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Byte VS Unsigned Byte

Posted Friday, 10 February, 2012 - 22:46 by flopoloco in

I had vertex buffer object for color information setup like this.

byte[] dataColor = {
			255,   0,   0,
			255, 255,   0,
			  0, 255,   0,
			  0, 255,   0,
			  0,   0, 255,
			255,   0,   0
		};
GL.GenBuffers(1, out bufferColor);
			GL.BindBuffer(BufferTarget.ArrayBuffer, bufferColor);
			GL.BufferData(BufferTarget.ArrayBuffer, new IntPtr(dataColor.Length * sizeof(byte)),
			              dataColor, BufferUsageHint.StaticDraw);

For initializing the color information I had this

GL.EnableClientState(EnableCap.ColorArray);
			GL.BindBuffer(BufferTarget.ArrayBuffer, bufferColor);
			GL.ColorPointer(3, ColorPointerType.Byte, 0, 0);

But the result was a pitch black 3D object, after experimentation I had to change this line to display colored 3D object.
GL.ColorPointer(3, ColorPointerType.UnsignedByte, 0, 0);

What is the difference between ColorPointerType.Byte and ColorPointerType.UnsignedByte?

Thanks! :)

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treplogle's picture

Re: Byte VS Unsigned Byte

Posted Saturday, 11 February, 2012 - 00:23 by treplogle

ColorPointerType.Byte is signed and C# byte is unsigned.

OpenGL
ColorPointerType.Byte = signed byte = -128 to 127
ColorPointerType.UnsignedByte = unsigned byte = 0 to 255

C#
byte = unsigned byte = 0 to 255
sbyte = signed byte = -128 to 127

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Re: Byte VS Unsigned Byte

Posted Sunday, 12 February, 2012 - 17:18 by flopoloco

Oh, thanks. :)