Question

working with LWJGL’s implementation of OpenGL, and trying to work with the lighting functions. This requires the creation of FloatBuffers to pass to OpenGL. Relevant code follows:

GL11.glClearColor(0,0,0,0);

float[] ambientLight={(float).3,(float).5,(float).8,1};
FloatBuffer ambientLightB = FloatBuffer.allocate(4);
ambientLightB.put(ambientLight);

float[] diffuseLight={(float).25,(float).25,(float).25,1};
FloatBuffer diffuseLightB = FloatBuffer.allocate(4);
diffuseLightB.put(diffuseLight);

float[] lightPosition={0,0,1,1};
FloatBuffer lightPositionB = FloatBuffer.allocate(4);
lightPositionB.put(lightPosition);

float[] matAmbient={1,1,1,1};
FloatBuffer matAmbientB = FloatBuffer.allocate(4);
matAmbientB.put(matAmbient);

float[] matDiff={1,1,1,1};
FloatBuffer matDiffB = FloatBuffer.allocate(4);
matDiffB.put(matDiff);

GL11.glShadeModel(GL11.GL_SMOOTH);
GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_DEPTH_TEST);
GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_CULL_FACE);
GL11.glFrontFace(GL11.GL_CCW);
GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_LIGHTING);

GL11.glMaterial(GL11.GL_FRONT,GL11.GL_AMBIENT,matAmbientB);
GL11.glMaterial(GL11.GL_FRONT, GL11.GL_DIFFUSE,matDiffB);
GL11.glLight(GL11.GL_LIGHT0,GL11.GL_AMBIENT,ambientLightB);
GL11.glLight(GL11.GL_LIGHT0,GL11.GL_DIFFUSE,diffuseLightB);
GL11.glLight(GL11.GL_LIGHT0,GL11.GL_POSITION,lightPositionB);
GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_LIGHT0);

The first call I make to glMaterial gives the following error:

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of remaining buffer elements is 0, must be at least 4. Because at most 4 elements can be returned, a buffer with at least 4 elements is required, regardless of actual returned element count

Not quite sure what I’m doing wrong here, seems to be a problem in the creation of the FloatBuffer.

Answer 1

The solution ended up requiring another function call specific to LWJGL (BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer), as well as the flip() method. The following correctly initialized the buffer

float[] matAmbient={1,1,1,1};
FloatBuffer matAmbientB = BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(4);
matAmbientB.put(matAmbient);
matAmbientB.flip();