Andy Ross writes:Glut font format > > >Norman Vine wrote: >> Here's Mark's example of the command used to generate the >sorority.txf >> file: Just change the Font name and the 'glist' to be what you want >> >> gentexfont \ >> -fn '-sgi-sorority-medium-r-normal--40-*-*-*-p-*--ascii' \ > >Right, but this only gets you a copy of the X11 bitmap font, which is >ugly and aliased. My original point was that with only a little work, >you could use ghostscript/FreeType to render a very high (16x) >resolution bitmap of each character and downsample to get a very >nicely antialiased texture to use with the font. Which would be >great, except for the fact that there are no tools available to do >this, nor documentation to write such tools.
I think that you will find that inorder to get 'high quality' fonts one needs to use a vector based font directly. The only problem in doing this is that the polygon count goes up considerably. That said I have been working getting http://oglft.sourceforge.net incorporated into PLib. No promises as to when I will finish this up however Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
