Help with TextRenderer

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#1

Hi Im trying to make my text in billboard effect! but i cant even rotate a text. Did as the demos but didnt work, Any ideas?


renderer.begin3DRendering();
gl.glMatrixMode(GL2.GL_MODELVIEW);
gl.glPushMatrix();
renderer.setColor(textColor[0], textColor[1], textColor[2], 1.0f);
gl.glLoadIdentity();
gl.glRotatef(90, 0, 0, 1); //to test rotation
renderer.draw3D(name, textPoint[0], textPoint[1], textPoint[2],fontSize/720.0f);
gl.glPopMatrix();
renderer.flush();
renderer.end3DRendering();

The text will be perp. to the XY Plane

#2

OK got it, text renderer flush should be called before glPopMatrix for it to work.

Anyways, does anyone know a good billboard effect sample

#3

One more thing why does the letters of the Text appear pixalized like drawn using ms paint version 1

#4

Alright, I got this from another thread,

-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true which im using disable cleartype which gives the aliased text

#5

Does anyone know a workaround for this. Should i report this as a bug somewhere. Any help is very appreciated.