give positions for sphere drawn using gluSphere()

c opengl glu
Packirisamy picture Packirisamy · Oct 24, 2014 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

Here's my code .. But my sphere always stays at the origin... my glTranslatef() doesn't change the position of the sphere... Give me answers with explanation..

glColor3f(1,0,0);
GLUquadric *quad;
quad = gluNewQuadric();
gluSphere(quad,25,100,20);
glTranslatef(2,2,2);

Answer

Colonel Thirty Two picture Colonel Thirty Two · Oct 24, 2014

You're drawing the sphere before doing the translation, so of course the translation has no effect.

Move your glTranslatef to above gluSphere

glColor3f(1,0,0);
GLUquadric *quad;
quad = gluNewQuadric();
glTranslatef(2,2,2);
gluSphere(quad,25,100,20);

(Also note that the glu library is a quite old, and you should probably avoid it)

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