[FREE] [OPEN-SOURCE] Outline Effect

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I have working this asset, is easy to use it, but isn´t working in a Galaxy S9 and works fine in a Xiaomi Mi 5.
Any suggestion are welcome

 

I don't know where to report issues for this, but I have one. If you're doing additive scene loading when using this asset, you drop like 60 frames per second or more. Don't know why. Whenever I change or load a scene my fps goes to nothing.

 

I have found my problem, when i use auto graphics API in build settings isn´t working on some android devices, if i remove the check then is working in my S9, but ii left in first position OpenGL2

 

Does anyone know how to modify ths shader so that the outlines do not show when it is behind an object?

 

I`m noob on shader, but i think you must change cull or ztest:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-CullAndDepth.html

 

When I built to mobile, the outline effect does not show. Does anyone else have this issue. Is this not supported on mobile

 

Are you read my answer?

 

I read it. Thanks. But I have another problem now. The outline doesn't show on mobile devices. Is it not supported?

 

Have you tryed removing Autographics in player settings and set only opengl2?
And i have stopped to use it in android, media and low quality devices expend so many fps

 

Does it not work on open GL3?
Also do you know any other alternatives for the outline effect to use for mobile devices

 

Nop, working fine without loss a lot of fps no.

 

Wait so does it or does it not support OpenGL 3?

 

I recently found this package (it looks great!), but I have found an issue when I add unity's post processing effect. The screen turns black and all I can see is anything in the UI canvas, and the highlight shape it self. If I disable the post processing, everything returns to normal.

What am I doing wrong?

Note:
I have even tried changing the order of the components on the camera, If the outlineEffect component is above the post processing, then the outline isn't event seen.

[SOLVED]
If anyone else runs into this, you must disable "Directly to Camera Target" checkbox in the post processing layer. Everything looks fine now ;-)

 

Are you using post-processing in mobile devices?

 

Can someone please confirm if this shader works on OpenGL 3?

 

Of course it does.

 

Maybe its wrong for OpenGL 3 in mobile? I have tested and isn´t working in my s9 but workis fine in Xiaomi mi5. And drop alot of fps.

 

Anyway this could be ported to HDRP? There just isn't any good outline for HDRP anywhere!

 

It didn't work when I set the graphics API to OpenGL3. Nothing showed up in my Samsung A50 phone. When I switched to OpenGL2 the outlines showed.

 

I want certain Mesh Renderer game objects to not be affected by Outline Effect.



I set the Erase Renderer to true but this object is still shining with Color 0.
What is happening here?

 

Hi,

In iPhoneX with iOS 12.3.1, highlighter has not been appeared for selected objects, while it's working properly in other models. I have tested with 4 iPhoneX mobiles. it's working in one of that device and no highlight appearance for other three devices. Can anybody help me to overcome this issue?

 

First of all, let me just point out that this is a GREAT asset! And it was really easy to get working. So thank you VERY MUCH for your great work on it.

However, on Samsung Galaxy S8 it doesn't render properly. Typically it's the right side of the object that doesn't get outlined. Sometimes it does, but most of the time it doesn't. On Sony Xperia and iPhone SE it works perfectly fine all the time.

Anyone knows a fix for getting it to work properly on Galaxy S8?

Thank you very much in advance.

 

Great asset!

I'm encountering an error with cardboard VR Camera where both the left and right eye are gray with android and iOS builds. Seems to work fine for non-vr cameras and in-editor. Seems to be gray on some devices and fine on others. Issue occurs for both iOS and android builds. Using Unity 2018.3.14f1.

I'm assuming it's something to do with the additional Outline Camera conflicting with the cardboard camera. Any thoughts on what might be happening? Thanks!

 

Switching from Single to Multipass Rendering in XR Settings fixed the issue.

 

Hey morphinegames, I downloaded your edit and I added the Outline to one of my 2D sprites but somehow only the original 3 colors seem to work. Any ideas? I'm looking to have exactly five colors but when I used yours the 4th color went back to LineColor0 and the 5th color went back to LineColor1. Thanks in advanced!

EDIT: If anyone else can help me with getting 5 colors in total that would mean a lot to me. I'm still new to Unity so I'm not too sure how to edit the shader files.

EDIT2: I would like to state that it does work. I just had the original files hidden elsewhere and it conflicted with my code.

 

Hello!
First of all, thanks to the author of this wonderful asset !!! He is gorgeous!
I work in Dragon Bones and all other OutlineEffects/Shaders (outline mesh, outline fx and others) loomed very badly on my 2D objects. This asset solved this problem. Thank.

But now I have another problem:
This asset consumes VERY many resources. With OutlineEffect disabled on MainCamera, I get 60 fps on an Android device, but when I turn it on, the frames drop to 25-30, and it doesn't matter if there are any objects in the scene that this outline applies to or not.

