I know this sort of thing has been asked plenty of times before but I still can''t seem to get it working. I''m trying to render to a texture but it doesn''t draw anything - I can clear the texture to any colour I want but can''t draw anything. Here''s the code I''m using. First create the texture and get a pointer to it''s surface... pDirect3DDevice->CreateTexture(256, 256, 1, D3DUSAGE_RENDERTARGET, D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8, D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, &pTexture, NULL); pTexture->GetSurfaceLevel(0, &pTexSurface); I''m also using the following TSS... pDirect3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_COLOROP, D3DTOP_MODULATE); pDirect3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_COLORARG1, D3DTA_TEXTURE); pDirect3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_COLORARG2, D3DTA_DIFFUSE); pDirect3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_ALPHAOP, D3DTOP_DISABLE); Then my render function contains... pDirect3DDevice->SetRenderTarget(0, pTexSurface); pDirect3DDevice->Clear(0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET | D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0,0,0), 1.0f, 0); pBall->setMaterial(pDirect3DDevice); // set the material for the ball pObjectMesh->DrawSubset(0); // the ball''s mesh Later on in the function I use pDirect3DDevice->SetTexture(0, pTexture) to try to map the texture on to a cube but all I get is the colour I cleared the texture surface to and nothing else. What am I doing wrong? Asim

It might be possible that your depth buffer for your render target is incorrect. Try turning off the ZBuffer when you render to the texture. If it works, you know you have to create a depth buffer also.

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Brent Gunning | My Site

I use pDev->CreateRenderTarget rather than CreateTexture. Not sure what, if any, difference that may cause, but I would assume it''s the preferred way.

Thanks for the tips (although they didn''t work!)

I''ve managed to solve my problem now - I couldn''t get it to work in the end so I just cheated and drew on a new surface and then used StretchRect to copy from that surface to the texture surface.

As long as it works...and don''t nobody start about efficiency, I''m working to a tight deadline here

Asim