hello, im using nehes excellent tutorial on integrating freetype fonts into openGL. the only thing i want to improve is to make the fonts a bit sharper, i think this could be done by increasing the texture size a bit. how could i do that? thanks!

Quote: Original post by ehmdjii
i think this could be done by increasing the texture size a bit.

Definatly not. Well, you can do that and get good result but the latest technology improvements showed a different approach.

Try googling "Jim Blinn font curve rendering". You have to search for a pdf paper few pages long.
This algorithm is The Right Way.
It basically requires you to get your hands dirty with various OS-specific calls to pull out the beizer curve representation. From that you extract a polygon soup which is then procedurally textured using a fragment shader (which gives always eye-space resolution).

The result, from what you'll see is very good.
It's quite bad it requires a ton of work, although you'll never have to face the problem again. Everyone considering (even partial) Unicode text support may start screaming.