Thread: glTranslatef or related function

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    glTranslatef or related function

    In OpenGL, to move around the screen you use glTranslatef(). But that moves from the last spot you glTranslatef()ed from...not from (0,0,0) every time...

    Is there any function that moves from (0,0,0) every time so you can just store an objects screen position in a class?
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    glLoadIdentity() will reset the everything back to zero.

    so for a simple project, you could just call

    glLoadIdentity()
    glTranslatef()
    draw_model()

    for every object in your scene.

    You should know that this is not the most effiecent way to do that.

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    use glPushMatrix() and glPopMatrix() if you don't want to lose the original translations
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