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renderer: mobile TAA and shadow defaults; one shadow lookup per pixel - #188
Mobile defaults the way Unity URP / Unreal's mobile renderer set them up, and a cheaper cascade transition for every platform. Measured on a Pixel 4a (Adreno 618) in tuichess; GPU times per pass from the profiler.
TAA at the render resolution on Android (temporal_upscale, set_temporal_upscale). TAA was also the upscaler, so on a phone (2.5 MP screen) it ran at full surface size: 68 ms of a ~150 ms frame. With temporal_upscale off, TAA resolves at the render resolution and the existing upscale pass scales its result (Unity URP's order). The TAA history then lives at render size, and TAA's reconstruction scale is 1. Off on Android, on elsewhere (desktop unchanged). TAA: 68 → 21 ms.
4-tap shadow filter on Android (set_shadow_filter_4tap, dir_light_count.w): four hardware-PCF taps half a texel off the centre, a 3x3-texel tent (URP's mobile "Low" soft shadows), instead of the 16-tap Poisson disc. Main pass −6 ms at 0.5 render scale.
Dithered cascade transition, all platforms. In the band before a cascade's far split, each pixel takes the next cascade with a probability rising toward the split (4x4 ordered dither, averaged by TAA), instead of sampling both cascades and blending. The second lookup put a second copy of the filter into the scene shader; removing it took 12 ms off a 43 ms main pass on the Pixel 4a. The receiver offset is still smoothed across the band, and a pixel keeps its cascade where the next one doesn't cover it.
The live cascades are the layers of one depth texture. The scene shader samples one array view with the cascade as the layer: a pixel's cascade is a coordinate, not a branch between three textures. With the dither, pixels of one quad pick different cascades, and sampling different textures in divergent branches lost those pixels' writes on Adreno (a dithered band of background colour across the transition). This also makes one inlined filter instead of three. Each layer keeps its own 2D view (depth_views) for rendering, the static-cache copies, and the consumers that bind cascades one by one (GI, SSGI, planar, PT, transmitted shadows). The lighting group's shadow bindings 6 and 7 are gone.
Also: a GPU timestamp for the upscale pass.
Pixel 4a, in game at medium: TAA 68 → 21 ms, main pass 47 → 38 ms at 0.5 scale. Checked visually on the phone (TAA on and off) and on macOS (Metal, desktop defaults). cargo test --lib: 500 passed. Shader-text tests updated for the transition, and the VSM scene variant patches the new single lookup.
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New Features
Added an option to enable temporal upscaling, improving image quality when rendering at reduced resolution. It is enabled by default on most platforms and disabled by default on Android.
Added a setting to choose a 4-tap shadow filter.
Improvements
Updated shadow rendering with smoother cascade transitions and support for alternative filtering.
…up per pixel
- temporal_upscale (set_temporal_upscale): when off, TAA resolves at the
render resolution and the upscale pass scales its result (Unity URP's
order) instead of TAA upscaling to the surface. Off on Android, where the
surface-size TAA was most of the frame (Pixel 4a: 68 -> 21 ms).
- set_shadow_filter_4tap: 4 hardware-PCF taps (a 3x3-texel tent, Unity
URP's mobile soft-shadow filter) instead of the 16-tap Poisson disc.
Default on Android (main pass -6 ms at 0.5 scale on a Pixel 4a).
- The cascade transition picks one cascade per pixel with a 4x4 ordered
dither (TAA averages it) instead of sampling both cascades and blending.
The second lookup put a second copy of the filter in the scene shader:
12 ms of a 43 ms main pass on a Pixel 4a. All platforms.
The scene shader samples them through one array view, the cascade being the
layer: a pixel's cascade is a coordinate, not a branch between three
textures. With the dithered transition, pixels of one quad pick different
cascades, and sampling different textures in divergent branches lost those
pixels' writes on Adreno (Pixel 4a: a dithered band of background colour
across the transition). One code path is also one inlined filter instead of
three. The layers keep their own 2D views (depth_views) for rendering, the
static-cache copies and the consumers that bind cascades one by one.
The renderer now stores live shadow cascades in a depth-array texture and updates shadow sampling, filtering, and capture paths. It also adds a temporal-upscale setting and changes TAA resource sizing and post-processing source selection based on that setting and render scale.
Changes: Shadow Cascade Rendering
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Shadow array storage and bindings native/shared/src/shadows.rs, native/shared/src/renderer/lighting.rs, native/shared/src/renderer/shadow_pass.rs
Live cascades use one depth-array texture with per-layer views. Lighting binds the array, and cascade refresh copies cached layers into it.
