Drawing Outlines in 3D – 3D Games in GameMaker Studio 2

Drawing an outline around something in 3D is easier than you might expect, and works well enough in most cases. Here’s a simple but effective trick that games like Okami use!

As an added bonus, you can use a variation of this to get a silhouette effect.

This trick relies on smart use of the backface culling direction in order to work:

Here’s the code:

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