Correct format for loading vertex arrays from file

I've been banging my head on my keyboard for the past couple of weeks over this. What I'm 开发者_开发知识库trying to do is load an array of floats (GLfloat) and an array of unsigned shorts (GLushort) from a text file into equivalent arrays in objective-c so that I can render the contained objects. I've got my arrays loaded into vector objects as

vector<float> vertices;

and

vector<GLushort> indices;

But for some reason I can't figure out why I can't get these to render. Here is my code for rendering the above:

glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, sizeof(vertices[0])*6, &vertices[0]);
glNormalPoitner(GL_FLOAT, sizeof(vertices[0])*6, &vertices[3]);
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, sizeof(indices)/sizeof(indices[0]), GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, indices);

Sample arrays are below:

vertices: (Vx, Vy, Vz, Nx, Ny, Nz)

{10, 10, 0, 0, 0, 1,
-10, 10, 0, 0, 0, 1,
-10, -10, 0, 0, 0, 1,
10, -10, 0, 0, 0, 1};

indices: (v1, v2, v3)
{0, 1, 2,
0, 2, 3};

The text file I want to load these arrays from for rendering looks like this:

4 //Number of Vertices
###Vertices###
v 10 10 0 0 0 1
v -10 10 0 0 0 1
v -10 -10 0 0 0 1
v 10 -10 0 0 0 1
###Object1###
2 //Number of faces
f 0 1 2
f 3 4 5

Are vector objects the best approach to take? If not, what is? And what am I doing wrong that these won't render? Thanks.

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You use GL_TRIANGLES to specify the vertices format.

See the graph about GL_TRIANGLES, your format is wrong. And, I prefer to use GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP format. It needs few vertices.