I have been going through alot of trouble trying to make this stupid thing work but no luck... I am reading the book ''DirectX 3D Graphics Programming Bible'' and the first d3d example loads a .x file(teapot) but when I export my .x file from maya 4 it will not load right!! My .x files will load in the dX sdk XFILE example but not in the books example...... char szXfile[] = "cube.x" ; // File to load LPDIRECT3DRMMESHBUILDER3 meshbuilder = NULL; // Create the meshbuilder object retval = lpD3DRM->CreateMeshBuilder(&meshbuilder); if (FAILED(retval)) goto ERROR_EXIT; // Use meshbuilder to load a mesh from a DirectX file retval = meshbuilder->Load(szXfile, // Source NULL, D3DRMLOAD_FROMFILE, // Options NULL, NULL); if (FAILED(retval)) { D3DError("Failed to load file."); goto DIRECT_EXIT; } It always fails to load file..with my ''.x'' maya files but not there ''teapot.x'' please anyone help..any ideas would be very helpful

So let me get this straight! the code is good its just my Maya 4 exporter or something? My Xfiles seems to work with different programming examples but not the one from the current book Im reading...Is it because Im using dx 7 or what...???(Im frustrated)..also dont flame me for this but what is d3dutil.h exactly do or I mean why do alot of people use it...is it just easier to use and makes some dx code alot less complex or what?
For those other people looking for Maya 4 exporter..here ya go.

http://therabbithole.redback.inficad.com/tricks/directx81/Extras_Direct3D/Tools/Maya40/

the files look exactly like the maya 3.0 exporter but this one actually does work for version 4.

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thanx anyways