Outline Shader Effect for Orthogonal Geometry in XNA
- by Griffin
I just recently started learning the art of shading, but I can't give an outline width to 2D, concave geometry when restrained to a single vertex/pixel shader technique (thanks to XNA).
the shape I need to give an outline to has smooth, per-vertex coloring, as well as opacity. The outline, which has smooth, per-vertex coloring, variable width, and opacity cannot interfere with the original shape's colors.
A pixel depth border detection algorithm won't work because pixel depth isn't a 3.0 semantic.
expanding geometry / redrawing won't work because it interferes with the original shape's colors.
I'm wondering if I can do something with the stencil/depth buffer outside of the shader functions since I have access to that through the graphics device. But I don't believe I'm able to manipulate actual values.
How might I do this?
