Ahh, great.
Any way to keep the text rightside up as the camera moves around (I'm using PeasyCam)?  I'd like the text to move around the screen as you move through the 3d space, but I don't want to to flip around or go to an edge.  I want it to stay readable.  Thoughts?

The text should stay readable (not upsidedown or backwards).  When moving the camera around, the text flips around like all the objects in the scene.  

I'm trying to apply a label to a sphere that I want to move around in 3d.

Code:

import peasy.*;
import processing.opengl.*;

PeasyCam cam;
VTextRenderer textRender;
 
void setup()
{
  size( 800, 600, OPENGL );  
  cam = new PeasyCam(this, 100);
  textRender = new VTextRenderer( "Arial", 32 ); 
}
 
void draw()
{
  background(255 );
  fill(171, 67, 234, 40);
  pushMatrix(); 
  translate(0,0,0);
  sphere(5);
  popMatrix();
  pushMatrix(); 
  translate(25,0,0);
  sphere(5);
  popMatrix();
   
  textRender.setColor( 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 1 );
  ((PGraphicsOpenGL)g).beginGL();  
  textRender.print( "sphere1", 32, 0, 0, 1/10.0 );
  ((PGraphicsOpenGL)g).endGL(); 
} 
 

Ness, pretty cool text render.  I found it to be faster than the VTextRender, however, I had issues when zooming out and such.  The text starts to pull apart.  Instead of rendering each letter as image, perhaps you could rewrite it to render the text as a single image.  Any thoughts on using a shader or something, so the text can easily billboard?

Also, I had to add "import java.nio.*;" in the sketch to get it to work.  In another sketch when testing, I had to prefix ByteBuffer tempBuf; to be "java.nio.ByteBuffer tempBuf;" and Buffer data to be "java.nio.Buffer data".