Outline Post Process Effect in Unreal Engine

We are going to learn how to use post-process inside Unreal Engine and also explore how to create outline effect.
Outline Post Process Effect in Unreal Engine can be used for stylized game art style and also for interesting transition effects.

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[ubme]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks so much for showing this. If my outlines are too bright how would I control that, seems like they are brighter the further away from the camera?

[srknAyn]

thanks, this tutorial gave me an idea, separating two overlapping maps with a post process like a portal

[katmoviehd]

i want to dissolve my whole level by post process how can i do that? any tut?

[donfalcone]

Awesome tutorial! Tell me, is it possible to somehow make the back faces visible as well (as if the meshes themselves are invisible and only their frame is visible)?

[ventaidepc]

Very good joob man, i nneed for system process dark ambiance, thanks you, you are a big pro, for explications and demonstration

[Helgrind]

On UE5, if you want to just add outlines to your scene and keep the original color, you can:
- Clamp the final value between 0 and 1. This will avoid glow effects and give you a mask where white values are the outlines and black values everything else.
- Use the clamp value to drive the alpha of a lerp.
- You can put the Scene Color node in A to get the original color of the scene.
- In B, you can add a constant 4 parameter for your edge color.
- Plug the lerp to your emissive color and you'll have the desired effect.

[royportillo]

I’m trying to wrap my head over the outline section of the graph. Why do we need the 4 copies of our calculations and adding them together in the end?

We multiple SceneTexelSize with 0, 1 1, 0 0, -1 and -1, 0 and I don’t exactly know why that is or what it’s trying to achieve. I assume it’s to cancel something out in the end to create the outline, but I’m not sure how that is.

[Pikameleon]

Hello! how would this node graph look if i wanted to mask out certain actors? The mask would just be the characters original color before post-processing

[AYSMOKASHI]

how can i apply this to my camera
and thankyou very much for this

[ozcanozteke]

Hey! I tried this out as a material to outline items that can be picked up, it looks great thanks! I'm having a problem tho: when a light source is behind this material and bloom is enabled, it is extremely bright! Would you know how to fix that? Thanks!

[SinaAfshariJewellsMuseum]

I need just round all hard edges this metode works for it?

[RokPat]

This is an awesome effect! Thank You very much for this! Exactly what I needed for a project I'm working on. I just wanted to ask, is there any way to be able to put the camera within the spehere and the effect works? As not if You go inside, the effect disables?

[timelord]

is it possible to make different buildings different colors or will it all be the same?

[txetxu]

Hi Sir, very good job with this effect and i have a question is possibole a tutorial for make this effect in all proyect not only by sphere of other mesh ??.Congratulations of new

[pomeloyou]

Hi, I follow step by step with this tutorial, but when I on the step 8:25, my material show whole black without depth, is it some setting I missing?

[imaiven]

Amazing, this is so useful! But I have a problem, the skybox shows its geo when its seen through the PP, do you know how can i solve that?

[momo-PC]

i tried this on unreal 5, it is not working, is it because it dosent work on Ray tracing? or if there is any way could make it work on UE5? Thank you very much~!