I am trying to implement custom outline shader in babylon. I have progressed with the outline as a Post process using Sobel. How can I compose the scene with it. The goal is to pick an object in the scene and it shows outline along with the original scene rendering. I have to somehow compose the…

You need to mix the source texture with what’s computed in the shader like this : Babylon.js Playground Babylon.js playground is a live editor for Babylon.js WebGL 3D scenes check line 77

I guess you are pointing to a wrong PG

I don’t think so. PF shows scene rendering with postprocess applied.

This one of my PG only haha. What I meant is I want to render screen in texture. Then render screen in another texture after a post processing pipeline using sobel. Then combine these two texture and render the final scene with the blended texture. How can I achieve that?

This is kind of a hacky way I was trying just to make it work. But this will outline every mesh on screen. I want to pick and select particular meshes and get the outline. Thus I need the other approach. But It is getting hard to figure out

Maybe this will work for you: Highlighting Meshes | Babylon.js Documentation

No actually this is what I am trying to achieve using custom shaders.

I’ve change the PP to use the other RTT: Babylon.js Playground Babylon.js playground is a live editor for Babylon.js WebGL 3D scenes

You can do it like this: Babylon.js Playground Babylon.js playground is a live editor for Babylon.js WebGL 3D scenes renderTarget is used to render the objects you want to outline. Note that it uses a non lit shader for this pass, as you did in your PG (li…

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Cedric November 23, 2023, 4:59pm 9

I’ve change the PP to use the other RTT:

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