Thank you! Yeah I might be spending a little bit too much time on editing, compared to gamedeving, but I do love it :D

Thank you and yes, sometimes I wonder if I take the editing too far haha :D

@@RobinSeibold Can you pls tell how to do this effect in hdrp

Thanks! ❤️ Already working on some improvements to make them even better, but that’s for a future devlog!

Thank you! ☺️

Thank you! 💖

Thank you! ❤

🙌🙌

Thank you! 😃

Thank you! :D

💖

Hahah, thank you!

Thank you! The source code is available on my GitHub.

Hey there, I'm wondering if you had any advice for getting this to render. I can only get the outline to render IF I use an overlay camera with camera stacking, the overlay camera will render it but no matter what I do. The base camera NEVER renders the feature. Terribly frustrating! Haha.

@@SpeedTutor I only have one camera. Overlay camera? Sounds like a separate camera for the UI. Did you try it having only one camera in total?

@@smallflyDE I've tried one camera with the exact same settings to no avail, haha. Do you have discord, maybe I can send you a really quick video. I'll even pay a little for a moment of your time as I can understand you might be busy. :)

@@SpeedTutor I'm having the same problem

Thank you!

Hahah, one of my favorite comments, thanks! 💖✨

coders are peak artists without knowing

Thank you! :) The RobertsCrossMultiplier node at 11:04 is actually just a property with a value of 100 if I remember correctly. All the nodes seen in 11:04 together forms the Roberts Cross implementation for scene depth edge detection.

Thank you! It works on transparent object with minimal setup/changes. It does not work on transparent objects AND through them at the same time though.

Hey! Replied to your tweet, but if you haven't seen it check out the issues and corresponding pull requests in the GitHub repo, this feature works with forward rendering.

Thank you! That's an aliasing problem, the outlines does not currently work with MSAA, one could instead use FXAA or SMAA on the camera instead.

That's a pretty cool idea! I've never worked with lights in unity at this stage of the render pipeline (~post processing), but I'm currently working on custom lighting for my cel shading, and I don't see why it would be that different, which basically means a lot of calls to the URP RealtimeLighting.hlsl library functions and some maths. Are you thinking about doing it? Thank you!

I attempted it but I believe that the way I'm handling outlines makes it impossible. I saw that your way was pretty different from mine so I figured it could possibly work.

@@flippykat9215 Yeah I definitely think it’s possible, it’s just a question of how complicated it would be and what/if additional data is needed. How did you implement the outlines if you don’t mind me asking?

I followed this tutorial kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLOkaaeUxrPck3k.html

Interesting! Haven’t tried jump flood, but this makes me want to, just to compare! Thanks for the tip! I haven’t really done any performance tests yet! Currently working on some outline improvements and will do a second video about those, might do some performance analyzing then as well!

Thank you! ❤ Here's the documentation for custom nodes in Unity shader graph docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@5.16/manual/Custom-Function-Node.html and the following article helped me a while back when I first started creating custom nodes blog.unity.com/technology/custom-lighting-in-shader-graph-expanding-your-graphs-in-2019 Hope that helps! The full code is now also available on GitHub github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

@@RobinSeibold Holy shit! Thank you so much.

Thank you! Yes, I'll try to get it on Github in the near future! I haven't tried with an orthographic camera, but I can't see why it should not work.

Thanks!

Hey, I while ago I asked about if you were willing to share the code, you said you were but you never gave an update on that.

@@dominic_sanchez Hi! Yes I've had a long christmas break and working on my next devlog. Will probably clean up the outline post processing effect and get it up on GitHub right after the release of the next devlog, should be late january or early february.

Nice! Cant wait for the next devlog. Any hints as to what it's going to be about?

Thank you!

@@RobinSeibold Oh okay. Pardon my mistake, I assumed the Shader.PropertyToID call was referencing the shader graph because of the underscore prefix. I've only started learning shader development recently so a lot of this stuff is very new to me. Thank you very much for your swift reply.

@@user-mh1qo4xj8s no problem! Feel free to email me if you have any more questions or thoughts! :))

Thank you! The code is available @ github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

Thank you! It's on Github since a couple of minutes ago; github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

@@RobinSeibold Ah that's amazing, thank you that will be a massive help!

