how to make solid cylinder in openGL

[r***@yahoo.com]

Hi Everybody, can you please tell me how to make solid cylinder in
openGl.
If anybody know please tell me how it is possible.
thank you.

[fungus]

Post by r***@yahoo.com
Hi Everybody, can you please tell me how to make solid cylinder in
openGl.
If anybody know please tell me how it is possible.
thank you.

Use the gluCylinder() function.
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Post by fungus
Use the gluCylinder() function.

I'm asking this as a true question, nothing more.

Would gluCylinder() be considered a "solid" cylinder?

When I make one it seems I would have to put endcaps on it to make it
appear solid.

The extra calcs every frame to make the endcaps follow around the
cylinder seems... strange. But I guess the endcaps would have to be
added by code somewhere along the line... I guess. Is that right?

[Sinisa Kolaric]

Post by ***@dent
Would gluCylinder() be considered a "solid" cylinder?

gluCylinder() "merely" draws a picture depicting a thing that looks like a
solid cylinder.

However if you'd like, for example, to calculate physical parameters for the
solid cylinder (represented by this drawing), you'd have to make those
calculations yourself in C/C++/etc (OpenGL has no features in this respect),
for example by using use a solid-modeling scene graph.