May be you should try setting the diffuse material too.

On 4/27/07, Tamas Nagy <ngy_tms <at> yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi!

Yes, the same code had been copypasted.

Tamas

> Did you copy and paste this code as well?
>
>     GLfloat mat_specular[] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 };
>     GLfloat mat_shininess[] = { 50.0 };
>     GLfloat light_position[] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0
> };
>
>     glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_SPECULAR,
> mat_specular);
>     glMaterialfv(GL_FRONT, GL_SHININESS,
> mat_shininess);
>     glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION,
> light_position);
>
>
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> Tamas Nagy
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> Hi!
>
> I have a problem. I applied the lights described in
>
>
http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/chapter06.html
>
> to my scene. I copy-pasted the light code.
> I have a box and a sphere both colored red.
>
> When i apply lights glEnable(GL_LIGHTING),
> glEnable(GL_LIGHT0), everything
> becomes gray.
> Lighting works but everything is gray instead of
> red.
>
> Tamas
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Oh....and just because I've been there, if you try to do this with a
quad and you specify different vertex colors for all four verts,
different drivers can give you different results because they may
triangulate the quad differently.