Texturing Sphere

[AhmedSabry]

hello all
i need an know how to texture a sphere, i am using glutSolidSphere function,

can you give me an example

[V-man]

http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Texturing_a_Sphere

[AhmedSabry]

many thanks for your quick response, but this is a task that required to be done using glu, glut, if you have an example that uses these lib's , please send it

[BionicBytes]

When you created your glu object you could ask it for texture coordinates.

[AhmedSabry]

When you created your glu object you could ask it for texture coordinates.

i need an example

[BionicBytes]

Plenty on the net.
Try this:


GLUquadricObj *sphere=NULL;
sphere = gluNewQuadric();
gluQuadricDrawStyle(sphere, GLU_FILL);
gluQuadricTexture(sphere, TRUE);
gluQuadricNormals(sphere, GLU_SMOOTH);
//Making a display list
mysphereID = glGenLists(1);
glNewList(mysphereID, GL_COMPILE);
gluSphere(sphere, 1.0, 20, 20);
glEndList();
gluDeleteQuadric(sphere);
//-----------------
//and whenever you want to render, call glCallList(mysphereID)
//to kill the display list, glDeleteLists(mysphereID, 1);

[AhmedSabry]

Plenty on the net.
Try this:


GLUquadricObj *sphere=NULL;
sphere = gluNewQuadric();
gluQuadricDrawStyle(sphere, GLU_FILL);
gluQuadricTexture(sphere, TRUE);
gluQuadricNormals(sphere, GLU_SMOOTH);
//Making a display list
mysphereID = glGenLists(1);
glNewList(mysphereID, GL_COMPILE);
gluSphere(sphere, 1.0, 20, 20);
glEndList();
gluDeleteQuadric(sphere);
//-----------------
//and whenever you want to render, call glCallList(mysphereID)
//to kill the display list, glDeleteLists(mysphereID, 1);


nothing but a black screen, i don't know what is wrong
here is my draw function

void Draw()
{
GLuint texture = LoadTextureRAW("EarthMap.bmp",1);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f, -12.0f);
GLUquadricObj *sphere=NULL;
sphere = gluNewQuadric();
gluQuadricDrawStyle(sphere, GLU_FILL);
gluQuadricTexture(sphere, TRUE);
gluQuadricNormals(sphere, GLU_SMOOTH);
texture = glGenLists(1);
glNewList(texture, GL_COMPILE);
gluSphere(sphere, 1.0, 20, 20);
glEndList();
gluDeleteQuadric(sphere);
glutSwapBuffers();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}

here is the loading texture function


GLuint LoadTextureRAW( const char * filename, int wrap )
{
GLuint texture;
int width, height;
BYTE * data;
FILE * file;
glPixelStorei(GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1);
file = fopen( filename, "r" );
if ( file == NULL )return 0;
width = 256;
height = 256;
data = (byte*) malloc( width * height * 3 );
fread( data, width * height * 3, 1, file );
fclose( file );
glGenTextures( 1, &texture );
glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture );
glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST );
glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST );
glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, wrap ? GL_REPEAT : GL_CLAMP );
glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, wrap ? GL_REPEAT : GL_CLAMP );
gluBuild2DMipmaps( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3, width, height, GL_BGR_EXT, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data );
glTexEnvf( GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_MODULATE );
glEnable( GL_TEXTURE_2D );
return texture;
}

[V-man]

Did you notice this line?

//and whenever you want to render, call glCallList(mysphereID)

Also, read this
http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Common_Mistakes#glGenTextures_in_render_function

[BionicBytes]

You are not following any tutorials are you?
You have not yet grasped the basics at all.
You are creating textures and glushpere each and every frame. The creation of these objects should be done exactly once. When you render you need to bind the texture then call the displaylist for the sphere. Also be sure to translate further into the Z because the sphere will be clipped against the near plane otherwise