I don’t see a antialiasing post-processing effect in the effect list.
or there one for that?
then I should use unity built-in anti-aliasing?.
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The post processing AA is now part of the camera rather than the volume stack.
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Thanks
Sorry to dig this up but just wondering, what does this AA parameter do if there’s a per camera one?
Thanks!
Pete
Hope you found the information you were looking for. But in case you didn’t then I can try to help:
The setting you have pictured is for multi-sampling anti-aliasing (MSAA) only. The value will be used by any camera that has MSAA Use Pipeline Settings. So you can control MSAA off/2x/4x/8x per-pipeline asset, and then override MSAA on/off per-camera.
The other anti-aliasing dropdown (shown below) is used for post-processing anti-aliasing (FXAA or SMAA) and is only used if “Post Processing” is checked on the camera (or checked on an overlay camera if you’re using camera stacking)
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Hey thanks for that! 
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@Andre_Mcgrail / @HDBGraphics Thanks for the info, I’ve got a few related questions and would really appreciate if you’re able to clarify some things for me!
Firstly, do these two methods work together, or are you supposed to pick just one? I’ve been trying different combinations of the two in a test scene and it seems like they do both work together, perhaps even affecting different bits of aliasing each (the camera AA modes seem to smooth out diagonal lines more, while the pipeline MSAA mainly just affects vertical lines?), but it’s hard to tell. I’m wondering if it’s worth using both, or if that has a high performance impact or other issues - I’m not planning on targeting mobile, but intend to target Switch and cater to lower end PCs. Leading on from that, if I needed to pick one (or, say, wanted a quality slider in my settings menu), what would be the recommendation? Does one give more bang for your buck, so to speak?
Thanks in advance for any info you can provide
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Hey,
The two modes do work together and many modern videogames, especially PC, have them both as options to enable at the same time.
I wont go into huge detail as there is plenty of resources of how each works and the pros and cons of each on the internet, but genreally MSAA can be cheap on some hardware(some mobile GPUs can give up to 4x for free pretty much), it will only solve geometry aliasing(so where tirangles start/end) and requires more gpu memory. Post AA, being FXAA or SMAA work on every pixel after it is rendered by ‘guessing’ how much the pixel should share colour with a neighbour, so this helps all over the screen generally, meaning things like specular aliasing(when small specular highlights from light sources are flickering) and alpha aliasing(vegetaion materials with alpha clip textures) can be fixed.
Which one to use comes down to the look of what you are making I think, if it is a modern PBR stype with detailed textures and ligthing, then use FXAA or SMAA(and eventually TAA when URP add support) but if you have more simple textures and lots of geomery to add details then MSAA will work better.
When it comes down to it, just test, try either and both, profile and if you have the performance to spare there is nothing wrong with using MSAA plus a post based AA solution.
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Hello, I’m having issues with my objects having jagged edges in webgl. I’ve tried uping the antialiasing in project settings and it makes no difference at all. Will this fix it? if so where do I find this in my camera, I don’t see it in the inspector.
Hey Can Someone Tell Me How to Change The Anti Aliasing Mode To FXAA or SMAA On Camera On Runtime, Im Using URP Bytheway
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Sorry for the (extremely) late reply! Thank you, that’s some really useful information! I think that answered all my questions, including any follow-ups I had, thanks ^^
I don’t see SMAA or FXAA effect in headset- URP, Windows Mixed Reality, HP Reverb G2. How can I increase antialiasing?
Unity3D Not supported antialiasing in URP and Quest 2 at any version, may be need 5-10 yeas for complete this problem. I think it might be related to the HP Reverb G2 too.
When does Unity apply the anti-aliasing effect (FXAA/SMAA)? Is it before the post-processing stage or later? I’m experiencing flickering bloom and have tried every combination of anti-aliasing but nothing worked. I heard it happened because Unity applies the anti-aliasing before the bloom effect, so I only want to confirm it.
Because of how quest 2 hardware works, you do not want post process anti aliasing. You’ll destroy your performance for such little gain. MSAA x2 is almost free on quest 2, x4 is a small performance overhead, so you should use one of those.
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Iam not understan, how u get this info? u test this or u read this somewhere? how u can answer this, if u not see the result of u MSAA x4 and VR headset Quest2?
Ok iam creating just now new empty project URP on 2021.3.7f1, add simple object and VR support switch to MSAA x4. And what? Yes this NOT work! u just best! I hope you get hired by Unity! thx u!
Oculus has some documentation, but I’ve also spent time reading various Snapdragon documentation.
How to change AA from code under URP?
If you have set antialiasing on URP asset, you don’t need to change camera antialiasing, even you can disable AA on camera, let URP asset control it.