Garrett

I'm trying to use gl in DIPS to remove the side of a cube so that it becomes a box that can be seen into. The opengl commands, which I'm struggling with anyway, are passed through the objects DGLEnable and DGLPushAttrib but I can't figure out which to use / how to order them. Has anybody here any experience with DIPS or can anyone explain to me how as opengl commands these are ordered so I can try and map that to the DIPS equivalent.

What I have so far is below. Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to use gl in DIPS to remove the side of a cube so that it becomes a box that can be seen into.  The opengl commands, which I'm struggling with anyway, are passed through the objects DGLEnable and DGLPushAttrib but I can't figure out which to use / how to order them.  Has anybody here any experience with DIPS or can anyone explain to me how as opengl commands these are ordered so I can try and map that to the DIPS equivalent.

What I have so far is below.  Thanks in advance.

gl-and-slicing-shapes

no idea about how DIPS works, but in opengl, you can visually remove the face of a cube by turning on culling. either back-face culling or front-face culling, depending on the winding of the vertices of the cube face (or the whole cube mesh).

generally, if it'a a single cube mesh (and not 6 planes positioned as a cube), then you would turn on front-face culling to be able to see through one of the cubes front/outer faces, inside the cube (the back faces are the "inner" faces, and they will remain visible).

So it's face culling rather than clipping. I'll have another play with this now that I know which of the two I should be using. IS there anything else such as lighting or material in gl which could cancel out the face culling?

So it's face culling rather than clipping.  I'll have another play with this now that I know which of the two I should be using.  IS there anything else such as lighting or material in gl which could cancel out the face culling?

GL and slicing shapes