Shadow sampling supports 4-tap tent and 16-tap Poisson filters. Cascade selection uses dithered selection in the transition band. The renderer exposes the filter setting, and virtual-shadow rewriting and tests use the updated shader signature.
Quality capture and shadow-cascade dumps read the selected layer from the shared depth-array texture.
Temporal Upscaling
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Upscale setting and TAA resources native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs
The renderer initializes temporal upscaling by platform and adds a setter that resets TAA history when the setting changes. TAA history textures use surface or render dimensions according to whether TAA performs the upscale.
TAA and post-processing source routing native/shared/src/renderer/postfx_chain.rs, native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs
The post-processing chain selects TAA or a separate upscale pass based on render scale and settings. Downstream effects use a shared resolved source, and upscale bind groups are cached for composed and TAA inputs.
sequenceDiagram
participant Renderer
participant PostFX as record_postfx_tail
participant TAA
participant Upscale as record_upscale
participant Composite as composite_source
Renderer->>PostFX: provide render scale and TAA settings
alt TAA performs the upscale
PostFX->>TAA: resolve at surface dimensions
else Separate upscale is required
PostFX->>TAA: resolve at render dimensions when enabled
PostFX->>Upscale: upscale the resolved source
end
PostFX->>Composite: select the resolved post-FX source
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Issue 128: The change adds a GPU timestamp for the upscale pass, which addresses one part of the timing requirement. It does not add the qualification harness, manifest, reference corpus, runner, or baseline governance.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 6c1f2
The rendering changes remain mergeable with bounded follow-up: shadow transitions can show a fixed pattern without TAA, material shadows do not consistently honor the filter setting, and quality diagnostics and upscale timing can be inaccurate or incomplete.
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63-65: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Check the cascade assignment in the transition test.
If the guarded assignment is removed, the tests still pass because the handoff loop contains the same assignment. Assert that the in-bounds transition branch selects the next cascade.
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Review comment at @native/shared/src/renderer/shaders/core_tests.rs around lines
63 - 65:
Update the transition test near the SCENE_SHADER assertion to verify that the
in-bounds transition branch selects the next cascade. Check for the guarded
cascade assignment within that branch so the assertion cannot pass based solely
on the same assignment in the handoff loop.
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Review comments at @native/shared/src/renderer/light_api.rs:
- Around line 196-202: Update the material CSM helper used by sample_sun_shadow
to read the filter selection passed through lighting_uniforms.dir_light_count.w
and match the core CSM path: use four taps when set_shadow_filter_4tap(true) is
active, and the 16-tap Poisson filter when it is false.
Review comments at @native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs:
- Around line 9017-9022: Update the quality telemetry associated with
create_taa_textures to report the effective TAA output extent and filter, using
the same taa_upscales decision that selects taa_w and taa_h: when temporal
upscaling is disabled, report render-resolution output and Catmull-Rom rather
than surface-sized Lanczos; preserve the metadata for the enabled path.
- Around line 11059-11060: Update set_shadow_filter_4tap to synchronize the
lighting snapshot’s 4-tap filter flag whenever it changes
shadow_map.filter_4tap, so changes after begin_frame affect the current frame.
Preserve the existing shadow map update.
- Around line 9017-9026: Update the diagnostics rendering path to use the same
extent as the TAA resolve, selected by the taa_upscales logic that sets taa_w
and taa_h, rather than the surface extent when upscaling is disabled. Preserve
the existing TAA extent selection and ensure diagnostic sampling uses TAA pixel
centers.
Review comments at @native/shared/src/renderer/postfx_chain.rs:
- Line 1509: Update the timestamp allocation around the upscale pass in the
post-processing chain so the profiler can record the upscale pass even when
scene draws and 16 active planar probes use the existing 32-pair budget.
Preserve timestamp capacity for the upscale pass without weakening the existing
limits or safeguards.
Review comments at @native/shared/src/renderer/shaders/core.rs:
- Around line 576-582: Update the cascade transition around bayer4 and
offset_blend_zone to use a non-dithered blend when TAA is off at native render
scale, preventing the 4×4 sampling pattern from affecting direct and indirect
lighting. Preserve the existing dithered transition for other configurations,
using the renderer’s existing TAA and render-scale state to select the behavior.
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Review comments at @native/shared/src/renderer/shaders/core_tests.rs:
- Around line 63-65: Update the transition test near the SCENE_SHADER assertion
to verify that the in-bounds transition branch selects the next cascade. Check
for the guarded cascade assignment within that branch so the assertion cannot
pass based solely on the same assignment in the handoff loop.
