OpenGL - changing colours of a shape

Hi there,

I am new to game programming, and I hope it's ok if some of you could kindly help me out. I understand there may be other people with problems in other threads so I will make this quick.

I've started using OpenGL for game programming. I am using opengl commands for editing colours of a shape. I have no clue how to change the colours of the shape.

is the following command:

//send the verticles and colours for the triangle
glcolour4f(1.0f , 0.0f , 0.0f , 1.of ) ;
glVertex3f (.0f , 2.5f , -1.0f ) ;
glColor4f (0.0f , 1.0f , 0.0f , 1.0f ) ;
glvertex3f (-3.5f , -2.5f , -1.0f ) ;
glColor4f (0.0f , 0.0f , 1.0f , 1.0f ) ;
glVertex3f (2.0f , -4.0f , -1.0f ) ;
glEnd ():

It asks me to make the triangle red....
now how do I go about doing this?

I'm so sorry to have asked, I'm a newbie to opengl and all :(

Would appreciate any help...
I do apologise if this thread is in the wrong section, please feel free to move it.

Thankyou

Do you know about the RGB components? Red is (1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f) or (1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f).

glColor3f() <- Use this instead, it's easier( sort of )
Parameters:
#1: The Red component of the color
#2: The Green -||-
#3: The Blue -||-

If you want a single color, and not gouraud shading or something, you don't have to set the color for each vertex, just once before the first one will suffice.

Thanks ever so much GReaper.

I think, I need to know the basics of C++ before going into anything else.

I'm currently using OPENGL beginners guide for Game programming.

I think I am jumping to conclusions, not knowing where to start of with.

Thanks for the help anyway =]