Glow, Outline, and Font Effects in GameMaker

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In addition to smoothly scaling text, SDF fonts can be used to apply a few different effects. Here's a crash course in how to use them!

The sample project:
https://github.com/DragoniteSpam-GameMaker-Tutorials/TutorialSDFFonts/tree/effects

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0:00 Introduction - what do SDF fonts do?
0:39 Other SDF effects
1:08 font_enable_effects
4:08 Memories of an older Internet
6:22 Technical things about the SDF shader
10:26 The end

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