On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:06 +0100, Kim C Bale wrote: > This wasn't using OSG but rather pure OpenGL. However, I have attached > the relevant code in a zip. Jeremy might find this interesting too. > > Basically if the font size <= 12 pixels, we change the FT_Load_Char call > to include the FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO flag which tells freetype to create a > monochrome bitmap for the character instead of greyscale. (See the > FTFont class) > > So, I should imagine that would require a modification to the Freetype > plugin if it were to be used with OSG. Although I haven't looked at that > code so I can't say for sure. > > This works very well for pixel aligned 2D screen fonts.
How do "enforce" pixel alignment in OSG though? > Credit to James Ward for the code > > Regards, > > Kim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Farshid > Lashkari > Sent: 15 July 2008 17:19 > To: OpenSceneGraph Users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] osgWidget Remaining Issues > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Kim C Bale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to reinforce the above point, we used the freetype library to > > generate OpenGL screen fonts here and found that for font sizes <12 > > Disabling anti-aliasing really improved the clarity of the font. So > much > > so we made it automatically default to removing the AA when size below > a > > threshold were set. > > Thanks for the advice Kim. Did you have to modify the source for the > freetype plugin to disable AA? I can't find where this is an option? > > -Farshid > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.or > g > ***************************************************************************************** > To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to > http://www.hull.ac.uk/legal/email_disclaimer.html > ***************************************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
