Re: [gl4java-usergroup] lighting problem

[Antony R. <an...@li...>]

If you want your light to stay in a static position why not put it in your
init method?

Antony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Combe, Colin" <C....@na...>
To: <gl4...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: [gl4java-usergroup] lighting problem


> hi,
> i been having some problems trying to turn an object around - the light
> source keeps moving with it. I'm fairly new to all this, but the advice i
> got from a discussion group over at openGL.org was that a display method
> with the following structure -
>
> LoadIdentity
> Position the camera
> Push
> Position the light
> Pop
> For each object
> ....Push
> ....Position the object
> ....Draw the object
> ....Pop
> Swap buffers
>
> should allow me to rotate objects independantly of the light source, the
> desired effect. I think that this is what the attatched code does - but
when
> i run it the light source turns with the object. Whats going wrong?
>
> thanks,
> col
>
> p.s. Sven - if you're reading this - thanks for the advice you gave me
about
> adding and removing canvases from frames a couiple of weeks ago - i've not
> dowloaded the source from the cvs tree to try it yet but will give it a go
> soon.
>
>
>
>  <<GLApp.java>>
>