Orange Selection outline not showing in perspective viewport!

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Okay, I downloaded UE4 and everything was working, then one day I clicked something(have no idea what) accidentally. I didn’t notice right away but the selection outline was not showing in the perspective viewport. So I searched for help, found some helpful ones and altough they worked for others, I did the exact same steps as they did and still no solution. So far I’ve seen 1 person commenting about the solution not working, but no one came up with a solution to his and my problem ever since.

I have just reinstalled UE4 and The Epic Games Launcher and has still not worked with an old project neither with a newly made one.

The ‘solution’ to other people was to go into Edit>>Editor Preferences>>Viewports>>Look and Feel>> and tick the Üse Selection Otline’ and also change the Intensity to something above 0.

Any type of feedback is welcome!

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I am having the same issue.
Are you with an AMD video card?
I am with AMD and I read somewhere that this issue came with the new drivers. Currently the version of my driver is 17.4.2. Right now there is a workaround. At the bottom of the Edit>>Editor Preferences>>Viewports>>Look and Feel section there is and arrow (Show Advanced). There you will find a checkbox Highlight Selected Object With Brackets. This will replace the outline with brackets.

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Hey man, you are the best! Going to try your potential solution tomorrow and get back to you, still thank you for answering so clearly!

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No problem :slight_smile:

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Hey! Finally got time to try it. It works as promised, thanks!

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It doesn’t look fancy like the outline, but will do the job before AMD fixes the drivers :slight_smile:

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Hello again! I got around to reinstalling/reseting my PC. So I installed everething back as it was and it works now! First my view of the level wa squite glitchy, but I only had to turn the ‘’‘brackets’ thing off. Hope this helps you too :slight_smile:

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hey man so selection is working now for you ?

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I updated to 4.16 and it’s working for me now

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It says solved, but it looks like it was a workaround.

Try this as well:

  1. Open “Editor Preferences”
  2. Scroll to “Level Editor” - > “ViewPorts” → “Look and Feel”
  3. Two options (Halfway down the menu section):
    a) Make sure “Use Selection Outline” is checked
    b) Right below it is “Selection Highlight Intensity”; 0.1 will give you a good outline, but you can adjust to your preference.