Hi guys - I'm just starting out using VBOs (using SDL/glew). I'm trying to start out using the simple example of a cube - actually at the moment just the one face of a cube - but I can't get anything to display

my vertex structure is defined as follows:

struct Vertex
{
float x, y, z; //Vertex coords
float tx, ty; //Texture coords
float nx, ny, nz; //Normal coords
};


The cube is then generated like so:

Vertex temp;

//NOTE: Perspective is from looking at the cube from the outside
//Just trying to display one face for the moment to simplify
//Back face ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
temp.x = 0.f; temp.y = 0.f; temp.z = 0.f; //Bottom Right - 0
temp.nx = 0.f; temp.ny = 0.f; temp.nz = 1.f; // This stays the same for the rest of the face
temp.tx = 1.f; temp.ty = 0.f;
m_vertices.push_back(temp);

temp.x = 0.f; temp.y = m_fHeight; temp.z = 0.f; //Top Right - 1
temp.tx = 1.f; temp.ty = 1.f;
m_vertices.push_back(temp);

temp.x = m_fWidth; temp.y = m_fHeight; temp.z = 0.f; //Top Left - 2
temp.tx = 0.f; temp.ty = 1.f;
m_vertices.push_back(temp);

temp.x = m_fWidth; temp.y = 0.f; temp.z = 0.f; //Bottom Left - 3
temp.tx = 0.f; temp.ty = 0.f;
m_vertices.push_back(temp);

m_indeces.push_back(0); m_indeces.push_back(1); m_indeces.push_back(2);
m_indeces.push_back(2); m_indeces.push_back(3); m_indeces.push_back(0);


//Generate the vertex buffer
glGenBuffers(1, &m_vertexBufferID);
//Bind the vertex buffer
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, m_vertexBufferID);
//Fill the vertex buffer - size is 24*sizeof(Vertex) bcs 6 faces with 4 corners
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(Vertex) * 24, NULL, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glBufferSubData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0, sizeof(Vertex) * 24, &m_vertices); // Actually upload the data

//Set up the pointers
glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(12));
glNormalPointer(GL_FLOAT, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(20));
glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(0));


//Generate the index buffer
glGenBuffers(1, &m_indexBufferID);
//Bind the index buffer
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, m_indexBufferID);
//Fill the index buffer- size is 36*sizeof(uint) bcs 6 traingle coords in 1 face * 6 faces
glBufferData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(unsigned int) * 36, NULL, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glBufferSubData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0, sizeof(unsigned int) * 36, &m_indeces); // Actually upload the data


which is then sent to render in a seperate function:

glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vertexID);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, indexID);

glEnableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
glEnableClientState(GL_NORMAL_ARRAY);
glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);

// Resetup the pointers.
glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(12));
glNormalPointer(GL_FLOAT, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(20));
glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(Vertex), BUFFER_OFFSET(0));

//Draw the indexed elements
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 36, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, BUFFER_OFFSET(0));

glDisableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);
glDisableClientState(GL_NORMAL_ARRAY);
glDisableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);


and BUFFER_OFFSET() is a simaple macro defined as:

// A helper macro to get a position
#define BUFFER_OFFSET(i) ((char *)NULL + (i))


But I just can't get anything to display - applying the same texture etc. to a cube in immediate mode shows up fine.

The weird thing is that occasionaly something very strange will get displayed, which is different every time - so maybe it's some sort of initialization error?

would be much appreciated if anyone could help me out with this.

cheers.

There are at least three errors in your code I immediately spotted.

• You store 4 vertices in the vertex vector, but upload 24 vertices to the buffer object. The last 20 vertices are read from outside the vector.
• You store 6 indices in the index vector, but upload 36 indices to the buffer object. The last 30 indices are read from outside the vector.
• You upload the index array as if the indices are GLuint, but draw the index array as if the indices are GLubyte.

Hi - thanks for that.

I figures that as the verctors had not been initialized and I was in debug more it wouldn't make a difference. Have fixed all of that now, but I'm still getting the same error. Nothing displaying except sometimes when I get a weird....thing (sort of a large triangle - which makes sense as I'm rendering triangles but it's in thw wrong plane and is wrong size, no texture etc. ) very occasionaly.

Huzzah!! Changing &m_vertices and &m_indeces to &m_vertices[0] and &m_indeces[0] in the call to glBufferSubData() worked!

a-thank-yoh!