/* WHY DOES MY CUBE LOOK LIKE THIS WITH THE LIGHT*/ /* It has been rotated a bit to show the extermity */ /* LIGHT STRUCT*/ m_Light.Diffuse.r = 1.0f; m_Light.Diffuse.g = 1.0f; m_Light.Diffuse.b = 1.0f; m_Light.Diffuse.a = 1.0f; m_Light.Type = D3DLIGHT_POINT; m_Light.Position = D3DXVECTOR3( 0.0f, 0.0f, 10.0f ); m_Light.Attenuation0 = 0.0f; m_Light.Attenuation1 = 0.05f; m_Light.Attenuation2 = 0.0f; m_Light.Range = 100.0f; /* CUBE STRUCT */ struct VERTEX_SINGLE { float x,y,z; D3DXVECTOR3 vNormal; float tu,tv; DWORD diffuse; enum FVF { FVF_Flags = D3DFVF_XYZ | D3DFVF_NORMAL | D3DFVF_TEX1 | D3DFVF_DIFFUSE }; }; POS, NORMAL, TEXU, TEXV, DIFFUSE VERTEX_SINGLE g_cubeVertices[] = { {-1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,-1), 0, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,-1), 1, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,-1), 0, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,-1), 1, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,1), 1, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,1), 1, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,1), 0, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,0,1), 0, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,1,0), 0, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,1,0), 1, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,1,0), 0, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,1,0), 1, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,-1,0), 0, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,-1,0), 1, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,-1,0), 0, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(0,-1,0), 1, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(1,0,0), 0, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(1,0,0), 1, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(1,0,0), 0, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, { 1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(1,0,0), 1, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(-1,0,0), 1, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(-1,0,0), 1, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(-1,0,0), 0, 0, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)}, {-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f , D3DXVECTOR3(-1,0,0), 0, 1, D3DCOLOR_COLORVALUE(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)} };

I must say, it makes quite an interesting lighting effect. Maybe that can be put to good use in a special effect.

Wzup Halsafar. You remember me from VBForums. Yeah I believe your normals are wrong too. Especially that polygon on top since it looks very dark where it's supposed to be lit.

As I do have to agree completly, the lighting effect was very far out, you should have seen what attentuation changes did and moving...weird stuff...weirder answer. Ironically some people on VBForums also agreed that the lighting effect was "Unique".

I do not know why this a problem, but it fixed it all.
It was all in the order I was defining my VERTEX structure. I had no idea the D3D Pipeline was picky about which comes first.


struct VERTEX_SINGLE {
float x,y,z;
D3DXVECTOR3 vNormal;
float tu,tv;
DWORD diffuse;

enum FVF
{
FVF_Flags = D3DFVF_XYZ | D3DFVF_NORMAL | D3DFVF_TEX1 | D3DFVF_DIFFUSE
};
};
Cause's massive errors within texturing and lighting.


struct VERTEX_SINGLE {
float x,y,z;
D3DXVECTOR3 vNormal;
DWORD diffuse;
float tu,tv;

enum FVF
{
FVF_Flags = D3DFVF_XYZ | D3DFVF_NORMAL | D3DFVF_DIFFUSE | D3DFVF_TEX1
};
};
This works just fine.


Do not ask me why but I made NO other changes except to the order of the cube vertices I posted above.

Now, it all looks great, 100% great.
So if anyone could be so kind, inform me of how these normals could be off?
Someone wish to correct them for me?

In QUADS -- FRONT, BACK, TOP, BOTTOM, LEFT, RIGHT -- is I believe the order I posted above. What should the correct normals be.

Yeah, there is a very specific way to define a custom vertex. You can see the order here

TEX1 valuses are supposed to be floats ???????

0.0f 1.0f

Yeah, they're on a scale of 0.0f to 1.0f. Top left of the texture is (0.0f,0.0f) and bottom right is (1.0f,1.0f). Increasing these beyond 1.0 tiles the textures I believe. For example, if you had a quad with 4 vertices where the top left had texture coordinates of 0.0,0.0 and the bottom left had 0.0,2.0 and the top right was 2.0,0.0 and the bottom right was 2.0,2.0 you would see your texture tiled 4 times on the quad. At least I remember that being what happens, but its been a while. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I´d say that´s right.... and I couldn´t imagine any other USEFUL variable type for the UV-coordinates?