Hi! Do games like Halflife, AOE and other professional games use the Windows GDI to create fonts and print out text? Or do they provide their own font functions? -Thanks

GDI would be much too slow.
It''s not very hard to create own font routines.

I have drawn all chars in a texture and then simply display two polygons that use the font tex to display a char.
Adressing a specific char in a tex should also not be that complicated since every char has an ascii value.

Hope this helps

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