How should I go about removing thoes borders around the objects as seen in the image? I have tried rendering with all type CLAMP, WARP, BORDER. If I am to render the objects in a forward renderer, these border don't appear. However once I switch to deferred rendering, there seems to be a border around all objects drawn. http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/774/imageez6.png I am using dx9.0c, and my g-buffer is in D3DFMT_A16B16G16R16F. Edit: After testing it seems that these borders go away if I sample my g-buffers with Point Texture Filter. However it makes the images looks very pixelated. When attempting to read the information from g-buffer, how should I filter/sample it? [Edited by - littlekid on February 13, 2008 8:24:20 AM]

Quote:Original post by littlekidEdit: After testing it seems that these borders go away if I sample my g-buffers with Point Texture Filter. However it makes the images looks very pixelated.
When attempting to read the information from g-buffer, how should I filter/sample it?

And why would you want to filter g-buffer contents? I always thought it should be sampled with point filtering enabled and that's what I do. Image doesn't look more pixelated than one produced by forward renderer (assuming that AA is disabled).

On the other hand - even with linear filtering enabled you shouldn't get such artifacts if only your g-buffer texcoords are set correctly (pixel / texel exactly)... Doublecheck it. Do you use quad or volume representation of your lights?

You should make sure that you read exactly one texel from your G-Buffer per pixel (might try offsetting by 0.5;0.5 so the sample is in the middle).
The aliasing you observe is "normal" for deferred shading.

Filtering the G-Buffer is problematic. Some of your G-Buffer channels may interpolate well (color), others interpolate worse or not at all (depth/position, or material index).

If the aliasing is disturbing, you can do a post-process to find edges and selectively blur these (using normals/depth differentials, described in a couple of papers).
Or, if you can afford the dramatic increase in fillrate and pixel shader, you can supersample. Usually that's memory and shader overkill, though.