Best way to convert windows font to a mesh in OpenGL

[Raizor]

I've been hunting around trying to find some info on creating a mesh from a windows font on the local system in OpenGL. It seems it's a lot easier to do in DirectX than OpenGL. Has anyone done anything like this before or know of a resource with info please? 

[hellfire]

How about wglUseFontOutlines ?

[Raizor]

Yeah, I came across wglUseFontOutlines before Hellfire. Unless I'm mistaken, that's just for drawing characters rather than getting access to vertrices. I'd like to be able to distort the text and do funky stuff with it. Something like D3DXCreateText. Maybe it's time to switch from GL to DirectX, as pretty much everything I do is Windows based at the moment.

[hellfire]

I'd like to be able to distort the text and do funky stuff with it.

Like... with a vertex shader?

Of course you can use a lib like freetype to access the font data.
But you're probably looking for an intro-size compatible solution?
Then again, you probably don't want to use default sytem fonts, either.
So you'll end up converting your data into some custom optimized format anyway...

[Raizor]

Doh! I didn't think of using a vertex shader. Thanks, that's probably the way to go

[energy]

Hi Raizor.
I have a small solution, but not the best for Intros. If yu are a bit familar with blender
there is an export script in attachment, which writes a c-header file yu can use with vbo.

In Blender:
-Add a text with font yu want to use.
-Be in Object-Mode
-Then use  the Folder "Object"->"Convert to"->"Mesh from Curve/Text"   (It converts text to               Mesh, now yu can switch to wireframe mode to test!)
-now yu can choose to text and export with the export script.

I used blender 2.59 for the script cause with 2.6 they changed things on the script-engine.
yu are also able to improve the script easily eg. if yu dont want normals in export....

Raizor text includes the vertices for the Text "Raizor is coool !!!!"

here is the example to show directly(also as .h in attachment!.)
have fun!

Raizor_Text.h:

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/* Exported from Blender */
#define VERTEX_COUNT 1517
#define FACES_COUNT 1487
#ifndef VERTEX_STRUCT
#define VERTEX_STRUCT
struct vertex_struct{
float x, y, z;
float nx,ny,nz;
float u,v;
};
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[Raizor]

Thanks Energy, very kind of you to take the time to put this together

This would certainly be a good solution for using non-standard fonts, so I'll certainly keep it for reference.

I have an idea using the wglUseFontOutlines stuff Hellfire mentioned. I should be able to use that with a vertex shader and then pass the vertex info onto a fragment shader and store the coordinates in a texture. Hopefully I can then pull the vertex info back out of the texture and construct a mesh. If that works it should have very little overhead size wise. It won't work for non standard fonts though.

Cheers,

Raizor

[energy]

that would be nice, if yu ll post the solution, if yu find a way to do...