Hi, First of all I am very weak in english so please bear with me. I was working out the examples in Chapter 5 of Frank. D. Luna's Book "Introduction To 3D Game Programming With DirectX 9.0". So In that chapter's source code what we have is a pyramid rotating about it's Y-Axis. And a directional light is lighting it up. For experimenting I changed the directional light to a point light. I placed the point light 20 units to "-Z Axis" and I set it's range to 20. Now half of the pyramid is lit. FINE. The problem is that when the pyramid is rotating the light's movement effect on it is not very smooth but makes strange jumps on the next face that comes infront of it. I have attached the source code below. Please tell me how should I make the light's effect smooth.

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// 
// File: litPyramid.cpp
// 
// Author: Frank Luna (C) All Rights Reserved
//
// System: AMD Athlon 1800+ XP, 512 DDR, Geforce 3, Windows XP, MSVC++ 7.0 
//
// Desc: Renders a lit pyramid.  Demonstrates how to specify the vertex 
//       normals, how to create and set a material, and how to create
//       and set a directional light.
//          
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#include "d3dUtility.h"

//
// Globals
//

IDirect3DDevice9* Device = 0; 

const int Width  = 800;
const int Height = 600;

IDirect3DVertexBuffer9* Pyramid = 0;

//
// Classes and Structures
//
struct Vertex
{
	Vertex(){}

	Vertex(float x, float y, float z, float nx, float ny, float nz)
	{
		_x  = x;  _y  = y;	_z  = z;
		_nx = nx; _ny = ny; _nz = nz;
	}
	float  _x,  _y,  _z;
	float _nx, _ny, _nz;

	static const DWORD FVF;
};
const DWORD Vertex::FVF = D3DFVF_XYZ | D3DFVF_NORMAL;

//
// Framework Functions
//
bool Setup()
{
	//
	// Turn on lighting.
	//
	Device->SetRenderState(D3DRS_LIGHTING, true);

	//
	// Create the vertex buffer for the pyramid.
	//

	Device->CreateVertexBuffer(
		12 * sizeof(Vertex), 
		D3DUSAGE_WRITEONLY,
		Vertex::FVF,
		D3DPOOL_MANAGED,
		&Pyramid,
		0);

	//
	// Fill the vertex buffer with pyramid data.
	//

	Vertex* v;
	Pyramid->Lock(0, 0, (void**)&v, 0);

	// front face
	v[0] = Vertex(-1.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f, 0.707f, -0.707f);
	v[1] = Vertex( 0.0f, 1.0f,  0.0f, 0.0f, 0.707f, -0.707f);
	v[2] = Vertex( 1.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f, 0.0f, 0.707f, -0.707f);

	// left face
	v[3] = Vertex(-1.0f, 0.0f,  1.0f, -0.707f, 0.707f, 0.0f);
	v[4] = Vertex( 0.0f, 1.0f,  0.0f, -0.707f, 0.707f, 0.0f);
	v[5] = Vertex(-1.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f, -0.707f, 0.707f, 0.0f);

	// right face
	v[6] = Vertex( 1.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f, 0.707f, 0.707f, 0.0f);
	v[7] = Vertex( 0.0f, 1.0f,  0.0f, 0.707f, 0.707f, 0.0f);
	v[8] = Vertex( 1.0f, 0.0f,  1.0f, 0.707f, 0.707f, 0.0f);

	// back face
	v[9]  = Vertex( 1.0f, 0.0f,  1.0f, 0.0f, 0.707f, 0.707f);
	v[10] = Vertex( 0.0f, 1.0f,  0.0f, 0.0f, 0.707f, 0.707f);
	v[11] = Vertex(-1.0f, 0.0f,  1.0f, 0.0f, 0.707f, 0.707f);

	Pyramid->Unlock();

	//
	// Create and set the material.
	//

	D3DMATERIAL9 mtrl;
	mtrl.Ambient  = d3d::WHITE;
	mtrl.Diffuse  = d3d::WHITE;
	mtrl.Specular = d3d::WHITE;
	mtrl.Emissive = d3d::BLACK;
	mtrl.Power    = 5.0f;

