Soft outlines in UE4 - Error in 4.21

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Hi,

you may know the great blog of Tom Looman, who wrote some articles about post process outlines in UE4. He wrote an article about how to create soft outlines but I always get a strange error when trying to implement the code into my project. Here’s the article:

I recreated the material function and the post process material a few times from scratch but the error remains and I can’t figure out why this happens.
I did it exactly like in the screenshots.

The problem is in the custom node and the compiler error already shows up in the material function (“error X3004: undeclared identifier ‘CustomDepthTexture’)

Did something change in 4.21 or did I miss something?

Thanky for any help on that subject and best regards,

Daniel

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That example by Tom Looman uses a custom node with hlsl shader code. There was a small change several versions back that means a few lines of his code need rewritten. I’ve never written hlsl, so that’s as much as I know.

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Hello,

Did you managed to make it work ?
I’m trying to have a soft outline but I can’t figure out how to do it…

Anyone’s help is welcomed…

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