OpenGL 3D Game Tutorial 33: Distance Field Text Rendering

LWJGL tutorial series on how to create a 3D Java game with OpenGL!

This week we implement a very flexible text rendering system involving signed distance fields.

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Upcoming tutorials:

- Particle Effects
- Random Terrain Generation
- Shadows
-Post processing


Future Tutorial Series:

- Game Audio
- Multiplayer
- Advanced Game Dev Concepts
- OpenGL Optimizing Techniques


Previous tutorial topics:

- Display
- VAOs and VBOs - Rendering a quad
- Rendering using glDrawElements
- Shader introduction
- Coloring using shaders
- Texturing
- Matrices, moving and rotating
- Loading 3D OBJ models
- Lighting I
- Lighting II
- Optimizations
- Transparency
- Fog
- Multitexturing
- Player Movement
- 3rd Person Camera
- Mipmapping
- Terrain Generation
- Terrain Collision Detection
- Texture Atlases
- GUIs/HUDs
- Multiple Light sources
- Point light attenuation
- Skybox
- Day/Night
- 3D Mouse Picking
- Water
- Cel Shading
- Normal Mapping
- Rendering Text
- Signed Distance Field Fonts

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