Trying to light my scene with no joy

[roguespear]

Hello guys i have been reading on this forum for ages now but i would like to ask my first question.

I have a 3d scene which i am trying to light up. I have set up my positional light but the problem is when i enable lighting the scene goes extremely dark. You can only just make out that areas are lit. What i want is a scene that when lit most places look like they would with no lighting. I hope this makes sense. I have included a part of my code that deals with the lighting. I hope you guys can help.

I have set normals for the flat ground to be (0,1,0) and for a simple cuboid with the correct normals.

Tom

// variables
float LightAmbient[]= {1, 1, 1, 1};
float LightDiffuse[]= {1, 1, 1, 1};
float LightPosition[]= {100,100,100,1};

// called in my init function
glLightModeli(GL_LIGHT_MODEL_LOCAL_VIEWER, 1);
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0,GL_AMBIENT,LightAmbient);
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, LightDiffuse);
glLightf(GL_LIGHT0, GL_CONSTANT_ATTENUATION,0.1);
glLightf(GL_LIGHT0, GL_LINEAR_ATTENUATION, 0.05);
glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);
glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);

// In the callback function as eventually i would like the light to move
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, LightPosition);

[iznogoud]

Just in case you are terribly unlucky and your
polygons are oriented in just the wrong way, try:

glLightModeli(GL_LIGHT_MODEL_TWO_SIDE, GL_TRUE);

This might not even help, for you said you do see
stuff on your screen, but it just looks dark...

[roguespear]

just tried it m8 but with no difference what so ever. :(

[gbiv]

Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, I believe you have to set up materials for your objects for lighting to work correctly. Normals will also have to be calculated for each object. Check out chpt 5 in the redbook for basic lighting examples.

[G_gl]

your light is not so close, and depending on your object size it's even quite far.
comment the 2 lines
//glLightf(GL_LIGHT0, GL_CONSTANT_ATTENUATION,0.1);
//glLightf(GL_LIGHT0, GL_LINEAR_ATTENUATION, 0.05);
and try again.

also check that your camera looks is the right direction ;)

[roguespear]

Thanx guys i went into uni earlier this week and spoke to a couple of PHD guys and they said exactly what G_gl said and it seems to work fine now.

As for the shadow on the objects being wrong the problem was that i was rotating and translating after the eye was positioned. Fixed that one as well.

Thanx for all the help guys