How to make Simple 2D Glow with Outline in Unity - 2D Shader Graph

In this video, I'm gonna show you the easiest way to create 2D glow with outline in unity using Shader Graph and i know working with nodes can be a little frustrating cuz they are kind of hard to wrap your head around but playing around with different nodes can create a lot of interesting and cool shader effects that can make your game look awesome.

I hope this tutorial gives you a basic understanding of some of the nodes and from this point on you can play around with them to get awesome effects for your game.

Also a huge thanks to @BinaryLunar as this wouldn't have been possible without his tutorial so make sure to check his channel out.

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00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Setting URP
01:40 - Creating Outline
07:55 - Adding 2D Glow
08:40 - Pulse Effect
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[lnguyenhuu]

This approach seems to have a very strong limitation: you can only count on the semi-transparency of pixels at the edge of the texture, and you can never make the glow go further than this. Therefore:
a. on a texture with little or no alpha (for instance a perfect square at alpha=1), the outline is barely visible
b. you cannot create a glow that goes anywhere farther from the texture's non-transparent pixels

I see it's based on BinaryLunar‬'s video so it inherited from the limitations there (at the end they show a Bloom effect to make it spread a little farther, but it's not the same as creating a thick outline)

[DevNoob]

This is sick! Such a cool effect for game feel

[thesendrivingwood]

In my case there is no outline around my Player when I subtract the two steps nodes with each other. Either it is completely black or white. The postprocessing affects my whole scene, is it possible that it only affects my player?

[maythesciencebewithyou]

so you need transparent parts in your image for this right? a solid image probably won't work.

[ybp]

It works similarly in a 2D URP project, but the edges don't glow as brightly as in this video.
It's probably a difference in preprocessing settings.

[viba_dev]

In a newer version of unity this wont work. (2021.3.9f1) and you have to connect the alpha seperately from the add node into the fragment node.

[zirklutesKerpa]

I guess this is not working with built-in renderer?

[MarioTudon]

Does the bloom effect only affect HDR colors?

[quack]

i cant believe i struggled with the glow for 3 hours cause the transparency was at 0

[jade]

how does that bloom work, it only affecting the outline instead of everything in the scene

[madaragaming]

Bro can you help me i have a game audio i want to mod when i use uabe it doesnt export to audio it export to text that i cant understand

[Aloksharmaee]

Bro I have a request. Can you make a video on how to make simple shooting AI in 2d please 🥺🥺🥺

[durrium]

Sprite looks all distorted, didnt work