Hi, I'm a bit confused as to the ordering of matrices in opengl. I wrote a simple matrix class and am testing it out on the following code (which is a simple convertion of a NeHe project which simply displays three triangles). Here it is.

void Application::DrawTestB(void)
{
	glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
	
	Matrix4x4 s_Identity(1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1);
	glLoadMatrixf(s_Identity.m_fMatrix);
	Matrix4x4 s_FirstTranslation(1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,-6,1);
	glMultMatrixf(s_FirstTranslation.m_fMatrix);

		glColor3ub(0,0,255);
		DrawTestTriangle(0,0,0,1,1);

		Matrix4x4 s_Translation1(1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,-1,1);
		glMultMatrixf(s_Translation1.m_fMatrix);

			glColor3ub(0,255,0);
			DrawTestTriangle(0,0,0,1,1);

		glLoadMatrixf(s_FirstTranslation.m_fMatrix);

		Matrix4x4 s_Translation2(1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,-1,0,-1,1);
		glMultMatrixf(s_Translation2.m_fMatrix);

			glColor3ub(255,0,0);
			DrawTestTriangle(0,0,0,1,1);

		glLoadMatrixf(s_FirstTranslation.m_fMatrix);

	glLoadMatrixf(s_Identity.m_fMatrix);
}

Now my problem is that this code works! It shouldn't! My matrix class is in row major format (using a 1D float array). As I haven't written an OGL matrix passing method yet, I should transpose all the matrices before passing them to OGL functions to work. This is because OGL is in column major format. But somehow it works fine without. I can't understand it. Here is the constructor for my matrix class, maybe you can see what's happening:

   
	Matrix4x4(float p_fM00=0,float p_fM01=0,float p_fM02=0,float p_fM03=0,
			  float p_fM10=0,float p_fM11=0,float p_fM12=0,float p_fM13=0,
			  float p_fM20=0,float p_fM21=0,float p_fM22=0,float p_fM23=0,	
			  float p_fM30=0,float p_fM31=0,float p_fM32=0,float p_fM33=0)
	{
		m_fMatrix[0] =p_fM00; m_fMatrix[1] =p_fM01; m_fMatrix[2] =p_fM02; m_fMatrix[3] =p_fM03;
		m_fMatrix[4] =p_fM10; m_fMatrix[5] =p_fM11; m_fMatrix[6] =p_fM12; m_fMatrix[7] =p_fM13;
		m_fMatrix[8] =p_fM20; m_fMatrix[9] =p_fM21; m_fMatrix[10]=p_fM22; m_fMatrix[11]=p_fM23;
		m_fMatrix[12]=p_fM30; m_fMatrix[13]=p_fM31; m_fMatrix[14]=p_fM32; m_fMatrix[15]=p_fM33;
	}

Many Thanks Anthony [edited by - TonyFish on August 18, 2003 9:48:52 AM]

oh duh stupid me...
Phew at least that means I don''t have to worry about my matrix class anymore!
Thanks



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