RE: [GD-General] FreeType

[Jamie F. <ja...@qu...>]

We use it in our engine, although we render the font to a texture and then
use the texture.

Googling for free fonts brings up quite a few hits, although it can be hard
finding something free which has the style and quality you want.

Jamie


-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of
Brian Hook
Sent: 27 March 2003 20:25
To: gam...@li...
Subject: [GD-General] FreeType


Any opinions on using FreeType for in-game fonts?  This would seem
(in theory) to be one way to handle part of the problems with
interfaces and screen resolution.

I've looked over the docs and API, and so far it looks pretty solid.
The hardest problem is finding a font you can redistribute, but there
are lots of places that will license decent fonts for a fairly small
amount of money ($30).

This just seems much easier than forcing artists to make new fonts
from scratch for every game and/or screen resolution.

Brian




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