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[Michael_Boeni]

@joelr;44177

Hi Michael,

Did you find a better way of applying your highlight effect without modifying every material you had? I’m stumbling on the same issue. I wished I could “sample” an existing material from another material. This way I could make a “super” material that I apply dynamically to the selected object, put the old material as an input of the super material (programmatically), and blend it with another set of effect. But that doesn’t seem doable.

Thanks,
Joel

Hi joel

The best I got working was creating a material function and a material parameter set, so I just had to add these two nodes to the materials. Then I just altered the glow strength to switch the highlighting on/off via BP.

But to be frank, I am sticking with the outline highlighting of the object as I didn’t like the highlighting of the full object after all. This is doable by using blendables in the global post processing volume and just requires turning on one setting of a mesh (custom depth pass).

Cheers,
Michael