Hi all! I wanted to do mouse selections and I decided I will try rendering all objects (every has its own color) onto a surface and then I get color of pixel, on which clicked the mouse. Rendering is ok, getting the pixel hopefully too, but I don''t know how to get color of a pixel from the integer copied from D3DLOCKED_RECT. The integer is a number like 3435921408. Here''s some code: if (FAILED(m_pd3dDevice->Clear( 0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET|D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0,0,0), 1.0f, 0 ))) return E_FAIL; if (FAILED(m_pd3dDevice->BeginScene())) return E_FAIL; SetupMatrices(); m_pd3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_SHADEMODE, D3DSHADE_FLAT); m_pd3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_AMBIENT,0xffffffff); for (int hh=0;hhEndScene())) return E_FAIL; //m_pPoint contains the position of the mouse when it clicks ScreenToClient(m_hWnd, &m_pPoint); LPDIRECT3DSURFACE8 pSurf; D3DLOCKED_RECT lRect; int offset; unsigned int pixel; m_pd3dDevice->GetBackBuffer(0, D3DBACKBUFFER_TYPE_MONO, &pSurf); pSurf->LockRect(&lRect, NULL, D3DLOCK_READONLY); //I''am really not sure if this is right offset=m_pPoint.y*lRect.Pitch+m_pPoint.x*2; memcpy(&pixel, (BYTE*)lRect.pBits + offset, 2); //now in pixel I have an integer and I need to get color from it pSurf->UnlockRect(); pSurf->Release(); Thank you very much

Or can somebody post a link explaining this?

This helps, but it still doesn''t work
Perhaps this isn''t right:

offset=m_pPoint.y*lRect.Pitch+m_pPoint.x*2;
memcpy(&pixel, (BYTE*)lRect.pBits + offset, 2);

Can you look at this? If it has something to do with this, so I use D3DFMT_R5G6B5

Main problem is, that wherever I click, I get red 204. Blue and green change.

Problem is now solved! It was in wrong breaking the uint into R/G/B...

I''m having the same problem right now. Can you explain how it works because even with the code, I''m still not sure how to do it?

1) I clear the backbuffer and I render all meshes without any lights(except ambient 0xffffffff), fogs, textures, ...
2) Every mesh has its own unique color random generated at the very beginning of the program
3) Then I lock the backbuffer and I get the pixel with the mouse coordinates
4) The number I get is an uint. I compute this uint for each mesh this way: pixel2=((r/8)<<11) | ((g/4)<<5) | (b/8);
Attention: this only works in 16-bit mode, for 32- or 24-bit it should be computed a bit differently!
5) Finally I compare the uint from surface with every mesh''s uint and if none equals, you haven''t clicked any mesh.
That''s all, hope clear now

Thanks