Below you find the widely spread code for manually creating a sphere in OpenGL. I modified it a little, so that it looks more complete now, but still can't get it to work. It only produces a white window. Any ideas what am I missing?
#include <vector>
#include <math.h>
#include <GL/glut.h>
#define M_PI 3.14159265358979323846
#define M_PI_2 1.57079632679489661923
int const win_width = 512;
int const win_height = 512;
using namespace std;
class SolidSphere
{
protected:
std::vector<GLfloat> vertices;
std::vector<GLfloat> normals;
std::vector<GLfloat> texcoords;
std::vector<GLushort> indices;
public:
SolidSphere(float radius, unsigned int rings, unsigned int sectors)
{
float const R = 1./(float)(rings-1);
float const S = 1./(float)(sectors-1);
int r, s;
vertices.resize(rings * sectors * 3);
normals.resize(rings * sectors * 3);
texcoords.resize(rings * sectors * 2);
std::vector<GLfloat>::iterator v = vertices.begin();
std::vector<GLfloat>::iterator n = normals.begin();
std::vector<GLfloat>::iterator t = texcoords.begin();
for(r = 0; r < rings; r++) {
for(s = 0; s < sectors; s++) {
float const y = sin(-M_PI_2 + M_PI * r * R);
float const x = cos(2*M_PI * s * S) * sin(M_PI * r * R);
float const z = sin(2*M_PI * s * S) * sin(M_PI * r * R);
*t++ = s*S;
*t++ = r*R;
*v++ = x * radius;
*v++ = y * radius;
*v++ = z * radius;
*n++ = x;
*n++ = y;
*n++ = z;
}
}
indices.resize(rings * sectors * 4);
std::vector<GLushort>::iterator i = indices.begin();
for (r = 0; r < rings-1; r++) {
for(s = 0; s < sectors-1; s++) {
*i++ = r * sectors + s;
*i++ = r * sectors + (s+1);
*i++ = (r+1) * sectors + (s+1);
*i++ = (r+1) * sectors + s;
}
}
}
void draw(GLfloat x, GLfloat y, GLfloat z)
{
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glPushMatrix();
glTranslatef(x,y,z);
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glEnableClientState(GL_NORMAL_ARRAY);
glEnableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 0, &vertices[0]);
glNormalPointer(GL_FLOAT, 0, &normals[0]);
glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, &texcoords[0]);
glDrawElements(GL_QUADS, indices.size(), GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, &indices[0]);
glPopMatrix();
}
};
SolidSphere sphere(1, 12, 24);
void display()
{
float const win_aspect = (float)win_width/(float)win_height;
glViewport(0, 0, win_width, win_height);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(45, win_aspect, 1, 10);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
#ifdef DRAW_WIREFRAME
glPolygonMode(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_LINE);
#endif
sphere.draw(0, 0, -5);
glutSwapBuffers();
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGBA);
glutInitWindowSize(win_width, win_height);
glutInitWindowPosition(100, 100);
glutCreateWindow("3D Sphere");
glutDisplayFunc(display);
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}