Achieving Rollerdrome's iconic comic book aesthetic | Unity

Alina Sommer, Technical Artist at Roll7, walks us through how the team achieved the iconic illustrative style for Rollerdrome.

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Timestamp:
0:00 Broad Outer Outlines
1:31 Vertex Color Outlines
3:52 Shadow Outlines
4:30 Texture Outlines
6:00 No More Edge Sausages (Masks)

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[RalphBarbagallo]

This game was AWESOME!!! I'm surprised it didn't turn up on a lot of 'Best Of' lists for 2022. Absolutely loved it!

[coldshoulder]

Unity, you must have read my mind because I adore this aesthetic, and have been meaning to learn more on what creates this type of style. Should come in handy for any future prototypes or games I make. 😌

[shortForPychael]

while not a tutorial by any means, this info has helped me create this kind of aesthetic more than any other tutorial has. really nice ideas for edge detection.
idk about the deletion mesh though seems a wee bit whack to me, but I can't say I haven't done similar things before lol.

[JadenGoter]

This is great! I'm curious how they anti-alias the lines. Do they just use the built-in SMAA?

[niuage]

How do you generate the mask texture? That would be painful to do by hand no? Unless you have very few of these textures?

[andreasmuller]

Very nice! I was wondering about the thin textured edges since i saw the trailer.

[IJaba]

I like how she has a PS5 DevKit under that switch.

[GM-dbqh]

I haven't explored rendering/shading/lighting aspects in Unity yet. Just wondering how computationally expensive is this technique and if it is ideal for a small mobile indie point and click 3d adventure game? (With emphasis on Mobile)

[ThomasChen-urgt]

A little confused about how the broad outline is drawn

[spideyman]

can I use quibli to get the same effect?

[nelsonkenmochi]

I have no idea about what they're talking about, sorry guys 😂

[robotman]

Can you guys please add proper subtitles

[KHos]

Edge Sausage, lol, new term invented?

[brohamhd]

Can you make a update so there’s like sword and weapon animations with starter assets and make it easier for you to make mobs and enemy’s im working on a anime game in unity like Genshin impact our Zelda and i am strougling and its my dream to become game dev plis unity 😊

[meh]

Iconic?
_Really?_ [EDITED TO ADD: Judging from the calibre of these weak responses, I can see we're not exactly dealing with the pinnacle of linguists here, or even people who understand how pointless, meaningless and utterly irrelevant hyperbole weakens language.]