Back buffer contents into a texture in OpenGL - c++

Question

To make my maze type game faster I decided to put my drawed ball inside a texture, because i have to draw it otherwise once for every room and I'm drawing it like a concave polygon using the stencil buffer, it takes more time than using a texture. The problem is, that I'm getting it inside a texture correctly from the back buffer when I'm rendering the third frame since the start of the game and my question is, why is it like so?
When I'm using a texture from the thirst frame, I'm having texture with solid white color, so it has nothing inside. When I'm using textures from the second frame, then I have only the black background of the desired texture and when I take the texture from the third frame, then I have desired texture. For frame count I use the static variable "done" inside the "drawTexture" function.
Copying from the first frame:
Copying from the second frame:
Copying from the third frame (desired outcome):
void DrawBall::drawTexture(float imageD) {
static int done = 0;
if (done < 3) {
drawToTexture(imageD);
done++;
}
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glBindTexture (GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
glColor3f(1, 1, 1);
glBegin (GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f (0.0, 0.0); glVertex3f (0.0, 0.0, -imageD);
glTexCoord2f (1.0, 0.0); glVertex3f (5.0, 0.0, -imageD);
glTexCoord2f (1.0, 1.0); glVertex3f (5.0, 5.0, -imageD);
glTexCoord2f (0.0, 1.0); glVertex3f (0.0, 5.0, -imageD);
glEnd ();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}
void DrawBall::drawToTexture(float imageD) {
int viewport[4];
glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, (int*) viewport);
int textureWidth = 64;
int textureHeight = 64;
texture = genEmptyTexture(textureWidth, textureHeight);
glViewport(0, 0, textureWidth, textureHeight);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(45.0f, 1, 1, 100);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
/*
This function calculates the vertexes for the ball
inside a vector<vector<float>> variable "test"
*/
_calculateCircleVertexes(0.0f, 0.0f, -2.0f, 0.249f, &test, 20);
_displayBall(&test, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f, -2.0f, &*smallBallColor);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
glCopyTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, 0, 0, textureWidth, textureHeight, 0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_STENCIL_BUFFER_BIT);
glViewport(viewport[0], viewport[1], viewport[2], viewport[3]);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(45.0f, (GLfloat)viewport[2] / (GLfloat)viewport[3], 1.0f, imageD + 10.0f);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
}
GLuint DrawBall::genEmptyTexture(unsigned int width, unsigned int height) {
GLuint txtIndex;
glGenTextures(1, &txtIndex);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, txtIndex);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, width, height, 0,
GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri (GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,GL_LINEAR);
return txtIndex;
}
void DrawBall::_displayBall(vector<vector<GLfloat>> *vertexes, GLfloat x, GLfloat y
, GLfloat imageW, GLfloat imageD, color *color) {
glTranslatef(x, y, imageD);
glClearStencil(0);
glColorMask(GL_FALSE, GL_FALSE, GL_FALSE, GL_FALSE);
glEnable(GL_STENCIL_TEST);
glStencilFunc(GL_NEVER, 0, 1);
glStencilOp(GL_INVERT, GL_INVERT, GL_INVERT);
glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
vector<vector<GLfloat>>::iterator it = vertexes->begin();
for (; it != vertexes->end(); it++) {
glVertex3f((*it)[0], (*it)[1], 0.0f);
}
glEnd();
glColorMask(GL_TRUE, GL_TRUE, GL_TRUE, GL_TRUE);
glStencilFunc(GL_EQUAL, 1, 1);
glStencilOp(GL_ZERO, GL_ZERO, GL_ZERO);
glColor3f(color->r, color->g, color->b);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex3f(-(imageW / 2.0f), -(imageW / 2.0f), 0.0f);
glVertex3f( (imageW / 2.0f), -(imageW / 2.0f), 0.0f);
glVertex3f( (imageW / 2.0f), (imageW / 2.0f), 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-(imageW / 2.0f), (imageW / 2.0f), 0.0f);
glEnd();
glDisable(GL_STENCIL_TEST);
glTranslatef(x, y, -imageD);
}

Answer 1

You should not use the window framebuffer (which includes both back- and frontbuffer) for render to texture operations. It just breaks to easily (you've experienced it). Instead use a so called Framebuffer Object, with the texture as rendering target.

Answer 2

Well, Datenwolf, thank you for your suggestion, you are probably right but I just want to use the advanced stuff as less as possible and I found my mistakes. I didn't get the desired outcome before the second frame because I didn't have yet enabled stencil test. Before the first frame I didn't get the desired outcome because in the window creation Windows sends WM_SIZE message and I had the draw message inside it but at that time the OpenGL isn't set up properly yet.