thanks for the help Tsus.

so yes, the way im setting my mesh, the normals already have the w component at 0.0f. so i took your advice and rendered the gbuffer into the main rendertarget (the window) so i could check the results. the reason i didnt do that before was because i thought that PIX showed the "graphics pixel history" feature for all buffers but i was wrong, the moment i rendered it to the main render target i could immediatelly see that the draw call gets called but it didnt show so the transformations should be wrong.

i hard coded some matrices to see it worked and at first it didnt, but after i applied a transpose to it, it worked!

the only problem now is that for the 4 spheres that i draw, it leaves the first 3 at the origin (like it didnt apply any transformation) and only moves the 4th sphere, probbaly some bug in my code that ill have to find.

sorry i havent replied earlier but my work doesnt leave me much time for my personal projects (javaEE for a living is NOT fun..).

PS: as soon as i finished writting this post, i managed to solve the "only one sphere move" problem, it was just a bug due to ctrl+c ctrl+v of code, now everything works fine! now off to build my lightning buffer and pass.

once again thanks so much for the help

thanks for the help Tsus.

so yes, the way im setting my mesh, the normals already have the w component at 0.0f. so i took your advice and rendered the gbuffer into the main rendertarget (the window) so i could check the results. the reason i didnt do that before was because i thought that PIX showed the "graphics pixel history" feature for all buffers but i was wrong, the moment i rendered it to the main render target i could immediatelly see that the draw call gets called but it didnt show so the transformations should be wrong.

i hard coded some matrices to see it worked and at first it didnt, but after i applied a transpose to it, it worked!

the only problem now is that for the 4 spheres that i draw, it leaves the first 3 at the origin (like it didnt apply any transformation) and only moves the 4th sphere, probbaly some bug in my code that ill have to find.

sorry i havent replied earlier but my work doesnt leave me much time for my personal projects (javaEE for a living is NOT fun..).

PS: as soon as i finished writting this post, i manahed to solve the "only one sphere move" problem, it was just a bug due to ctrl+c ctrl+v of code, now everything works fine! now off to build my lightning buffer and pass.

once again thanks so much for the help

thanks for the help Tsus.

so yes, the way im setting my mesh, the normals already have the w component at 0.0f. so i took your advice and rendered the gbuffer into the main rendertarget (the window) so i could check the results. the reason i didnt do that before was because i thought that PIX showed the "graphics pixel history" feature for all buffers but i was wrong, the moment i rendered it to the main render target i could immediatelly see that the draw call gets called but it didnt show so the transformations should be wrong.

i hard coded some matrices to see it worked and at first it didnt, but after i applied a transpose to it, it worked!

the only problem now is that for the 4 spheres that i draw, it leaves the first 3 at the origin (like it didnt apply any transformation) and only moves the 4th sphere, probbaly some bug in my code that ill have to find.

sorry i havent replied earlier but my work doesnt leave me much time for my personal projects (javaEE for a living is NOT fun..).
anyway thanks again for the help

thanks for the help Tsus.

so yes, the way im setting my mesh, the normals already have the w component at 0.0f. so i took your advice and rendered the gbuffer into the main rendertarget (the window) so i could check the results. the reason i didnt do that before was because i thought that PIX showed the "graphics pixel history" feature for all buffers but i was wrong, the moment i rendered it to the main render target i could immediatelly see that the draw call gets called but it didnt show so the transformations should be wrong.

i hard coded some matrices to see it worked and at first it didnt, but after i applied a transpose transformation to it, it worked!

the only problem now is that for the 4 spheres that i draw, it leaves the first 3 at the origin (like it didnt apply any transformation) and only moves the 4th sphere, probbaly some bug in my code that ill have to find.

sorry i havent replied earlier but my work doesnt leave me much time for my personal projects (javaEE for a living is NOT fun..).
anyway thanks again for the help

thanks for the help Tsus.

so yes, the way im setting my mesh, the normals already have the w component at 0.0f. so i took your advice and rendered the gbuffer into the main rendertarget (the window) so i could check the results. the reason i didnt do that before was because i thought that PIX showed the "graphics pixel history" feature for all buffers but i was wrong, the moment i rendered it to the main render target i could immediatelly see that the draw call gets called but it didnt show so the transformations should be wrong.

i hard coded some matrices to see it worked and at first it didnt, but after i applied a transpose transformation to it, it worked!

the only problem now is that for the 4 spheres that i draw, it leaves the first 3 at the origin (like it didnt apply any transformation) and only moves the 4th sphere, probbaly some bug in my code that ill have to find.

sorry i havent replied earlier but my work doesnt leave me much time for my personal projects (javaEE for a living is NOT fun..).
anyway thanks again for the help

thanks for the help Tsus.

so yes, the way im setting my mesh, the normals already have the w component at 0.0f. so i took your advice and rendered the gbuffer into the main rendertarget (the window) so i could check the results. the reason i didnt do that before was because i thought that PIX showed the "graphics pixel history" feature for all buffers but i was wrong, the moment i rendered it to the main render target i could immediatelly see that the draw call gets called but it didnt show so the transformations should be wrong.

i hard coded some matrices to see it worked and at first it didnt, but after i applied a transpose transformation to it, it worked!

the only problem now is that for the 4 spheres that i draw, it leaves the first 3 at the origin (like it didnt apply any transformation) and only moves the 4th sphere, probbaly some bug in my code that ill have to find.

sorry i havent replied earlier but my work doesnt leave me much trime for my personal projects (javaEE for a living is NOT fun..).
anyway thanks again for the help