My question is when should glNormal be called? Whenever i do a triangle strip i end up with a dark spot at the first and last pair of verteces. as i understand it, i should call the first two verteces then a normal, vertex, normal, vertex.... but obviously this isnt right, should i be defining a normal for each vertex instead? ~DemOSh juha@pacbell.net

What your doing is wrong, dunno where you got that idea from. If you want to use a single face normal you make a glNormal() call before all of the glVertex() calls. If you want to use vertex normals you make a normal call before each vertex call.

Nate Miller
http://nate.scuzzy.net

Hmm... To be more correct, you should either call glNormal() before the glVertex() calls of ONE FACE (not all glVertex() calls) if you want to set the normal of a face, or before each of the glVertex() calls individually.

S.