glMaterialfv
GLMATERIAL(3G) GLMATERIAL(3G)
NAME
glMaterialf, glMateriali, glMaterialfv, glMaterialiv - specify mate-
rial parameters for the lighting model
C SPECIFICATION
void glMaterialf( GLenum face,
GLenum pname,
GLfloat param )
void glMateriali( GLenum face,
GLenum pname,
GLint param )
PARAMETERS
face Specifies which face or faces are being updated. Must be one
of GL_FRONT, GL_BACK, or GL_FRONT_AND_BACK.
pname Specifies the single-valued material parameter of the face or
faces that is being updated. Must be GL_SHININESS.
param Specifies the value that parameter GL_SHININESS will be set
to.
C SPECIFICATION
void glMaterialfv( GLenum face,
GLenum pname,
const GLfloat *params )
void glMaterialiv( GLenum face,
GLenum pname,
const GLint *params )
PARAMETERS
face Specifies which face or faces are being updated. Must be one
of GL_FRONT, GL_BACK, or GL_FRONT_AND_BACK.
pname Specifies the material parameter of the face or faces that is
being updated. Must be one of GL_AMBIENT, GL_DIFFUSE,
GL_SPECULAR, GL_EMISSION, GL_SHININESS, GL_AMBIENT_AND_DIFFUSE,
or GL_COLOR_INDEXES.
params Specifies a pointer to the value or values that pname will be
set to.
DESCRIPTION
glMaterial assigns values to material parameters. There are two
matched sets of material parameters. One, the front-facing set, is
used to shade points, lines, bitmaps, and all polygons (when two-sided
lighting is disabled), or just front-facing polygons (when two-sided
lighting is enabled). The other set, back-facing, is used to shade
back-facing polygons only when two-sided lighting is enabled. Refer
to the glLightModel reference page for details concerning one- and
two-sided lighting calculations.
glMaterial takes three arguments. The first, face, specifies whether
the GL_FRONT materials, the GL_BACK materials, or both
GL_FRONT_AND_BACK materials will be modified. The second, pname,
specifies which of several parameters in one or both sets will be mod-
ified. The third, params, specifies what value or values will be
assigned to the specified parameter.
Material parameters are used in the lighting equation that is option-
ally applied to each vertex. The equation is discussed in the
glLightModel reference page. The parameters that can be specified
using glMaterial, and their interpretations by the lighting equation,
are as follows:
GL_AMBIENT params contains four integer or floating-point
values that specify the ambient RGBA reflectance
of the material. Integer values are mapped lin-
early such that the most positive representable
value maps to 1.0, and the most negative repre-
sentable value maps to -1.0. Floating-point val-
ues are mapped directly. Neither integer nor
floating-point values are clamped. The initial
ambient reflectance for both front- and back-fac-
ing materials is (0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1.0).
GL_DIFFUSE params contains four integer or floating-point
values that specify the diffuse RGBA reflectance
of the material. Integer values are mapped lin-
early such that the most positive representable
value maps to 1.0, and the most negative repre-
sentable value maps to -1.0. Floating-point val-
ues are mapped directly. Neither integer nor
floating-point values are clamped. The initial
diffuse reflectance for both front- and back-fac-
ing materials is (0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 1.0).
GL_SPECULAR params contains four integer or floating-point
values that specify the specular RGBA reflectance
of the material. Integer values are mapped lin-
early such that the most positive representable
value maps to 1.0, and the most negative repre-
sentable value maps to -1.0. Floating-point val-
ues are mapped directly. Neither integer nor
floating-point values are clamped. The initial
specular reflectance for both front- and back-fac-
ing materials is (0, 0, 0, 1).
GL_EMISSION params contains four integer or floating-point
values that specify the RGBA emitted light inten-
sity of the material. Integer values are mapped
linearly such that the most positive representable
value maps to 1.0, and the most negative repre-
sentable value maps to -1.0. Floating-point val-
ues are mapped directly. Neither integer nor
floating-point values are clamped. The initial
emission intensity for both front- and back-facing
materials is (0, 0, 0, 1).
GL_SHININESS params is a single integer or floating-point value
that specifies the RGBA specular exponent of the
material. Integer and floating-point values are
mapped directly. Only values in the range [0,128]
are accepted. The initial specular exponent for
both front- and back-facing materials is 0.
GL_AMBIENT_AND_DIFFUSE
Equivalent to calling glMaterial twice with the
same parameter values, once with GL_AMBIENT and
once with GL_DIFFUSE.
GL_COLOR_INDEXES params contains three integer or floating-point
values specifying the color indices for ambient,
diffuse, and specular lighting. These three val-
ues, and GL_SHININESS, are the only material
values used by the color index mode lighting equa-
tion. Refer to the glLightModel reference page
for a discussion of color index lighting.
NOTES
The material parameters can be updated at any time. In particular,
glMaterial can be called between a call to glBegin and the correspond-
ing call to glEnd. If only a single material parameter is to be
changed per vertex, however, glColorMaterial is preferred over
glMaterial (see glColorMaterial).
While the ambient, diffuse, specular and emission material parameters
all have alpha components, only the diffuse alpha component is used in
the lighting computation.
ERRORS
GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if either face or pname is not an
accepted value.
GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if a specular exponent outside the range
[0,128] is specified.
ASSOCIATED GETS
glGetMaterial
SEE ALSO
glColorMaterial(3G), glLight(3G), glLightModel(3G)
GLMATERIAL(3G)
