ok,
considering the following code (being run once when the window is created):
glMaterialf(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK,GL_SHININESS,25);
glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK,GL_AMBIENT,white);
glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK,GL_DIFFUSE,white);
glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK,GL_SPECULAR,white);
glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK,GL_EMISSION,black);
where white and black are {1,1,1,1} and {0,0,0,1}
now,
my question,
no matter the number of lights I have enabled,
to get absolutly no ambient light, I need to have the total abient over those lights adding up to {-0.2,-0.2,-0.2}... which doesn''t make any sense at all...
I''ve tried all sorts of stuff, and I guarentee it''s not the lights, only some lights use ambient in my project (hence I don''t want to set the material level to black), and I''ve put in code to test with all lights to 0 ambient, yet it still comes out with 0.2 ambient...
the docs say the default ambient material setting is (0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1.0) - which sounds aweful familiar... yet I''m setting this to 1,1,1,1, so this shouldn''t have any effect..
anyway... over all it''s just a bit weird and confusing...
The problem is obviously easy to fix, it just doesn''t make sense and I want to know it''s not a driver bug, or whatnot... (I don''t want people to have overly dark lighting)
the individual light setup code is:
Vector4 position=Light.position;
if (light.infinite)
position.w=0;
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_POSITION,(float*)&position);
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_DIFFUSE,(float*)&Light.colour);
if (lightID==0)
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_AMBIENT,(float*)&(Light.ambient-Vector4(0.2f,0.2f,0.2f,0)));
else
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_AMBIENT,(float*)&Light.ambient);
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_SPECULAR,(float*)&Light.colour);
glLightf(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_CONSTANT_ATTENUATION,(float)Light.infinite);
if (Light.infinite)
glLightf(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_QUADRATIC_ATTENUATION,0);
else
glLightf(GL_LIGHT0+lightID,GL_QUADRATIC_ATTENUATION,1/(Light.falloff*Light.falloff));
