Getting light to emit from (0,0,0)

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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Hi ,
i need the sun to be in the center of my world and i want light to emit from it but i also want it lighted up.
I can emit light from the sun in a circular direction but the sun is not lighted up, it is dark. The light on the orbiting planets is good.
Can anybody tell me how i light up the sun.

I am currently using ambient lighting

Thanks

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either put a light outside your sun,
or best, disable lighting when rendering your sun

cb

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Emit is NOT adding any light to scene, but just makes selected object brighter!!! Check Red Book!!!11

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Read this to learn about defining emissive material properties:
http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/www/graphics/doc/OpenGL-Man-Pages/glMaterial.html

Hope that helps.