You mean it is rotating in an arc around the center of the screen?
Could you please post the code where you create the ship?

yes you are correct. I posted the code above.

Is it viable to draw it on the center, rotate it and then move it?

I can't help but to notice that your code, as posted on the last post, isn't changed. Are you sure the changes were all saved and submitted when you swapped the rotate and translate functions?

here is a screen shot.[attachment=18404:space.png]

Hello there.

I think you need to find the offset that will place your ship at the centre then rotate and put the offset back.

and like Trienco said.

Unless dealing with "outside influence" on your object, thinking in local coordinates is almost always more convenient and easier to reason about. It also means that nothing is actually happening "backwards".

but you can convert the outside influences to your models space too. I do this to rotate some objects based on a direction(heading vector fromw world coords).

I think you need to find the offset that will place your ship at the centre then rotate and put the offset back.

I would like to solve this problem before I go any further.

well I have not posted in a long time, I have been reading opengl programming guide 8th ed. I am going back to my space wars game. I need some help with the above problem.