ok, so i think i am having a brain fart kind of moment. what i have is animated model, and i trying to setup two different render paths, one via software matrix manipulation, and the other doing the matrix math in a shader. however, the software version is making me have the brain fart. what i think i want to do is read in teh file, gather the vertices ( pos and tex coords ) and place into one vertex buffer. this is easy enough. now, in order to animate, i need to manipulate each vertex in order to get it into place. so to do this, i am thinkin that i need to create the VB with the Usage flag of D3DUSAGE_DYNAMIC, and in my update routine, i lock the vb, grab the vertices, manipulate, and then unlock the VB and render. do i have that right or am i missing something ? thanks in advance

Using R2VB is a nice idea yk_cadcg, but really a bit overkill in this situation. It's more designed for the very high-end animation and is more of an optimization due to the lack of support in anything but the last generation of ATI/AMD D3D9 hardware.

Quote:do i have that right or am i missing something ?

Sounds about right to me. What is your problem? Getting errors? Incorrect results? What debug output are you receiving?

hth
Jack

not so much that i was getting errors, i was just going thru the process in my head of what i needed to do, and last night i started coding it. i guess for once i wanted to think something out before coding.

i don't have r2vb support for the target audience of this project.

thanks for the help guys