Thanks Aardvajk, I saw your other posts. And you said we can use LockVertexBuffer, and LockIndexBuffer.

And that's good.

Here I got another question. Within the X Allocation Hierarchy,

how can I tell whether a texture is a normal, specular or diffuse map?

Here is the code snippet in CreateMeshContainer overloaded function,

and it is loading the materials and textures. I have no ways to tell the type of the texture because pMaterials only

contains diffuse, ambient and specular colors and a texture file name.

In the engine I am after, I got to put the correct file names into various member variables of a class.

So please help me out

Thanks

Jack

// if materials provided, copy them
	if (NumMaterials > 0)
	{		 
		memcpy(pMeshContainer->pMaterials, pMaterials, sizeof(D3DXMATERIAL) * NumMaterials);
		// copy ambient color
		//pMeshContainer->pMaterials->MatD3D.Ambient = pMeshContainer->pMaterials->MatD3D.Emissive =
		//	pMeshContainer->pMaterials->MatD3D.Specular = pMeshContainer->pMaterials->MatD3D.Diffuse;
                pMeshContainer->vMaterials.push_back(pMaterials[iMaterial]);

		for (int iMaterial = 0; iMaterial < NumMaterials; iMaterial++)
		{
			if (pMeshContainer->pMaterials[iMaterial].pTextureFilename != NULL)
			{
				// store the texture filename instead, 
				// we will load the texture later on the GenerateSkinnedMesh function
				// so we could append the texture path
				pMeshContainer->pMaterials[iMaterial].pTextureFilename = new char[strlen(pMaterials[iMaterial].pTextureFilename) + 1];
				strcpy(pMeshContainer->pMaterials[iMaterial].pTextureFilename, pMaterials[iMaterial].pTextureFilename);
			
			}
		}
	}