Ok so I'm creating a game in Directx and I want to create my terrain using heightmaps... I've managed to create an area using the x and z axis but I can't seem to load the heightmap properly for it to add the values into the y axis... could anyone help me please!!

ok, well I'm using visual studio.net 2003 c++, I'll show the code that I've got for loading the RAW file in:

bool GObject::ReadRAWfile(const char *RAWName)
{
std::vector<BYTE> in(NumVertices);

std::ifstream inFile(RAWName, std::ios_base::binary);

if( inFile == 0)
return false;

inFile.read((char*)&in[0],
in.size());

inFile.close();

m_heightmap.resize(NumVertices);

for(int i = 0; i < in.size(); i++)
m_heightmap = in;

return true;
}

m_heightmap is a std::vector<int> declared in my class function.

The program runs but when I debug it it doesn't seem to be loading in the data, as my m_heightmap remains empty after the for loop at the end.

I have no idea why it is doing this. I just need it to be stored in the variable as I have already done the rest of the code for drawing the terrain onto the screen.