And on to the next topic... Right now I'm trying to figure out how to get data out of a RenderTarget using C# and SlimDX. This is how I create the render target... _device = new D3D10.Device(D3D10.DeviceCreationFlags.Debug); DXGI.SampleDescription sampleDescription = new DXGI.SampleDescription(); sampleDescription.Count = 1; sampleDescription.Quality = 0; D3D10.Texture2DDescription _renderTargetDescription = new D3D10.Texture2DDescription(); _renderTargetDescription.Width = _outputMaxWidth; _renderTargetDescription.Height = _outputMaxHeight; _renderTargetDescription.MipLevels = 1; _renderTargetDescription.SampleDescription = sampleDescription; _renderTargetDescription.Format = SlimDX.DXGI.Format.R8G8B8A8_UNorm; _renderTargetDescription.CpuAccessFlags = SlimDX.Direct3D10.CpuAccessFlags.None; _renderTargetDescription.ArraySize = 1; _renderTargetDescription.BindFlags = SlimDX.Direct3D10.BindFlags.RenderTarget; _renderTargetDescription.Usage = SlimDX.Direct3D10.ResourceUsage.Default; _renderTexture = new D3D10.Texture2D(_device, _renderTargetDescription); _renderTarget = new SlimDX.Direct3D10.RenderTargetView(_device, _renderTexture); _viewArea = new Viewport(); _viewArea.X = 0; _viewArea.Y = 0; _viewArea.Width = _outputMaxWidth; _viewArea.Height = _outputMaxHeight; _viewArea.MinZ = 0.0f; _viewArea.MaxZ = 1.0f; _device.Rasterizer.SetViewports(_viewArea); _device.OutputMerger.SetTargets(_renderTarget); This is how I try to access the data. It crashes on the Map command, and nope, I'm not able to get a Debug Spew yet (I assume I would get the debug output in DebugViewer.exe). byte[] result = null; DataRectangle data = _renderTexture.Map(0, SlimDX.Direct3D10.MapMode.Read, SlimDX.Direct3D10.MapFlags.None); result = Scale(data.Data.DataPointer, data.Pitch, _outputWidth, _outputHeight); // the method below is used to convert the 32bit image to an 8bit image but doesn't get called as the line before that crashes private byte[] Scale(IntPtr source, int pitch, int width, int height) { // Declare an array to hold the bytes of the bitmap. int bytes = width * height; int[] rgbValues = new int[bytes]; byte[] newValues = new byte[bytes]; // Copy the RGB values into the array. for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) { Marshal.Copy(new IntPtr(source.ToInt32() + y * pitch), rgbValues, y * width, width); } // Convert from 32bit to 8bit. for (int counter = 0; counter < rgbValues.Length; counter++) { newValues[counter] = (byte)(rgbValues[counter] & 0xFF); } return newValues; } The error message is this: ex1 = {"E_INVALIDARG: An invalid parameter was passed to the returning function (-2147024809)"} and this is the relevant part of the stack trace: at SlimDX.Result.Throw[T]() in c:\program files\slimdx\source\source\result.cpp:line 83 at SlimDX.Result.Record[T](Int32 hr, Boolean failed) in c:\program files\slimdx\source\source\result.cpp:line 105 at SlimDX.Result.Record[T](Int32 hr) in c:\program files\slimdx\source\source\result.cpp:line 119 at SlimDX.Direct3D10.Texture2D.Map(Int32 subResource, MapMode mode, MapFlags flags) in c:\program files\slimdx\source\source\direct3d10\texture2d.cpp:line 103 I still don't get a debug spew out of DirectX 10, and when I enable debugging of unmanaged code, I get the following message when I start debugging the application: Debugging information for 'AppName.exe' cannot be found or does not match. No native symbols in symbol file. [Edited by - GoodFun on May 6, 2008 4:38:56 PM]

Bump :)

Thanks, I'll give that a try... I probably will have to create another texture as CPU access to the render target might not be valid...

If anyone has some more examples on dynamically created textures in DirectX 10 using SlimDX, I'd be very interested to see them

Thanks
Marcel

Thanks, I wasn't sure how straight forward of a DX10 wrapper it was, i.e. in terms of data types and method names/locations