OpenGL Font Lib

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OpenGL Font Lib

I find a simple (and portable) lib to integrate into my OpenGL based game.

simpler and smaller FreeType?

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user189142 23 oct. 09 at 15:31

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qba · Answer 1 · 2009-12-13T19:05:06+0000

Try FTGL . It's portable, easy to use, and can display 3D fonts. But it uses FreeType2.

Tom j nowell · Answer 2 · 2009-12-13T18:58:32+0000

If you are using QT there is a built in font rendering subsystem, assuming you have a QGLWidget subclass, there is a set of text rendering methods you can call

If you don't find a library, you can always render text on an image using Photoshop and then use it as a texture atlas and display textured squares.

Lawand · Answer 3 · 2009-10-23T15:50:52+0000

Try FreeType , here's a NeHe lesson on how to use it in an OpenGL program.

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Lawand 23 oct. '09 at 15:50

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ccxvii · Answer 4 · 2011-12-09T14:53:25+0000

If you want to use FreeType, I have a simple OpenGL example of how to use it. I am drawing glyphs to a glyph cache that is supported by a texture. Then I draw the text using simple textured squares.

https://github.com/ccxvii/snippets/blob/master/glfont.c

If you don't want to use FreeType, you can trivially replace it with Sean Barret's stb_truetype.h truetype font rasterizer:

http://nothings.org/stb/stb_truetype.h

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