Light/dark pixels along the edge of objects

Has anyone encountered this? The screenshot is from the editor because this is a VR project which use some image effects (which actually unfortunately magnifies this problem).

We're using a forward renderer with 4x msaa, no realtime GI and no baked GI, just directional light shadows.

The objects with the bad pixels in the screenshot is literally a cube for a table leg and a plane for the floor. Toggling off the teleportarea doesn't remove the bad pixels.

 

Well, the Unity bug reporter was helpful in locating the issue, which now seems to be many years old:

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/a...hite-outlines-on-objects.307137/#post-2278331

And there's still semi-ongoing threads about this I just discovered:

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/j...-edges-with-specular-and-antialiasing.320984/

But apparently the resolution is postponed due to possibly major rewriting requirements?

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...px-white-border-between-object-and-its-shadow

 

@Daerst is this maybe related to the issue I reported for your decal system? Not sure if this is helpfull but I thought it's worth a shot tagging you here.

 

The viewport might try to give a preview of the image effects which could cause the problem. Also single pass stereo rendering might affect the edges in combination with msaa. Also ambient occlusion solutions have caused similar issues in my projects. (although the latest single stack ssao or latest hbao work fine as long as I don't touch single pass stereo)

 

That's the problem though. It looks like the issue. The engine is quite a bit different these days so it's probably worth reporting. A lot of people do that, they see a similar issue and assume it's the same.

Unity asked if you still got it with MSAA off.

 

The issue in the tracker is the same one mentioned in those linked threads, and is an issue that's been there since Unity 2.0.

The issue in this thread is likely related, if not exactly the same, but there's clearly something additional happening here that the op is leaving out.

@roberteker You mention image effects, is that the reason the blue line can be seen "through" the legs, and why the foreground leg is significantly more grey than the rest?

Image effects that used depth don't play nice with MSAA, for the same reason why the directional shadows don't. The camera depth texture does not use MSAA. You can find my post on how to improve directional shadows when used with MSAA linked to in some of those threads. You could use a similar technique to improve your "post" effect, but you would have to do it as a "pre" effect like the directional shadows that the forward rendered shaders sample from, or use a projector.

Once the new forward renderer is finally implemented, the shadow problem will go away, but the depth based post process issue won't. Not with out a ton of additional custom work that's not yet possible.