msdfgl
OpenGL implementation of the MSDF algorithm (by nyyManni)
freetype-gl
OpenGL text using one vertex buffer, one texture and FreeType (by rougier)
| msdfgl | freetype-gl | |
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| 3 | 3 | |
| 241 | 1,592 | |
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| 0.0 | 6.4 | |
| over 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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msdfgl
Posts with mentions or reviews of msdfgl.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
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Best approach to render a lot of text.
Is that part of msdfgen? I don't see it. I did find this project: https://github.com/nyyManni/msdfgl
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I hate font rendering
also, since this is /r/opengl, there's an opengl implementation located here: https://github.com/nyyManni/msdfgl
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Methods for font rendering
Just found this as well which could help if you really need to robustly generate atlases dynamically at runtime.
freetype-gl
Posts with mentions or reviews of 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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing msdfgl and freetype-gl you can also consider the following projects:
msdfgen - Multi-channel signed distance field generator
stb - stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
mactype - Better font rendering for Windows.
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
vertext - Single-header C library for generating vertices for rendering text
Craft - A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders).
Tehreer-Android - Standalone text engine for Android aimed to be free from platform limitations
libGDX - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
cute_headers - Collection of cross-platform one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily used for games
gtec-demo-framework