What are strips? Triangle strips? Quad strips? What are those and why are they saying its faster and how would you make a triangle strip?

What are strips? Triangle strips? Quad strips? What are those and why are they saying its faster and how would you make a triangle strip?

Ok whats the fastest way to draw spheres or cones in Opengl? I know you can use a model but what if i wanted to just draw it like DrawCone or something. Is there something like that in Opengl? And...

Hmm. I call Swapbuffers(&hdc) all the time to display the buffer to the screen and no performance hit. Maybe your drivers? I dont know.

now where would you add that pixelstorei? gotta give specific info pls.

on windows

I read in one of the posts that you can grab a unsigned char pointer of the current opengl buffer and draw to that buffer using the pointer and just blit it to the screen or something like that? Does...

I was looking at my opengl help file and i noticed it was version 1 and no wonder i couldnt find some of the commands in there. So where can i download the Opengl 1.2 Windows Help File?

I was looking at my opengl help file and i noticed it was version 1 and no wonder i couldnt find some of the commands in there. So where can i download the Opengl 1.2 Windows Help File?

So then whats the use of GL_EMISSION? what does it do to your object?

Where can i find explanation for commands. Like what they really do to your objects and stuff?? The opengl man pages isnt just good enough.

hey. thanks for your help. ok well, i tried different combinations using GL_DIFFUSE, GL_AMBIENT and so on, but GL_DIFFUSE is the one that i needed. BTW, where do i get info on all these other...

Ok so how would I apply this to my object?
Do i put like before glbegin (GL_TRIANGLE) or in between the glbegin and glend?

I have a program that draws and rotates a 1 simple triagle with the color blue. Then I decided to make another program that is exactly the same as the one before but this time, using lighting. Now...

check if you have glut installed. does it come with that sdk?

So GLUT is for handling windows and keyboard i/o and stuff like that and GlAux is for geometry like predefined objects? Did i get that right or am i on the wrong track?

ok. im about to get into opengl like really into it. i want to be able to compile my program in linux and windows w/o changing code. what should i use? opengl + glaux or opengl + glut..whats the...