Ok, I have two questions related to DX surface''s: First, in an RTS there are, of course, many little guys running around all over the place. My question is, should each of these guys have there own surface? Because if this is the case, it seems like this is a huge waste of memory. This is, however, is the way Andre Lamothe teaches in his books. Wouldn''t it be better to load each sprite into a surface, then each little guy who uses this sprite can just use that surface, rather than have its own? This leads me to my next question. To really save on memory, would it be better to load your sprite set from a bitmap and rather than splicing each sprite into its own surface, just put everthing into one surface and simply blit from that one surface? What do you guys do? Would doing it this way effect speed in any way? Thanks in advance.

I am curious about this too.

You are correct on both questions..

For your second question, speed wise, it is probably better to load each sprite to its own surface. But putting everything on one surface isn''t really much slower. But it does save memory when it comes to storing the sprite..