Using Rendering Layers in the Render Objects feature

[dense hound]

Is it possible to use Rendering Layers to select such objects?
I literally can't just switch all my objects to a new layer just for them to have an outline, that seems so wrong and it makes 0 sense.
For reference, this is the video I was following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEiPibJuRU

[ionic coral]

You'd need a custom feature.
It's possible to use rendering layers to filter objects, but for some reason the RenderObjects one doesn't implement that functionality.

[dense hound]

Yeah, I've been through a few forum posts and they've been claiming it's on their high priority list ... that was back in 2022 o_0

I honestly have no clue how render features work tho nor do I have time to learn them at this moment, guess I'll have to find a workaround :/

Thanks for confirming it's not possible atm tho, I appreciate it.

[river osprey]

yeah it would be nice to use 'rendering layers' for their intended purpose instead of being tied to the damn physics layers

probably better off just having an outline material and tossing that onto the selected mesh

[dense hound]

yes, that'd be ideal

however, unity doesn't support material stacking afaik, you can only assign different materials to different mesh faces, but that's as far as it goes :/

[river osprey]

If you assign more materials than submeshes it'll draw again with the next material

so yes, there is stacking in that sense

Alternatively you can just make another mesh renderer child

[dense hound]

oh, I actually never thought of that :/