- CreateFont (-MulDiv (FontSizes[Loop],GetDeviceCaps (DC,LOGPIXELSY),72),0,0,0,FW_BOLD,0,0,0,ANSI_CHARSET,OUT_TT_PRECIS,CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,ANTIALIASED_QUALITY,FF_DONTCARE or DEFAULT_PITCH,'Arial');
I am creating myself a simple menu'ing system in OpenGL. This is what it looks like at the moment, not very exciting - but, more importantly, it's not very pleasant looking as I have jagged edges on my bitmap font that I cannot seem to remove.
The above is a .jpg so it probably looks slightly better than it does on my screen. On my screen, the jaggies are very clear to me and I think it is unacceptable. I am creating my fonts with the following code - and you will see that I am using the ANTIALIASED_QUALITY flag. However, if I change this flag to NONANTIALIASED_QUALITY, PROOF or DRAFT everything still looks the same.
Code:
In my OpenGL initialisation, I am setting glShadeModel (GL_SMOOTH); and glHint (GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT,GL_NICEST); - and in my drawing routine, I am using blending - when I do the menu I am using glBlendFunc (GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE);. Whatever I have done up to this point in code - I can't seem to set anti-aliased bitmap fonts... when I went into my Display settings, then the Advanced button, then the OpenGL tab I saw a setting for global anti-aliasing - when I altered those settings I got some very strange effects (the size of everything changed) but I did see some anti-aliasing on the font as the graphics card seems to have taken complete responsibility.
I don't want to use that though - it looked terrible still. I think that my question really comes down to... how can I be sure that I am going to be using anti-aliased bitmap fonts in code? What do I need to do?
