(DX9) Time for another newbie question by coderdave =-) Background: I use D3DXCreateText by using a ID3DXFont I made earlier (called localFont below) Let's say messageW is "Hello World!" so basically it creates a 3D Mesh of the text "Hello World!" for me and stores it in my not-so-exciting variable name, fontMesh. Everything is working perfectly so far. Except its pretty plain. Now I want to color this up. You know, put some jazz into it. Now I read on the DrunkenHyena that the vertex buffer in the resulting mesh is of FVF type D3DFVF_NORMAL | D3DFVF_XYZ and so far this empirically seems true for me........ hmm, nothing about texture coordinates in there. So using something like- I find that, yeah, without texture coordinates, its coloring the whole thing with pixel (1,1) of my texture image! Doh! So the newb question of the day is --- how do I put more interesting textures onto this mesh that can span outside of (1,1) of the texture image? I've considered unlocking and writing into its vertex buffer and seeing if I can go about changing the FVF but somehow this seems to be a tragically wrong approach to me, or perhaps I lack the competance as a coder to invent a conversion that I know won't crash. Maybe texturing up mesh-text is just the wrong way to go about spicing up fonts in general? It could be, but I've seen other work that indicates otherwise (i.e., BluffTitler- a program that overlays "tricked out" 3d text onto movies and they're using DX9 for it).