simple objects in OpenGL...

you just put toghether a bunch of triangles or quads. it''s usually easier to import a file format than to hard code it.

JoeMont001@aol.com www.polarisoft.n3.net

glut is the only "interface" you can use that will produce primitives without using the gl utilities. you should use the primitives for testing, and eventually learn the gluquadrics.

a2k

Does anyone have any code examples of importing a file format? I know NeHe had links off his site to import asc files and md2 files on the cd-rom, but does anyone have any working code examples so that I can see how this is done?

jay

hmm... I can do loading from the file thing, what I need to figure out is drawing with ''parametrics'', like a cylinder would be defined as:
x = rcos(angle)
y = rsin(angle) from 0 to 2pi
z = height from 0 to 1
I know about quadrics, but I basically have to hard-code, gluSphere, gluCylinder, etc.

if you want to use equations just make them parametric and then step the variable, making points along the way and connecting them