How to apply texture to glutSolidCube

Question

I can find tutorials about mapping textures to polygons specifying vertices etc. but nothing regarding how to apply a texture to a cube (or other stuff) drawn with glut (glutSolidCube).

I am doing something like:

glTexEnvfv(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, decal);
glTexParameterfv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, repeat);
glTexParameterfv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, repeat);
glTexParameterfv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, nearest);
glTexParameterfv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, nearest);

glPixelStorei(GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, 4, myImageWidth, myImageHeight, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, (GLvoid *)myImage);

//...

glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

//now draw the cube
glutSolidCube(N);

Doing this I get the texture to apply to the cube but the whole cube gets the color of the first byte in the texture!

Is there any way of mapping a texture to a solid cube (and other solids) when using glutSolidCube?

Answer 1

No, since glutSolidCube() does not generate texture coordinates. Fortunately, though, glutSolidCube() is easy to implement yourself and add texture coordinates. Here's the source code to glutSolidCube() and associated functions, from http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/:

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static void
drawBox(GLfloat size, GLenum type)
{
  static GLfloat n[6][3] =
  {
    {-1.0, 0.0, 0.0},
    {0.0, 1.0, 0.0},
    {1.0, 0.0, 0.0},
    {0.0, -1.0, 0.0},
    {0.0, 0.0, 1.0},
    {0.0, 0.0, -1.0}
  };
  static GLint faces[6][4] =
  {
    {0, 1, 2, 3},
    {3, 2, 6, 7},
    {7, 6, 5, 4},
    {4, 5, 1, 0},
    {5, 6, 2, 1},
    {7, 4, 0, 3}
  };
  GLfloat v[8][3];
  GLint i;

  v[0][0] = v[1][0] = v[2][0] = v[3][0] = -size / 2;
  v[4][0] = v[5][0] = v[6][0] = v[7][0] = size / 2;
  v[0][1] = v[1][1] = v[4][1] = v[5][1] = -size / 2;
  v[2][1] = v[3][1] = v[6][1] = v[7][1] = size / 2;
  v[0][2] = v[3][2] = v[4][2] = v[7][2] = -size / 2;
  v[1][2] = v[2][2] = v[5][2] = v[6][2] = size / 2;

  for (i = 5; i >= 0; i--) {
    glBegin(type);
    glNormal3fv(&n[i][0]);
    glVertex3fv(&v[faces[i][0]][0]);
    glVertex3fv(&v[faces[i][1]][0]);
    glVertex3fv(&v[faces[i][2]][0]);
    glVertex3fv(&v[faces[i][3]][0]);
    glEnd();
  }
}

void APIENTRY
glutSolidCube(GLdouble size)
{
  drawBox(size, GL_QUADS);
}

Just add in some calls to the glTexCoord* family of functions. NeHe has a good tutorial on how to get started with texture mapping with OpenGL.