[osg-users] Antialising for text

[Sebastian Messerschmidt]

Hi Igor,

you might want to explicitly set the font resolution to get smoother fonts.

text->setFontResolution(128,128);

And make sure you're using an appropriate true type font.
E.g.
text->setFont("/fonts/arial.ttf");


hth,
Sebastian

> Hi.
> I tried to set sampling traits->samples = 4 but I don't see any improvement.
> 
> I use text this way:
> 
> 
> Code:
> osg::ref_ptr<osgText::Text> text = new osgText::Text;
> text->setFont(m_font);
> text->setAxisAlignment(osgText::Text::SCREEN);
> text->setDrawMode(osgText::Text::TEXT);
> text->setAlignment(osgText::Text::LEFT_BOTTOM);
> text->setCharacterSizeMode(osgText::Text::SCREEN_COORDS);
> text->setCharacterSize(11.0);
> 
> 
> 
> 
> What do I need to do to make font smoother?
> 
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