[PD] showing text or number in gem

[Andy Farnell]

I remembered this fun patch 

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:39:59 +0100
Jack <jack at rybn.org> wrote:

> Le 17/12/2011 10:39, cyrille henry a écrit :
> > hello,
> >
> > when i have to draw lot's of text, i usually generate letters as texture.
> > using pix_multitexture you can render text the way you want.
> > the drawback is that you have to generate the texture (imagemagick is 
> > good for this),
> > Also, images quality is not as good if you change the size of the text.
> > c
> >
> > Le 17/12/2011 10:11, jwind a écrit :
> >> hi list,
> >>
> >> tried to use the "text2d"-object to show a simple float counter
> >> in a gemwin.
> >> problem:
> >> the window updates too slow if a font-size of e.g. 400 is used.
> >> does anyone know a different approach to it?
> >> How can i show fast and effective a good readable number on screen?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> j ,.
> >>
> >>
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> Hello,
> 
> Here an other way to use texture as number.
> But the Cyrille's solution with texunit and GLSL is simpler for the same 
> result ;)
> ++
> 
> Jack
> 
> 


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Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
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