What is the suggested way to create a selection outline like one you have in RTS games? The immediate solution i can think of is attaching a plane to object with transparent texture. But I’ve seen some that “stick to terrain”, instead of being occluded by it. It is more advanced than that for sur…

Ok so this thread definitely got me thinking that we for sure need a video on this subject. Too much cool stuff to cover. So I went ahead and made a playground of how I would go about doing this. I’ll record a video in the coming weeks. https://playground.babylonjs.com/#D4AERS#7 The gist of what’…

I’d suggest looking at projection textures. You can tell a light to project a texture down onto your scene. That way the the texture will look like it’s mapped onto your terrain wherever your character is. So to achieve what you’d want, you’d have a light that projects a texture of a “selection circ…

Took me a little while but I finally made an “official” video for this as promised! [image] Weekly Video: Answering a Forum Question with NME Procedural Textures! Announcements Time for another weekly video gang! This one was completely inspired by an inspiring forum qu…

Really cool! How nice of you to mention my humble persona. I see an immediate application to that solution also for magic effects like auras or so.

Is it possible to set less transparency for the projection texture? so it becomes more like emissive green.

not really. You would need a custom shader to do this :frowning:

Is there a simple example? This is how it should kinda look: [selection circle]

I would think that you could manually modify a copy of that projection texture to contain the desired transparency, couldn’t you?

I found an example on ShaderToy but I don’t know how to apply on ground (heightmap) of multiple moving units: [image] Shadertoy Build shaders, share them, and learn from the best community. Edit: Here how far I got in my PG: Babylon.js Playground …

Making " unit selection circle" like in RPG games

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Took me a little while but I finally made an “official” video for this as promised!

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