SSAARenderPass.js

( function () {

	/**
*
* Supersample Anti-Aliasing Render THREE.Pass
*
* This manual approach to SSAA re-renders the scene ones for each sample with camera jitter and accumulates the results.
*
* References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling
*
*/

	class SSAARenderPass extends THREE.Pass {

		constructor( scene, camera, clearColor, clearAlpha ) {

			super();
			this.scene = scene;
			this.camera = camera;
			this.sampleLevel = 4; // specified as n, where the number of samples is 2^n, so sampleLevel = 4, is 2^4 samples, 16.

			this.unbiased = true; // as we need to clear the buffer in this pass, clearColor must be set to something, defaults to black.

			this.clearColor = clearColor !== undefined ? clearColor : 0x000000;
			this.clearAlpha = clearAlpha !== undefined ? clearAlpha : 0;
			this._oldClearColor = new THREE.Color();
			if ( THREE.CopyShader === undefined ) console.error( 'THREE.SSAARenderPass relies on THREE.CopyShader' );
			const copyShader = THREE.CopyShader;
			this.copyUniforms = THREE.UniformsUtils.clone( copyShader.uniforms );
			this.copyMaterial = new THREE.ShaderMaterial( {
				uniforms: this.copyUniforms,
				vertexShader: copyShader.vertexShader,
				fragmentShader: copyShader.fragmentShader,
				premultipliedAlpha: true,
				transparent: true,
				blending: THREE.AdditiveBlending,
				depthTest: false,
				depthWrite: false
			} );
			this.fsQuad = new THREE.FullScreenQuad( this.copyMaterial );

		}

		dispose() {

			if ( this.sampleRenderTarget ) {

				this.sampleRenderTarget.dispose();
				this.sampleRenderTarget = null;

			}

		}

		setSize( width, height ) {

			if ( this.sampleRenderTarget ) this.sampleRenderTarget.setSize( width, height );

		}

		render( renderer, writeBuffer, readBuffer ) {

			if ( ! this.sampleRenderTarget ) {

				this.sampleRenderTarget = new THREE.WebGLRenderTarget( readBuffer.width, readBuffer.height, {
					minFilter: THREE.LinearFilter,
					magFilter: THREE.LinearFilter,
					format: THREE.RGBAFormat
				} );
				this.sampleRenderTarget.texture.name = 'SSAARenderPass.sample';

			}

			const jitterOffsets = _JitterVectors[ Math.max( 0, Math.min( this.sampleLevel, 5 ) ) ];

			const autoClear = renderer.autoClear;
			renderer.autoClear = false;
			renderer.getClearColor( this._oldClearColor );
			const oldClearAlpha = renderer.getClearAlpha();
			const baseSampleWeight = 1.0 / jitterOffsets.length;
			const roundingRange = 1 / 32;
			this.copyUniforms[ 'tDiffuse' ].value = this.sampleRenderTarget.texture;
			const viewOffset = {
				fullWidth: readBuffer.width,
				fullHeight: readBuffer.height,
				offsetX: 0,
				offsetY: 0,
				width: readBuffer.width,
				height: readBuffer.height
			};
			const originalViewOffset = Object.assign( {}, this.camera.view );
			if ( originalViewOffset.enabled ) Object.assign( viewOffset, originalViewOffset ); // render the scene multiple times, each slightly jitter offset from the last and accumulate the results.

			for ( let i = 0; i < jitterOffsets.length; i ++ ) {

				const jitterOffset = jitterOffsets[ i ];

				if ( this.camera.setViewOffset ) {

					this.camera.setViewOffset( viewOffset.fullWidth, viewOffset.fullHeight, viewOffset.offsetX + jitterOffset[ 0 ] * 0.0625, viewOffset.offsetY + jitterOffset[ 1 ] * 0.0625, // 0.0625 = 1 / 16
						viewOffset.width, viewOffset.height );

				}

				let sampleWeight = baseSampleWeight;

				if ( this.unbiased ) {

					// the theory is that equal weights for each sample lead to an accumulation of rounding errors.
					// The following equation varies the sampleWeight per sample so that it is uniformly distributed
					// across a range of values whose rounding errors cancel each other out.
					const uniformCenteredDistribution = - 0.5 + ( i + 0.5 ) / jitterOffsets.length;
					sampleWeight += roundingRange * uniformCenteredDistribution;

				}

				this.copyUniforms[ 'opacity' ].value = sampleWeight;
				renderer.setClearColor( this.clearColor, this.clearAlpha );
				renderer.setRenderTarget( this.sampleRenderTarget );
				renderer.clear();
				renderer.render( this.scene, this.camera );
				renderer.setRenderTarget( this.renderToScreen ? null : writeBuffer );

				if ( i === 0 ) {

					renderer.setClearColor( 0x000000, 0.0 );
					renderer.clear();

				}

				this.fsQuad.render( renderer );

			}

			if ( this.camera.setViewOffset && originalViewOffset.enabled ) {

				this.camera.setViewOffset( originalViewOffset.fullWidth, originalViewOffset.fullHeight, originalViewOffset.offsetX, originalViewOffset.offsetY, originalViewOffset.width, originalViewOffset.height );

			} else if ( this.camera.clearViewOffset ) {

				this.camera.clearViewOffset();

			}

			renderer.autoClear = autoClear;
			renderer.setClearColor( this._oldClearColor, oldClearAlpha );

		}

	} // These jitter vectors are specified in integers because it is easier.
	// I am assuming a [-8,8) integer grid, but it needs to be mapped onto [-0.5,0.5)
	// before being used, thus these integers need to be scaled by 1/16.
	//
	// Sample patterns reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff476218%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396


	const _JitterVectors = [[[ 0, 0 ]], [[ 4, 4 ], [ - 4, - 4 ]], [[ - 2, - 6 ], [ 6, - 2 ], [ - 6, 2 ], [ 2, 6 ]], [[ 1, - 3 ], [ - 1, 3 ], [ 5, 1 ], [ - 3, - 5 ], [ - 5, 5 ], [ - 7, - 1 ], [ 3, 7 ], [ 7, - 7 ]], [[ 1, 1 ], [ - 1, - 3 ], [ - 3, 2 ], [ 4, - 1 ], [ - 5, - 2 ], [ 2, 5 ], [ 5, 3 ], [ 3, - 5 ], [ - 2, 6 ], [ 0, - 7 ], [ - 4, - 6 ], [ - 6, 4 ], [ - 8, 0 ], [ 7, - 4 ], [ 6, 7 ], [ - 7, - 8 ]], [[ - 4, - 7 ], [ - 7, - 5 ], [ - 3, - 5 ], [ - 5, - 4 ], [ - 1, - 4 ], [ - 2, - 2 ], [ - 6, - 1 ], [ - 4, 0 ], [ - 7, 1 ], [ - 1, 2 ], [ - 6, 3 ], [ - 3, 3 ], [ - 7, 6 ], [ - 3, 6 ], [ - 5, 7 ], [ - 1, 7 ], [ 5, - 7 ], [ 1, - 6 ], [ 6, - 5 ], [ 4, - 4 ], [ 2, - 3 ], [ 7, - 2 ], [ 1, - 1 ], [ 4, - 1 ], [ 2, 1 ], [ 6, 2 ], [ 0, 4 ], [ 4, 4 ], [ 2, 5 ], [ 7, 5 ], [ 5, 6 ], [ 3, 7 ]]];

	THREE.SSAARenderPass = SSAARenderPass;

} )();