I'm trying to light a basic scene. I set up the lights once in my InitD3D() function with the following code: int numLights=0; VOID SetLight(float x, float y, float z, float intensity) { D3DLIGHT9 PointLight; ZeroMemory(&PointLight, sizeof(D3DLIGHT9)); PointLight.Type=D3DLIGHT_POINT; PointLight.Position=D3DXVECTOR3(x, y, z); PointLight.Diffuse=D3DXCOLOR(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f); PointLight.Range=intensity*100.0f; g_pd3dDevice->SetLight(numLights, &PointLight); g_pd3dDevice->LightEnable(numLights++, TRUE); } I set up two lights, which both succeed in turning on and lighting the scene... but they turn everything pure white, and when I move my character past the light the shadow is a definite line that separates white from black. Before this function was working correctly, I forgot to set PointLight.Type=D3DLIGHT_POINT, and it actually lit my scene the way I wanted it to: by shading things properly and according to their material, rather than turning everything white and without gradient. I couldn't manipulate this light, however, since it's something of a DX default fall-back, so I can't resort to that. I'm wondering, I only set these lights up during initialization. Do i need to set the lights each DrawSubset() call in Render()?

Did the trick, thank you much drakex!

Sure :)