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native/shared/src/renderer/quality_capture.rs
native/shared/src/renderer/queries.rs
native/shared/src/renderer/shaders/core.rs
native/shared/src/renderer/shaders/core_tests.rs
native/shared/src/renderer/shadow_pass.rs
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nl -ba native/shared/src/renderer/shader_include.rs | sed -n '1,220p'
git diff bcae9c2095ed8c1ad217f6679f81b2e2ee730a43 6c1f295b1fd8de786ff0c54ae1f025a54ab63bd9 -- native/shared/shaders/common/shadows.wgsl native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs | rg -n -C 5 -F 'set_shadow_filter_4tap'
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Apply the filter selection to material shadows.
When set_shadow_filter_4tap(false) is active, materials using sample_sun_shadow still use four taps. The core CSM path uses 16 Poisson taps, so shadow softness can differ between surfaces. Make the material CSM helper select the same filter.
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Review comment at @native/shared/src/renderer/light_api.rs around lines 196 -
202:
Update the material CSM helper used by sample_sun_shadow to read the filter
selection passed through lighting_uniforms.dir_light_count.w and match the core
CSM path: use four taps when set_shadow_filter_4tap(true) is active, and the
16-tap Poisson filter when it is false.
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The material helper (shaders/common/shadows.wgsl) already takes 4 taps; it has its own layout and filter and isn't part of this change. Aligning the two CSM samplers is worth its own PR.
…ter applies now; file sizes
- quality telemetry reports TAA's output extent and its own scale (1 when it
resolves at the render resolution), and picks the filter metadata from it;
the TAA diagnostics render at TAA's extent.
- set_shadow_filter_4tap updates the current frame's lighting flag too.
- set_temporal_upscale / set_shadow_filter_4tap live in quality_preset.rs,
TAA's target re-creation in postfx_chain.rs (recreate_taa_targets), and
the capture readback in quality_readback.rs: mod.rs back under its
ratchet, quality_capture.rs under 2000 lines.
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Mobile defaults the way Unity URP / Unreal's mobile renderer set them up, and a cheaper cascade transition for every platform. Measured on a Pixel 4a (Adreno 618) in tuichess; GPU times per pass from the profiler.
TAA at the render resolution on Android (
temporal_upscale,set_temporal_upscale). TAA was also the upscaler, so on a phone (2.5 MP screen) it ran at full surface size: 68 ms of a ~150 ms frame. Withtemporal_upscaleoff, TAA resolves at the render resolution and the existing upscale pass scales its result (Unity URP's order). The TAA history then lives at render size, and TAA's reconstruction scale is 1. Off on Android, on elsewhere (desktop unchanged). TAA: 68 → 21 ms.4-tap shadow filter on Android (
set_shadow_filter_4tap,dir_light_count.w): four hardware-PCF taps half a texel off the centre, a 3x3-texel tent (URP's mobile "Low" soft shadows), instead of the 16-tap Poisson disc. Main pass −6 ms at 0.5 render scale.Dithered cascade transition, all platforms. In the band before a cascade's far split, each pixel takes the next cascade with a probability rising toward the split (4x4 ordered dither, averaged by TAA), instead of sampling both cascades and blending. The second lookup put a second copy of the filter into the scene shader; removing it took 12 ms off a 43 ms main pass on the Pixel 4a. The receiver offset is still smoothed across the band, and a pixel keeps its cascade where the next one doesn't cover it.
The live cascades are the layers of one depth texture. The scene shader samples one array view with the cascade as the layer: a pixel's cascade is a coordinate, not a branch between three textures. With the dither, pixels of one quad pick different cascades, and sampling different textures in divergent branches lost those pixels' writes on Adreno (a dithered band of background colour across the transition). This also makes one inlined filter instead of three. Each layer keeps its own 2D view (
depth_views) for rendering, the static-cache copies, and the consumers that bind cascades one by one (GI, SSGI, planar, PT, transmitted shadows). The lighting group's shadow bindings 6 and 7 are gone.Also: a GPU timestamp for the upscale pass.
Pixel 4a, in game at medium: TAA 68 → 21 ms, main pass 47 → 38 ms at 0.5 scale. Checked visually on the phone (TAA on and off) and on macOS (Metal, desktop defaults).
cargo test --lib: 500 passed. Shader-text tests updated for the transition, and the VSM scene variant patches the new single lookup.Summary by CodeRabbit
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Improvements