Yes, I tried scaling my image to 512x512 and it worked just fine. I also noticed, using D3DX_DEFAULT_NONPOW2 for the width and height, will not scale the image. Thanks very much for the help
May I also ask you; You game me these render settings before, what are they actually doing?
d3ddev->SetRenderState(D3DRS_LIGHTING, FALSE);
this turns off direct3d lighting because we are doing it manually.
d3ddev->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ALPHABLENDENABLE, TRUE);
This enables the alpha channel, so if you have multiple overlapping textures if you change the alpha it will make one of them transparent/
d3ddev->SetRenderState(D3DRS_DESTBLEND, D3DBLEND_INVSRCALPHA);
This inverts the source alpha value, and tells us to use destination for blending, im not 100% on these
d3ddev->SetRenderState(D3DRS_SRCBLENDALPHA, D3DRS_DESTBLENDALPHA);
This I think tells directx to use the alpha of the source and destion on a blend, im not 100% on these
d3ddev->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_ALPHAOP, D3DTOP_MODULATE);
d3ddev->SetTextureStageState( 0, D3DTSS_COLOROP, D3DTOP_MODULATE );
Not sure on these but I did need them for some reason
Here is a link to to an explantion on some of these:
http://www.toymaker.info/Games/html/texture_states.html
Ok, thanks very much for the explanation, and I'll take a closer look at the links you gave me
I'm renaming this thread from "I'm stuck" to "Drawing a texture" as it fits better from the purpose of this thread. I'll continue on with some keyboard input, 2D animations (sprite sheets) and sounds, lets see how that goes. Anyway, thanks so very much for all help
I still havn't learned what a pointer is, and specially all these signs: * , **, &, -> and if I don't remember wrong, there's even a '?'. What do all these do? When I worked with classes in C#, it was so much easier.
I would strenuously advise that Direct3D API is a bad place to try to learn about these things and that you spend a small amount of time with some simpler examples to get your head around C++ pointers. Due to the COM nature of the DX APIs (they can work with multiple languages, including C sadly) an understanding of pointers is quite important.
The MSDN Documentation, is that something I have on my computer or is it the webpages I find when I search for methods, variables etc on google?
So, to move on to the correct track. I use the MSDN Documentation (where do I find it?) when I already know what I'm going to use. But what if I want to start with something totaly new, will the documentation help me there too or should I use google then?
I can't find the navigation path to DirectX though. Any ideas?
