CD3DFont question..

CD3DFont also uses GDI for a lot of stuff, and GDI is teh evil. :D

You''re best off using two triangles per letter, as using two triangles for an entire string would require you to use a unique texture for each string, and that would be bad.

Trent Polack
Burnt Fur Entertainment
trent@codershq.com
Author of Focus on 3D Terrain Programming

GDI is only used at the beginning to create teh font texture. You can load in a pre-made texture if you dont want to use GDI. But having fonts produced on the fly is very useful if you ask me. Using two triangles per string would either require you to make a uniques texture for each string, (like what mittens said) which I dont thing you''ll be willing to do. Or you''ll have to make a texture at run-time which would require the use of GDI functions. But I think with DirectX9 using GDI is not that bad, cause the path that dx takes to the GDI stuff has been fixed or something, Im not sure about this.

in short. use the triangle list (or strip)

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[Triple Buffer V2.0] - Resource leak imminent. Memory status: Fragile

I see, thanks, I will alter the existing CD3DFont to use strips, they should be faster, right?

I changed the code to render the text using strips. Here is the vertex layout:

*pVertices++ = CreateTLVertex(Vec3(pos.x + 0 - 0.5f, pos.y + 0 - 0.5f, 0.0f), color, tx1, ty1);
*pVertices++ = CreateTLVertex(Vec3(pos.x + w - 0.5f, pos.y + 0 - 0.5f, 0.0f), color, tx2, ty1);
*pVertices++ = CreateTLVertex(Vec3(pos.x + 0 - 0.5f, pos.y + h - 0.5f, 0.0f), color, tx1, ty2);
*pVertices++ = CreateTLVertex(Vec3(pos.x + w - 0.5f, pos.y + h - 0.5f, 0.0f), color, tx2, ty2);

(the 0.0f is the Z, not the rhw, the rhw is 1.0f)
The problem is when I use the \n. There is something wrong with the texture coordinates, that mess up the last character of the first line with the first character of the second line.. Can u get the picture?

Anyway, my render code is:
nTri += 2;
dev.Drawprimitive(D3DPT_TRIANGLESTRIP, 0, nTri * 3); //*3 seems to work... maybe the error is here?

Thanks a lot