Does OpenGL support Phong Shading? I know that Gourad shading can be simply used with this setting: glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH) but for Phong i didn''t found anything Thanks in advance Vilemini (whitenoise@tiscalinet.it);

By the moment, the pong shading is reserved for the ray tracers,
OpenGL don´t implement Pong Shading because this method calculate the image to represented point by point(the computational cost is very high), the smooth shading, calculate the only color or the vertices and make a polygon fill with a transition of colors between two vertices.

with the geforce 2 and perpixellighting pongshading is coming soon, but currently, it''s not that easy to support perpixellighting(==pongshading), just look at www.opengl.org, there is a link.. one moment..

that should work..

You could always use the method of averaging normals for realistic lighting (assuming you''re talking curved sufaces, since perpixel is ridiculous for flat things). This averaging method is explained in the Red Book. The link''s on NeHe''s page.
S.