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

[James G. <j....@vi...>]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 23:54, Steve Baker wrote:
> James Gregory wrote:
> >
> > The in-game text in the old TuxKart was heavily pixellated and very
> > ugly.
> 
> Which is because it had to work on a typical card of that era - a
> Voodoo-1 or -2 which had a hard limit of 256x256 as the largest
> possible map.

Sure, I never said "Oh Steve you idiot why on earth did you include such
crap fonts??!?!", I simply pointed out why it had been changed.

> Given the ability to use a 1kx1k for the fonts, that problem would
> magically disappear.


> > Given that SDL_ttf was already being used for the menu screens, by
> > far the easiest way to fix this problem by just switching the text
> > drawing calls to use SDL_ttf, rather than using one thing for menu
> > screens and another for in-game status text.
> 
> Well - don't spend too much time on it - SDL is the first thing I'll
> be removing when you guys finish messing around.

We know already.

	James