Im doing a simple spinning textured cube based on the tutorial at nehe. When I load the texture, which is bluish, everything else I draw on screen seems to get affected by the texture color. For instance, I draw a white quad "ground" below the cube. If I comment out the texture loading, its white like it should. But if I put texturing on, the quad appears blue! And if I use black as a drawing color for the quad ground, everything disapears, even the textured cube (the clear color being black too). If I use red, I only see a bit of red on the cube, etc. Now, im wondering is it normal that the texture has an effect on the color of everything thats being drawn? Because thats not too practical... Thanks for the help!

add glColor3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f); right before you draw the white cube.


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Hmm.. thats what I have.
Just try it out for yourself. Download the nehe source of the textured cube and try to draw a quad of any color anywhere on the screen.


http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/vc/lesson06.zip
for instance, try to add this in the render() function:

glColor3f(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);

the cube will be looking totally different...

[edited by - johnn on June 2, 2004 2:21:12 PM]

[edited by - johnn on June 2, 2004 2:24:26 PM]

Thats better now

Thanks for the help!

be sure to have texturing disabled before drawing the rest of the scene if you are not using textures.

As urayami said, if you enabled GL_COLOR_MATERIAL, you will be able to give a taint of a specific color to your textures faces. (like multiplying the value of each pixel by the given color value. If you used photoshop and filled an area using the multiply option, that''s exactly it)
If you multiply with black ( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0), all you pixels will be black)
(that''s the use of glColor3f(1.0,1.0,1.0) Deranged mentionned. If you multiply the values of the pixels of the texture by 1.0 it will not change the texture)

Remember that you are in a loop: if you set a color after drawing the cube to draw the quad, and you don''t specify another color before drawing the cube on the next pass, the color you used on the quad will affect the cube.