hi. and sorry for not letting u know how everything went earlier. Anyway, that was really for an assignment, and the lecturer ended up changing it. So right now, I'm trying to get my new assignment done first, before I try to experiment on this again. But I think I have a good lead: That the vertices generated my way can still be accessed as a 2d surface wrapped into the 3d shape. With that, I should be able to start from one edge and end at the end... i think. :P Anyway, need to at least finish my new assignment first.

p.s. this really isn't the right thread for it, but just wondering if you can tell me how glMaterialfv works? Cuz by applying to one object ends up applying em to all my objects... it's kinda trivial right now, but I'd really like to know f this command actually has a state (like may other gl commands) that will not change until explicitly told (how??).

thanks for the support and replies!! I'll post a pic of my new assignment...perhaps in a new thread. :P