Hi, I am trying to draw bitmap fonts but positioning the RasterPos point is turning out to be very tricky. It seems that when I translate -1.0 down the Z-Axis, the left and right raster edges should be at 0.5 and -0.5, respectively. Right? At least, that is what the tutorial said in lesson 13. Well, this isn''t the case. Setting the X Raster position ends up drawing the text not at the edge, but further in. Why is this? How can I set the raster position for my bitmapped text precisely? Thank you in advance to any gurus that can help. Jake

Why don''t you just use an Orthographic projection matrix?


http://druidgames.cjb.net/

I''m having the same problem, and noticed the glOrtho function, but I haven''t been able to get it to work. Could you show me an example? Do I need to do anything else before drawing the text?

check out nehe''s font turoials
theres one which explains how to draw text anywhere on the screen
without the z axis of course