[Fluxus] truetype fonts

[Glauber Alex Dias Prado]

"Dave Griffiths" <dave at pawfal.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Despite the distractions of hardware shading, I've also been looking into
> sorting out fluxus font rendering wise - this is in the the scratchpad
> editor mainly, although work here will eventually fall into improvements
> of the text primitive in the renderer too.

yeah!

>
> So I've quickly hacked up an example here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/7905273@N07/1119414985/
> (the kerning is all out)
>

learning new things here, didnt knew about what was kerning about, cool stuff.

> The up side is that it looks much much better (although anti-aliasing is
> needed with smaller sizes). It also renders unicode, so we can use utf-8
> text throughout fluxus.

when will i be able to see my accents? (not pushing here, only curious)

>
> The down side is that it takes around twice as long to render as the old
> stroke font - around 10% of a 60fps frame time for a lot of text onscreen.
> I'm currently using ftgl which I'm possibly going to replace in favour of
> using freetype directly, but I doubt I'll be able to improve much on that.
> I might keep the stroke font runtime switchable, for older machines.
>

good idea as the old font is very nice too, specially with anti alias hint.

> cheers,
>
> dave