Lesson06: Lighting a Textured Cube interactively

Overview 

In the previous posts drawing a textured cube were explained. Also, the implementation of the LightingUtil and LightedTexCube were covered. 

In this post we will try to draw a textured cube with lighting interactively. The cube looks as shown above. The cube looks elongated because aspect ratio is not applied.

Details

The purpose of  Lesson06 is to create a lighted textured cube and work with it interactively with different types of light to understand nuances of lighting.

System  class diagram

The scene class overrides camera with an instance of ThreeDCamera. It has an instance of LightedTexCube called cube derived from TexturedCube class.

Implementation

Scene

The functionality is implemented in the Scene class derived from BaseScene class.

The three methods Init, DrawScene and Cleanup are overridden as below:

The Init method calls 

1. BaseScene::Init to create hosting window and OpenGL Context. 
2. It also attaches camera to a ThreeDCamera class object. This camera  processes keyboard and mouse inputs as explained earlier.
3. It creates an input dialog to work with lighting settings interactively.
4. It calls init function on the LightedTexCube object to populate VBO/EBO buffers and bind them. 
5. Load textures from the image file
6. It also compiles and links shader programs.

The DrawScene method draws the cube with texture wrapped and rotates as per keyboard or mouse inputs. The lighting settings are taken from the light instance of LightingUtil of the cube object.

The Cleanup method releases the resources related to VBO/EBO, Texture related resources and shader programs.

The message handler for IDOK is called when Apply button is pressed after updates are made in the input dialog. It refreshes the display.

The message handler for IDCANCEL is called when in Cancel button is pressed the input dialog. It calls 

OnCloseWindow to destroy window.

Finally the WM_CLOSE  event is  handled in OnCloseWindow function and the window is destroyed and  application is shutdown when the window is closed or Escape key is pressed. 

Application

Scene class is hosted main.cpp. which creates the scene object and displays it. Message pump is added to process windows messages.

Input dialog

The input dialog as shown below can be used to change settings and understand lighting.

Output

The output looks as shown in the top.