I cannot find anything about 2d graphics in the directx sdk help files. Must I used the interfaces of DirectX 7? If not where are these capabilities gone to?

ID3DSprite interface allows you to
do 2d graphics. There is some info about it
in the sdk.

Tjaalie,

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1972.asp

And, as Tjaalie said, check out D3DXSprite.

-Trond

Thanks, i'll do that right away

I saw the links and they are great for sprites (skimmed them)
However am searching for how to draw lines, rectangles and basic stuff like these.
Isn't this what DirectDraw was responsible for...

In other words am search for DirectDraw in DirectX 9
(Because I bought Tricks of The Windows Game Programming Gurus from amazon). It seems it depends on the DirectDraw7 interfaces which DirectX 9 lacks

Quote:Original post by arithma
I saw the links and they are great for sprites (skimmed them)
However am searching for how to draw lines, rectangles and basic stuff like these.
Isn't this what DirectDraw was responsible for...

In other words am search for DirectDraw in DirectX 9
(Because I bought Tricks of The Windows Game Programming Gurus from amazon). It seems it depends on the DirectDraw7 interfaces which DirectX 9 lacks

DirectDraw no longer exists in versions of DirectX starting in 8.0 and up. However DirectX 9 is fully backwards compatible with previous versions of directX. What this means is that it is possible to use the directdraw7 interfaces almost exactly as the book describes. The only thing you should do besides what the book shows is define the directX version your using so that your application knows you want to use the directx version 7 interfaces rather than the 9.0 interfaces. (and include the correct headers/lib files as well)

That said, if you want to proceed with making direct3d applications the "basics" aren't the same as what lamothe has shown. "Basics" in direct3d or openGL for that matter consist of getting setting up the 3d end of things, creating a quad (2 triangles) and rendering a texture to them. Then transforming that quad around in world coordinates. Applying lighting/shading to these quads, and finally animating them. Drawing lines would be considered an "advanced topic" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/directx9_c/directx/graphics/programmingguide/AdvancedTopics/LineDrawing.asp)

If you want to get the basics of direct3d down I suggest doing the 6 tutorials in the SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/directx9_c/directx/graphics/programmingguide/tutorialsandsamplesandtoolsandtips/tutorials/tutorials.asp
That should get you started.