How To Hightlight Any Object With An Outline Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial

Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction to creating outline effect in Unreal Engine
1:00 - Adjusting line thickness and color for the outline effect
2:22 - Creating multiple outline effects with material instances

[TLTL]

Thanks for this and agreed this is way more simple than other methods I have seen. I'm losing my mind a bit as I have gone through the video 5 times and the outline is not quite working as intended. The linethickness param is just increasing how far away the outline material is from my mesh and the outline itself always has basically 0 thickness so it looks funky. Wondering if I may have toggled some setting in my project as I have triple checked that I followed the instructions. Any help would be much appreciated.

It might just only work with rounded edges. It works fine on a sphere, but on a box with sharp 90 degree edges it doesn't look right.

[Shade_]

Great video, works fine on regular meshes. However, on nanite meshes it doesn't work in 5.4. What is the best workaround for this? One can disable nanite for the mesh entirely, or check 'Disallow Nanite' in the mesh render settings, but I imagine this is suboptimal.

[GerardoGeovia]

Bueno me sirve y no me sirve viste como son las cosas, digamos que es el tuto mas sencillo que vi, pero asi es su funcionamiento también, es como que solo se renderizan las caras internas el problema es que este efecto no atraviesa una pared o el suelo por lo que es un efecto incompleto, quizás muy sencillo para trabajar en algo sencillo pero no sirve para resaltar objetos a través de una pared u otros objetos.

[enderfire]

this helps so much, thank you.
that being said the shader kinda breaks when applying to charcters which was my main goal

[Mr_Septimus]

I watched 3 tutorials before this one, there were some heaps of links in blueprints, complex materials.

You did everything clearly and to the point in 4 minutes. You are the best!

[makeyourgame]

The inhale at the end was so unexpected and realistic that I thought there was a man lying in bed with me

[SpaceShrimp]

that is great but you double the geometry count and performance wise it can be expensive if you have a big poly count on your model.

[lethalcheese]

Every other Tutorial made this sound like it was the most complicated thing in the world by combining Fresnel nodes with scene textures and texels... and here you are in 6 nodes it works fine, thank you

[ExodusProto]

thank you man every other tutorial was extremely complex but this was really easy to follow and straightforward.

[IconicDesigns]

i seem to get this error, any ideas?

[SM6] SceneTexture expressions cannot be used in opaque materials except if used with the Single Layer Water shading model.

[JP-eopb]

Thanks for the tutorial. I was running into an issue with the outline not dynamically appearing/disappearing before, but realised I didn't add the blueprint into the level editor. It's all fixed for me now :)

[DJDCRYPTER]

Excellent, many thanks for this tutorial.

[jadkaiito-]

my i ask if it's optimized or its need an other way so it can be in the final product ??

[Rufus_Marlow]

Un related to this video, but I’m new to unreal engine and on a 3rd person template I followed your tutorial on how to make a main menu and options menu, but when I saved the project and then later got back into the project I still had all of the coding and assets for the main menu and options tab, but when I would hit play it wouldn’t start with the main menu and it would instead start with the 3rd person template. How do I fix it?