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trying to rotate this triangle so that i can tell its 3d

hmmm this is got me stumped. as far as i know this is right (obviously not tho) i cant seem to get the viewport or camera to shift back and the shape to rotate. Anyone care to shed any light on this problem?

rholding2000

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sorry forgot to post the code

#include <windows.h>
#include <glut.h>
#include <gl\gl.h>

GLfloat      rtri;

void renderScene(void)
{
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
      glRotatef(rtri,0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);
      glTranslatef(0.0f,0.0f,20.0f);
      glColor3f(1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);
      glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
      glColor3f(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);
      glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f);
      glColor3f(0.0f,0.0f,1.0f);
glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f);                              // Right Of Triangle (Front)
            glColor3f(1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);                                    // Red
            glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);                              // Top Of Triangle (Right)
            glColor3f(0.0f,0.0f,1.0f);                                    // Blue
            glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f);                              // Left Of Triangle (Right)
            glColor3f(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);                                    // Green
            glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, -1.0f);                              // Right Of Triangle (Right)
            glColor3f(1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);                                    // Red
            glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);                              // Top Of Triangle (Back)
            glColor3f(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);                                    // Green
            glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, -1.0f);                              // Left Of Triangle (Back)
            glColor3f(0.0f,0.0f,1.0f);                                    // Blue
            glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, -1.0f);                              // Right Of Triangle (Back)
            glColor3f(1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);                                    // Red
            glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);                              // Top Of Triangle (Left)
            glColor3f(0.0f,0.0f,1.0f);                                    // Blue
            glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f);                              // Left Of Triangle (Left)
            glColor3f(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);                                    // Green
            glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f);                              // Right Of Triangle (Left)
      glEnd();// Reset The Current Modelview Matrix
      glFlush();
      rtri+=0.2f;

}

void main(int argc, char **argv)
{

glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGBA);
glutInitWindowPosition(100,100);
glutInitWindowSize(320,320);
glutCreateWindow("GLUT Initialisation Tutorial");
glutDisplayFunc(renderScene);
glutMainLoop();

}

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