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[N1ghtDr34m3r]

Hello dudes.
This is my forst post in this forum, so be patient with me, if it's the wrong section for this.

First I must say, that I allready wrote applications and small games in Java and OpenGL and since ~4 months I learn C++ and DirectX9.
Due to the fact, that I wanted to make something different (the last I did, was a small 3D Environment in C++ & OpenGL, but I didn't finished it).
This gave me the idea of making a little 2D Environment with lighting (shadows) and so on.
Also I wanted and fortunately want to learn HLSL.
After some time of "googleing" I found this topic here in this forum and there I read a little tutorial about simple shaders in DirectX 9 from "Two Kings".
I managed it to "learn" something about the code and the HLSL, but unfortunately my code doesn't work properly.
I make a MessageBox if CreateVertexShader() failed, it doesn't appear.
I make a MessageBox if CreatePixelShader() failed, it appear! And my programm is terminated.

So I need your help, because I didn't find much about DirectX 9 Shader on the internet.

N1ghtDr34m3r

PS:
You can look up my code at github.
If you want me to insert the relevant code here, I will do so.

edited my problem description

Edited by N1ghtDr34m3r, 05 September 2012 - 01:37 PM.

[Deft]

According to MSDN for DX9 CreatePixelShader:

Return value
Type: HRESULT
If the method succeeds, the return value is D3D_OK. If the method fails, the return value can be one of the following: D3DERR_INVALIDCALL, D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY, E_OUTOFMEMORY.

Just make a switch statement for this variants of errors and look at case that will be invoked. After that point you can actually understand what is wrong with your pixel shader.

[N1ghtDr34m3r]

Thank you for answering.

I solved the problem, namely that in CompileShaderFromFile() the tutorial says ps_1_1.
On MSDN I couldn't find PixelShader version 1.1 for DirectX9. Possible values are from 2.0 and higher.
So I changed it to ps_2_0 and now it works.


Okay.

Found a list of which directX version handles which shaderversion.
So I've updated both CompileShaderFromFile() to vs_3_0 & ps_3_0, to handle DirectX 9.0c Shader. =)

Anyway thanks.

Edited by N1ghtDr34m3r, 06 September 2012 - 06:05 AM.