P-155 “Phoenix” Engine Update 4: Text Rendering

I have decided to use the FreeType library to render text in the P-155 engine.This seems to be one of the most popular and well supported libraries out there for this purpose.

To get freetype working, I had to download the windows binaries, which were slightly harder to find than the linux source. They are HERE.

Freetype supports truetype (.ttf) fonts, which need to be installed on the machine or located in the programs director in order for freetype to be able to use them.

I am still working on getting text displaying in my project. I have run into a series of issues, most of which I have fixed, but I am still getting no text. I am fairly sure that I am close to a solution, however.