Basic lighting not working

Again, after few more attempts, I’ve been able to resolve this problem as well (lol). Sorry for yet another resolved post.

your VAO “normals” is not connected to the correct vertex shader attibute location:

glEnableVertexAttribArray(3);
glVertexAttribPointer(3, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, 0);

your vertex shader transforms the normals not correctly, you need to transform the position into 2 different coordinate systems: “world space” to do th lighting calculation, and “clip space” for gl_Position

gl_Position = MVP * vec4(in_position, 1);
vec3 transformed_position = (M * vec4(in_position, 1)).xyz;
vec3 transformed_normal = (M * vec4(in_normal, 0)).xyz;

then you need to pass transformed_position and transformed_normal to the fragmentshader

what your fragmentshader does isnt actually clear. try to write is more clearly to understand, like:

// get basic fragment color
vec3 Kd = vertexcolor * texture(tex1, texcoord);

// basic light parts
vec3 Iambient = vec3(0.2, 0.2, 0.2); // for example
vec3 Idiffuse = vec3(0, 0, 0);
vec3 Ispecular = vec3(0, 0, 0);

// do some calculations here ...

// final fragment color
finalcolor = Iambient * Ka + Idiffuse * Kd + Ispecular * Ks;

https://sites.google.com/site/john87connor/scene-light-material/3-directional-light

some arent distinguishing between Ka and Kd and instead use simply Kd like that:
// final fragment color

finalcolor = (Iambient + Idiffuse) * Kd + Ispecular * Ks;