brave crag
Is there a way to use any injection point?
I'm having many issues with this. My outline shader is messing with tons of things such as particle effects and the skybox.
Setting it to After Rendering Post Processing fixes these issues, but it means the outlines become aliased.
Is there a different way around this other than using a custom injection point (which I don't know how to do)?
tiny halo
Messing with particles/skybox how exactly? Post process based outlines tend to rely on depth/normals textures which usually only contain opaque geometry. So "Before Rendering Transparents" event would likely make the most sense to avoid issues with those.
brave crag
All that black stuff is outline
Which doesn't appear if I set the outline to After Rendering Post Processing
Also all this is black stuff Outline too on the Skybox
But that's an easy fix, I just had to make a depth cutoff
Which unfortunately comes at the cost of slightly thinner outline for the borders of terrain / skybox, but it's a minor detail
brave crag
Messing with particles/skybox how exactly? Post process based outlines tend to r...
I made it using a Fullscreen Shader Graph. Is there some setting there that allows it to only run on opaque geometry?
tiny halo
Which unfortunately comes at the cost of slightly thinner outline for the border...
That could potentially be fixed by only applying the cutoff if all the depth samples used by the outlines are at far plane
brave crag
That could potentially be fixed by only applying the cutoff if *all* the depth s...
True
I hadn't thought of that
tiny halo
Kinda confusing why outlines would cause artifacts on the particles though. Are those particles drawn in the transparent queue? If so, the before rendering transparents event should be fine
I suppose if the particles are opaque/alpha clipped they might still appear in depth/normals textures but I'd expect a more harsh outline like the rest of the scene, not mostly black
brave crag
Kinda confusing why outlines would cause artifacts on the particles though. Are ...
I don't know tbh where they are drawn
I'm using unity's particle pack for the muzzle flash
brave crag
I suppose if the particles are opaque/alpha clipped they might still appear in d...
Yeah I would expect so too, but the outline is checking depth, color and normals, so one of those three is bound to be off with particles
tiny halo
Ah okay, if it's checking color too that might make sense
brave crag
That could potentially be fixed by only applying the cutoff if *all* the depth s...
Did that and it works great!
tiny halo
I don't know tbh where they are drawn
You should be able to force the render queue on the particle material
If you set it to transparent/3000, then have the fullscreen shader render in the "Before Rendering Transparents" queue, the particles should then be unaffected
brave crag
You should be able to force the render queue on the particle material
Where?
tiny halo
Hmm looks already transparent
brave crag
Wouldn't this be solved by having the outline use the "After Rendering Opaque" injection point? I don't know why Unity doesn't just give us these settings
tiny halo
That would fix it for the skybox, though again would be thinner
The particles here should be in the transparent queue, so afaik it shouldn't matter if it's After Rendering Opaques, Before/After Rendering Skybox or Before Rendering Transparents
brave crag
That would fix it for the skybox, though again would be thinner
Skybox is fixed
brave crag
The particles here should be in the transparent queue, so afaik it shouldn't mat...
Just to be sure, is this the material i'm supposed to be looking at?
Also what is this 3000 number? Can I set it somewhere?
tiny halo
The URP shaders might not properly expose it, but Surface Type : Transparent should also be setting it behind the scenes
You could also check the frame debugger to see the order everything is rendered in
tiny halo
Yeah I would expect so too, but the outline is checking depth, color and normals...
For checking color, does the outline shader use the Scene Color node?
brave crag
For checking color, does the outline shader use the Scene Color node?
It uses URP Sample Buffer Blit Source
tiny halo
And even with this event it still affects the particles?
