I haven''t had the opportunity to work with OpenGL in a while so I think I may be forgetting something for rendering. When I try to render a triangle, it cannot be seen. I''ve been using integers instead of floats for color and vertex. Rendering calls: glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); glLoadIdentity(); glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES); glColor3i(255,255,255); glVertex3i(1,1,-2);glVertex3i(0,-1,-2);glVertex3i(-1,1,-2); glEnd(); My initial GL calls were: glShadeModel (GL_SMOOTH); glClearColor (1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); glClearDepth (1.0f); glEnable (GL_DEPTH_TEST); glDepthFunc (GL_LEQUAL); glHint (GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_NICEST); glViewport(0,0,640,480); gluPerspective( 45.0, (GLfloat)(640)/(GLfloat)(480), 0.1f, 500.0); The window is create with SDL and has GL_DOUBLEBUFFERING. I call glFlush() SDL_SwapBuffers() at the end of the Render function. At first glance, it seems like a white triangle should be visible infront of the camera... Not sure what''s missing. Also, what ways could I use to generate verteces of a certain number in a patter that would cause most hidden surface remove methods to be forced to render most triangles(spacing them so that a maximum amount is visible). I''m trying to compare differences with HSR methods by generate large sets of triangles to test them with and the experiment is more effective if a very large number of triangles need to be rendered. Thanks.

Thunder_Hawk: I''m well aware that the GL_MODELVIEW does not have to be set every frame.
Leiarchy9: I definately did not just start OpenGL, I just haven''t touched it in quite a while.

Now that glLoadIdentity() is before gluPerspective(), the text is no longer visible