Hello, I did some searching on this and I'm still a little puzzled.

I wrote something that translates to the center of the screen rotates about 3 axes, then paints a rectangular panel in 3D space.  I wanted to move this work inside a class that takes care of itself, which seemed to work until I moved the translate() statement inside the class.

The old draw loop in the main class:

1. void draw(){
     background(0);
     pushMatrix();
       translate(width / 2, height / 2, 100); // move to middle of screen
       myPanel.set_bearing(new float[] {PI * i / 30,PI * i / 30,PI * i / 30});
       myPanel.paint();
     popMatrix();
     i++;
   }

Now instantiating a new version of the QuadForm myPanel passed the above translate() arguments in the constructor for later use each frame:

1. myPanel = new QuadForm(width / 2, height / 2, 100);

The new QuadForm.paint(), with translate().  It's important to note that the only change from the working version to the new version is translate(), which I have verified was passed the proper parameters.

1. void paint(){
       fill(shapeColor);
       translate(cX, cY, cZ); // moving translate to QF causes failure to display
       rotateY(bearing[0]); // Transfer rotations to QF, no error
       rotateX(bearing[1]);
       rotateZ(bearing[2]);
      
       beginShape(QUADS);
         for(int i = 0; i < template.length; i++){
           vertex(template[i][0], template[i][1], template[i][2]);
         }
       endShape();
     }
   }

Any clues as to why moving rotateX/Y/Z() inside the class should be fine but translate() is not?