OpenGL Text Testing

Testing to see if I can get opengl text rendering using sfml as a font loader.

Progress (Album)

Text loaded to a texture:

Commit

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Text rendered as a single vertex array, one character per quad.

Commit

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Text as row of text, except the image texture seems to be upsidedown flipped.

Commit

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Finally worked out texture coords except a lot of characters were positioned incorrectly

Punctuation especially:

So added a bunch of hacky edge cases :/

Kinda works but idk prob is a better way:

Building and Running

Libraries

SFML and GLM are required.

These can be installed from your project manager. For example, on Debian/ Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libsfml-dev libglm-dev

If this is not possible (eg windows), you can install these manually from their respective websites:

https://www.sfml-dev.org/download.php

https://github.com/g-truc/glm/tags

Linux

To build, at the root of the project:

sh scripts/build.sh

To run, at the root of the project:

sh scripts/run.sh

To build and run in release mode, simply add the release suffix:

sh scripts/build.sh release
sh scripts/run.sh release

You can also create a deployable build (that can be sent) by doing:

sh scripts/deploy.sh