I'm trying to figure out how to render my scene to a cube map. I've been stuck on this for a bit and figured I would ask you guys for some help. I'm new to OpenGL and this is the first time I'm using a FBO.

I currently have a working example of using a cubemap bmp file, and the samplerCube sample type in the fragment shader is attached to GL_TEXTURE1. I'm not changing the shader code at all. I'm just changing the fact that I wont be calling the function that was loading the cubemap bmp file and trying to use the below code to render to a cubemap.

You can see below that I'm also attaching the texture again to GL_TEXTURE1. This is so when I set the uniform:

glUniform1i(getUniLoc(myProg, "Cubemap"), 1);

it can access it in my fragment shader via uniform samplerCube Cubemap.

I'm calling the below function like so:

cubeMapTexture = renderToCubeMap(150, GL_RGBA8, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE);

Now, I realize in the draw loop below that I'm not changing the view direction to look down the +x, -x, +y, -y, +z, -z axis. I really was just wanting to see something working first before implemented that. I figured I should at least see something on my object the way the code is now.

I'm not seeing anything, just straight black. I've made my background white still the object is black. I've removed lighting, and coloring to just sample the cubemap texture and still black.

I'm thinking the problem might be the format types when setting my texture which is GL_RGB8, GL_RGBA but I've also tried:

GL_RGBA, GL_RGBA GL_RGB, GL_RGB

I thought this would be standard since we are rendering to a texture attached to a framebuffer, but I've seen different examples that use different enum values.

I've also tried binding the cube map texture in every draw call that I'm wanting to use the cube map:

glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP, cubeMapTexture);

Also, I'm not creating a depth buffer for the FBO which I saw in most examples, because I'm only wanting the color buffer for my cube map. I actually added one to see if that was the problem and still got the same results. I could of fudged that up when I tried.

Any help that can point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

GLuint renderToCubeMap(int size, GLenum InternalFormat, GLenum Format, GLenum Type)
    {

    // color cube map
    GLuint textureObject;
    int face;
    GLenum status;

    //glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
    glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE1);
    glGenTextures(1, &textureObject);
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP, textureObject);
    glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
    glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
    glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
    glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
    glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_R, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);

    for (face = 0; face < 6; face++) {
        glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_X + face, 0, InternalFormat, size, size, 0, Format, Type, NULL);
    }

    // framebuffer object
    glGenFramebuffers(1, &fbo);
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo);

    glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_X, textureObject, 0);

    status = glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_FRAMEBUFFER);
    printf("%d\"\n", status);
        printf("%d\n", GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE);

    glViewport(0,0,size, size);

    for (face = 1; face < 6; face++) {

        drawSpheres();
        glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0,GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_POSITIVE_X + face, textureObject, 0);

    }

     //Bind 0, which means render to back buffer, as a result, fb is unbound
       glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);

       return textureObject;
    }