I want to display a simple text ( Not 3D now!! )… Could any one help me…
I think the standard thing to do nowadays is textured-text. What you do is have a .bmp image with all the letters of the alphabet on it. Then you split that texture up into the individual letters, make a function to print those letters, and you’ve got it
// This is not an advanced question
// please post in the beginners forum
If you choose textured fonts as suggested by iNsaNEiVaN, you may be interested in glFont, a very handy library that comes along with a font texture generator.
google search :
key words : glFont
1st link : http://students.cs.byu.edu/~bfish/glfont.php
Using nehe tutorial is fine as long as you don’t have too much text to draw (because his method is rather slow).
Originally posted by kehziah:
[b]// This is not an advanced question
// please post in the beginners forum
If you choose textured fonts as suggested by iNsaNEiVaN, you may be interested in glFont, a very handy library that comes along with a font texture generator.
google search :
key words : glFont
1st link : http://students.cs.byu.edu/~bfish/glfont.php
Using nehe tutorial is fine as long as you don’t have too much text to draw (because his method is rather slow).[/b]
I’m very sorry for posting this question in the advanced catagory… Once again sorry…
Try scrolling down the page. There are 2 other current discussions about text rendering, to which I have replied thus…
try… http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/index.html