wraping text font around a cylinder using open GL

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Started by Kurt Heuser June 03, 2003 02:24 PM

5 comments, last by Kurt Heuser 20 years, 10 months ago

122

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June 03, 2003 02:24 PM

HI, I want to program a vb6 program using open gl to draw a 3d cylinder and then be able to wrap any input text of any font size around it. has anyone coded this before or have any suggestions? Im new to using opengl so any help would be greatly apreciated. thanks Kurt H.

_DarkWIng_

602

June 03, 2003 02:36 PM

Render text to texture then map this texture to cylinder.

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

Kurt Heuser

122

Author

June 03, 2003 03:00 PM

would you be able to show me or have a link to an example of rendering text to a texture?

thanks again
kurt

_DarkWIng_

602

June 04, 2003 01:19 AM

just use any of tutorials on rendring to texture (there are quite a lot of them...even on this site) and insted of scene draw text

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

Kurt Heuser

122

Author

June 15, 2003 03:33 PM

How do you draw text on the bitmap?

SKSlayer

122

June 15, 2003 05:11 PM

with Windows''s API GDI (or GDI++)
Then you register the texture to opengl

(you can find me on IRC : #opengl on undernet)

yodaman

188

June 15, 2003 08:49 PM

oops... sorry

[edited by - yodaman on June 15, 2003 9:53:12 PM]

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