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OpenTK and material

Posted Friday, 6 January, 2012 - 08:28 by StMark

I was puzzled some time why I did not see any material and I experimented a little
bit, so the whole issue was the lack of light, so "Fiat lux" and alas there was it.
I just used the example of the opentk with these nices quads spinning around (display list)

so instead of

               GL.Color3(0.3 + 0.7 * c * c, 0.3 + 1.4 * c * c, 0.7 - 0.7 * c * c);

just use

                GL.Material(MaterialFace.FrontAndBack, MaterialParameter.Ambient,new Color4(0.3f + 0.7f * c * c, 0.3f + 1.4f * c * c, 0.7f - 0.7f * c * c, 1.0f));
                GL.Material(MaterialFace.FrontAndBack, MaterialParameter.Diffuse,  new Color4(0.3f + 0.7f * c * c, 0.3f + 1.4f * c * c, 0.7f - 0.7f * c * c, 1.0f));
                GL.Material(MaterialFace.FrontAndBack, MaterialParameter.Specular,  new Color4(0.3f + 0.7f * c * c, 0.3f + 1.4f * c * c, 0.7f - 0.7f * c * c, 1.0f));
                GL.Material(MaterialFace.FrontAndBack, MaterialParameter.Emission,  new Color4(0.3f + 0.7f * c * c, 0.3f + 1.4f * c * c, 0.7f - 0.7f * c * c, 1.0f));

But the color of the quads is now yellow instead of blue which was the sample code. That's the next issue to solve

Here's the light

            float diffuseLight = 0.6f;
            float ambientLight = 1.0f;
            float specularLight = 0.7f;
 
            float[] lightKa = { ambientLight, ambientLight, ambientLight, 1.0f }; 
            float[] lightKd = { diffuseLight, diffuseLight, diffuseLight, 1.0f }; 
            float[] lightKs = { specularLight, specularLight, specularLight, 1.0f };          
 
            GL.Light(LightName.Light0, LightParameter.Ambient, lightKa);
            GL.Light(LightName.Light0, LightParameter.Diffuse, lightKd);
            GL.Light(LightName.Light0, LightParameter.Specular, lightKs);
 
            float[] lightPos = { 0.0f, 10.0f, -10.0f, 1.0f };
            GL.Light(LightName.Light0, LightParameter.Position, lightPos);
 
            GL.Enable(EnableCap.Light0);
            GL.Enable(EnableCap.Lighting);
Images
yellow