Thank you. Sorry i'm not really familiar with Gamemaker. Can Gamemaker handle normal maps?
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yup! mhm it can. i'm not super familiar with it to answer much beyond that, but i know it can handle normal maps to light a 2d game. i literally googled normals gamemaker and found a pretty cool blog entry on it that i'll probably read up on later https://www.yoyogames.com/en/blog/using-normal-maps-to-light-your-2d-game (pasting here for anyone else's interest and my own future self).