How to OUTLINE your Meshes in 2 Easy Methods! | Quick and Easy Tutorials | Blender 2.9

[@jamiemontgomery7143]

This Didnt work for me my first few attempts, but i went to show overlays and then selected blackface culling and it worked :)

[@CGSmoothie]

I'm just going to pin this comment because so many people have this problem recently lol

[@ragreenburg]

Do you mean Materials -> Settings -> Backface Culling? I can't find "show overlays".

[@1negroup841]

@@ragreenburg Neither Can I.

[@1so.d383]

where is show overlays ?

[@1so.d383]

@@ragreenburg I finally found what he is talking about

[@ThadeousM]

If you're outline doesn't appear after following the tut, consider changed your *Materials Offset* in the Solidify modifier. Make sure it corresponds with your new made toon shader material

[@verbatim7488]

thank you, im dumb

[@Zachomara]

This was driving me nuts trying to do this. I searched online for like 2 days for how to get it done, and this one was simple enough for my idiot brain to understand. Thank you!

[@CGSmoothie]

I'm a man for the monkey brained people, what can I say

[@lunastifaliamusic]

For those having issues with the textures, make sure the toon outline material is last. Each polygon has it's own Material Offset slider, it's just hidden.

[@mysterious_monolith_]

Many people have shown how to do this, but this was my fave video that explained it. Thank you.

[@Structed-2]

When I did this the solidify not only made the outline thicker but it also make my model thicker.

[@CGSmoothie]

Make sure that the material index is set to 1 or -1, whichever has your toon shader on it

[@saultubegaming]

Thanks man, This Helped ALOT!

[@NotTooF2P]

THANK YOU THE FIRST TUTORIAL THAT WORKED!

[@NFTsAreThePast]

THANK YOU SO MUCH took me ages to find a good tutorial like this thanks!!!!

[@stevbe1723]

I'm having problems where the solidify makes the underlying materials really dark and adds some really ugly artifacts, like thick stripes and triangles. I'm using a basic toon shader with a color ramp set to constant. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[@CGSmoothie]

You should make sure your second material doesn't cast shadows, does that fix it?

[@stevbe1723]

@@CGSmoothie Yep, that was it

[@AllaSweetGames]

@@stevbe1723 How do I do that?

[@stevbe1723]

@@AllaSweetGames In the materials tab, go to "settings" and then for "shadow mode" select "none"

[@appy8808]

underrated channel, give this guy a like

[@CGSmoothie]

Thanks! 😃

[@AVIDSTINGRAYGAMING]

How can I view the black outlines in cycles? I tried and it worked real good in Eevee but not in cycles did I go somewhere wrong ?

[@CGSmoothie]

I don't know if this method works in cycles, Freestyle should work though?

[@Rucky_rz]

I have a problem, I have followed the steps to get that cartoon effect, but when I want to rig it and want to move it, it presents many bugs. How do I fix it?

[@CGSmoothie]

I would say fiddle with the modify layer order, it could be that the armature modifier needs to go up or down. Hope that helps!

[@minimonkey7773]

What if i wanted to animate the mesh using a rig; how do i make the outline stick with the mesh?

[@CGSmoothie]

All you have to do is just make sure that the solidify modifier is applied after the armature modifier.

[@minimonkey7773]

@@CGSmoothie This did work! thank you. Also how do i go about doing shape keys on my mesh? when i move the vertices the outline portion moves only. but i have to apply the solidifier first before i can do shape keys.

[@CGSmoothie]

I haven't tested it using shape keys, is this for like a face rig?

[@minimonkey7773]

@@CGSmoothie yeah, I figured it out. I think my mesh didn't have good topology and did weird stuff as a result.

[@Nika-ss7dv]

Is it possible to change the color of the outline in the first method?

[@elvaaan]

I have a mirror and subdivision modifier that I cannot aply for now, maybe that's why it didn't work for me. I have been looking for different ways of doing this but looks like solidify is the only way.

[@yezenandzeynanimation_89]

when i export it as an obj or ofx it dont add the colours any help

[@Lasagna0704]

hi, idk you can help me but i followed the tutorial and the outline shows up but only in the solid viewport display, when i turn on my textures the outline becomes like transparent... pls help

[@CGSmoothie]

That seems like a strange effect, I would check if you have either some strange vertex normals that are making it cut too much, or maybe append the model to a different blend file and see if either of those two solutions work. Hope that helps!

