Rim Visual Effect

The Rim Visual Effect shows a simulated rim light on the object contour.

For simulating the rim light, a masked color silhouette of the object is displaced in horizontal and/or vertical direction.

Many blending modes can be applied to the resulting mask.

Options

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Rim Visual Effect.

Offset

Control the color mask displacement in pixels on the X and Z axis.

X, Z

Rim Color

Defines the rim light color.

Mask Color

Defines a color to keep unaltered.

Blend

The mask blending operation to perform. See Color Blend Modes.

Blur

Control the blur scale in pixels on the X and Z axis.

X, Z

Samples

Number of blur samples (0 disabled the blur effect).

Example

Rim Effect samples (Mode: Add).
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Original image.

../../_images/grease-pencil_visual-effects_rim_no-blur.png

No blur.

../../_images/grease-pencil_visual-effects_rim_blur.png

Blur.

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Mask color: Black.