Hi all, I am trying to apply volume shadows to my program, and for normal meshes, all works well (apart from when the camera goes into the volume - but that''s another story). My skinned mesh stuff is just a butchered version of the Dx8 sample, and I am having trouble extracting the mesh which I need to feed to my shadowing object. At what point do I need to grab the pMesh from the mesh container? Will I have to do away with processing D3DNONINDEXED and just do the SOFTWARE one and use UpdateSkinnedMesh? Thanks for any help. Steele.

So far I have come up with this :

c_SkinnedMesh::Get_Mesh(SFrame *pframeCur) {	SMeshContainer *pmcMesh = pframeCur->pmcMesh;	D3DXMATRIX  mtxWorld;	while (pmcMesh != NULL) {		METHOD tmp = m_method;		m_method = SOFTWARE;		GenerateMesh(pmcMesh, *m_Caps);		m_method = tmp;				DWORD cBones = pmcMesh->m_pSkinMesh->GetNumBones();		D3DXMATRIXA16 *pBoneMatrices  = new D3DXMATRIXA16[cBones];		// set up bone transforms		for (DWORD iBone = 0; iBone < cBones; ++iBone)		{			D3DXMatrixMultiply(				&pBoneMatrices[iBone],                 // output				&pmcMesh->m_pBoneOffsetMat[iBone], 				pmcMesh->m_pBoneMatrix[iBone]);		}				//D3DXMatrixIdentity(&mtxIdentity);		Generate_World_Matrix(&mtxWorld);		// generate skinned mesh		HRESULT hr = pmcMesh->m_pSkinMesh->UpdateSkinnedMesh(pBoneMatrices, NULL, pmcMesh->pMesh);		if (FAILED(hr)) {			DebugPrint(false, ("Failed to update skinned mesh on update\n"));		} else {			if (!gmGM->m_svLight_Shadows->Add_Shadow(string("SKINNED TMP"), pmcMesh->pMesh, &mtxWorld)) {				gmGM->m_svLight_Shadows->Update_Shadow(string("SKINNED TMP"), pmcMesh->pMesh, &mtxWorld);			}		}		pmcMesh = pmcMesh->pmcNext;	}	SFrame *pframeChild = pframeCur->pframeFirstChild;    while (pframeChild != NULL) {			Get_Mesh(pframeChild);        pframeChild = pframeChild->pframeSibling;    }}c_SkinnedMesh::Update(float fDelta) {	SDrawElement *pdeCur;    SFrame *pframeCur;	SFrame *frmRoot;	SMeshContainer *pmcMesh;	D3DXMATRIX  mtxIdentity;	    pdeCur = m_pdeHead;    while (pdeCur != NULL)    {        pdeCur->fCurTime += fDelta;        if (pdeCur->fCurTime > 1.0e15f)            pdeCur->fCurTime = 0;        pframeCur = pdeCur->pframeAnimHead;        while (pframeCur != NULL)        {            pframeCur->SetTime(pdeCur->fCurTime);			pframeCur = pframeCur->pframeAnimNext;        }				Get_Mesh(pdeCur->pframeRoot);        pdeCur = pdeCur->pdeNext;    }} 

The mesh doesn''t seem to be correct, however, containing just a mish-mash of polys.
Am I going the right way about this?
Thanks,
Steele.

Anyone have any idea on how to extract a mesh representing the current skinned mesh position?
Steele.