OpenGL ES 2 - noob question regarding depth

Question

okay i'm kind of new to this 3D math and it was a major milestone was to get the projection & modelview matrices right last night :]

so i've got this simple model which renders correctly from this angle:

but when i rotate around the y axis, there's something wrong with the depth like this:

that might look interesting, but is not what i want currently. Basically the depth of these walls get mixed up?

can someone point me to the necessary steps on how to solve this? i need a depth buffer or something... right?

Answer 1

You should enable depth testing by calling

glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);

And of course do not forget to clear your buffers by calling:

glClear( GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

I hope that this will help ;)