Toon And Outline Shader in Godot 3.2

In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a toon and outline shader in the Godot engine.
I'd like to throw a huge shoutout and credit to Dave from Dave the Dev who shared this same technique over on his KZbin channel which I happened to stumble upon when looking to create this effect.
Dave's Channel: / @davethedev
Patreon: / codewithtom

[@TimKrief]

In my experience the grow parameter works well with a sphere but has unexpected behaviors on more complex meshes that are not using smooth shading.

[@CodeWithTom]

Hi Tim, thanks for the feedback. For more complicated meshes there may be better ways to approach this. I'll try and explore this in a future video 😁

[@scollll]

@@CodeWithTom is there a video of that?

[@original_poster]

Very timely! I was literally wondering how I could do this this morning. Thank you.

[@CodeWithTom]

You're very welcome :)

[@maciej5468]

So simple, I love it, thanks!

[@lemongummy7047]

this is so cool! ^^ thanks Tom!

[@vatan2578]

Thank you so much. I wish health and success.

[@CodeWithTom]

Thank you!

[@Felocatel]

Muy práctico y muy bien explicado. Muchas gracias!

[@unfa00]

I'm looking for a shader-based outline effect that'd let me draw an outline visible through walls, but all tutorials go with the reverse-normal grow shell approach instead.

[@olppi5452]

Thank you!

[@apoorvpandey3D]

Awesome!

[@LATEXXJUGGERNUT]

There once was a game called EVOLVE and EVOLVE Stage 2. You could sniff in the game and see outlines of certain colors. I have failed for years to understand how to do a screen shader with multiple outline colors or however they managed this effect....

[@Raigoblin]

Nice

[@NOPerative]

Awesome.

[@CodeWithTom]

Thanks!

[@alexsandrotavares6585]

OH MY GOD I LOVE U

[@Flat_Erik]

i was getting huge aliasing effects on the outlines, especially when zooming out. Anyone knows how to fix this?

[@pgt915]

it's funny because in unity you would need 1000 lines of code for that,whereas here i don't even need a custom shader to have a good looking shader.

[@NateHeroic]

How do you use this with in 2d with light2d?

[@samuraikina5908]

Can this shader be modified to make the objects pixel art?

[@jamesxxxyz8775]

When i duplicate this sphere and this spheres overlap each other, then the black line is thinner and the reflect light overlap a little bit.

[@CodeWithTom]

Yes, there are some quirks to this method. I would love to explore more comprehensive solutions in the future.

[@solerg0d]

Do you think you could make a video on 3D projectiles in godot

[@CodeWithTom]

Absolutely :)

[@mr.wiggles9827]

Im trying to get my character to throw a boomerang that's on his side and have it return to his side...possible or nah im going insane trying to figure it out

[@nirmattgopal1806]

like the god of war axe? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn6uqZV9n86WgJI

[@CodeWithTom]

Hi, this is absolutely possible. You're basically looking at turning your boomerang into a projectile that can also return to the player. I'll add this as a topic to my list of things to cover.

[@thepirate_kinz1509]

Can the same be done for 2d

[@cmds.learning7426]

how to make postprecess out line shader in godot? vertax out line make more polygon count

[@CodeWithTom]

Hi, good point. I need to look into this. Once I figure it out I'll post an updated tutorial

[@vojtastruhar8950]

The specular highlights look awesome. But the grow outline breaks the second you have tomething with an edge - like a cube. Its an easy way, but severely flawed.

[@forge_builder6455]

having this exact problem.

[@vojtastruhar8950]

@@forge_builder6455 Godot has a button to 'generate outline mesh' - use that one! Works perfectly. You are rendering two meshes at that point tho :)

[@peytonmac1131]

Yeah. I've seen a lot of tutorials showing this way using a sphere only, which is a bit disappointing when you're trying to share more complex models.

[@cmds.learning7426]

Hi Tom! i found this : docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/tutorials/viewports/custom_postprocessing.html Like unreal or unity's postProcess shader, use canny sobal or Laplace edge detection can make cool postproces out line

[@kingzeeb319]

OOF

[@Bogdan100pink]

AMONG US

[@GPMTT]

547th