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

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Em Domingo, 5 de Setembro de 2004 22:45, o Steve Baker escreveu:
> 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...
>
 That's what I meant about a pixmap image.

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

 I was the one that implemented the TTF support. I don't really like games 
using TTF for various reasons from speed performance to ugliness to the fact 
that it's hard (or impossible) to add a missing(s) character(s).
 By the way, its funny that even console developers use pixmaps rather than 
vectorial graphics because they know how cpu expensive they can be, but most 
games still keep using TTF.

 But fact was that everybody seemed to agree that TTF usage was the way to go 
and someone would do it anyway. Since I've already done some work on the 
RaceGUI code, I stepped forward.
 Anyway, it is still time to revert this. If any pixmap (whataver the format 
Plib likes the most) is purposed, just send it to me and I'll revert things 
to use that.

Cheers,
 Ricardo

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