I am attempting to add features to a ray tracer in C++. Namely, I am trying to add texture mapping to the spheres. For simplicity, I am using an array to store the texture data. I obtained the texture data by using a hex editor and copying the correct byte values into an array in my code. This was just for my testing purposes. When the values of this array correspond to an image that is simply red, it appears to work close to what is expected except there is no shading. The bottom right of the image shows what a correct sphere should look like. This sphere's colour using one set colour, not a texture map.

Another problem is that when the texture map is of something other than just one colour pixels, it turns white. My test image is a picture of water, and when it maps, it shows only one ring of bluish pixels surrounding the white colour.

When this is done, it simply appears as this:

Here are a few code snippets:

  Color getColor(const Object *object,const Ray *ray, float *t)
  {
   if (object->materialType == TEXTDIF || object->materialType == TEXTMATTE) {
    float distance = *t;
    Point pnt = ray->origin + ray->direction * distance;
    Point oc = object->center; 
    Vector ve = Point(oc.x,oc.y,oc.z+1) - oc;
    Normalize(&ve);
    Vector vn = Point(oc.x,oc.y+1,oc.z) - oc;
    Normalize(&vn);
    Vector vp = pnt - oc;
    Normalize(&vp);

    double phi = acos(-vn.dot(vp));

    float v = phi / M_PI;
    float u;

    float num1 = (float)acos(vp.dot(ve));
    float num = (num1 /(float) sin(phi));

    float theta = num /(float) (2 * M_PI);
    if (theta < 0 || theta == NAN) {theta = 0;}
    if (vn.cross(ve).dot(vp) > 0) {
        u = theta;
    }
    else {
        u = 1 - theta;
    }
    int x = (u * IMAGE_WIDTH) -1;
    int y = (v * IMAGE_WIDTH) -1;
    int p = (y * IMAGE_WIDTH + x)*3;

    return Color(TEXT_DATA[p+2],TEXT_DATA[p+1],TEXT_DATA[p]);

}
else {
    return object->color;
}
};

I call the colour code here in Trace:

if (object->materialType == MATTE)
    return getColor(object, ray, &t);

Ray shadowRay;
int isInShadow = 0;
shadowRay.origin.x = pHit.x + nHit.x * bias;
shadowRay.origin.y = pHit.y + nHit.y * bias;
shadowRay.origin.z = pHit.z + nHit.z * bias;
shadowRay.direction = light->object->center - pHit;
float len = shadowRay.direction.length();
Normalize(&shadowRay.direction);
float LdotN = shadowRay.direction.dot(nHit);
if (LdotN < 0)
    return 0;
Color lightColor = light->object->color;
for (int k = 0; k < numObjects; k++) {
    if (Intersect(objects[k], &shadowRay, &t) && !objects[k]->isLight) {
        if (objects[k]->materialType == GLASS)
            lightColor *= getColor(objects[k], &shadowRay, &t); // attenuate light color by glass color
        else
            isInShadow = 1;
        break;
    }
}
lightColor *= 1.f/(len*len);
return (isInShadow) ? 0 : getColor(object, &shadowRay, &t) * lightColor * LdotN;
}

I left out the rest of the code as to not bog down the post, but it can be seen here. Any help is greatly appreciated. The only portion not included in the code, is where I define the texture data, which as I said, is simply taken straight from a bitmap file of the above image.

Thanks.