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

[Matze B. <ma...@br...>]

Aehm did you actually take a look at what plibfnt does?

Greetings,
	Matze

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Ricardo Cruz wrote:

> 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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