glColorMaterial()'s bug ?

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Hi there,

I work on a project with OpenGL and SDL. When I use:
glColorMaterial()
to set the material properties automatically when I issue glColor*(), it doesnt seem to function correctly.

My scene is composed of a world with GL_LIGHT0 activated and a GUI drawn without any light. Of course, I disable GL_LIGHT0, GL_COLOR_MATERIAL and GL_LIGHTING when I draw the GUI. However the last glColor*() I use to draw the GUI modifies the properties of GL_LIGHT0 or/and the material properties. My world which is drawn before the GUI is lighted with the color I set when I draw the GUI after the world.

However, when I replace the
glColorMaterial()
by “many” calls to
glMaterial*()
everything works well.

I don’t know if it’s whether driver’s bug or the kernel’s bug or the XFree’s.
Please help !

Here is a screenshot of the world and the GUI (without any light enabled) http://opencity.sourceforge.net/screenshots/opencity-0.0.2-rmb.png

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Linux 2.4.22, gcc-3.3.1 (GCC) 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)

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SDL version 1.2.5

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XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 9 May 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-23mdksmp i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 10 September 2003
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I don’t think its a bug, its actually the intended behavior of glColorMaterial.
Look at #14, http://www.opengl.org/resources/features/KilgardTechniques/oglpitfall/
if I understand you correctly this is what is happening

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Hi there,

Thank you for your answer but it’s not the problem of glColorMaterial() and glEnable()'s orders. My problem can be represented by this listing:

void display(void)
{
	glEnable( GL_LIGHTING );
	glEnable( GL_LIGHT0 );
	glEnable( GL_COLOR_MATERIAL );

	glColor4ub( 255, 0, 0, 255 );	//red
	glBegin( GL_TRIANGLES );
		// some vertices here
	glEnd();

	glDisable( GL_LIGHTING );
	glDisable( GL_LIGHT0 );
	glDisable( GL_COLOR_MATERIAL );

	renderGUI();

	SDL_GL_SwapBuffers();
}

void renderGUI(void)
{
	glColor4ub( 0, 255, 0, 255 );	//green
	glBegin( GL_QUADS );
		// some vertices here
	glEnd();
}

Let’s say, in the main loop, I call display() every 50ms. At the first call, I have the triangles rendered in RED as expected. But from the second call and so on, the triangles are drawn with a blended color between RED and GREEN.

Another solution that I’ve found is to insert a call to glColor as

glColor4ub( 255, 255, 255, 255 );

before I call

glEnable( GL_COLOR_MATERIAL );

So can you tell me why ? If you want more informations on my project, don’t hesitate to ask.