Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Drawing a bitmap at "native" resolution

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

On 5/2/11 10:31 PM, Ian Mallett wrote:
> There's not a way to get around projecting the labels' locations on
> screen.

right -- I knew that the trick was how to project the location, but not 
the label itself.

>  You'd have to use gluProject(...).  If you want to be fancy,
> you can use a vertex shader to project to get each coordinate.

but how? Anyway, it looks like that may not be neccessary, so I can put 
off learning that.

>  From there, set up a 2D view.  Then, draw each label at the screen
> coordinate of its projected location, using textured quads the same size
> as your textures.

this is the part I don't get -- but i see that Nicolas has given me a 
demo of that!

thanks,

-Chris



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