Hi all! I have 2 questions for you about D3D8: 1st) I have drawn a cube (with DrawIndexedPrimitive...24 vertices and 36 indices) that is shown perfectly (culling mode CCW so backfaces aren''t drawn) but when I draw another cube behind the first, the last cube is shown in front of the first one!!...I have enabled the ZBuffer and I clear the screen with D3DCLEAR_TARGET|D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER but the problem persist...what must I do to show the second cube hide for the first one?... 2nd) I want make a smoke effect like q3a when you fire the rocket launcher. I thought that the view look vector would be the direction that represent the smoke quad direction so if I add some value to this vector I get the quad at some distance in the view direction but it isn''t work...do you know how to make this?... Ok that''s all for now.....THANK YOU!!

I just started learning about the Z-Buffer, so I don''t know if this will be of any help. I would try using SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZFUNC, value) The value would probablly depend on what corrd system your using. Either D3DCMP_LESS or D3DCMP_GREATER should do it. Hope this helps!

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Ok...my first cube was created with 8 vertices, but I didn''t know how to texture this cube with only 8 vertices...because I tried with some combinations but the texture was applied to the face incorrectly because 2 faces had the following texture coordinates:

(0.0f, 0.0f)
(1.0f, 0.0f)
(0.0f, 0.0f)
(1.0f, 1.0f)

or something similar...

Can you tell me how must I define the texture coordinates and the indices to apply the texture correctly on a 8 vertices cube??

Thankx

Ok...my first cube was created with 8 vertices, but I didn''t know how to texture this cube with only 8 vertices...because I tried with some combinations but the texture was applied to the face incorrectly because 2 faces had the following texture coordinates:

(0.0f, 0.0f)
(1.0f, 0.0f)
(0.0f, 0.0f)
(1.0f, 1.0f)

or something similar...

Can you tell me how must I define the texture coordinates and the indices to apply the texture correctly on a 8 vertices cube??

Thankx