I'm writing a 2d program, which needs to display text on screen. The text should look sharp (like the font you are looking at right now), and if possible anti-aliased. I don't know how I should do it. I've already looked at the Nehe tutorials, but they don't seem to do what I need. I also tried using FTGL, but I think it is too complicated for what I need. Can anyone give me some advise ? Thanks in advance.

Hi hannibar, The NeHe bitmap font tutorial should look sharp and clean when used in 2D (orthographic) mode. I use this for displaying frame per second, timer, and other information as an overlay. Try contrasting the text with the background more - something like plain white text on a darker background. Try playing around with some of the parameters that are passed to the CreateFont call. These can affect the font used, such as NONANTIALIASED_QUALITY compared to ANTIALIASED_QUALITY, and the width of the font being set to 0.5 or lower, and use FW_THIN as opposed to the default FW_BOLD on the font weight. There are dozens of them, so it might mean some research to find the combinations that look best for your application. Other than that, explain a little more on what it is your seeing that means it is not as crisp as you are expecting.

F451

[Edited by - Fahrenheit451 on March 1, 2006 5:00:00 PM]