I'm having a bit of trouble getting my floor to light up at all. Here's a screen: http://img194.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture41fq.png The light is built using the code:

float light_position[4] = {0.0f, 1.1f, 0.0f, 1.0f};
float light_ambient[4] = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f};
float light_specular[4] = {0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f};
float light_diffuse[4] = {0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f}; 

float spot_cutoff = 45.0f 
float spot_direction[] = {0.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f} // down at the floor

As you can see, the model is lighting up fine under the spotlight. (The cube is just there to make the light's position more obvious) However, the floor isn't lighting up at all. I set up the floor's material properites using this code, and pass the normal of (0, 1, 0) for each vertex on the floor Edit: I am also specifying the floor vertices in counter-clockwise order.

float light_properties[] = {0.6f, 0.6f, 0.6f, 1.0f};
glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT_AND_BACK, GL_AMBIENT_AND_DIFFUSE, light_properties);					
			
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, *m_pTextureManager->GetTexture(floor));
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
// etc

How do I get it to light up in the spotlight like the model does? I thought that giving it the mateiral properties that I do should work. [Edited by - Foobar of Integers on April 22, 2006 3:28:58 PM]

see point 2 here
http://www.opengl.org/resources/features/KilgardTechniques/oglpitfall/

I see.

I guess that would break it, the floor is actually only 4 vertices with the texture stretched across and repeated.

So either I fix the floor or I implement a per-pixel lighting shader, which I've wanted to do for a while now.

thanks.

Update: Per-pixel lighting shader goodness!

http://rav.efbnet.com/imagebin/images/1145745015.png

I used the shader from lighthouse3d.com and modified it to use textures, later on I'll add in mutiple-light support.