- Code Framework
- Where to Download the Examples
- Hello Triangle Example
- Building and Running the Examples
- Using the OpenGL ES 2.0 Framework
- Creating a Simple Vertex and Fragment Shader
- Compiling and Loading the Shaders
- Creating a Program Object and Linking the Shaders
- Setting the Viewport and Clearing the Color Buffer
- Loading the Geometry and Drawing a Primitive
- Displaying the Back Buffer
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Loading the Geometry and Drawing a Primitive
Now that we have the color buffer cleared, viewport set, and program object loaded, we need to specify the geometry for the triangle. The vertices for the triangle are specified with three (x, y, z) coordinates in the vVertices array.
GLfloat vVertices[] = {0.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f,
-0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f,
0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f};
...
// Load the vertex data
glVertexAttribPointer(0, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, vVertices);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3);
The vertex positions need to be loaded to the GL and connected to the vPosition attribute declared in the vertex shader. As you will remember, earlier we bound the vPosition variable to attribute location 0. Each attribute in the vertex shader has a location that is uniquely identified by an unsigned integer value. To load the data into vertex attribute 0, we call the glVertexAttribPointer function. In Chapter 6, we cover how to load vertex attributes and use vertex arrays in full.
The final step to drawing the triangle is to actually tell OpenGL ES to draw the primitive. That is done in this example using the function glDrawArrays. This function draws a primitive such as a triangle, line, or strip. We get into primitives in much more detail in Chapter 7.