[PD] Font rendering quite CPU expensive in GEM (Jerome Tuncer)

[Jerome Tuncer]

[text3d] is much much quicker than [text2d] be it when rapidly changing 
displayed text or when just displaying... (:

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Jé

Jerome Tuncer a écrit :
> Interesting point.
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> I didn't know it actually worked that way.
> 
> This CPU exepensiveness using [text2d] made me think maybe it doesn't 
> use OpenGL and only [text3d] does so. But it finally appears [text2d] 
> uses OpenGL as well. I'll try implementing my patches with [text3d] and 
> see how it goes...
> 
> By the way : my fonts are already not too curved... (:
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> Jé
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> Timon Botez a écrit :
>>> Font rendering quite CPU expensive in GEM (Jerome Tuncer)
>> Its also down to what typeface you are using. The more complex the  
>> curve, the higher the polygon count. Straight edge/polygon faces such  
>> as Gridnik (http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/foundry_gridnik/ 
>> gridnik.html) or Citizen (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/emigre/citizen/ 
>> familytree.html) tend to speed things up. These are not gratis if you  
>> are not so fussy, but there are plenty of free ones  (http://www. 
>> 1001freefonts.com/). Simple pixel based fonts also speed up, but they  
>> look shit in 3d. Stay away from the serif - unless you do like cyrill  
>> suggest - and go for texture mapping. Helps turning off antialiasing  
>> too.
>>
>> T.
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