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@12bitfloat Had a short peak at but felt like this will be worse than open gl.
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On a more serious note: Yeah text rendering sucks. It's not clear to me whether you should be doing it on the gpu in the first place. But if you want to, check out this paper: https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
Aardwolf is very fun and i suggest y'all play it a bit if you're looking for better ways to slack off at work
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Be me, wanting to try out PyOpenGL.
Lets start by drawing a rectangle.
Nice.
And now add some text?!
NOPE CANT RENDER FROM TTF OR SOME OTHER STUPID SHIT! YOU NEED TO CREATE A BITMAP FONT. WHICH IS THE MOST INEFFECTIVE BS IVE EVER SEEN.
K but there is surely a library for Python which enables the usage of text in OpenGL? Yes but its last support was 12 years ago.
FFS WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE?
At the end i found out cpp uses freetype to convert each character of a font to a bitmap with the according spacing.
THIS SHOULD BE WAY SIMPLER!
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