why is it that when i turn lighting on in my gl app everything gets rendered grey. anyone know what could be causing this? thanks for any help. m

have you tried glEnable(GL_COLOR_MATERIAL) in your initialisation code?

check your material properties too. They can really change how the colors of something look.

thanks guys i got the color working, but is there a good place to read up about the material settings? maybe somewhere on NeHe''s site that i missed?

thanks

m

If you''re used to OpenGL, I definately recommend looking at the red book (there exists an online version at www.gamedev.net->resources->articles & resources->OpenGL->Online Books->OpenGL Red Book)