Light attributes in OpenGL ES 1.1

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  • There is bug in the file TrainingCourse/06_IntroducingPOD/OGLES/OGLESIntroducingPOD.cpp in the Khronos OpenGL ES 1.1 SDKs (OGLES_WINDOWS_X86EMULATION_2.08.28.0634, the download file is OGLES_WINDOWS_X86EMULATION_2.08.28.0634.msi):

    (from line 432 to line 444):
    == BEIGN ==
    m_Scene.GetLight(vPos, *(PVRTVec3*)&vLightDirection, 0);
    ...
    // Specify the light direction in world space
    glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, (float*)&vLightDirection);
  • We can get light attribute about the position, direction from POD file with class CPVRTModelPOD, how about others like type(point, spot, direct), angle & exponent for spot? Thanks.
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I think I got the answer about the second point(how about the attributes of light) – we can get the attributes from the class SPODLight, normally we access the lights from POD from the array pLight in class CPVRTModelPOD.


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Hi Yiwen.





The issue which you describe isn’t actually a bug. To specify a directional light in OpenGL you pass in a directional vector with the w component set to 0 to glLightfv with the enum GL_POSITION. As per OpenGL documentation:





"If the w component of the position is 0, the light is treated as a directional source. Diffuse and specular lighting calculations take the light’s direction, but not its actual position, into account, and attenuation is disabled."





If you take a look at the code again you’ll see the line …


Code:

vLightDirection.w = 0;

... before the call to glLightfv.



Regards.

            Arron2011-08-31 12:22:05
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Hi Arron:

  I see now – the codes in SDK are for the directional light(w = 0.0). If we want to setup attributes for other types such as point light or spot light, we have to put the variable “vPos” as the parameter(w = 1.0 to point out that is position vector) for GL_POSITION.



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That it exactly right, yes. Point lights need only GL_POSITION to be set (with w component = 1.0) and spot lights require GL_POSITION (with the previous requirements) and GL_SPOT_DIRECTION with a directional vector. Of course spot lights have more parameters too (such as exponent and cutoff) but these are the enums associated with position and direction.





Best regards.

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Arron, late thanks Smile