At a loss as to how to do font rendering in OpenGL

Shawn Halayka · 2020-04-20T14:57:18

I'm using GLUI for OpenGL GUI stuff. Unfortunately, on Intel and nVidia, I cannot call the GLUT character rendering function, because it causes the GPU to lock up, and my app dies. Works great on AMD though! LOL Anyway, what would you recommend for a font rendering solution using OpenGL? I've tried about a half-dozen sample apps and libraries, but none seem to work, or even compile. Is there a small solution that you know of? It's for an open source program, so your source must be open and pretty much in the public domain.

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by taby April 11, 2020 06:46 PM

11 comments, last by taby 4 years, 9 months ago

MidLevelGameDev

April 19, 2020 10:23 AM

libdrawtext is my choice of library, it supports GL in immediate mode, retained mode and it can draw directly to a framebuffer. Its choice of library may put you off (LGPL), but with dynamic linking I have no troubles.