NeHe Translations: Flat and Smooth Colors (NeHe 3)

#! /usr/bin/env python

Flat and Smooth Colors (NeHe 3)

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Introduces:
  • glColor
This tutorial is based on the NeHe3 tutorial by Jeff Molofee and assumes that you are reading along with the tutorial, so that only changes from the tutorial are noted here.
from OpenGLContext import testingcontext BaseContext = testingcontext.getInteractive() from OpenGL.GL import * class TestContext( BaseContext ): """Colorises the NeHe2 geometry""" initialPosition = (0,0,0) def Render( self, mode = 0): """Renders the geometry for the scene."""
Unlike the nehe tutorial, we need to explicitly disable lighting, as the context automatically enables lighting to avoid a common class of new user errors where unlit geometry does not appear due to lack of light.
BaseContext.Render( self, mode ) glDisable( GL_CULL_FACE) glDisable( GL_LIGHTING)
Now we return to the tutorial, in this geometry we are specifying a colour for each vertex.
glTranslatef(-1.5,0.0,-6.0); glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES) glColor3f(1,0,0) glVertex3f( 0.0, 1.0, 0.0) glColor3f(0,1,0) glVertex3f(-1.0, -1.0, 0.0) glColor3f(0,0,1) glVertex3f( 1.0, -1.0, 0.0) glEnd() glTranslatef(3.0,0.0,0.0);
Here we specify the colour once for the entire piece of geometry.
glColor3f(0.5,0.5,1.0) glBegin(GL_QUADS) glVertex3f(-1.0,-1.0, 0.0) glVertex3f( 1.0,-1.0, 0.0) glVertex3f( 1.0, 1.0, 0.0) glVertex3f(-1.0, 1.0, 0.0) glEnd() if __name__ == "__main__": TestContext.ContextMainLoop()
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