How do you draw text in DirectX 11?

Question

In DirectX 10 you could use the font interface provided by D3DX10. In DirectX 11 you are supposed to use DirectWrite. But it looks like DirectWrite doesn\'t speak natively t

Answer 1

I recently converted a DirectX 10 application over to DirectX 11 and came across this post while searching for the same answer. The Rastertek tutorial mentioned by Zeela is good, but I continued searching and found FW1FontWrapper. After only about 30 minutes, I just finished integrating it into my project and it appears to be working great. The download section provides both x86 and x64 packages including header, library, and DLL. I am just doing a simple text output, so I can't say a lot about the API, except that for what I did (outputting frames per second), it only took about 5 lines of code (including creating/releasing the wrapper object). Based on his samples it seems to provide a lot more options than what I'm using so far.