[@Lasagna0704]

@@CGSmoothie thanks! turns out i hadnt set my materials correctly :P

[@allenwinward8986]

This is a really cool effect, I'll definitely use this!

[@CGSmoothie]

Yeah I think it'd fit the toon shader extremely well

[@supe_nova]

did this but my texture wont show, my models just white with the outlines

[@CGSmoothie]

It's probably something with your primary object material

[@ItzAshRoblox]

When i select "render image" it gives me a purple screen, please help me

[@CGSmoothie]

Do you have a camera object in your scene?

[@ItzAshRoblox]

@@CGSmoothie yes

[@KattaCambrino]

Quick, simple and perfect. Convenient simple tutorials like this are some of the best

[@verbatim7488]

thanks a lot, this gave a lot of personality to my otherwise bland looking game :)

[@XxDragonSlayerrXx]

bro this with some toon materials would look so good!

[@nkfc]

what if I want to make the outline white? is there a way? Im making a simple pyramid (literally cant get any simpler), i need to make a white outline for every edge edit: I found a freestyle outline editing thing in view layer properties, it was so fast that i kind of started to believe in God lmao

[@CGSmoothie]

Hallelujah 🙌🏻

[@Speculector]

this is exactly what i need, thank you so much!

[@CGSmoothie]

I'm glad it's helpful!

[@1so.d383]

if this doesn't work go to the toon shader material panel, and scroll down to viewport display > settings, and mark the backface culling box

[@CGSmoothie]

I think I said that but I have gotten a lot of comments about this so thank you!

[@1so.d383]

​@@CGSmoothie ooh sorry, i may did not hear well in the video cause english is not my first language 😅 but great tutorial tho, pretty straight to the point i like that ..!

[@berenvonbaggins]

​@@CGSmoothie You definitely said it but you kinda said everything really quickly, making it easier to miss things.

[@cancelled2455]

Can this be ported on unity?

[@CGSmoothie]

Freestyle cannot, but the solidify method should work. However, it's not very optimized, and there are better ways to get an outline using shader graph or post processing, might make a tutorial on those methods

[@CGSmoothie]

@cancelled2455 Tutorial now in the works!

[@cancelled2455]

@@CGSmoothie thanks, its the first time seeing someone that replies on a 2 y old video, respect🙏

[@CGSmoothie]

Somehow it's still one of my most popular videos, so why not reply haha

[@CGSmoothie]

@cancelled2455 Your tutorial is now up haha kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ6Zc6CZn8lkg9k

[@sophie9984]

Can I use outlines only with Evee or is there also a cycles option?

[@CGSmoothie]

From what I can tell, it only works with the Eevee kind of renderer

[@bosstankproductions1304]

Does it work in unity

[@CGSmoothie]

I do not think so, but there are plenty of post processing packs that can make an outline effect! I might try to make a tutorial on that

[@elimalard]

Oh my gosh, I’ve been wondering how to do this for forever, thanks so much

[@FrogStorms]

Is there any way to make this work with armature?

[@CGSmoothie]

The Yoshi is actually attached to an armature so yes!

[@FrogStorms]

@@CGSmoothie I figured it out, you can't have the solidify modifier applied or it will clip through. Thanks again for such a good video!

[@xvd901]

Hey, how do I outline models with joint objects?

[@CGSmoothie]

I'm not sure I understand, what's a joint object

[@xvd901]

@@CGSmoothie I do understand what a joint object is but not quite sure how to explain it to you, just search it up on youtube.

[@eyejar234]

thanks for your help

[@Agent_Y]

i have a model that. has lots of textures when i change the material to the number the outline was all the textures just got offset so all the colors were wrong

[@CGSmoothie]

I don't know exactly how to fix this problem, but make sure the outline material is the second material in the materials array, if that isn't the problem get on my discord and there's a bunch of people on there I'm sure would be happy to help!

[@michaelsolorio2001]

i just fixed this right now. What I did was add the black toon bsdf material under each material. it added the black outline to all materials without offsetting for me. I hope that helped !

[@Orinthian-Pilot]

if you're still available to comments, any way to change the outline color for the first method? It's fine if you don't have an answer

[@CGSmoothie]

I do not believe that is possible, sorry!

[@sakuruanim3294]

Amazing thanks😄

[@kemetking5417]

Does this work for planes? It’s not working for me

[@CGSmoothie]

It should work for every model, in fact one of my discord members just did one with some complex models and it looked really cool!

