Drawing Text Using glVertexLists

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by happy_thoughts September 02, 2002 08:32 PM

1 comment, last by happy_thoughts 21 years, 7 months ago

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September 02, 2002 08:32 PM

I am making a console, and I notice as soon as I draw losts of text lines to the screen using glCallLists(...) my frame rate realy drops dramaticaly. Does anybody know how to draw text using glvertexlist(...) and integrating there text drawing with there graphics drawing. I think this is called "batching" Thank you in advance

zedzeek

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September 02, 2002 11:20 PM

do not use display lists for drawing text
see www.opengl.org for a paper on vaious text drawing methods

http://uk.geocities.com/sloppyturds/gotterdammerung.html

Captain Courgette, eat more veg

happy_thoughts

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September 03, 2002 09:18 PM

I know there are many ways to draw fonts, but I am look for a way to draw the fonts the same way I draw my meshes. Using vertex lists.