Viewpoint Movement

Hiya, I’ve got a problem translating the camera with relation to my scene. My code looks like this (its very simple - I’m just starting).

int DrawGLScene(GLvoid)
{
/* Movement Variables */

glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); // Clear screen in color selected in InitGL() function

glLoadIdentity();									// Resets Co-Ordinate system.

//glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);							// Disable Depth Testing 
//glEnable(GL_BLEND);									// Then Blend Space into backround
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[1]);

DrawSpace();										// Draw the Space Texture
	
glTranslatef(2.0f,2.0f,0.0f);

//glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);							// Disable Depth Testing
//glDisable(GL_BLEND);								// Disable Blending
	
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);							// Switch to MODELVIEW MATRIX


// glTranslatef(0.0f ,0.0f ,zstart);					// Translate View
// CameraView(x, y, z, roll, pitch, heading);
glPushMatrix();										// Store Current Position


glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[0]);			// Select Texture[0]
glTranslatef(0.0f, 0.0f,-5.0f);						// Translate 5 units into the screen
DrawSphere(1.0f, 32, 32);							// Draw Sphere

glPopMatrix();										// Restore Position to 0,0,0
glPushMatrix();										// Store Current Position

glTranslatef(-5.0f, 0.0f,-5.0f);					// Translate 5 units left and 5 units into the screen

glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[0]);			// Select Texture[0]
DrawSphere(3.0f, 32, 32);							// Draw Sphere

glPopMatrix();										// Restore Position to 0,0,0
glPushMatrix();										// Store Current Position

glTranslatef( 5.0f, 0.0f,-5.0f);					// Translate 5 units right and 5 units into the screen

glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[0]);			// Select Texture[0]
DrawSphere(3.0f, 100, 100);							// Draw Sphere

glPopMatrix();										// Restore Position to 0,0,0
glPushMatrix();			    
return TRUE; 

}

Basically, all it does is setup start at 0,0,0 , then draw three spheres translated 5 units deep into the screen. Problem is, if I try and change the paramaters in the first glTranslatef() statement, only the central sphere moves, why does it not translate the entire scene? I’m sure I’m missing something fairly fundemental here, any help, greatly appericated.

Thanks

After a quick scan i see that you have set up multiple glPushMatrix and glPopMatrix pairs. Any transformation done inside these pairs is only in effect INSIDE THAT pair. So anything drawn outside the pair will not be afftected by the original transformation/rotation whatever. So you have to do a separate transformation in each glPushMatrix and glPopMatrix pair.