Re: [Freeglut-developer] Strings

[John P <end...@gm...>]

Thanks guys, it turns out, I have just been using the glRasterpos call, and
the bitmap call.  It is only to label a graph, so its no biggy how good it
looks, thanks for the help.
John


On 8/7/06, steve <sjb...@ai...> wrote:
>
> John P wrote:
> > Gents-
> >
> >   So this should be trivial to all of you GL/GLUT masters, but I was
> > just wonder what is the best way that you have found to display
> > strings.  I simply need a way to label a grid that I have drawn.  I have
> > found some things in Nate Robbins tutor stuff, but I am wondering if
> > since 1997, has there been something implemented that really works
> > great.  Thanks for all the help.
>
> Basically, there are three ways:
>
> 1) Textured polygons.  Without doubt the fastest technique with modern
>    hardware.  You can resize, reshape, recolour text easily - put it
>    into perspective, rotate it, etc.  However, there is a problem with
>    a tendance to be blurry - especially at very low point sizes.
>
> 2) Bitmaps - kinda old-school these days, you can't resize the text,
>    it can't be rotated or drawn in perspective - it can only have one
>    colour.
>
> 3) 'Stroked' fonts - draw text using GL_LINES primitives - fast, can
>    rotate, scale, etc.  Text is never blurry - but doesn't look good
>    at large font sizes because it's too skinny.  It's painful to make
>    new fonts because they have to be hand-coded.
>
> GLUT has a choice of bitmapped or stroke text rendering.
>
> You could use the PLIB (http://plib.sf.net) 'FNT' library for rendering
> textured fonts - a fair selection of font textures come with that
> package in the 'examples' bundle.
>
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