In the graphics community, the relative advantages and disadvantages of deferred shading are a source of some debate. Deferred shading is not ideal for all situations. It depends greatly on the specific requirements of your application, and one needs to carefully evaluate the benefits and drawbacks before deciding whether or not to use deferred shading.
Multi-sample anti-aliasing with deferred shading is possible in recent versions of OpenGL by making use of GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE.
Another consideration is that deferred shading can't do blending/transparency very well. In fact, blending is impossible with the basic implementation we saw some time ago. Additional buffers with depth-peeling can help by storing additional ...
