Revisions to How to toggle/highlight interactable items?

Placed buttons into <kbd> tags

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edited Aug 20, 2015 at 5:46

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Duplicate Mesh Outline

Have a mesh to be outlined:

<shift+d>shift+d to get a copy of the object and the mesh (give it appropriate names)
<t>ut: Make Single User "Materials + Tex", to get separate materials (give them appropriate names)
<tab>tab enter edit mode
select all vertices
<alt+s>alt+s fatten the mesh e.g by 0.1. The resulting mesh should be larger than the original.
w + <w> + flip normals to make the faces show inside
<tab>tab to leave edit mode

As the outline should have an "aura" effect, I suggest to chose a shadeless material with "Add" Alpha. The color should be pretty dark. Otherwise it will hide the background too much.

This results in a semi-transparent "glowing" effect.

While it looks strange in the preview the game engine will show you a nice outline.

PS: Thanks to Satish Goda (youtube) I know now how to enable backface culling. Therfore I suggest following additional settings:

parent the hover to the original object
make the hover unselectable
in Properties enable Shading/Backface Culling

This is the effect. Now you can think about logic that switches it on and off.

Hint: you can even fade it by playing material actions.

I hope it helps

Duplicate Mesh Outline

Have a mesh to be outlined:

<shift+d> to get a copy of the object and the mesh (give it appropriate names)
<t>: Make Single User "Materials + Tex", to get separate materials (give them appropriate names)
<tab> enter edit mode
select all vertices
<alt+s> fatten the mesh e.g by 0.1. The resulting mesh should be larger than the original.
<w> + flip normals to make the faces show inside
<tab> to leave edit mode

As the outline should have an "aura" effect, I suggest to chose a shadeless material with "Add" Alpha. The color should be pretty dark. Otherwise it will hide the background too much.

This results in a semi-transparent "glowing" effect.

While it looks strange in the preview the game engine will show you a nice outline.

PS: Thanks to Satish Goda (youtube) I know now how to enable backface culling. Therfore I suggest following additional settings:

parent the hover to the original object
make the hover unselectable
in Properties enable Shading/Backface Culling

This is the effect. Now you can think about logic that switches it on and off.

Hint: you can even fade it by playing material actions.

I hope it helps

Duplicate Mesh Outline

Have a mesh to be outlined:

shift+d to get a copy of the object and the mesh (give it appropriate names)
ut: Make Single User "Materials + Tex", to get separate materials (give them appropriate names)
tab enter edit mode
select all vertices
alt+s fatten the mesh e.g by 0.1. The resulting mesh should be larger than the original.
w + flip normals to make the faces show inside
tab to leave edit mode

As the outline should have an "aura" effect, I suggest to chose a shadeless material with "Add" Alpha. The color should be pretty dark. Otherwise it will hide the background too much.

This results in a semi-transparent "glowing" effect.

While it looks strange in the preview the game engine will show you a nice outline.

PS: Thanks to Satish Goda (youtube) I know now how to enable backface culling. Therfore I suggest following additional settings:

parent the hover to the original object
make the hover unselectable
in Properties enable Shading/Backface Culling

This is the effect. Now you can think about logic that switches it on and off.

Hint: you can even fade it by playing material actions.

I hope it helps

Added backface culling in preview, replaced the vertical material image with an horizontal

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edited Aug 19, 2015 at 6:02

Monster

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Duplicate Mesh Outline

Have a mesh to be outlined:

<shift+d> to get a copy of the object and the mesh (give it appropriate names)
<t>: Make Single User "Materials + Tex", to get separate materials (give them appropriate names)
<tab> enter edit mode
select all vertices
<alt+s> fatten the mesh e.g by 0.1. The resulting mesh should be larger than the original.
<w> + flip normals to make the faces show inside
<tab> to leave edit mode

As the outline should have an "aura" effect, I suggest to chose a shadeless material with "Add" Alpha. The color should be pretty dark. Otherwise it will hide the background too much.

This results in a semi-transparent "glowing" effect.

While it looks strange in the preview the game engine will show you a nice outline.

PS: Thanks to Satish Goda (youtube) I know now how to enable backface culling. Therfore I suggest following additional settings:

parent the hover to the original object

make the hover unselectable

in Properties enable Shading/Backface Culling

This is the effect. Now you can think about logic that switches it on and off.

Hint:Hint: you can even fade it by playing material actions.

PS: (I have no idea how to enable backface culling in Blender preview window),I hope it helps

Duplicate Mesh Outline

Have a mesh to be outlined:

<shift+d> to get a copy of the object and the mesh (give it appropriate names)
<t>: Make Single User "Materials + Tex", to get separate materials (give them appropriate names)
<tab> enter edit mode
select all vertices
<alt+s> fatten the mesh e.g by 0.1. The resulting mesh should be larger than the original.
<w> + flip normals to make the faces show inside
<tab> to leave edit mode

As the outline should have an "aura" effect, I suggest to chose a shadeless material with "Add" Alpha.

This results in a semi-transparent "glowing" effect.

While it looks strange in the preview the game engine will show you a nice outline.

This is the effect. Now you can think about logic that switches it on and off.

Hint: you can even fade it by playing material actions.

PS: (I have no idea how to enable backface culling in Blender preview window),

Duplicate Mesh Outline

Have a mesh to be outlined:

<shift+d> to get a copy of the object and the mesh (give it appropriate names)
<t>: Make Single User "Materials + Tex", to get separate materials (give them appropriate names)
<tab> enter edit mode
select all vertices
<alt+s> fatten the mesh e.g by 0.1. The resulting mesh should be larger than the original.
<w> + flip normals to make the faces show inside
<tab> to leave edit mode

As the outline should have an "aura" effect, I suggest to chose a shadeless material with "Add" Alpha. The color should be pretty dark. Otherwise it will hide the background too much.

This results in a semi-transparent "glowing" effect.

While it looks strange in the preview the game engine will show you a nice outline.

PS: Thanks to Satish Goda (youtube) I know now how to enable backface culling. Therfore I suggest following additional settings:

parent the hover to the original object

make the hover unselectable

in Properties enable Shading/Backface Culling

This is the effect. Now you can think about logic that switches it on and off.

Hint: you can even fade it by playing material actions.

I hope it helps

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created Aug 19, 2015 at 5:45

Monster

8.2k
1
12
27

Duplicate Mesh Outline

Have a mesh to be outlined:

<shift+d> to get a copy of the object and the mesh (give it appropriate names)
<t>: Make Single User "Materials + Tex", to get separate materials (give them appropriate names)
<tab> enter edit mode
select all vertices
<alt+s> fatten the mesh e.g by 0.1. The resulting mesh should be larger than the original.
<w> + flip normals to make the faces show inside
<tab> to leave edit mode

As the outline should have an "aura" effect, I suggest to chose a shadeless material with "Add" Alpha.

This results in a semi-transparent "glowing" effect.

While it looks strange in the preview the game engine will show you a nice outline.

This is the effect. Now you can think about logic that switches it on and off.

Hint: you can even fade it by playing material actions.

PS: (I have no idea how to enable backface culling in Blender preview window),

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