Posted by Wade Walker on Aug 21, 2011; 1:25pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Need-help-getting-started-with-glTranslate-tp3270178p3272823.html

Thanks for posting your final code -- having examples like this in the forum will definitely help others in the future.

You had already done 99% of the work with your experiments to see what translations made the object disappear. I think this sort of experimentation is crucial to OpenGL programming, since there are so many things that can be wrong even in a very short OpenGL program. Half the time when I write a program from scratch (as opposed to modifying a working program) nothing shows up on screen at all when I first run it