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Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: gl-type
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Richard |
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Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: gl-type |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:22:38 +0000 |
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:45:44 -0400
Alex Charlton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Chickeneers,
>
> I know you’ve all been waiting to do some text rendering in OpenGL,
> and now you can!
>
> gl-type renders your typeface into a reasonably well packed texture
> (with Freetype) and then lets you create a vertex buffer that
> represents a string. It does basic text layout (i.e. it word wraps)
> but only supports horizontal left-to-right scripts.
>
> Check out the docs here:
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/gl-type
>
> And the source here:
> https://github.com/AlexCharlton/gl-type
>
Hello Alex,
You stream of open-gl eggs is much appreciated!
thx,
Richard