OpenGL® SuperBible, Third Edition

Chapter 5. Color, Materials, and Lighting: The Basics

By Richard S. Wright, Jr.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

How To	Functions You'll Use
Specify a color in terms of RGB components	glColor
Set the shading model	glShadeModel
Set the lighting model	glLightModel
Set lighting parameters	glLight
Set material reflective properties	glColorMaterial/glMaterial
Use surface normals	glNormal

This is the chapter where 3D graphics really start to look interesting (unless you really dig wireframe models!), and it only gets better from here. You've been learning OpenGL from the ground up—how to put programs together and then how to assemble objects from primitives and manipulate them in 3D space. Until now, we've been laying the foundation, and you still can't tell what ...