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

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

 Nope. Why? Does it support TTF fonts?
 The reason why I used SDL_ttf was because I was pointed to and there were 
already functions available to convert them into a texture.

Cheers,
 Ricardo

Em Segunda, 6 de Setembro de 2004 14:28, o Matze Braun escreveu:
> 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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