Hi guys!

So recently I needed a cube map, and I've never actually used one, so, this is my first try. But something goes wrong, some invalid parameters were passed, this is how I create the cube map:

PS. The other functions are from the library devIL (http://openil.sourceforge.net/)

// Will be filled and returned
ID3D11ShaderResourceView* pSRV = NULL;

ilInit();
 
// Load image from DevIL
ILuint idImage;
ilGenImages( 1, &idImage );
ilBindImage( idImage );
ilLoadImage( filePath.c_str() );
_ASSERT ( IL_NO_ERROR == ilGetError() );
 
// Fetch dimensions of image
int width = ilGetInteger( IL_IMAGE_WIDTH );
int height = ilGetInteger( IL_IMAGE_HEIGHT );
 
// Load the data
ilConvertImage( IL_RGBA,IL_UNSIGNED_BYTE );
unsigned char * pData = ilGetData();
 
// Build the texture header descriptor
D3D11_TEXTURE2D_DESC descTex;
descTex.Width = width;
descTex.Height = height;
descTex.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM;
descTex.Usage = D3D11_USAGE_DEFAULT;
descTex.BindFlags = D3D11_BIND_SHADER_RESOURCE | D3D11_BIND_RENDER_TARGET;
descTex.CPUAccessFlags = 0;
descTex.MipLevels = 1;
descTex.ArraySize = 1;
descTex.SampleDesc.Count = 1;
descTex.SampleDesc.Quality = 0;
descTex.MiscFlags = D3D10_RESOURCE_MISC_GENERATE_MIPS;
 
// Resource data descriptor
D3D11_SUBRESOURCE_DATA data ;
memset( &data, 0, sizeof(D3D11_SUBRESOURCE_DATA));
data.pSysMem = pData;
data.SysMemPitch = 4 * width;
 
// Create the 2d texture from data
ID3D11Texture2D * pTexture = NULL;
HV( pDevice->CreateTexture2D( &descTex, &data, &pTexture ));
 
// Create resource view descriptor
D3D11_SHADER_RESOURCE_VIEW_DESC srvDesc;
srvDesc.Format = descTex.Format;
srvDesc.ViewDimension = dimension;

srvDesc.TextureCube.MostDetailedMip = 0;
srvDesc.TextureCube.MipLevels = D3D11_RESOURCE_MISC_GENERATE_MIPS;

srvDesc.Texture2D.MostDetailedMip = 0;
srvDesc.Texture2D.MipLevels = D3D11_RESOURCE_MISC_GENERATE_MIPS ;
 
// Create the shader resource view
HV( pDevice->CreateShaderResourceView( pTexture, &srvDesc, &pSRV ));
 
// Delete from IL buffer after image loaded correctly
ilDeleteImages( 1, &idImage );
idImage = 0;
 
return pSRV;

Where dimension is D3D11_SRV_DIMENSION_TEXTURECUBE, now what could I be doing wrong? (...Everything)

PS. I won't respond in the next 12-24 hours.

Thank You

-MIGI0027

Hmm:

D3D11: ERROR: ID3D11Device::CreateShaderResourceView: Resources created without D3D11_RESOURCE_MISC_TEXTURECUBE may not be treated as cubemap ShaderResourceViews. [ STATE_CREATION ERROR #126: CREATESHADERRESOURCEVIEW_INVALIDDESC ]

It's almost perfect now, thanks for the help Juliean, the final code was nothing near the initial.

One final question:

Imagine I have these .bmp files:

• back
• down
• front
• left
• right
• up

If I had to combine these into an array (Cubemap) (Which I'm doing), what would be the correct order? (My order is wrong)

Almost perfect, if someone could guide me on this:

PS. The shadows are from another mesh inside the sphere, which casts shadows, but the sphere doesn't.

As you can see It's like the cube map is upside down...