Sphere Outline Using Sphere Mask

[markcham]

I’m currently using TwoSidedSign and VertexNormalWS to accomplish an outline effect on a sphere, shown below.

I’m using a slightly smaller regular sphere inside of the two-sided masked sphere. Is there a better way to do this? Since the outline is emissive, the light bleeds on to the inner sphere, which I don’t want. When using DLSS, a lot of artifacts also appear when the spheres are changing colors. Here’s the base sphere material graph:

And this is the outline sphere material graph:

Thanks,
Mark

Edit: just applying more search tags:
Sphere mask, absolute world location, object position, object radius, always face camera material

[markcham]

This sort of works, but it only works if I’m the right distance away from the sphere. Is there a way to make it always look like this?

EDIT Found a solution:

This ended up working. Just subtracting a scalar value from the distance wouldn’t work for some reason, but subtracting a portion of the object radius did work. It appears like the picture above when viewed from all distances and angles!

[pezzott1]