How to Make Toon Outlines in UE5

Let's create the cleanest and most customizable Outline Shader possible in Unreal Engine 5 with this Definitive Guide to Outline Shading in UE5.

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📌 Chapters 📌
00:00 Introduction
01:11 How the Outline Shader Works
03:07 Apply a Post Process Effect to the Scene
05:56 Create a Passthrough Post Process Effect
07:57 Get the Current Pixel and its Neighbors (Convolution Kernel)
14:03 Detect Edges from Depth
20:02 Add Depth Edge Detection to the Outline Shader
23:29 Detect Edges from Normals
27:39 Add Normal Edge Detection to the Outline Shader
30:13 Modulate Depth Threshold from Grazing Angle View
37:54 Modulate Outlines Strokes Thickness from Depth
45:25 Fix the Stroke Thickness Modulation Bug
47:57 Prevent Outlines from Showing on Far Actors
55:10 Draw Outlines on Selected Actors (Custom Depth Buffer)
01:02:56 How to Set Outlines Color on a Per Actor Basis (Stencil Buffer)
01:04:29 Mutli-Colored Outlines : Simple Version
01:09:52 Fix the Multi-Colored Outlines Bug
01:15:30 Multi-Colored Outlines : Advanced Version
01:19:56 Interactively Change Outlines Colors per Actor (Editor Utility Widget)
01:29:00 Incoming Bloopers
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