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I want to give to my model a outline with multiple colors. enter image description here

As you can see in this image, the outlines are slighty darker than the material they surround. How can I do something like that in Blender (Render mode)?

Using the "Freestyle" outlines I can only get one color outline like this: enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ I think this can only be achieved if each different colored outline belongs to a different object. $\endgroup$ – Duarte Farrajota Ramos♦ Jan 24 '17 at 23:14
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With the Freestyle rendering option enabled, you will find the Freestyle Line panel showing up in the Material properties window. The color selector in this panel allows you to choose a line color associated to the material. The line color can then be referenced using the Material color modifier in the Freestyle Line Style panel in the Render Layers properties window.

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At material boundaries, you might want to use the Priority parameter in the Freestyle Line panel to give a precedence to one of two competing line colors at material boundaries. A post in the Freestyle development blog details this feature if you're interested.

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  • $\begingroup$ What about Cycles material? $\endgroup$ – MicroMachine Oct 4 '19 at 20:20
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Here is a pretty easy setup to play with.

  1. Change your material to have a custom color on the edge of the fresnel fall-off. I did this with two diffuse nodes, one grey for the main portion of my objects, and one a green color, and then used a mix node with the factor being my fresnel output.

  2. Play with the Fresnel value to your liking.

  3. "Green-Screen" out your green in the compositor with chroma key.

  4. "Alpha Over" this chroma keyed image under a multi colored image (could also be an image strip for some pretty cool effects), by a factor being driven by the Matte output of the Chroma Key.

Node Setup for cycles material & compositor

If you want to fine tune this, then start playing with the Cutoff value in the Chroma Key Node.

Note that I dropped this from 10° to 0.71° and got this result. Ignore the brightness, I just upped my ambient occlusion all the way up. enter image description here

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Using the freestyle lines in a color that will change according to what is underneath when using 'Multiply' as a color mix mode in the compositor is a possibility. You could use a gray value that will be a darker value of each color, though you won't arrive at a black outline this way in your final composite.overlay of freestyle from scene.001 onto scene and the file

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