A cube is rendered as a square in QGLWidget

Question

I've been trying to render a cube in a QGLWidget, but it comes out wrong. No matter how I rotate it, it looks like a flat square. It's like it didn't notice the Z coordinates of its vertices. Just before I added clearing of the GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT, the square looked like all of the cube's sides crammed into one. Now it seems to discard vertices which don't belong in the front side, but it still isn't a cube.!

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My initializeGL() and paintGL():

typedef struct
{
    float XYZW[4];
    float RGBA[4];
} Vertex;

Vertex Vertices[8] =
{
    //vertices
};

const GLubyte Indices[36] =
{
    //indices
};

void ModelView::initializeGL()
{
    m_program = new QGLShaderProgram(this);
    m_program->addShaderFromSourceCode(QGLShader::Vertex, vertexShaderSource);

    m_program->addShaderFromSourceCode(QGLShader::Fragment, fragmentShaderSource);

    m_program->link();
}

void ModelView::paintGL()
{
    glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
    glDepthFunc(GL_LESS);

    glClearColor(.5f, .5f, .5f, 1.0f);
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

    glViewport(0, 0, width(), height());

    m_program->bind();

    QMatrix4x4 matrix;
    matrix.perspective(60, 4.0/3.0, 0.1, 100.0);
    matrix.translate(0, 0, -2);
    matrix.rotate(50.0, 1, 1, 1);

    m_program->setUniformValue(m_matrixUniform, matrix);

    m_posAttr = m_program->attributeLocation("posAttr");
    m_colAttr = m_program->attributeLocation("colAttr");
    m_matrixUniform = m_program->uniformLocation("matrix");

    glGenBuffers(1, &BufferId);
    glGenBuffers(1, &IndexBufferId);

    glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, BufferId);
    glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, IndexBufferId);

    glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, BufferSize, Vertices, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
    glBufferData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(Indices), Indices, GL_STATIC_DRAW);

    glVertexAttribPointer(m_posAttr, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, VertexSize, 0);
    glVertexAttribPointer(m_colAttr, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, VertexSize, (GLvoid *)RgbOffset);

    glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
    glEnableVertexAttribArray(1);

    glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, 36, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL);

    glDisableVertexAttribArray(1);
    glDisableVertexAttribArray(0);

    m_program->release();
}

Vertices and Indices should be defined correctly, they're taken from a tutorial, as is most of the code. Rendering of 2D object seems to be just fine, though.

Also, why does the tutorial call matrix.translate with the -2 argument? If I change it to anything else greater than 1 or remove it, the rendered object disappears.

Qt5, Windows Vista 32-bit.

Answer 1

glVertexAttribPointer() has a size parameter, which specifies the number of components per vertex. In the code it is 2, therefore everything is 2D. Changing to 3 solves the issue.