Re: [GD-General] FreeType

[Adrian C. <ce...@ce...>]

We've implemented on-the-fly font rendering to a texture using FreeType in
our engine and it works very well. The API is also very easy to use and well
documented.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hook" <ho...@py...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:24 PM
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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