[gameprogrammer] newb openGL q: positioning multiple objects

Hi, I'm just starting out with OpenGL on a Linux box. I've been working through 
an old O'Rielly tutorial creating a spinning cube,[1] and thought I could 
modify the program to display multiple cubes, but no matter what I do I only 
get one or zero cubes.

[1] 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/23/magazine/opengl_build.html?page=2

It's GLUT-based with a cbRenderScene() callback which originally contained all 
the drawing code for the cube and the HUD-like text. I rearranged 
cbRenderScene() so that it calls my functions, do_objects() and do_hud(). 
do_objects calls obj_spinning_cube() twice, passing different positions each 
time. obj_spinning_cube() passes this position (a struct with x, y, z) to 
glTranslatef() immediately after calling glLoadIdentity().

I only see one spinning cube, corresponding to the second call to 
obj_spinning_cube(). I can see the first cube if I disable that second call. I 
wonder if I'm misunderstanding glLoadIdentity()?

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Ethan Grammatikidis

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necessarily be faster at problem-solving.

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