Mass outlining multiple meshes

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#1

I’ve been looking for a way to mass outline meshes in roblox without absolutely destroying the tri count, and i havent had any luck yet, i’m trying to recreate something that requires each piece of an arena to come together and form an arena.

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It seems impossible without the use of textures, since to my knowledge roblox doesnt have any rendering options for it.

Currently, if I use bevelling it works because of shadows, but i’d really like to reduce the poly count and make a more noticeable effect.

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If anyone has ideas on how i’d achieve this please let me know, (im not looking for anything like the “cartoony outlines” you can find on ugc, just a way to add outlines to the edges as a texture to around 2000 objects at once. Thanks in advance?

#2

This is probably your best bet. You can probably bake what you have right now to a normal/bump map to reduce the tri count significantly.

#3

I’d prefer not to bake and apply 2000 textures though…

#4

Assuming you’re importing this into studio as one thing, you wouldn’t need to apply 2000 textures.

#5

good thing its 2000 seperate meshes then! yay… If i imported it as one I wouldnt be able to create the arena building effect I want

#6

You could use selection boxes, though apparently they’re not good for performance.

#7

There must be some way of automating it, but I don’t know how. I do know that Blender can be scripted using Python tho, so it’s definitely possible in one way or another.

#8

Can’t you just use a Wireframe modifier?

#9

I think the wireframe modifier will work, i’ll get back to you on that, never used it before, tysm

#10

So, wireframe made gross trianglular outlines instead of solid square ones, which is weird but, i found my own solution using insert faces, deleting the inserted faces and then solidifying the outer edges, ty for helping, wireframe helped me on the right track.