Hello!

Well as the title states, I am failing to load textures. I am following this guide http://www.braynzarsoft.net/index.php?p=D3D11TEXTURES. However I am on windows 8 so I am not using the "D3DX11CreateShaderResourceViewFromFile()" function instead I download the DirectXTK from here http://directxtk.codeplex.com/ and now I am trying to use the following function "CreateWICTextureFromFile()" which is described here http://directxtk.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WICTextureLoader&referringTitle=Home

However when I run the program nothing is being drawn on my windows, it's only white, and I am getting no errors whatsoever. I am assuming that I am writing the following function wrongly "CreateWICTextureFromFile()". However I don't know what's wrong. You can find my entire project here http://pastebin.com/QrukNBUi

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Regards!

I solved a part of it, now my cubes are atleast being drawn but they are black, so like I said before I think I am writing this particular line wrongly "hResult = CreateWICTextureFromFile(device, L"C:\\Users\\Dawood\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2013\\Projects\\D3\\melones.jpg", NULL,&cubesTexture, NULL);"

but I don't know what is wrong, so if you could look at the following link http://directxtk.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WICTextureLoader&referringTitle=Home and tell me what I am writing wrong it would be of help.

I don't think that is the issue since I am loading my shader that way and it is working fine, hwoever I tried it anyway and it didn't work.

I don't think that is the issue since I am loading my shader that way and it is working fine, hwoever I tried it anyway and it didn't work.

I don't think that is the issue since I am loading my shader that way and it is working fine, hwoever I tried it anyway and it didn't work.

Sorry, I thought this could be a problem, but Windows seems to understand double backslashes. But you could use single ones or even slashes (/), it would save some seconds of your life...

I don't know how Windows reacts to double backslashes, but I can imagine it will simply strip them as if they were a single backslash.

However, that is not important here, because the double backslashes have entirely different meanings in this context: a backslash in C and C++ strings literals, as well as in many other languages, is an escape character to insert special characters into a string. For example, the sequence "\n" compiles to a line break character, not a backslash followed by the letter 'n'. Likewise, "\t" is replaced by a tab character and not a backslash and a 't'.

Consequently, to insert a backslash into a string, you have to insert the escape sequence "\\” that will be compiled into a single backslash character in the final string. Your paths need double backslashes in the source code, so that your strings contain single backslashes.

Or, better yet, use forward slashes exclusively as you rightfully suggested.