#69: Improve font handling and rendering

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#69: Improve font handling and rendering
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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cafu Engine | Version: svn-head
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- Load font files directly (obsoletes the Font Wizard)
- Can a single (large) font size with manually set mipmap levels provide
better rendering results than the currently used trio of font sizes?
(This might imply one texture object per glyph.)
- Support Unicode / UTF-8.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/69>
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#69: Improve font handling and rendering
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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cafu Engine | Version: svn-head
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Comment(by Carsten):

Very interesting related link from [http://www.opengl.org www.opengl.org]:

http://code.google.com/p/freetype-gl/

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#69: Improve font handling and rendering

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Comment (by Carsten):

Another one:

- wrath: OpenGL and OpenGL ES UI rendering library open sourced:
[[br]]https://github.com/nomovok-opensource/wrath

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/69#comment:2>

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The open-source game engine and graphics engine for multiplayer, cross-platform, real-time 3D action.

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#69: Improve font handling and rendering

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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
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Component: Cafu Engine | Version: svn-head

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Comment (by Carsten):

A website about fonts in sci-fi:
- http://typesetinthefuture.com

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/69#comment:3>

Cafu 3D Game and Graphics Engine <http://www.cafu.de>

The open-source game engine and graphics engine for multiplayer, cross-platform, real-time 3D action.

[Cafu Trac]

#69: Improve font handling and rendering

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Reporter: Carsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cafu Engine | Version: svn-head

Resolution: | Keywords:
Platform: |
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Comment (by Carsten):

Yet another project for consideration:

- https://www.opengl.org/news/comments/open-source-high-performance-
canvas-drawing-api-for-opengl-released
- https://github.com/01org/fastuidraw
- https://01.org/fast-ui-draw
- https://01.org/fast-ui-draw/blogs/krogovin/2016/fast-ui-draw-
technical-details-1
- https://01.org/fast-ui-draw/blogs/krogovin/2016/fast-ui-draw-
technical-details-2

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cafu.de/ticket/69#comment:4>

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