[@videos.uneed0]

Thanks u so bro that helped me so much 🖤🙏

[@One_Big_Player]

Thanks!

[@bixpixter]

Great, thank you

[@ViviTheBlock]

Why is your voice build like lollipop from BFB

[@CGSmoothie]

I haven't watched that series in like 3 years

[@ViviTheBlock]

@@CGSmoothie rewatch it then

[@h-Films]

@@CGSmoothie im creating an object character in blender and the tutorial for outlines is from an object fan what

[@Elidyah]

Method 2 just colours the object black and changing the thickness does nothing :(( how do I fix it?

[@CGSmoothie]

Make sure you ticked on backface culling in your second material

[@Anorey]

@@CGSmoothie i have the same problem and backface culling is on :(

[@gauthierruberti8065]

Really useful thank you

[@miteihiro3283]

Followed the second tutorial to the letter, step by step. Doesn’t work for me at all. Don’t know if Blender 3.0 is just stupid like that or I’m missing something. But either the outline just doesn’t appear, or the object just turns black. No in between. Again, followed the tutorial TO THE LETTER

[@miteihiro3283]

Never mind, after recalculating the normals on my model, that fixed the issue

[@CGSmoothie]

HAHA yeah that's one thing with blender and unity, you can stress over one thing for hours and then realize that it was a really simple solution

[@overrev982]

The 1st method, Freestyle, basically just crashes blender (im told this is a ram problem, I have 16gb so im assuming i should upgrade to something like 32..?). The 2nd one doesnt work for me when used on, for example, a porch I made with railing which makes sense because a lot of shape are interacting and combining, so it wouldnt just outline a general shape.

[@CGSmoothie]

How detailed is your render? My CPU is only 12 GB of ram and I've never had blender break because of freestyle...

[@overrev982]

​@@CGSmoothie I actually just went through the process of simplifying the scene and taking out a lot of objects, etc. Rendering on 64 samples as an image, with basically all the default settings because im very much a beginner. And this time it not only crashed blender but my google chrome as well which only had a couple tabs open and 1 video playing. I got a gtx 3070 and a ryzen 7 3700x

[@CGSmoothie]

I don't know man I've never had this problem happen

[@overrev982]

@@CGSmoothie Ah well, thanks anyway, good tutorial 👍

[@sr_kaio]

the only down side is that when you use it, it doubles the amout of polygons. I wouldn't recommend it for people that are making games

[@averagecarlenjoyer]

im following EVERY. SINGLE. STEP. but it just wont work??

[@its_stel]

Man is speed running

[@CGSmoothie]

That was back in my CG Matter era

[@vayomaerospace3962]

How to remove it I mistakenly applied it 😭 HELP

[@CGSmoothie]

What'd you apply, the solidify modifier? Just control z

[@TheIdentityBooth]

made a video to help and you are treating it like a speed run

[@CGSmoothie]

It was my CG Matter era 🪦

[@Dionized]

Didn't work. Made my character thicker and turned him into pure white. I did back face culling, used the second method, flipped the normals, made sure that the shader material was second on the material list, but nothing.

[@CGSmoothie]

Do you have multiple materials in your list cause it seems like others had this problem too

[@Dionized]

@@CGSmoothie I found another tutorial, and that one worked, but since I used the mirror modifier (and have already applied it), I now have a big line going from the top to the bottom of my character in the middle. Any ideo on how I could fix?

[@CGSmoothie]

Hmmm, is merging ticked on in the mirror modifier?

[@Dionized]

@@CGSmoothie I dont know, I applied it a long time ago

[@Dionized]

@@CGSmoothie is there anyway I can un-apply and then apply it again to change the settings?

[@doomslayer6419]

Optimus Prime turned into popcorn

[@hallunolla]

method 2 makes my character thicker and doesnt add an outline

[@CGSmoothie]

Make sure you flip normals and change materials!

[@hohoaho6890]

@@CGSmoothie both are on check and still makes it thicker, i set the materials offset to the corresponding one as well and it didnt change anything

[@OliverShore]

@@hohoaho6890 same

[@Fluridee]

It didn’t work for me

[@megoogoogoo]

so fucking awsome thank you

[@madmikefollower6939]

Man this guy is way too quick to follow

[@88rogue19]

Doesn’t work just makes it thicker

[@BerserkerDBrawler]

Definitely worked for me...may be user error on your end

[@ContentBombing]

It didn't work

[@CGSmoothie]

Well I can't really help you if you don't tell me what happened