Question

I have a cube which I want to rotate. I also have a light source GL_LIGHT0. I want to rotate the cube and leave the light source fixed in its location. But the light source is rotating together with my cube. I use OpenGL ES 1.1
Here’s a snippet of my code to make my question more clear.

GLfloat glfarr[] = {...} //cube points
GLubyte glubFaces[] = {...}
Vertex3D normals[] = {...} //normals to surfaces

const GLfloat light0Position[] = {0.0, 0.0, 3.0, 0.0};
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, light0Position);
glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);

for(i = 0; i < 8000; ++i)
{
        if (g_bDemoDone) break;
        glLoadIdentity();

        glTranslatef(0.0,0.0, -12); 
        glRotatef(rot, 0.0, 1.0,1.0);
        rot += 0.8;
        glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1);
        glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

        glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
        glEnableClientState(GL_NORMAL_ARRAY);

        glNormalPointer(GL_FLOAT, 0, normals);

        glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 0, glfarr);
        glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 3*12, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, glubFaces);

        glDisableClientState(GL_NORMAL_ARRAY);
        glDisableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
        eglSwapBuffers(eglDisplay, eglSurface);
}

Thanks.

Answer 1

Fixed in relation to what? The light position is transformed by the current MODELVIEW matrix when you do glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, light0Position);

If you want it to move with with the cube you’ll have to move glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, light0Position); to after the translation and rotation calls.