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[ChrisE]

Marvin,

What're the different text drawing modes for rendering text in a scene? I've seen Text2D and TextBillboard, but how do they compare? What is the "correct" class to use for billboarded text?

Thanks!

[Marvin Fröhlich]

I would use TextRectangle or TextBillboard (depending on the requirements). These are the newer classes and I think, they're better. They use the same drawing scheme as the other text components, that I introduced into the project. They should be highly optimized, rendering the whole text on a single texture and single geometry/shape updated on demand.

The Text2D class composes the text of multiple geometries/shapes, one of each glyph. This can be pretty stressing of the scenegraph processors .

Marvin

[ChrisE]

Thanks!

[ChrisE]

Marvin,

Though it's long past, I would like to note that if you use a TextBillboard without first pushing it into its own transform group, it can cause weird behavior (i.e., transform corruption) in sibling nodes.

-Chris

[Marvin Fröhlich]

ok, noted. Thanks.