Quote:Original post by Meldinoor
Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm trying to do, except I'm writing it in C#. I thought there would be some simple function in Direct3D to load part of a bitmap, but I couldn't find it. Until now I've loaded textures using Direct3D.TextureLoader.FromFile but then I wanted to store several textures on the same bitmap file.
I'll try something similar to what you suggested in the other thread, but I'll be thankful for more ideas.

From an efficiency point of view, if you have several textures in a single bitmap it may be advantageous to load them all into one texture (if the size is feasible, which I believe these days is a texture about 2048x2048) and use texture co-ordinates when mapping different textures.

This means you can batch larger numbers of primitives since you do not need to keep changing the texture.

In terms of a simpler answer to your question, I know next to nothing about using C# with Direct3D, but if I were approaching this with C++ and Direct3D, I'd consider accessing the relevant surface of the texture, using the surface to get old of a GDI-style device context, using the GDI to load the bitmap and then using GDI calls to CopyRect bits of the source bitmap into your texture surface.

I've never tried that though so I could be rambling nonsense. The approach I've used for loading several bitmaps onto one texture, which is the opposite problem but in some ways similar, has been to lock the texture and directly write pixels from a DIB of the bitmap into the texture memory. If you have specified your pixel format, this is not too painful with C++, but again I can't speak for C#.

Lots of speculative ramblings there. I hope something in the above was of some use [smile].