Texture Fonts

Hi,


You could use Windows fonts to write to a bitmap (lookup CreateDIBSection and fonts in general) and then use that bitmap a a texture. (Thats how I do it).

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Original post by Ron AF Greve Hi, You could use Windows fonts to write to a bitmap (lookup CreateDIBSection and fonts in general) and then use that bitmap a a texture. (Thats how I do it).

I wanted to try like for instance I have a texture 'fonts.dds', how do i render those fonts representing the letters? I'm aware that I should create a class for alphabets. I just haven't figure out how I'd render them to the screen. Do I use an array of ID3DXTexture for each mapped letters?

Any ideas? Thanks!

Try "masking" it.

Hi,

I use a simple bitmap i.e. just an area of RGB values. I then use a map of those bitmaps (I just use the ascii codes but I could use unicode as well since the characters are just indexes in the map The font class has width, height etc. as well as the actual image of the character. You can then just copy that image to a certain position on the texture (probably advancing some write pointer to keep track of the position in the texture). Finally send the texture to the graphics card and render to a bunch of triangles

Don't forget to lookup directx rasterizing otherwise you might be in for a surprise in that the text is unreadable.