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oompa_l
how to make text look decent in 3d?
Sep 29th, 2008, 12:04am  
is there a trick to making text render ok in 3d? I find that my text gets all funny fuzzy and basically illegible in 3d...what am I missing? I found that things were slightly better in opengl, but not by much

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seltar
Re: how to make text look decent in 3d?
Reply #1 - Sep 29th, 2008, 1:08am  
try textMode(SCREEN);

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Re: how to make text look decent in 3d?
Reply #2 - Sep 29th, 2008, 2:28am  
P3D is meant to be fast, not accurate. if you want more accurate (and fast) you have to go with OpenGL. that said, some things to try:

1. hint(ENABLE_ACCURATE_TEXTURES) can improve things in some cases.

2. if working in 3D, use a font that's a little bigger than what you need, so that it gets scaled down (not up) when used.

3. if working in 2D, use textMode(SCREEN), as seltar mentions.
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oompa_l
Re: how to make text look decent in 3d?
Reply #3 - Oct 4th, 2008, 12:47am  
thanks for the advice. can i use textMode(screen) in 3D as well?

and, not that this is what I'm after, but if I wanted to rotate the text so that it was on a vertical plane, how would I do this?
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