Hi,

Is glColorMaterial supported? And if so, which APIs? I can't find it or get it to work. I'm trying to generate a terrain with lots of polygons in a grid, and I don't want them to all be the same color, but I can't imagine drawing this thing one polygon at a time. Surely there's some kind of solution available?

More generally, how do I find out what's supported in a particular API (either in terms of OpenGL, or just in general).

Thanks,

tom

You don't have to use glColorMaterial to obtain a colorful terrain. You can define an array of colors, the same size as your vertex array. This way each vertex will have it's own color. At rendering tme, you must enable the color array (gl.glEnable(GL10.Gl_COLOR_ARRAY) and bind the color buffer (gl.glColorPointer(4, GL_FLOAT, 0, colorBuffer) and you should see the colors applied on the terrain. You can combine the color buffer with textures as well.

It's my understanding that I can only do that with lighting disabled. As soon as I enable a light source color comes from material and. There is no material pointer or array command. But, if glColorMaterial is available, I can change the color part of the material with glColorPointer. But no joy there.

It looks like the only way to do it in Android is to put a texture across the mesh. Or forget about lighting.

tom

If I remember correctly, yes, you are right. You have to choose between the lighting or the color. It's a shame that Android does not support by default OpenGL ES 2.0, because the problem is solved very easy with shaders