Comments on: Bitmapped fonts

By: Rodrigues

Rodrigues — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:17:00 +0000

Hahahaha! You stay happy with bit-mapped fonts lady! Tonight I’ve rendered truetype fonts in windows mobile using openGL ES APIs.
Nobody can do that except me! I challenge you over this and I ll show you my code if u come up with yours. Else, enjoy ROMANIA! Hehehe!

By: Rodrigues

Rodrigues — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:05:00 +0000

I do openGL ES font rendering in Native Windows platform and avoid the use of wrappers like glut because the use of glut compromises with speed and performance.So, define glutTrueTypeString using windows API.

By: Tomis

Tomis — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:40:00 +0000

Haven't tried it using glES, but i know it can be done. Check it out glutes.sourceforge.net .

In my opinion it's quite useful to use something this because you can switch fonts as you please (don't like arial? try something else..), change size dinamically (maintaining font quality) and so on.

I guess it depends on what you need the font for.

By: Anca A,

Anca A, — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:21:00 +0000

Have you tried this for OpenGL ES or just for OpenGL?

By: Tomis

Tomis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I usually use TrueType fonts. Once you get the hang of it it’s not that difficult. They look better too, and it’s less of a hastle when you want to switch the font familly.
There are a lot of TT libraries that make your life easier. Good luck.