Thank you! To be honest, I don't know. I've not tried it in VR, nor am I experienced with VR and its constraints. The source code is available at github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines so if you would like to give it a try I would love to hear the results!

If some want the function I use : (don't pay attention to my poor programming skill pls ) float CalculateNeedOfRender_float(float3 ColorBottomLeft, float3 ColorTopLeft, float3 ColorBottomRight, float3 ColorTopRight,out float _out) { float3 totalV = ColorBottomLeft + ColorTopLeft + ColorBottomRight + ColorTopRight; float total = totalV.x + totalV.y + totalV.z; if (total > 0) { _out = 1; } else { _out = 0; } return _out; }

It could, but we want the threshold value to depend on depth in this case!

No? The Fresnel node takes view direction as input?

The source code and all default settings (I think) can be found here: github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

Thank you! Yeah, the aliasing is definitely a problem, and right now I'm relying on the camera SMAA anti-aliasing algorithm instead of MSAA, which works for the outlines. However, since this isn't really a solution I've been looking into ways of generating the outlines already 'anti-aliased' so to speak. Haven't implemented anything yet, but will share when I do!

Thank you, and happy to hear! Yes, that's still true, and the idea is to figure out a solution for it, when I get there, which will hopefully be soon!

@@RobinSeibold I will follow closely your advance then ! Good luck

@@zakku_ Thank you!

Haven't worked with VR. Try creating an issue over at github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines and see if someone else has a fix.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Its all just a lot of editing to make the video flow better, it doesn't look anything like this originally.

My implementation doesn't support that out of the box, but could be extended to do so!

@@RobinSeibold Sounds good! I've read some of the other commments and you mention storing the outline color in the texture normal. I've tried a few different ways but could you point me in the right direction? I've created a script with an outlineColor field. I've added this script to each object I want to have an outline. 'ViewSpaceNormals.shadergraph' : I think this is where I need to pack the outline color into the normal texture. 'Outlines.shadergraph' : I think this is where I need to unpack the outline color from the normal texture. This contains an 'OutlineColor' property conected to a split that will no longer be used. I guess the extracted outline color will need to be connected to the split instead. do I need to modify ScreenSpaceOutlines.cs? Thanks so much for your help

I'm currently running with SMAA or FXAA on the camera to smooth them out. Might implement a 'native' AA for the outlines in the future.

Yes, there's no native anti-aliasing in the outline algorithm at this point, all though SMAA is applied after. Do you have any links or write-ups about "surface ID based outlines"? Sounds Interesting.

If the outlines are drawn on other objects, it means that something is wrong with the setup, not the implementation, since it works for me and others. As for the second question, this post processing solution wasn't built to be stacked, hence why it probably breaks. If one wants different colors for separate outlines a much better approach would be to pack data in the normals texture, and utilize that in the outline shader.

​@@RobinSeibold Thank you very much for this reply, despite the age of the video. I'm going to try again to put everything back in place. Also, I'm not skilled enough to be able to realize your proposal but it's very kind of you to explain to me what would have been a good solution for what I want to do. And finally, after a certain distance, it seems that the effect is reversed. the color of the edge detection we've chosen spreads over the surfaces. it also seems to change according to the size of the screen. I suppose there's plenty of explanation in the video, but as my English isn't very good, I couldn't understand it all. If ever there's a place, forum or other, where we can talk about your shader, I'd love haha to potentially get some help. I'm already going to look at the links you shared in the description. Edit: i retried but i have the same issue. When I set the ScreenSpaceOutline with "Nothing" in the layermask and occlude layer, it sets the outline but not the edge detection. So I have a bright red outline on all my cubes. When I put a layer called "Visible" in the layer mask and keep "Nothing" in the occluder layer, I get the internal edges added for my cube in the "Visible" layer. But in addition to the artifacts when our "Visible" layer object is behind another object, the outline ( just the contour) is always present on the other cubes.

@@Tyliart I think the best option is to post your error and questions as an issue over at github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines, include a lot of images as it makes it easier to help!

github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

Custom made animations in Blender!