	Device->SetMaterial(&mtrl);

	//
	// Setup a directional light.
	//

	D3DLIGHT9 dir;
	::ZeroMemory(&dir, sizeof(dir));
	dir.Type      = D3DLIGHT_POINT;
	dir.Diffuse   = d3d::WHITE;
	dir.Specular  = d3d::WHITE * 0.3f;
	dir.Ambient   = d3d::WHITE * 0.6f;
	//dir.Direction = D3DXVECTOR3(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
	dir.Position = D3DXVECTOR3(0.0f, 0.0f, -20.0f);
	dir.Range = 20.0f;

	//
	// Set and Enable the light.
	//

	Device->SetLight(0, &dir);
	Device->LightEnable(0, true);

	//
	// Turn on specular lighting and instruct Direct3D
	// to renormalize normals.
	//

	Device->SetRenderState(D3DRS_NORMALIZENORMALS, true);
	Device->SetRenderState(D3DRS_SPECULARENABLE, true);

	//
	// Position and aim the camera.
	//

	D3DXVECTOR3 pos(0.0f, 1.0f, -3.0f);
	D3DXVECTOR3 target(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
	D3DXVECTOR3 up(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
	D3DXMATRIX V;
	D3DXMatrixLookAtLH(&V, &pos, &target, &up);
	Device->SetTransform(D3DTS_VIEW, &V);

	//
	// Set the projection matrix.
	//

	D3DXMATRIX proj;
	D3DXMatrixPerspectiveFovLH(
			&proj,
			D3DX_PI * 0.5f, // 90 - degree
			(float)Width / (float)Height,
			1.0f,
			1000.0f);
	Device->SetTransform(D3DTS_PROJECTION, &proj);

	return true;
}

void Cleanup()
{
	d3d::Release<IDirect3DVertexBuffer9*>(Pyramid);
}

bool Display(float timeDelta)
{
	if( Device )
	{
		// 
		// Update the scene: Rotate the pyramid.
		//

		D3DXMATRIX yRot;

		static float y = 0.0f;

		D3DXMatrixRotationY(&yRot, y);
		y += timeDelta;

		if( y >= 6.28f )
			y = 0.0f;

		Device->SetTransform(D3DTS_WORLD, &yRot);

		//
		// Draw the scene:
		//

		Device->Clear(0, 0, D3DCLEAR_TARGET | D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER, 0x00000000, 1.0f, 0);
		Device->BeginScene();

		Device->SetStreamSource(0, Pyramid, 0, sizeof(Vertex));
		Device->SetFVF(Vertex::FVF);
		Device->DrawPrimitive(D3DPT_TRIANGLELIST, 0, 4);

		Device->EndScene();
		Device->Present(0, 0, 0, 0);
	}
	return true;
}


//
// WndProc
//
LRESULT CALLBACK d3d::WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	switch( msg )
	{
	case WM_DESTROY:
		::PostQuitMessage(0);
		break;
		
	case WM_KEYDOWN:
		if( wParam == VK_ESCAPE )
			::DestroyWindow(hwnd);
		break;
	}
	return ::DefWindowProc(hwnd, msg, wParam, lParam);
}

//
// WinMain
//
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hinstance,
				   HINSTANCE prevInstance, 
				   PSTR cmdLine,
				   int showCmd)
{
	if(!d3d::InitD3D(hinstance,
		Width, Height, true, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, &Device))
	{
		::MessageBox(0, L"InitD3D() - FAILED", 0, 0);
		return 0;
	}
		
	if(!Setup())
	{
		::MessageBox(0, L"Setup() - FAILED", 0, 0);
		return 0;
	}

	d3d::EnterMsgLoop( Display );

	Cleanup();

	Device->Release();

	return 0;
}

I have also attached a ten second video of what I am talking about.

Oh yes! Now I see why it is like this. It is per-vertex and as there are very less the light is behaving this way. Also It's not a shader approach. Thanks. Will It be smooth if I use shaders?