create a flashing background in glut?? I am useng the freeglut devpack in devc++ and wondered how i would make the background flash like acid (on nehe's homepage)?? help would be appreciated as i have wanted to know this since i started programming. -=pheonix2468=-

Draw a poly the size of the screen and just change the color black white yellow,
doing it this way you can take a texture and wrap it to the poly.

you will need to look into timers or it will run at crazy speeds.

You could set the clear color and call glClear(GL_COLOR_BIT);

you probarbly already call glClear, so this should work well.

Or if you want a more advanced background (lika a gradient) you could draw a full screen quad.

[simultanious post :D]

Thanks guys. Ive not done much in the way of timers and this is just a small project to get me back into the swing of things, cause i havn't done cpp + ogl since the start of the summer. so could you please direct me in the way of a timers tut???

[Edited by - pheonix2468 on August 23, 2005 1:47:13 PM]