Question VR Refraction without Opaque Texture

Is it possible to get URP VR refraction working without using the opaque texture? Seems like trying to use opaque texture on Quest and URP 10.0.6 still has issues when using MSAA.

 

I don't think URP has a proper way of doing this. There is a grab pass URP extension on git, but I think performance of that will be really bad (not tested tho).
What is the issue you are having? You could make a bug report for it so it can be fixed instead of finding another workaround.

I have used opaque textures quite a bit for VR as well

 

As far as I can tell, attempting to use the URP opaque texture path with MSAA doesn't work in 10.x versions of URP, and later versions aren't available to us, since we're still using 2020 LTS. Have you used Opaque on Quest in later versions? I believe this is a Quest specific bug from what I've read.

 

The "opaque" texture requires doing a blit internally, which has huge performance implications on quest 1/2 hardware. I really recommend that you do NOT even attempt this on quest, as youre going to massively reduce performance.

The reason has to do with quest's tiled architecture. When you do a blit, the gpu has to resolve the texture from fast memory into slow memory, make a copy of it, and then get back to tiled rendering again afterwards. You will easily eat up 1ms or more (depending on resolution and msaa quality settings) just to bring OpaqueTexture into existence!

 

Can confirm. Just having it enabled without using it was a major performance hit