Note: This package is experimental and subject to change. Use at your own discretion.
The gltext package offers a simple set of text rendering utilities for OpenGL programs. It deals with TrueType and Bitmap (raster) fonts. Text can be rendered in various directions (Left-to-right, right-to-left and top-to-bottom). This allows for correct display of text for various languages.
The package supports the full set of unicode characters, provided the loaded font does as well.
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Have a look at Valve's 'Signed Distance Field` techniques to render sharp font textures are different zoom levels.
More links to info in the youtube video description. An alternative might be a port of GLyphy
- Determining the height of truetype glyphs is not entirely accurate.
It is unclear at this point how to get to this information reliably.
Specifically the parts in
LoadTruetypeat truetype.go#L54+. The vertical glyph bounds computed by freetype-go are not correct for certain fonts. Right now we manually offset the value by added4to the height. This is an unreliable hack and should be fixed. freetype-godoes not exposeAdvanceHeightfor vertically rendered fonts. This may mean that the Advance size for top-to-bottom fonts is incorrect.
go get code.google.com/p/freetype-go
go get github.com/go-gl/gltext
Refer to go-gl/examples/gltext for usage examples.
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