JOGL - Lighting

Sr.No.	Parameter Name and Description
1	Light Specifies a light. The number of lights depends on the implementation, but at least eight lights are supported. It accepts ten values, those parameters are discussed in a separate table named Light Source Parameters given below.
2	Pname Specifies a single valued light source parameter. For light source, there are ten parameters as discussed below.
3	Params Specifies a pointer to the value or values that is set to the parameter pname of light source light.
4	Light source parameter You can use any of the light source parameters given below.

Light source parameters

The following table shows the Light source parameters −

Sr.No.	Parameter and Description
1	GL_AMBIENT It contains the parameters that specify the ambient intensity of the light.
2	GL_DIFFUSE It contains the parameters that specify the diffuse intensity of the light.
3	GL_SPECULAR It contains the parameters that specify the specular intensity of the light.
4	GL_POSITION It contains four integer or floating-point values that specify the position of the light in homogeneous object coordinates.
5	GL_SPOT_DIRECTION It contains parameters that specify the direction of light in homogeneous object coordinates.
6	GL_SPOT_EXPONENT Its parameters specify the intensity distribution of light.
7	GL_SPOT_CUTOFF The single parameter of this specifies the maximum spread angle of the light.
8	GL_CONSTANT_ATTENUATION or GL_LINEAR_ATTENUATION or GL_QUADRATIC_ATTENUATION You can use any of these attenuation factors, which is represented by a single value.

Lighting is enabled or disabled using glEnable() and glDisable () methods with the argument GL_LIGHTING.

The following template is given for lighting −

gl.glEnable(GL2.GL_LIGHTING); 
gl.glEnable(GL2.GL_LIGHT0);  
gl.glEnable(GL2.GL_NORMALIZE); 

float[] ambientLight = { 0.1f, 0.f, 0.f,0f };  // weak RED ambient 
gl.glLightfv(GL2.GL_LIGHT0, GL2.GL_AMBIENT, ambientLight, 0); 

float[] diffuseLight = { 1f,2f,1f,0f };  // multicolor diffuse 
gl.glLightfv(GL2.GL_LIGHT0, GL2.GL_DIFFUSE, diffuseLight, 0);

Applying Light to a Rotating Polygon

Follow the given steps for applying light to a rotating polygon.

Rotate the polygon using glRotate() method

gl.glClear(GL2.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL2.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); 
  
// Clear The Screen And The Depth Buffer  
gl.glLoadIdentity();  
                 
// Reset The View  
gl.glRotatef(rpoly, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);

Let us go through the program to apply light to a rotating polygon −

import javax.media.opengl.GL2; 
import javax.media.opengl.GLAutoDrawable; 
import javax.media.opengl.GLCapabilities; 
import javax.media.opengl.GLEventListener; 
import javax.media.opengl.GLProfile; 
import javax.media.opengl.awt.GLCanvas; 

import javax.swing.JFrame; 

import com.jogamp.opengl.util.FPSAnimator; 
 
public class PolygonLighting implements GLEventListener { 
   private float rpoly;
	
   @Override 
	
   public void display( GLAutoDrawable drawable ) {
   
      final GL2 gl = drawable.getGL().getGL2(); 
      gl.glColor3f(1f,0f,0f); //applying red
      
      // Clear The Screen And The Depth Buffer 
      gl.glClear( GL2.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT |  
      GL2.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT );   
      gl.glLoadIdentity();       // Reset The View    
      gl.glRotatef( rpoly, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f ); 
		
      gl.glBegin( GL2.GL_POLYGON ); 
      
      gl.glVertex3f( 0f,0.5f,0f ); 
      gl.glVertex3f( -0.5f,0.2f,0f ); 
      gl.glVertex3f( -0.5f,-0.2f,0f ); 
      gl.glVertex3f( 0f,-0.5f,0f ); 
      gl.glVertex3f( 0f,0.5f,0f ); 
      gl.glVertex3f( 0.5f,0.2f,0f ); 
      gl.glVertex3f( 0.5f,-0.2f,0f ); 
      gl.glVertex3f( 0f,-0.5f,0f ); 
      
      gl.glEnd(); 
		
      gl.glFlush(); 
      
      rpoly += 0.2f;  //assigning the angle 
      
      gl.glEnable( GL2.GL_LIGHTING );  
      gl.glEnable( GL2.GL_LIGHT0 );  
      gl.glEnable( GL2.GL_NORMALIZE );  

      // weak RED ambient 
      float[] ambientLight = { 0.1f, 0.f, 0.f,0f };  
      gl.glLightfv(GL2.GL_LIGHT0, GL2.GL_AMBIENT, ambient-Light, 0);  

      // multicolor diffuse 
      float[] diffuseLight = { 1f,2f,1f,0f };  
      gl.glLightfv( GL2.GL_LIGHT0, GL2.GL_DIFFUSE, diffuse-Light, 0 ); 
   }  
      
   @Override 
   public void dispose( GLAutoDrawable arg0 ) { 
      //method body  
   } 
  
   @Override 
   public void init( GLAutoDrawable arg0 ) { 
      // method body     
   } 
	
   @Override 
   public void reshape( GLAutoDrawable arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3, int arg4 ) { 
      // method body 
   } 
	
   public static void main( String[] args ) { 
   
      //getting the capabilities object of GL2 profile 
      final GLProfile profile = GLProfile.get( GLProfile.GL2 ); 
      GLCapabilities capabilities = new GLCapabilities( profile);

      // The canvas  
      final GLCanvas glcanvas = new GLCanvas( capabilities ); 
      PolygonLighting polygonlighting = new PolygonLighting(); 
      glcanvas.addGLEventListener( polygonlighting ); 
      glcanvas.setSize( 400, 400 ); 

      //creating frame 
      final JFrame frame = new JFrame (" Polygon lighting ");  

      //adding canvas to it 
      frame.getContentPane().add( glcanvas ); 
      frame.setSize( frame.getContentPane().getPreferredSize()); 
      frame.setVisible( true );  
                    
      //Instantiating and Initiating Animator 
      final FPSAnimator animator = new FPSAnimator(glcanvas, 300,true ); 
      animator.start();                     
      
   } //end of main 
	
} //end of class

If you compile and execute the above program, it generates the following output. Here, you can observe various snapshots of a rotating polygon with lighting.

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