Hello, I''m trying to wrap som OGL and create some kind of an easy 2D engine. But I have a problem with this whole state based paradigm. Well as I said I have one little problem, say that i have a textured 3D model, that can be in different "states" like: alpha-blended, lighting on/off, drawing visual rep. of normals or enviroment maped. Then I would like to have some kind of "callbacking" from the states... so I want to get rid of code like: if(alpha) alpa on; if(lighting) lighting on; ... I would like to have a "state checking routine" something like: if(state_updates_have_occured) update_state(); but I can''t seem to find a good way of doing it.. as I thougt of it I might create a class "statmachine" that have all the attributes, and my objects have a instance of it, and if some state changes it will have a bool member "has_changed" that would be used to see if update is nessecery... but I don''t know what the best way to attack the problem is, so if someone have som clever solution to it i''ll be glad //Qrikko "All it takes is for the rendered image to look right" -Jim Blinn

Well then I''m not aming totaly wrong then

It''s actualy not that big a deal either, just feels like it''s kind of ugly to check it each and every time i would like to render... my thought of the statemachine was simply that if every renderable object have an instance of the statemachine every renderable object would not have to do all controling every time.. but than again it would be pretty hard to have full controll over it taken that opengl is entierly statebased in itself...

well I''ll think of it some more, but if someone have had the same kind of problem pleas tell me

It would be intresting to know how OpenGLs "glEnable" works.. someone that knows? It would maby help me out a bit.

//Qrikko

"All it takes is for the rendered image to look right" -Jim Blinn