RE: [Plib-users] Compiling for windows

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Eric Espie writes:
>
>I found that PLIB fonts looked blurry with my voodoo 2 and 
>gltt bitmap fonts
>too slow, so for TORCS I use glf fonts.
>It is (IMHO) the same principle than PLIB fonts, so don't 
>expect any speed
>benefits from PLIB fonts (with all the respect due to PLIB).
>The other advantage of glf over PLIB is that the 'texture' is 
>done with a true type font an not an X11 one.

You can use true type fonts with PLib
You just have to make the textures yourself.
You can also make the texture text font size
to exactly match yhe desired output size and
this will take care of any 'blurring'.  :-)

Also FWIW there is some 'ugly' code in the FlightGear 
Source cockpit / hud.hxx 
that I used to speed up PLib text when I 'KNEW'
that I was rendering a lot of text with no intervening 
glstate changes.   

class fgText 
class fgTextList

This code could probably be cleaned up a little bit
but it served its purpose for me as is :-)

Cheers

Norman