freetype-gl
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freetype-gl
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Rendering text
To render text in my own engine, I rasterise TTF files. I use FreeType to do most of the work for me and use FreeType-GL to take care of packing the glyphs into a single texture (as well as handling UTF-8 text).
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Rendering text and images performance help?
Storing all glyphs in a single texture like you describe is also commonly done. Another piece of code you might want to have a look at is freetype-gl: https://github.com/rougier/freetype-gl.
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I hate font rendering
Freetype-gl is easy to use: https://github.com/rougier/freetype-gl
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