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Alonso Arellano
Alonso Arellano

Reputation: 41

How to animate a rotation triggered by a key in OpenGL and GLUT?

I want to rotate a simple cube in OpenGL using GLUT in C. The rotation will occur when I press a key.

If I use glRotatef(angle, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f) the cube will rotate instantly without an animation. I would like to rotate it slowly so it takes about 2 seconds to complete the rotation.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3758

Answers (1)

genpfault
genpfault

Reputation: 52083

Create a keyboard callback that toggles a bool and a timer callback that updates an angle:

#include <GL/glut.h>

char spin = 0;
void keyboard( unsigned char key, int x, int y )
{
    if( key == ' ' )
    {
        spin = !spin;
    }
}

float angle = 0;
void timer( int value )
{
    if( spin )
    {
        angle += 3;
    }

    glutTimerFunc( 16, timer, 0 );
    glutPostRedisplay();
}

void display()
{
    double w = glutGet( GLUT_WINDOW_WIDTH );
    double h = glutGet( GLUT_WINDOW_HEIGHT );

    glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT );

    glMatrixMode( GL_PROJECTION );
    glLoadIdentity();
    gluPerspective( 45, w / h, 0.1, 10 );

    glMatrixMode( GL_MODELVIEW );
    glLoadIdentity();
    gluLookAt( 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 );

    glColor3ub( 255, 0, 0 );
    glRotatef( angle, 0, 0, 1 );
    glutWireCube( 1 );

    glutSwapBuffers();
}

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
    glutInit( &argc, argv );
    glutInitDisplayMode( GLUT_RGBA | GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_DOUBLE );
    glutInitWindowSize( 640, 480 );
    glutCreateWindow( "GLUT" );
    glutDisplayFunc( display );
    glutKeyboardFunc( keyboard );
    glutTimerFunc( 0, timer, 0 );
    glutMainLoop();
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 1

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