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How do I show text in OpenGL?
1 Using GLUT
- Include the necessary headers: #include
- Measure up your string. This gives you the length of the rendered text, which is especially useful if you intend to centre it on screen in the next step:
- Place text in the screen:
- Set the text colour using glColor3f() , for instance:
- Display text:
Should I use SDL or OpenGL?
If you want a lot of fancy effects and sprites on the screen at once, use OpenGL because it supports shaders and is hardware accelerated. If your game is simple and doesn’t need a lot of effects or sprites, stick with SDL, especially if it’s your first game. SDL isn’t hardware accelerated, but it’s much easier to use.
What is SDL_net?
SDL_net is a network library that is used with the SDL library, and almost as portable. It allows a programmer to use network functionality without having to code different things for different platforms. It also simplyfies the handling of network connections and data transfer.
Is there a problem using SDL _ renderer with OpenGL?
There is a problem using SDL_Renderer with OpenGL. You can save the text to a Surface, and then use this example: http://www.sdltutorials.com/sdl-tip-sdl-surface-to-opengl-texture Thanks for contributing an answer to Game Development Stack Exchange!
How to render text in SDL2 [ Stack Overflow ]?
Yes it is. You create a surface with the text you want and then convert it to a texture that you can render. This assumes you’ve properly initialized SDL_ttf and loaded a font. In the example score is an int. The screen gets cleared and rendered to somewhere else (I didn’t include that part).
Can you make new lines work in SDL2?
Newlines won’t work. You have to work with line heights. You must pass the path of a TTF font file to the program.
Do you have to install LLVM to use SDL2?
There are 3 things you need to install; LLVM, SDL2, SDL2_ttf. Then you have to ensure your program will find your libraries, headers and fonts. This is basically summarized in the following program here: