VAO not rendering colors OpenGL? - opengl

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I was hoping to get some help on an OpenGL question concerning the creation and rendering of VAOs. The goal here is simply to take this:
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
glColor4f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f);
glEnd();
which renders a red square in the middle of the window, and turn it into a VAO with vertices, colors, and indices. Now, this is what I have so far as far as creating the VAO (sorry if this is a bit long for the code):
//initialize all data
verts_amt = 6;
Vertex* verts = (Vertex*)malloc(sizeof(Vertex) * verts_amt);
int* indices = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int) * verts_amt);
verts[0] = createVertex(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
verts[1] = createVertex(-0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
verts[2] = createVertex(0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
verts[3] = createVertex(-0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
verts[4] = createVertex(0.5f, -0.5f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
verts[5] = createVertex(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
int i;
for(i = 0; i < 6; i ++)
indices[i] = i;
unsigned int vbo, ibo;
//create, bind, set data, and then unbind for the vbo and ibo
glGenBuffers(1, &vbo);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo);
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, verts_amt * sizeof(Vertex), verts, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
glGenBuffers(1, &ibo);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ibo);
glBufferData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, verts_amt * sizeof(int), indices, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
//create vao, bind vao, bind and set data for vbo, bind ibo, then unbind vao
glGenVertexArrays(1, &vao);
glBindVertexArray(vao);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo);
glVertexAttribPointer(0, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(Vertex), NULL);
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
glVertexAttribPointer(1, 4, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, sizeof(Vertex), (void*)offsetof(Vertex, r));
glEnableVertexAttribArray(1);
glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ibo);
glBindVertexArray(0);
in case you are wondering, Vertex is just a struct made up of seven floats in the order x, y, z, r, g, b, a. After looking through similar questions on this topic, I'm still not seeing what I'm missing and/or not doing right, because when I render it with these simple lines:
glBindVertexArray(vao);
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, verts_amt, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, NULL);
it renders just a competey white square. Keep in mind I'm not changing anything else about my rendering loop except of course getting rid of the Vertex3f, glBegin/glEnd, and Color4f calls. I should also mention that I'm not using a shader program, I'm not entirely sure if that changes anything drastically here. Any help on this would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

I should also mention that I'm not using a shader program.
You cannot use glVertexAttribPointer without a shader. These functions cannot interface with the OpenGL fixed function pipeline (FFP).
If you want to use the FFP and still use buffer objects, then you should use the appropriate functions. glVertexPointer (no "Attrib") and glColorPointer are the array equivalents to glVertex and glColor. These work with VAOs just fine.
So the only thing you need to change is your two glVertexAttribPointer calls to be glVertexPointer and glColorPointer (and of course adjusting the parameters accordingly).