Re: [TuxKart-devel] Slowness - really related with Karts?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ricardo Cruz wrote:
>  Oh, creating a texture for every character...

Texture map switching would kill you.

> But why not just using a pixmap 
> format then (rather than the vectorial one - TTF)?

...or you could put all the letters into one font texture...

Oh - wait!  That's how the game was originally written before
everyone who thought they knew better came along!

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