buffer basics

disable buffer? u mean disable depth testing
u want this enabled
glEnable( GL_DEPTH_TEST );
glDepthMask( GL_TRUE );
glDepthFunc( GL_LEQUAL );

Hmm, that didn't change a thing, still having the EXACT same problems.

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Original post by SonicSoul Hmm, that didn't change a thing, still having the EXACT same problems.

Are you sure you actually get a depth buffer? If you don't have a depth buffer then it is as if the fragment always passes the depth test. I don't see the window initialization code there so you might not be asking for a depth buffer correctly. You can query OpenGL for how many depth bits you have with glGet*.

A couple other comments...

You can't call glLineStipple or glLineWidth between a glBegin/glEnd pair. You should be checking for OpenGL errors as well (this generates GL_INVALID_OPERATION errors).

I don't see you enabling texturing anywhere. You should enable texturing before rendering anything you want affected by texturing (ie: the bodies). You should also disable texturing before rendering anything you don't want affected by texturing (ie: the orbits).

One reason you might not be noticing lighting on the bodies is because of your texture environment mode. If it's set to GL_REPLACE, then the texturing stage will replace the incoming color (possibly calculated from the lighting stage) with the color from the texture. If this is your problem, you are most likely using glTexEnv to set the texture environment mode to GL_REPLACE in your LoadSSGLTextures function.

In your windows setup code, you need to look at the cDepthBits variable of the
PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR and make sure you have at least 16.