Question

I want to draw a cube and translate it, but the transformations on the Model View matrix don’t seem to work. They have 0 effect.

gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 0);
gl.glClear(GL.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
gl.glClear(gl.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
gl.glFrustum(-10, 10, -10, 10, 0.01, 20);



gl.glMatrixMode(GL.GL_MODELVIEW);
    gl.glLoadIdentity();
    gl.glTranslated(0.8, 0, 0); //no effect
    gl.glRotated(30, 1, 0, 0); //no effect
    drawCube(gl);

public void drawCube(GL gl) {

    gl.glMatrixMode(GL.GL_MODELVIEW);

    //spate
    gl.glLoadIdentity();
    drawSquare(gl);
    //fata
    gl.glLoadIdentity();
    gl.glTranslated(0, 0, WIDTH);
    drawSquare(gl);

    //st
    gl.glLoadIdentity();
    gl.glRotated(-90, 0, 1, 0);
    drawSquare(gl);

    //dr
    gl.glLoadIdentity();
    gl.glRotated(-90, 0, 1, 0);
    gl.glTranslated(0, 0, -WIDTH);
    drawSquare(gl);

    //sus
    gl.glLoadIdentity();
    gl.glRotated(90, 1, 0, 0);
    drawSquare(gl);
    //jos
    gl.glLoadIdentity();
    gl.glRotated(90, 1, 0, 0);
    gl.glTranslated(0, 0, -WIDTH);
    drawSquare(gl);

}

public void drawSquare(GL gl) {
    gl.glPolygonMode(GL.GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL.GL_FILL);
    gl.glBegin(GL.GL_POLYGON);
        gl.glTexCoord2d(0, 0);
        gl.glVertex3d(0, 0,0);

        gl.glTexCoord2d(0, 1);
        gl.glVertex3d(0, WIDTH,0);

        gl.glTexCoord2d(1, 1);
        gl.glVertex3d(WIDTH, WIDTH,0);

        gl.glTexCoord2d(1, 0);
        gl.glVertex3d(WIDTH, 0,0);
    gl.glEnd();
}

Answer 1

Inside drawCube() you’re resetting the modelview matrix:

gl.glMatrixMode(GL.GL_MODELVIEW);

//spate
gl.glLoadIdentity();

I suspect you want to use glPushMatrix() and glPopMatrix() here.

As a side note: those operations are deprecated since OpenGL 3.1.