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Texturing an opengl cube


I have an opengl cube and I want to texture all 6 faces.

Do I need multiple textures?

Here's a screenshot of the current cube:

img

basically I don't know how to wrap the texture around the entire cube...

here's my cube.h header file where the IBO's and VBO's are defined

#pragma once
#include <GL\glew.h>

class cube {
public:
    cube() {
        x = 0;
        y = 0;
        z = 0;
        width = 0;
        vertices = 0;
        indices = 0;
    }
    cube(GLfloat X, GLfloat Y, GLfloat Z, float w) {
        x = X;
        y = Y;
        z = Z;
        width = w;

        vertices = new GLfloat[40];

        //1
        vertices[0] = x;     //x pos
        vertices[1] = y;     //y pos
        vertices[2] = z;     //z pos

        vertices[3] = 0;     //x pos in texture
        vertices[4] = 1;     //y pos in texture
        //2
        vertices[5] = x + width;
        vertices[6] = y;
        vertices[7] = z;

        vertices[8] = 1;
        vertices[9] = 1;
        //3
        vertices[10] = x;
        vertices[11] = y - width;
        vertices[12] = z;

        vertices[13] = 0;
        vertices[14] = 0;
        //4
        vertices[15] = x + width;
        vertices[16] = y - width;
        vertices[17] = z;

        vertices[18] = 1;
        vertices[19] = 0;
        //5
        vertices[20] = x;
        vertices[21] = y;
        vertices[22] = z - width;

        vertices[23] = 0;
        vertices[24] = 1;
        //6
        vertices[25] = x + width;
        vertices[26] = y;
        vertices[27] = z - width;

        vertices[28] = 1;
        vertices[29] = 1;
        //7
        vertices[30] = x;
        vertices[31] = y - width;
        vertices[32] = z - width;

        vertices[33] = 0;
        vertices[34] = 0;
        //8
        vertices[35] = x + width;
        vertices[36] = y - width;
        vertices[37] = z - width;

        vertices[38] = 1;
        vertices[39] = 0;

        //indices
        indices = new unsigned int[36];
        //0
        indices[0] = 0;
        indices[1] = 1;
        indices[2] = 2;
        //1
        indices[3] = 1;
        indices[4] = 2;
        indices[5] = 3;
        //2
        indices[6] = 4;
        indices[7] = 5;
        indices[8] = 6;
        //3
        indices[9] = 5;
        indices[10] = 6;
        indices[11] = 7;
        //4
        indices[12] = 4;
        indices[13] = 0;
        indices[14] = 1;
        //5
        indices[15] = 4;
        indices[16] = 5;
        indices[17] = 1;
        //6
        indices[18] = 6;
        indices[19] = 2;
        indices[20] = 3;
        //7
        indices[21] = 6;
        indices[22] = 7;
        indices[23] = 3;
        //8
        indices[24] = 1;
        indices[25] = 5;
        indices[26] = 3;
        //9
        indices[27] = 5;
        indices[28] = 7;
        indices[29] = 3;
        //10
        indices[30] = 4;
        indices[31] = 0;
        indices[32] = 2;
        //11
        indices[33] = 4;
        indices[34] = 6;
        indices[35] = 2;
    }

    GLfloat* vertices;
    unsigned int* indices;
private:
    GLfloat x;
    GLfloat y;
    GLfloat z;
    float width;
};

all this code does is set up a simple VBO and IBO/EBO for a cube object to later be used.


Solution

  • the problem is that each cube vertex is shared among 3 faces in which its texture coordinate might not be the same. So you either duplicate such vertexes (each with different texture coordinate) or use 2 separate indices (one for vertex and one for texture).

    The duplication might look like this (using GL_QUADS primitive):

    double cube[]=
        {
        // x,   y,   z,  s,  t,
        +1.0,-1.0,-1.0,0.0,1.0,
        -1.0,-1.0,-1.0,1.0,1.0,
        -1.0,+1.0,-1.0,1.0,0.0,
        +1.0,+1.0,-1.0,0.0,0.0,
    
        -1.0,+1.0,-1.0,0.0,0.0,
        -1.0,-1.0,-1.0,0.0,1.0,
        -1.0,-1.0,+1.0,1.0,1.0,
        -1.0,+1.0,+1.0,1.0,0.0,
    
        -1.0,-1.0,+1.0,0.0,1.0,
        +1.0,-1.0,+1.0,1.0,1.0,
        +1.0,+1.0,+1.0,1.0,0.0,
        -1.0,+1.0,+1.0,0.0,0.0,
    
        +1.0,-1.0,-1.0,1.0,1.0,
        +1.0,+1.0,-1.0,1.0,0.0,
        +1.0,+1.0,+1.0,0.0,0.0,
        +1.0,-1.0,+1.0,0.0,1.0,
    
        +1.0,+1.0,-1.0,0.0,1.0,
        -1.0,+1.0,-1.0,1.0,1.0,
        -1.0,+1.0,+1.0,1.0,0.0,
        +1.0,+1.0,+1.0,0.0,0.0,
    
        +1.0,-1.0,+1.0,0.0,0.0,
        -1.0,-1.0,+1.0,1.0,0.0,
        -1.0,-1.0,-1.0,1.0,1.0,
        +1.0,-1.0,-1.0,0.0,1.0,
        };
    

    With this texture:

    texture

    And this (sory for old GL api but its easier to test with):

    int i,n=sizeof(cube)/(sizeof(cube[0]));
    glColor3f(1.0,1.0,1.0);
    scr.txrs.bind(txr);
    glBegin(GL_QUADS);
    for (i=0;i<n;i+=5)
        {
        glTexCoord2dv(cube+i+3);
        glVertex3dv(cube+i+0);
        }
    glEnd();
    scr.txrs.unbind();
    

    I got this result:

    preview