Hello,

I have two vertices for a line:

CUSTOMVERTEX LineVertices[] =
{
{ 2560.0F, 0.0F, -2560.0F, 0xFFFFFFFF },
{ 2560.0F, 0.0F, 2560.0F, 0xFFFFFFFF }
};

I use a translation matrix on the vertices:

D3DXMATRIXA16 TranslationMatrix;

D3DXMatrixTranslation(&TranslationMatrix, 1024.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
Device->SetTransform(D3DTS_WORLD, &TranslationMatrix));
Device->DrawPrimitive(D3DPT_LINELIST, 0, 1);

The translation will not work on the X or Z coordinates, but it will work on the Y, which is set to 0 in the vertices.

Why doesn't it work?

Yes the line does not move at all. Strangely, it does move if I put the transform command inside a loop and use the loop variable as a parameter. The following works:

for (FLOAT i = 0; i <= 1024; i += 1024)

{
D3DXMATRIXA16 TranslationMatrix;
D3DXMatrixTranslation(&TranslationMatrix, i, 0.0F, 0.0F);
Device->SetTransform(D3DTS_WORLD, &TranslationMatrix);
Device->DrawPrimitive(D3DPT_LINELIST, 0, 1);

}

Perhaps there is something wrong in the organization of my code. I don't understand what is going on.

Can you describe what you mean by "move" and "not working" more precisely? Perhaps showing more code would help us spot anything weird, too.

A transformation matrix calculates a new position for things relative to their original position; it doesn't change their position *over time*, and it doesn't change their original location (unless you overwrite the original vertices with the transformed values).

When you tell D3D to 'SetTransform', it *affects* what appears, but it does not *modify* the original vertices.