# Segmentation Outline Highlight

## Selection Highlight Path

This skill covers a custom post-process path for selection outlines composed
from `InstanceSegmentationSD` with Warp CUDA after copying color into a BGRA
stream buffer.

ovrtx 0.3 supersedes this pattern with native selection outlines:

- Use `selection-feedback` for selected-object visuals.
- Use `native-picking-selection` for the combined pick/query/selection-group
  workflow.
- Use `object-selection` for selected-path state and click/marquee routing.

New generated apps should use native selection outlines for normal selection
feedback instead of creating `seg_outline.py`, selected-instance-ID outline
kernels, or Warp outline systems.

## Custom Overlay Use

Use this pattern only when the user explicitly asks for a custom post-process
overlay that cannot be expressed with native selection groups. In that case:

1. Request the required segmentation render var for the custom overlay.
2. Keep the custom overlay independent from native picking.
3. Composite after the active color/AOV has been copied into the display buffer.
4. Treat segmentation IDs as frame-local and scene-local.
5. Clear all custom overlay state on scene switch.

Do not use this custom overlay path as a fallback for ovrtx 0.3 native selection
outlines.

See also: `selection-feedback`, `native-picking-selection`, `object-selection`,
`aov-switching`, `streaming-server`.