I''m using DX8.0 to do a 2d game and I''m using the ID3DXSPRITE interface to draw sprites. I used to load the textures with D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx and all worked fine. The problem arises with animated sprites: After I saved the frames on one bitmap I followed these steps: 1)Create a Surface with IDirect3DDevice8::CreateImageSurface. 2)Load the bitmap on the surface with D3DXLoadSurfaceFromFile. 3)Create a texture for each frame on the image with D3DXCreateTexture. 4)Retrieve the surface of the texture with GetSurfaceLevel and copy part of the big surface to this surface using IDirect3DDevice8::CopyRects. This works, but I''ve lost the ColorKey capabilities, that D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx offered! The problem is that D3DXCreateTexture doesn''t give the possibility to specify a D3DCOLOR ColorKey.. Is there any way to solve this problem with ID3DXSPRITE or do I have to abandon this interface? Thanks for any help!

Thanks!

I''ll try with ID3DXSprite::Draw to change the source rectangle!

Sneftel:After locking the texure how can I change alpha of all color-keyed texels to 0.0?

Thanks for the explanation, Sneftel !