Does LWJGL come with a TextRenderer to use with OpenGL?

[Naug]

I've been looking around and didn't find anything =/ Rendering text in an OpenGL frame seems to be a non-trivial problem and I would be real happy if I could find a decent library for it.

[Cornix]

LWJGL does not offer anything in that way. You have to either write your own library or use some third party library for that. I personally dont know any, I wrote my own.

[Naug]

Look for one hour, find nothing.
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Thanks to cornix for the reply

[Cornix]

I've looked at the code and it doesnt look very flexible or powerful. It also uses outdated functionality. I would not recommend it, but if its enough for your needs then go ahead.

[kappa]

Both LibGDX and Slick2D have OpenGL text rendering implementation which you can view/copy.

Further check out the LWJGL Wiki, if I recall correctly there is a tutorial on how to render truetype fonts in LWJGL using the Slick-Util library.

Lastly do have a search of these forums, there are a number of posts in which people have posted their implementations of text rendering in LWJGL.

[Naug]

Yeah, that SimpleText was no where near what I thought it would be. Tried Slick2D now and that suits my needs just fine. Thanks for the replies