem.
@froyok Ah I was thinking that when you do say half res you could check 4 pixels in zbuffer to see if they are close enough for half res. Otherwise put that pixel id in a buffer. Do you have atomics? Then a second pass does full res for things in buffer. I mean you could redo edge-pixels during upsampling to see if that solves quality first bur sounds slow.
Somewhat like manual msaa.
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@froyok Ah I was thinking that when you do say half res you could check 4 pixels in zbuffer to see if they are close enough for half res. Otherwise put that pixel id in a buffer. Do you have atomics? Then a second pass does full res for things in buffer. I mean you could redo edge-pixels during upsampling to see if that solves quality first bur sounds slow.
Somewhat like manual msaa.
@froyok Pleanty of tricks like you do volumetric to the closest z value then you can continue from there for you per-pixel rays. I know the edge pixels are the mest expensive ones so maybe a bad idea from that perspective.
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I'm not sure what I could do better, without temporal anti-aliasing. I'm open to suggestions ☺️
@froyok Have you tried this: https://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2016/02/downsampled-effects-with-depth-aware.html
The important parts are using a min/max depth checkerboard pattern for the downscaled depth and then choosing between bilinear/bilateral upsampling based on depth discontinuity for a given pixel.Also randomly offsetting the rays with blue noise and then running a bilateral blur over the volumetric target before upsampling helps. Allows to get away with huge steps during raymarching.
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I'm not sure what I could do better, without temporal anti-aliasing. I'm open to suggestions ☺️
@froyok what about variable rate compute shader dispatch? https://youtu.be/mvCoqCic3nE
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@froyok Pleanty of tricks like you do volumetric to the closest z value then you can continue from there for you per-pixel rays. I know the edge pixels are the mest expensive ones so maybe a bad idea from that perspective.
@breakin Thank for sharing that idea still ! That's sounds interesting ! :)
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@froyok Have you tried this: https://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2016/02/downsampled-effects-with-depth-aware.html
The important parts are using a min/max depth checkerboard pattern for the downscaled depth and then choosing between bilinear/bilateral upsampling based on depth discontinuity for a given pixel.Also randomly offsetting the rays with blue noise and then running a bilateral blur over the volumetric target before upsampling helps. Allows to get away with huge steps during raymarching.
@blurple I haven't tried the checkerboard, but I tried different combination of bilinear and nearest filtering with custom weights. No luck so far.
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@froyok what about variable rate compute shader dispatch? https://youtu.be/mvCoqCic3nE
@WaitForPresent Not doable with the framework I'm working with I believe, plus I'm sticking to OpenGL currently. Or I would need to emulate it myself in compute.
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I'm not sure what I could do better, without temporal anti-aliasing. I'm open to suggestions ☺️
To illustrate a bit, In the worst-case scenario this is how it looks like:
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To illustrate a bit, In the worst-case scenario this is how it looks like:
I use a 3x3 bilateral filter, each sample is weighted by both spatial distance (sub-pixel position within the half-res grid) and depth
similarity (to prevent light bleeding across silhouettes). -
@breakin Thank for sharing that idea still ! That's sounds interesting ! :)
@froyok This recent link would help if you had sdfs. Maybe some inspiration in sharing work https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-03-06-a-recursive-algorithm-to-render-signed-distance-fields/
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I'm not sure what I could do better, without temporal anti-aliasing. I'm open to suggestions ☺️
@froyok If instead of 2x2 binning (aka half resolution) would it work to do two versions like 1x8 and 8x1, and then accumulate those into the full resolution final result? Directly inspired by box blur.
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@froyok If instead of 2x2 binning (aka half resolution) would it work to do two versions like 1x8 and 8x1, and then accumulate those into the full resolution final result? Directly inspired by box blur.
@mirth Hmm, I not sure I see how I could transcribe the effect into this method. What would be the point of making it separable it, outside of the performance cost ?
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@mirth Hmm, I not sure I see how I could transcribe the effect into this method. What would be the point of making it separable it, outside of the performance cost ?
@froyok Performance and a full resolution if blurry result, potentially solving the upscale question. I know a lot more about vision than graphics so not sure if this would be a sensible trade off.
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@froyok Performance and a full resolution if blurry result, potentially solving the upscale question. I know a lot more about vision than graphics so not sure if this would be a sensible trade off.
@mirth I will scratch my head a bit about it ;)
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@mirth I will scratch my head a bit about it ;)
@froyok Trying a version of this rescaling + threshold on a 2D black and white silhouette image I think gives a rough idea of the behavior:
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