Send me an email with images of your result, and I'll try to dig up the settings used in my video.

@@RobinSeibold seconded! the edges on my version are very harsh and almost pixely? how are you getting the lines to be so smooth?

Thank you! :) I'm currently in the phase of cleaning up the shader for Gihub as well as the Unity Asset Store, it should be out next week!

@@RobinSeibold exciting!

@@RobinSeibold Is this still happening?

@@_.-.Life came in the way, but it's up now github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

@@RobinSeiboldI already had a better time following along and understanding the code as a whole compared to pausing the video. Extremely appreciate it

Hi send me an email and we can try to resolve it!

Hello not sure if you still need the help, but I had the same issue, I resolved it by unexposing the view space normals texture in the shader graph.

multiply it by the scene depth

Did you have any luck? I'm planning on updating the repository to work with newer versions of Unity, but I've got quite a lot in the pipeline currently.

I had no luck unfortunately. I was using all the new calls but something was still missing which caused it to have no outline and make the top part of my editor, the play button area, be a game view. I temporarily used the solution seen in Daniel Ilet's video "Outline Post Process in Unity Shader Graph (URP)" until I randomly saw an asset on the store called "Screen Space Cavity & Curvature". I quite liked it's shading

@@RobinSeibold Hello, where would it be? The tutorial looks clean, but i'm trying to replicate it by hand and I'm getting lost all the time, I suspect people are just copying then from the repository xD, otherwise i don't understand why no one is also lost haha Thanks for the turotial anyways, but i'm kinda praying that you see this and answer, i'm working on a project and trying to get a job and it would be cool to have some assets I made with this shader. Edit: I already found the repository, does it work in HRDP? If not i would just create a URP project. Thanks bro!

@@JibreelProductions Have only tried it in URP.

@@RobinSeibold Already set up, thank you so much for making it.

It's hard getting the full picture of your specific problem from a KZfaq comment. I'd recommend checking out the Issues: github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines/issues and see if you can find if someone is having a similar problem, otherwise create a new issue where you describe the problem in depth with images. Good luck!

At what point in the video, or at what file/line on GitHub?

Not video, file name "Outlines" shadergraph in Github!

It does, although at higher thickness values artefacts will start to appear.

Thank you! ❤❤ This was never implemented as a stack-able RendererFeature, so adding more than one Outline RendererFeature to the pipeline is probably not the right choice! Without knowing too much about your exact use case, I would recommend trying to pack and utilize data into the normal texture, which the outline feature can then use to render the outlines in different ways and styles, much like I did in a later devlog to allow for outlines on segments. Thank you again for the kind words, and good luck!

@@RobinSeibold ohh thanks a lot for the answer! yep I'll definitely explore into this direction then

Green is adding as you said, yellow is change, and red is removal.

It's set up as a global shader variable.

Thank you! Did you get it to work?

@@RobinSeibold Not quite no, I was able to make blit work by using the Blitter Static class API, and getting rid of the temporary buffer however, now It seems like i am having a different problem. The texture Allocated from the 1st step (ViewSpaceNormals) does not seem to be captured by the outline step. I am not sure what I am doing wrong in this case or if there is some different configuration that needs to be set...

@@arthuroverissimo3165 sorry to hear! Keep track of the Outline repo on GitHub, I might update it in the future!

@@RobinSeibold I am taking a in-depth read through the unity's documentation about the new RTHandle implementation in order to get this working for URP versions 14 and up. I will eventually get it to work, i wanted to ask you if you would mind if I create a branch or fork from your git repo with the impmementation for URP 14+ users

@@arthuroverissimo3165 Sorry for the late response. No I wouldn't mind, you could create a pull request with the URP 14+ code. Good luck!

Yeah, this effect was specifically developed for that use case, so there’s probably something wrong with the setup. Experiment, and if you’re still having problems I recommend creating an issue over at GitHub, make sure to provide screenshots.

@@RobinSeibold Will do, thanks!

i have this same issue, the outlines show on everything even though i dont have anything set in a layer mask, its all global

@@minima_studios Have you figured out how to only get it on one layer yet?

