Hi, I'm new to this and having a hard time understanding index and vertex buffers in a practical sense. I'm just reading up on C++ and playing around with it (doing the routine .md5 import classes etc) at the moment with a view to start really coding something in the next few months. I dont know how you use vb's and ib's. What I am planing on doing is a simple game with, 2 soldiers on a terrain with one weapon each. A simple game core. Now having no idea, how do I set up my rendering? Do I put each soilder and the terrain info into a seperate vb/ib. The vb stays static and is modified by the transform? Or do I update the vb/ib dynamically with the data I want to present each render? I remember reading, locking and unlocking is very expensive (atleast was in the dx8 era). I can see that dynamically is possible, I could code that. Statically, I don't know about that. What would be the convention for the example I want to make? This is the only part of the process I don't understand. Not really looking for detailed answers, I'll research it myself; all I need is the basic logic behind the process. Thanks from a noob. [Edited by - max1024 on February 13, 2010 9:19:46 AM]

Sorry, should have been more specific. i got something like this coded like 10 years ago. I'm 're-reading' up, so the concepts are not too foreign. I just couldn't remember how I rendered back then. It was a just a hobby then, looks fun to do again now.

Found a page on static and dynamic buffers. Answered what I needed - with your help too. Thanks again.