(Webgl2 / WebGPU support) A better outline shader than the one that already exists on the C3 addon stack exchange
no work on Text
Nice effect!
Thank you for the great effect, Skymen! It's very very useful. ✨
Not sure why people are saying it doesn't work on text. The text and spritefont objects can do an outline with bb code.
I tested this and bb codes like that don't work on spritefonts. Just text objects.
Omg...Thanks!
i.imgur.com/dlPdg0F.png
any ideas how can i set thickness of outline? (when i use stroke i receive only outline without inner color)
Hey, this fixes a LOT of issues for our game! We're using it to outline our text. Two questions:
1) Any way to have alpha for the outline it created? We're aiming to have our white text with 80% opacity for our outline.
2) Is there a limit for how high the precision step value can be for optimal performance? 50? 500? We can input 5000 with 16 samples and it still looks great.
Many thanks!
skymen there is one issue in this effect if we rotate layout 90 or 270 degree by setting its angle then outline streches from one side. see this image
Hi, yeah this is an issue with C3's effect compositor. It doesn't provide a good way to get the size of one layout pixel unit across all scales and angles. I use an approximation that hopefully works in most use cases, but assumes that the render target and the layout are aligned which isn't true if the layout is rotated.
In fact my approximation only works at angles 0 and 180 and breaks on every other angle value, and there is no way to really fix this without also breaking the fact that the outline pixel size is tied to layout pixels.
If you want, you can modify the effect. In the code you should find a value called "texelSize" which is my approximation, and instead use C3's "pixelSize" value and it should hopefully stop stretching, and you can counter act the wrong pixel size value by using bigger width values
Such a problem, I added an outline to the 3d objects, everything works well, but when I render the game in HTML5, launch it from my phone and go to fullscreen, fps starts to drop terribly.Although when the game is not in full screen, everything works fine.How to solve the problem?
how i activate it
Is it just me or something changed with construct and now the outline is making the sprite invisible. (Full screen mode). It seems to work on native screen mode, which is 427x240
Edit: Fixed it. But still a strange bug.
I changed my setup a bit and forgot about it. It was perspective camera with FOV 5. I changed it back to 10 and it works again.
Are there plans to update this addon for use with webgpu? or should i look for an alternative?