@@RobinSeibold sort of, i have layer ground set in the outlines layer mask, and the player set in the occlusions, but the outlines go over the player when the p[layer crosses an outline

It's layer based, and with some extensions to the shaders you could quite easily achieve different colors per objects!

Solution: That error was completely unrelated. WebGL's quality setting is medium by default, which makes the depth texture not work. Set default quality setting to Ultra.

you need to set in "Outlines Occluder Layer Mask" layers which should cover outlines. Then them wont render

@@yunnmy What should I set it to? I played with it for a while trying a bunch of options but it didnt work. it does work in the viewport tho.

@@yunnmy never mind I fixed it, it was my camera's near clip plane

Hahah mostly from the internet and a lot of creating & experimenting!

You mean having outlines on transparent objects? Haven't tried it yet, but it might/should work with the correct settings.

Sounds like an aliasing problem, have you tried enabling FXAA or SMAA? The current implementation does not support MSAA, see text from repository README: ”Does not work with MSAA, the current work around is to use FXAA or SMAA on the camera instead.”

I had the same problem, try to change the value of the DepthBufferBits in the ViewSpaceNormalsTextureSettings ! 18 does work well for me

It's just a default but altered skybox and terrain, I quickly explain it in 'The 3Cs - Devlog 1' (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/grOhnNJqs9nVnYE.html)

@@RobinSeibold thanks

It should be pretty straight forward, have you tried?

Did you solve the issue? If not, take a look at this: github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

​@@RobinSeibold yeah! it seems like had something to do with de depth texture toggle on the renderer file, thanks for answering :)) Currently trying to find why the outline scale get so distorded with change in camera position, any idea on what can cause that or how to solve it?

@@shabadava62 Hm, I don't think I really understand what you mean. Could you create a issue in the repo @ GitHub or mail me with example images/video.

Yes, the skybox can be excluded, as can be seen in my videos. Have you solved it yet? No problem! :)

@@RobinSeibold I did yes, thank you. Not sure if it's "the correct way", but all I did was set the alpha value to 0 in the background color settings.

@@Ivan-gz6fw did you find whether its the correct way?

github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

The source code is available here: github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

@@RobinSeibold thank you very much

Hi! I don't know if you have seen that the source is available at github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines As for your first question, this implementation does exactly this. For instance in my game only foreground objects will have outlines, and not the environment. As for the second question I have no idea, but everything (almost) is possible with some tweaking! Good luck!

Did you figure it out? Otherwise I suggest creating an issue on GitHub:github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines/issues

@@RobinSeibold hey dmd you on twitter too, its really weird - its not an issue with the outlines but the detal mesh system for terrain, i did figure it out by just making grass set to transparent right now

They are custom made in Blender. I pretty much recreated the full Unity shader graph visuals in Blender, but simplified!

In ViewSpaceNormalsTexturePass the line normals.Init("x"); also creates a global variable available to all shaders. To access it in Shader Graph you have to create a property, with the same reference value as the string in the Init method, so in this case 'x', and to make that property global as oppose to material specific you have to uncheck the 'exposed' checkbox for that property within Shader Graph. Hope this helps, if you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask! Good luck!

Thanks a lot for answer. I think that resolves my problems.And also really good work you are doing with your videos, they are really great, keep it up.

@@izzynab332 No problem! Thank you, I'll try to! 😊

github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

The source code is available here: github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

@@RobinSeibold Thank you very much!

It's global, so check how to work with global variables and shader graph.

github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

What warnings are you getting? Are you using the latest version: github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines

Hey! I forgot to tell you that i managed to get it working. Everything looks awesome, but there are some parts that does not work correctly if I go far away (For example, a cube inside a wall with all normals facing the same way). I tried adjusting the parameters but if I increase the Roberts Cross Multiplier, this black "shadow" appears and paints like a diagonal in my scene. I do not know if I explained me correctly but that is my problem right now xd

Have you tried: github.com/Robinseibold/Unity-URP-Outlines ? (Check the 2021.2 release)

@@RobinSeibold same problem for me, doesnt work even with that one

@@RobinSeibold Same problem using Unity 2021.3.34f1c1, URP12.1.13. I've already download the files from your github repository.