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Re: [Newbie] getting started questions...

On 4/12/02 3:54 AM, "Tom Davie" <email@hidden> wrote:

> [SNIP]
>> Simply, what I need to do is to display an image on a flat polygon, and
> some
>> text over the top (someone suggested I might want to try FLTK so I can use
>> fonts other than those specified in GLUT), and then adjust the alpha of
> all
>> that to 0, while raising the alpha of another polygon and some text up to
>> full (so as you get a nice fade between the slides).
>
> Quite simply, this is what Quartz Extreme is designed to do. Essentially
> you want to display a background (be it OpenGL or not) and composite text
> over the top of it. If you want someone here to tell you how to do the GL
> to controll the stuff your talking about you're in for a long wait, but you
> might go look at the NeHe (There's a google moment for you) tutorials
> online. Using FLTK (whatever that is) or GLUT would be silly when you can
> get QE to do the text compositing for you. A good example to look at is in
> /Developer/Examples/OpenGL/CocoaGL/Composite (I can't remember the exact
> path, but that's close enough to make it obvious)
>

I did look at that - the issue is that we really want this to run on cards
not supported by QE and it looks as though this should be possible given the
relatively simple nature of what we're trying to do.

But I will look at those tutorials.

Andrew

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