1. None of the fire and water examples work from the special effects in direct3d book. I played diablo 2 and many other games which have fires with no problems so it can''t be my computer. 2. I can''t get the game core to work from the role playing book. I''m talking about chapter 10. I copy all classes into a new and empty win32 application project. I derive a new class from CApplication. Hey I even get 0 errors and 0 warnings when I compile. But to get that far I had to fix some problems with Jim''s code because the compiler said "worng amount of parameters" for some of his matrix functions. But to fix them I had to generate browser information! And that process added some new classes to my core classes. So even thought I got rid of all compiler errors I got 55 linking errors! Why didn''t Jim include a working game core project with his book?? By the way, his chapter 20 game gives me about 255 errors when I try to compiler it. Did he do that on purpose so that people can''t just make a clone from his source code? I mean I can''t think of any other reason for not including some good working code on the cd. 3.The linking errors I get are "unresolved external symbol". The first one being: Direct3DCreate8 !! hehe So how do I get rid of the classes which were added to my game core classes when I looked into d3dx8mesh.h This is not supposed to happen! I mean what if I look inside some huge library and Visual C++ adds it''s 100 classes to my project! Geez!!

Link with d3d8.lib

And generating browse information doesn''t add new classes to your code. What do you mean? All it does is generate a browse-info file that you can use to find where a symbol is defined, etc.

None of the fire, water, or cloud examples in the special effects book worked for me either, but then I realized that the examples wrote onto a 16 bit texture 32 bit pixel colors(since my Voodoo3 only supports 16 bit), and caused a illegal operation box when I ran the demos off the CD. I just converted all the 32 bit values to 16 bits, and the examples work fine for me. Do you have a 16 bit card?