Hi there, I am trying to build a small OpenGL 3D engine with a simple SceneGraph for scene-management. Now, that there exist directional and positional lights, I decided to use a directional light source as my overall sun light for the scene. Thus, the lighting information is placed in the root-node of the scene-graph. My implementation looks like this: //... glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); //... float dir[4]; dir[0] = sunLight.GetDirection().x; dir[1] = sunLight.GetDirection().y; dir[2] = sunLight.GetDirection().z; dir[3] = 0.0f; glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, dir); glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_AMBIENT, sunLight.GetAmbient().rgba); glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, sunLight.GetDiffuse().rgba); glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPECULAR, sunLight.GetSpecular().rgba); glEnable(GL_LIGHT0); glEnable(GL_LIGHTING); //... // traverse the scene graph and render objects //... Now, I have the following problem: when I add a big cube to the scene with a small cube attached as a child (like the earth-moon-relationship), the big cube is lit correctly. But the small cube is not. In the redbook I found the hint, that the direction of a directional light is transformed by the modelview-matrix, too. Thus, after rendering the big cube, other scene-nodes (like translation, rotation and scale) modify the modelview-matrix to position and place the small cube properly. Unfortunately, the sun-light direction seems to be transformed, too. I also tried the following for testing: // later within my renderer... //... // render object node: glPushMatrix(); glLoadMatrixf(sunMatrix.m); float dir[] = {1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f}; glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, dir); glEnable(GL_LIGHT0); glPopMatrix(); // render cube... The sunMatrix is the matrix saved right after setting up the viewport and camera-position and -direction. But the effect is still the same. The big cube is lit properly and the small cube is also lit, but from another (wrong) direction. Can anybody help me on this issue? Thanks in advance! Guido

you must position the lights before drawing anything...


i.e


PositionSun();

..

DrawStuff();



EDIT: Just saw that you did this already... :/ dunno what the problem is... perhaps you´re disabling lighting after you´ve drawn the first cube?

Hm, I will check this. Additionally I will introduce a sphere object to see the sun-light direction better, because the cubes aren't lit very fine granulated.

Yes, I do render my normals and they look right. Do you know, if the following has any effect to the GL_POSITION vector?

// before rendering an object:
glPushMatrix();
glLoadIdentity();
// set light direction
glPopMatrix();
// render object:
// ...

I have already tested this but without success. But I do not understand why it doesn't work.