I'm trying to display the text in my application using freetype. At first I thought that this built-in function (which would be quite natural for the library intended to draw the text). But there was only a function to display the symbol.Then I decided to take the characters one by one into a texture. But here again I was disappointed: all guides one texture uses a single image (probably glTexSubImage2D can help me?).Now I put a symbol on the texture and texture to opengl element.Here's my code (it's quite messy, but now I'm just trying to understand how it works):
//init:
if (FT_Init_FreeType(&ft)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not init freetype library\n");
return 0;
}
if (FT_New_Face(ft, fontfilename, 0, &face)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not open font %s\n", fontfilename);
return 0;
}
FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes(face, 0, 48); FT_GlyphSlot g = face->glyph;
and from display():
void display()
{
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glClearColor(1.0 ,1.0, 1.0, 0.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glLoadIdentity();//load identity matrix
std::string s = "QWERTYOG0l ";
for(int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++){
FT_Load_Char( face, s[i], FT_LOAD_RENDER );
FT_GlyphSlot g = face->glyph;
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR); // Linear Filtering
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR); // Linear Filtering
//glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
gluBuild2DMipmaps( GL_TEXTURE_2D,
GL_RED,
g->bitmap.width,
g->bitmap.rows,
GL_RED,
GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
g->bitmap.buffer );
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i-0.1,0.07f,0.0f); //top left
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i,0.07f,0.0f); //top right
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i,-0.07f,0.0f); // bottom right
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i-0.1,-0.07f,0.0f); //bottom left
glEnd();
}
As you can see the "O" and "T" is correct (if I change bottom left and top right corners of texture it will be absolutely correct). But other symbols seems like shifted (for example "E" is shifted at left from top to bottom).
The full code:
#include <math.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <GL/glew.h>
#include <GL/glut.h>
#include <ft2build.h>
#include FT_FREETYPE_H
FT_Library ft;
FT_Face face;
const char *fontfilename = "LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf";
GLuint texture[10];
GLint uniform_mytexture;
int setup() {
if (FT_Init_FreeType(&ft)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not init freetype library\n");
return 0;
}
if (FT_New_Face(ft, fontfilename, 0, &face)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not open font %s\n", fontfilename);
return 0;
}
FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes(face, 0, 48);
FT_Load_Char( face, 'O', FT_LOAD_RENDER );
FT_GlyphSlot g = face->glyph;
glGenTextures(1, &texture[0]); // Create The Texture
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[0]);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR); // Linear Filtering
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR); // Linear Filtering
//glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
gluBuild2DMipmaps(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_RGBA, g->bitmap.width, g->bitmap.rows, GL_RED, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, g->bitmap.buffer);
return 1;
}
void display()
{
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glClearColor(1.0 ,1.0, 1.0, 0.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glLoadIdentity();//load identity matrix
std::string s = "QWERTYOG0l ";
for(int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++){
FT_Load_Char( face, s[i], FT_LOAD_RENDER );
FT_GlyphSlot g = face->glyph;
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR); // Linear Filtering
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR); // Linear Filtering
//glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
gluBuild2DMipmaps( GL_TEXTURE_2D,
GL_RED,
g->bitmap.width,
g->bitmap.rows,
GL_RED,
GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
g->bitmap.buffer );
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i-0.1,0.07f,0.0f); //top left
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i,0.07f,0.0f); //top right
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i,-0.07f,0.0f); // bottom right
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);glVertex3f(0.1f*i-0.1,-0.07f,0.0f); //bottom left
glEnd();
}
//glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
//glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[0]); // Select Our Texture
// glUniform1i(uniform_mytexture, /*GL_TEXTURE*/0);
glutPostRedisplay();
glutSwapBuffers();
}
void TimerFunction(int value)
{
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_DOUBLE);
glutInitWindowSize(800,600);
glutCreateWindow("Hello World");
//glutTimerFunc(30, TimerFunction, 1);
glewInit();
glEnable (GL_TEXTURE_2D);
setup();
glutDisplayFunc(display);
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}
As tecu said, the correct solution is using textures with power of two size.
Also before that answer i found another solution:
glPixelStorei( GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1 );
beforegluBuild2DMipmaps
. But here you get more problems like gray border around texture.For those who are asking similar goals I want to share my experience:
Make black on a transparent background:
UPD there is a more simple and obvious solution withput using an OpenGL extension.
gluBuild2DMipmaps( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_ALPHA, g->bitmap.width, g->bitmap.rows, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, g->bitmap.buffer )
Connect all the letters in a single texture
I think that this is better for perfomance, but not sure that I change the right way.
It will better if you calculate width and height (and round to power of two) before connecting in data array.
If you want kerning you should write its own slower implementation of memcpy, where you will add (not fully change) the value and check exceeding of
UCHAR_MAX
.My final result:
I have been looking into this for a bit, and while this answer is possibly incomplete, maybe it can help you figure it out.
Preliminary Note
Before I get to what I have found, I need to point out a problem with your texture coordinates. You have this:
when it should look like this:
note how the top left corresponds to 0, 0 in texture coordinates, and 1, 1 corresponds to the bottom right. This is because (kind of guessing here) freetype puts treats the top left as its origin.
The Stuff That May Help
Freetype will not generate a bitmap whose dimensions are necessarily power-of-two, which is often required for mipmapping (see: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/7929 ).
So if you want to test this (note: do not actually use this in your code; this is only for illustration) you can replace your
gluBuild2DMipmaps
call indisplay
with the following (be sure to#include <cstring>
:What it does is copy the bitmap buffer to the upper left corner of a different 64x64-byte buffer, and then builds the mipmaps from that. This is the result:
Further Notes
My illustration code is bad because it copies the bitmap data for each glyph every redraw, and it does not take into account the actual size of the bitmap buffer, or if pitch is greater than 64. You also probably do not want to be (re)generating your mipmaps every redraw, either, but if you are just trying to learn how to get words into OpenGL do not worry about it :)
Edit: I had to use a different font than you because I do not have yours.