Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Recommendations for font rendering

[Derakon <de...@gm...>]

Oh dear, I knew I forgot to mention something. I was using PyGame
before, but I'm switching to OpenGL for performance reasons, which of
course prevents direct blitting to the screen using PyGame. I tried
using a "blit text to surface and convert to quad and draw" approach,
but with text that changes frequently that means making a ton of new
surfaces and it just doesn't perform well at all (in particular, my
in-game console was unusably slow). It seems likely I'd need an
approach that allows for each character to be on its own textured quad
that I can toss anywhere as needed.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Ian Mallett <geo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use PyGame, which is cross-platform, and can load standard font types.
> The font is rendered as a "surface", which can be changed to a texture and
> mapped your polygon(s).
>
> Ian
>