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oompa_l
help, verrtext is crippling my sketch
Dec 2nd, 2008, 6:51am  
Hi

just stumbled on a post referring to the vertext library and it seemed to promise a solution to poorly rendered fonts in 3d. Having implemented the sample sketch on Michael Chang's site into my own sketch the applet is crawling at a snal's pace, if at all. I have about 70 text strings being rendered on every draw loop - is this the problem? standard text does not pose a problem....

thanks for the advice in advance...
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PhiLho 
Re: help, verrtext is crippling my sketch
Reply #1 - Dec 2nd, 2008, 10:34am  
I haven't use the vertext library yet, but I recall, when I had a look, a warning against a possible slowness: drawing complex vector shapes is slow, even more in 3D, if not backed up by graphics card. The library has to compute and draw all the points of each curve of each letter...
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