well rutin has helped with this problem, but I wanted to get more input. I am still working on my rotation algorithm. I want my bullet sprite to rotate around my plane sprite and shoot in the same direction as my plane is facing.

	glTexCoord3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(cos(angle) - sin(angle), sin(angle) + cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glTexCoord3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(cos(angle) - sin(angle), sin(angle) + cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glTexCoord3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(cos(angle) - sin(angle), sin(angle) + cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glTexCoord3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(cos(angle) - sin(angle), sin(angle) + cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glEnd();

here is the code I am using.

well my problem is that I want my bullet sprite to shoot in the direction my plane is facing, I have managed to get  the plane to face  and move in all directions. at least I have got that to work. right now my code only draws a bullet in the up direction.

well I am working on understanding rotation, the matrix [cos theta -sin theta],[sin theta cos theta] is used to rotate a point around the origin. what I want to know is what the trig functions are multiplied by in order to get the bullet to rotate around the plane sprite, I am also taking a class in linear algebra which is helping me understand matrices and how they operate.

when I use the trig matrix I get various identity matrices. I am however trying to draw a polygon that I want to rotate around a point in the coordinate system.

hey @phil67rpg do you break code, meaning do you take code that someone else has written and then mess it up some how?  Change a number, comment out a line and so forth, have you tried that?  Watching what breaking the code does can help you to understand better what the code is actually doing.

well  I am doing this game for a class in college, however my teacher is not very helpful, I am on my own

I have made some progress on my code, am I doing the right thing?

void drawbullet_one()
{
	glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

	glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture[2]);

	glPushMatrix();

	glTranslatef(-5.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f);

	glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
	glTexCoord3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(0.0625f*cos(angle) - 0.0625f*sin(angle), 0.0625f*sin(angle) + 0.0625f*cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glTexCoord3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(-0.0625f*cos(angle) - 0.0625f*sin(angle), 0.0625f*sin(angle) + 0.0625f*cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glTexCoord3f(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(-0.0625f*cos(angle) - 0.0625f*sin(angle), 0.0625f*sin(angle) + -0.0625f*cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glTexCoord3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);

	glVertex3f(0.0625f*cos(angle) - 0.0625f*sin(angle), 0.0625f*sin(angle) + -0.0625f*cos(angle), 0.0f);
	glEnd();

	glTranslatef(5.0f, -0.5f, 0.0f);

	glPopMatrix();

	glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}