The device I use - LG G2(Snapdragon 801 + Adreno 330 have 129.8 GFlops), ran as with OpenGLES 2.0 and with 3.0 same result.

Does anyone know what the problem is?

 

Is this topic already dead?

 

@UnetDev I suspect that the asset is no longer updated, unfortunately. Really a shame, and I would love to pay for it on the Asset Store if it was maintained.

 

I do not quite understand what you mean. Asset is still an asset, here it is: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/outline-effect-78608

 

Heyho @cakeslice,
thanks for the asset. Is it somehow possible to draw the outlines behind a WORLD space canvas. My complete UI has already an OnTop-Shader. I also set your shader to Queue Background (in both shaders and via script), but I can't get it work.

Thanks and best regards

 

It haven't been updated for 2 years, and it doesn't work properly on newer Samsung devices. It doesn't seem like it's maintained and updated anymore, which is really a shame. Would love to pay for it on the Asset Store if it got updated to modern versions of Unity.

 

Ah, I understand you. Yeah, same me too

 

Hello guys!

Sorry but it's really hard to maintain an open source project while still working full time, I will do what I can...

Someone has been working on the project and I just merged his changes.

If you're interested in seeing what has changed, check out the fork: https://github.com/JimmyCushnie/Outline-Effect-but-its-faster

For the latest version go to: https://github.com/cakeslice/Outline-Effect

I will release it in the asset store soon

If you find any bugs it's better to post an issue on github where we can track it. Use this link: https://github.com/cakeslice/Outline-Effect/issues



PS: Many thanks to https://github.com/JimmyCushnie !!!

 

Hey! Would it be possible to add the ''Erase option'' to particle sytems to hide the outline effect behind particles? Great asset otherwise!

 

This outline effects is not working for LWRP any work around for this

 

I've been looking for such an effect and finally found it, even a free one. I can't thank you enough for this, really, I am very grateful to you!

The main purpose that I am writing this comment is actually to give you an idea though. Which is, if we had an option in Outline script (not Outline Effect) to basically disable joining the lines with other object's lines, it would be so cool. For instance, the specific object will always have its own shape (and lines) and it'll never be reshaped whenever any other object with other lines conflict with it. In short, there should be an option in Outline script to make the specific object have its own line at all times and not join with others'.

 

Hey, any chance to make it work in latest HDRP?

 

I too had an all-black game screen with just the red highlight visible. There was no "Directly to Camera Target" checkbox as mentioned in the quoted post (though I appreciate they included is, so I'll pass it forward).

[SOLVED]
What finally worked was adding the demo scene into mine and making the Main Camera's child Outline Camera my scene's Main Camera's child.

No idea why that worked; perhaps the Demo Scene's saved Outline Camera is subtly different from what a fresh install creates? Anyway, thanks for the free effect, and I hope my struggle shortens someone else's.

 

You could use the Erase Renderer option included in the Outline script.
When an object with Erase Renderer enabled occludes an outlined object, it removes the outline and fills the covered portion with Line Color 3. Just set that to white and the original color will be displayed.

 

Thankyou Cakeslice (and all other contributors) for this amazing outline effect. It works great.

It currently doesn't work with Sprite_Skin from the 2D Animation package. It outlines the original sprite, and doesn't update to the skinned version.

The 2D animation package is in preview still. Has anyone looked into this or can anyone give me a pointer on where to look for a solution?

 

Hi, has anyone tried this plugin in Universal-Windows-Platform? The plugin works well in the editor, osX and windows standalone, but in the UWP the outline seems to have an offset from the object, and it also kinda moves as the camera move, though the object position is fixed.

 

Did anyone get this working with URP? It doesn't seem to work there.

 

Hi, For some reason this doesn't work on some objects I have in the scene but does work on others.
As far as I can tell there is no difference between the objects that work and those that aren't (except for the mesh itself of course). Any idea on how to solve this?


This is the object:



This is on the camera (as I mentioned it does work on other objects):

 

There is a bug



if there is some objects with outline scripts but one of those with the chexbox erase render true it becomes this

 

Hello guys,

New version is up in the asset store: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/outline-effect-78608

If you have any issues the best way is to create and send me a simple Unity scene that reproduces the issue so I can take a look.

Cheers

 

This is not a bug, that is exactly what Erase Renderer is supposed to do. Please take a look at the demo scene to see a variety of use cases.

 

First of thank you very much for sharing this project with us.
However, I encountered a problem.
I have the outline rendering on a 2D sprite, but it doesn't seem to work when there's a video playing in the background...

No Video playing:


Video playing:

 

I don't know if this is intended, but the outline is actually drawn underneath the sprite. I was wondering why I didn't see the fill color. Maybe it's also drawn underneath the Video...

 

How are you rendering the video?

Maybe if you render it to a texture and use the video in a Material applied to a mesh it will work

 

While your suggestion does indeed work I would much rather stick to using the render mode "camera far plane". It would be great if it somehow worked with this render mode too.