OpenGL Woes

[andrew_j_w]

Today I was demonstrating for CGV and one person had a very strange problem; they couldn't get the colour of text drawn by glutBitmapCharacter to change. It turns out the colour is not set by glColor, it's instead set by the GL_CURRENT_RASTER_COLOR parameter. And how do you set this parameter? By calling glRasterPos which as a side effect takes the

Comments

[spriggan]

Hi Andrew,

I found this entry from a google search for "glutBitmapCharacter wrong color". I was having this very problem, but your tip solved it. Thanks!

[andrew_j_w]

Glad it helped! I post little things like that to my blog so they'll be picked up by google and might prove useful to someone :-)