hey i was wondering which method is the fastest way to display text in an opengl program. i am currently using the bitmap fonts and it is taking up 45% of the time that the program is running, so i disabled it and i got a performance increase from 60fps to 120fps. so any ideas or suggestions? thanks porter

I did the same in my 3D-Engine, but lost more than half of the speed...
I think the fonts you are looking for are "2D Texture-Fonts" (it''s one of nehe''s tuts)!
They are much faster (you dont''t realize the speed-loss) than the bitmap-fonts.


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thanks alot
i will switch it out later today
porter