The subject explains most of this. I need to be able to take my primary surface and save it as a 24-bit bmp file. I also need to know how to save a bmp once loaded, and maybe modified, for a game editor. Any help? Appreciated. Militant - "Education is that which allows us to get into more intelligent trouble"

all bitmaps (and almost all files) have a header struct with all it''s properties, if its in 8-bit 16-bit 24-bit or 32-bit, the size, the palette (if any) and a bunch of other info about the bitmap...

so you''d better take a look at the doc of the header struct, understand how it works and then save in a same file the header with the apropiate information (at the very begining) and the bit-code of the image you want to save (after the header struct)...

jakovo