Creating an object

kk, for some reason i am still having problems texturing my car when i load it into my skybox. So i have the following program.




#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <GL/glut.h>
#include "coursework2.h"
#include "texture.h"
#include "3dsloader.h"


int screen_width=640;
int screen_height=480;



// Absolute rotation values (0-359 degrees) and rotation increments for each frame
double rotation_x=0, rotation_x_increment=0.1;
double rotation_y=0, rotation_y_increment=0.05;
double rotation_z=0, rotation_z_increment=0.03;
 
// Flag for rendering as lines or filled polygons
int filling=1; //0=OFF 1=ON


obj_type object;



/**********************************************************
 *
 * init()
 *
 * Used to initialize OpenGL and to setup the world
 *
 *********************************************************/

void init(void)
{
    glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0); // This clear the background color to black
    glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH); // Type of shading for the polygons
   	
    // Viewport transformation
    glViewport(0,0,screen_width,screen_height);  

    // Projection transformation
    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); // Specifies which matrix stack is the target for matrix operations 
    glLoadIdentity(); // initialize the projection matrix as identity
    gluPerspective(45.0f,(GLfloat)screen_width/(GLfloat)screen_height,10.0f,10000.0f); // define the "viewing volume"
   
    glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); // enable the depth test (also called z buffer)
    glPolygonMode (GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_FILL); // Polygon rasterization mode (polygon filled)
    
    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); // This Enable the Texture mapping

    Load3DS (&object,"GTR.3ds");

    object.id_texture=LoadBitmap("body.bmp"); // The Function LoadBitmap() return the current texture ID
    

}



/**********************************************************
 *
 * resize(int,int)
 *
 * This routine must be called everytime i resize our window.
 * 
 *********************************************************/

void resize (int width, int height)
{
    screen_width=width; // obtain the new screen width values and store it
    screen_height=height; // Height value

    glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); // clear both the color and the depth buffer so to draw the next frame
    glViewport(0,0,screen_width,screen_height); // Viewport transformation

    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); // Projection transformation
    glLoadIdentity(); // initialize the projection matrix as identity
    gluPerspective(45.0f,(GLfloat)screen_width/(GLfloat)screen_height,10.0f,10000.0f);

    glutPostRedisplay (); // This command redraws the scene 
}




/**********************************************************
 *
 * display()
 *
 * This is the main rendering subroutine, called each frame
 * 
 *********************************************************/

void display(void)
{
    int l_index;

    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); 
    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); // Modeling transformation
    glLoadIdentity(); // Initialize the model matrix as identity
    
    glTranslatef(0.0,0.0,-300); // move the object forward (the model matrix is multiplied by the translation matrix)
 
    rotation_x = rotation_x + rotation_x_increment;
    rotation_y = rotation_y + rotation_y_increment;
    rotation_z = rotation_z + rotation_z_increment;

    if (rotation_x > 359) rotation_x = 0;
    if (rotation_y > 359) rotation_y = 0;
    if (rotation_z > 359) rotation_z = 0;

    glRotatef(rotation_x,1.0,0.0,0.0); // Rotations of the object (the model matrix is multiplied by the rotation matrices)
    glRotatef(rotation_y,0.0,1.0,0.0);
    glRotatef(rotation_z,0.0,0.0,1.0);
    
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, object.id_texture); // set the active texture 

    glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
    for (l_index=0;l_index<object.polygons_qty;l_index++)
    {
        //----------------- FIRST VERTEX -----------------
        // Texture coordinates of the first vertex
        glTexCoord2f( object.mapcoord[ object.polygon[l_index].a ].u,
                      object.mapcoord[ object.polygon[l_index].a ].v);
        // Coordinates of the first vertex
        glVertex3f( object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].a ].x,
                    object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].a ].y,
                    object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].a ].z); //Vertex definition

        //----------------- SECOND VERTEX -----------------
        // Texture coordinates of the second vertex
        glTexCoord2f( object.mapcoord[ object.polygon[l_index].b ].u,
                      object.mapcoord[ object.polygon[l_index].b ].v);
        // Coordinates of the second vertex
        glVertex3f( object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].b ].x,
                    object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].b ].y,
                    object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].b ].z);
        
        //----------------- THIRD VERTEX -----------------
        // Texture coordinates of the third vertex
        glTexCoord2f( object.mapcoord[ object.polygon[l_index].c ].u,
                      object.mapcoord[ object.polygon[l_index].c ].v);
        // Coordinates of the Third vertex
        glVertex3f( object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].c ].x,
                    object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].c ].y,
                    object.vertex[ object.polygon[l_index].c ].z);
    }
    glEnd();

    glFlush(); // This force the execution of OpenGL commands
    glutSwapBuffers(); 
}



/**********************************************************
 *
 * The main routine
 * 
 *********************************************************/

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    glutInit(&argc, argv);    
    glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH);
    glutInitWindowSize(screen_width,screen_height);
    glutInitWindowPosition(0,0);
    glutCreateWindow("Coursework 2");    
    glutDisplayFunc(display);
    glutIdleFunc(display);
    glutReshapeFunc (resize);
    init();
    glutMainLoop();

    return(0);    
} 


/**********************************************************
 *
 * TYPES DECLARATION
 *
 *********************************************************/

#define MAX_VERTICES 8000 // Max number of vertices (for each object)
#define MAX_POLYGONS 8000 // Max number of polygons (for each object)

// vertex type
typedef struct{
    float x,y,z;
}vertex_type;

// The polygon (triangle), 3 numbers that aim 3 vertices
typedef struct{
    int a,b,c;
}polygon_type;

// The mapcoord type, 2 texture coordinates for each vertex
typedef struct{
    float u,v;
}mapcoord_type;

// The object type
typedef struct {
	char name[20];
    
	int vertices_qty;
    int polygons_qty;

    vertex_type vertex[MAX_VERTICES]; 
    polygon_type polygon[MAX_POLYGONS];
    mapcoord_type mapcoord[MAX_VERTICES];
    int id_texture;
} obj_type, *obj_type_ptr;
 

This code works and texures my car. Because i know this class works, is it possible to create an object of this class, and load that into my skybox? Would i need to create a constructor in my .h file?
cheers

What is the relationship between “texturing a car object” and a skybox?
Is this a C++ question? You should ask a more general forum. To instanciate a C++ class, you need to comply to the written constructors. If there are not, the default construct which consists in doing absolutely nothing apart from allocating memory is called. So here, in your code there is no problem with instancing one of these structures.