For OpenGL ES, I'm working on an iOS game which uses a pre-written font class. It works great, but I can't change the vertex colour of the primitives used to draw the text.

I'm using this code here: http://www.themusingsofalostprogrammer.com/2010/01/how-to-do-font-rendering-in-opengl-on.html

I tried to modify the code so I could change the vertex colour, but it doesn't seem to effect it. Before you say it, I can't use a vertex/fragment program because I'm using a 1st gen iPod which doesn't support it. Any other ideas? Would love to share more, but I'm on a bus w/ wifi and I'm about to get off; my stop is coming up.

Shogun

For starters, glColor and friends aren't supported on OpenGL ES.

Second, I did modify the vertex array code to include a diffuse colour for each vertex, but that didn't change anything either.

Is there a way to do this using glTexEnv? This is a bit tougher than I thought.

Shogun.

Are you sure glColor4f is supported in OpenGL ES 1.1? Once again, XCode is telling me that it's undefined. I had to remove it before, and I can't find a definition for it anywhere.

I tried using glTexEnvi(...) and it still didn't work.

Shogun.

Okay, it's working now. I don't know why, but it's working now.

I reopened the project and it just started compiling without error. Meh, unless I subconsciously spelled it as glColour4f, I have no idea why it wasn't working before. Well, that did the trick. Now I feel stupid again...

I'll give you both ratings for your troubles >.<

Shogun

I'll tell you why it didn't work before, but it worked afterwards.

Reason: You didn't refresh/clean your project. XCode may happened to have some old data that's hiddenly conflicting. Sometimes, it happens on my Eclipse for Java/Android.