Re: [Devel] 3D Fonts

[Holger Waechtler]

Brown Wayne C Civ USAFA/DFCS wrote:
> I am interested in developing a 3D font system. By 3D fonts I mean fonts 
> defined by triangles in 3D space suitable for rendering by OpenGL.  Is 
> anyone working with FreeType development also interested in this. Has 
> any prior work been done in this area? Please respond if you have any 
> comments or suggestions.

take a look on FTGL and GLTT, they do exactly what you are asking for:

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/index.html#FTGL
http://gltt.sourceforge.net/about.html

good luck,

Holger