Lighting Question

[Siwko]

Okay... so polygon winding makes a difference with respect to lighting effects, or so I've learned. I was under the impression that if I use GL_FRONT_AND_BACK for evertthing, it would still work (although slower). I guess not! I've gotten most things to work fairly well now.

But I'm sure more questions will follow...

Siwko

[ribblem]

I'm pretty sure that winding is not going to matter for opengl lighting. Humm. What lead you to this conclusion?

[Siwko]

Well, polygon winding seemed to make some sort of difference, as only a few of the faces of the cube were lit (normals and all specified) as I had started. Then I went back through, keying on culled faces to turn around the faces that weren't facing outwards. After I did that, all the sides were lit. Imagine that.

And as said before, this seems kinda stupid here, because (unless it means something other than it obviously states) for all the lighting options I was using GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, including using the two-sided option.

Go fig. Anyways, lighting, textures, etc are all working for me. By the way, anyone need a fairly generic MFC OpenGL window class?

Siwko