Has Tomasz's (h3r3tic's) OpenGL font rendering code been ported to D2?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-11 14:18, Chad J wrote:
> On 03/11/2012 09:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-03-11 03:23, Chad J wrote:
>>> I've been looking for a good way to render font in OpenGL with D.
>>>
>>> Back in they day I was very impressed with Tomasz's article on the
>>> subject: http://h3.gd/dmedia/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1
>>> I was wonder if anyone has ported it.
>>
>> Just use FreeType?
>>
>
> FreeType is quite cool, but it will only render glyphs onto small
> bitmaps. Getting those glyphs onto the screen becomes more complicated
> after that: you can't just blit them like in SDL or somesuch. Since
> textures don't come in "supersmall" size, it is effective to pack the
> glyphs into a larger texture like the article suggests. Then you have to
> texture-map correctly to only render the glyphs you want. Somewhere in
> there is a bunch of other font-setting stuff like kerning, sub-pixel
> anti-aliasing, line offsets, etc. FreeType doesn't do that stuff for
> anyone, it just provides the tools necessary to make it possible. It's
> fairly complicated; I'd rather just write "Font f = new Font("Courier
> New"); f.draw(100, 100, "Hello world!");".

So you mean putting a texture on a font?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg