> I'm struggling with getting decent text rendering in my JOGL game. I
> originally wrote my GL code as Android native GL2ES code before porting it to
> JOGL for the desktop version. The Android code uses Android's own graphics
> library to render text strings to a texture and then display them via GL, but
> with JOGL I'm trying to rely on its own TextRenderer functionality instead of
> reinventing the wheel. Most of the remaining code is still pretty much the
> same it was on Android, so I'm using standard GL calls most of the time and
> JOGL specific classes only in a few instance, e.g. when setting up the GLWindow.
>
> Most of my text rendering occurs in my GUI classes, where each frame is
> rendered onto a framebuffer texture (created without any JOGL specific code)
> and then from there onto the main screen. I'm using my own primitive vertex
> and fragment shaders and the curve based TextRenderer seems to work well
> enough with those.
>
> This is my initialisation code:
>
> public TextRenderer getTextRenderer()
> {
>         if(textRenderer == null)
>         {
>                 ShaderState ss = new ShaderState();
>                 RenderState rs = RenderState.createRenderState(ss,
> SVertex.factory());
>                 int renderModes = 0;//GLRegion.VBAA_RENDERING_BIT;
>                 textRenderer = TextRenderer.create(rs, renderModes);
>                 textRenderer.init(gl);
>         }
>        
>         return textRenderer;
> }
>
> And here's how I render a text string, after setting up my shader's matrix
> correctly (which is why I always pass 0/0 as the coordinates):
>
> getTextRenderer().drawString3D(gl, glFont.getFont(), text.getText(), new
> float[]{0, 0}, (int) glFont.getSize(), new int[]{0});
>
> Problem is, the quality is rather lousy, as you can see in this image:
>
>
>
> The FPS display on the upper right is drawn directly on the screen and thus
> takes advantage of my GLWindow's sample buffer settings
> (caps.setNumSamples(4)). It doesn't necessarily look great, but at least much
> better than the GUI text labels, which are drawn on the framebuffer textures
> and apparently don't using any antialiasing at all.