Question How to reproduce Editor Highlight Effect?

Hi there,

Im looking for a way to get the effect from the editor search that highlights certain gameobjects just like in the picture. Grateful for any tips Im starting at zero here.

Regards
Markus

 

There are re-implementations of the editor outline effect out there if you search for it. Or similar but more configurable options on the store, or even free.
https://github.com/cakeslice/Outline-Effect

 

Thanks for your replay bgolus!

I took a look at those; it seems to only cover the outline effect. However, Im particularly interested in the color fading. Everything outside or in front of the volume is faded out and only inside or behind the volume the original colors appear.

Regards
Markus

 

I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone ask about the selective desaturation effect, though a large part of the implementation is actually similar to the outline highlight. Render the objects you want to a separate render texture using a solid white shader to generate a screen space mask. In the highlight effect you then blur that texture and render that back into the scene (with the original mask subtracted). For the desaturation, you need a desaturation post process that uses the mask to skip desaturating those pixels.