OpenGL Rotations around World Origin when they should be around Local Origin

Question

I\'m implementing a simple camera system in OpenGL. I set up gluPerspective under the projection matrix and then use gluLookAt on the ModelView matrix. After this I have my main

Answer 1

Swap your rotate and translate calls around :)

Since they post-multiply the matrix stack the last the be called is the 'first' to be applied conceptually, if you care about that sort of thing.