Is it possible to rotate an object around its own axis and not around the base coordinate's axis?

Question

I am following the OpenGL es rotation examples from google to rotate a simple square (not a cube) on my Android App, for example this code:

gl.glRotatef(xro         


        

Answer 1

I know next-to-nothing about openGL, but I imagine translating to 0, rotating and then translating back should work...

gl.glTranslatef(-x, -y, -z);
gl.glRotatef(xrot, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);   //X
gl.glRotatef(yrot, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);   //Y
gl.glRotatef(zrot, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);   //Z
gl.glTranslatef(x, y, z);