Ok, I have tried reading windows game programming for dummies, and it seemed to give me one way to do something, then another, then go back to the first, and in the end I was lost. I have tried reading the tutorials here, but they don''t give me any idea what is going on. Could anyone here show me how I would go about outputting a 2darray onto the screen, using a different .bmp for each value in the 2d array? I''m not quite sure how much I''m asking, but I am sure I would appreciate it a lot. Another thing that I am sure of is that once I see the code I would at least be able to understand it. What would be great would be a function that all you had to do was pass in the x and y to the top left of the image + the filename. You could run this function as many times as you want before you call another function that sends this all to the screen at once. In fact, if someone is kind enough to do the thing from my second paragraph, I believe I will make a class to do this. Thanks.

Thank you, i'll take a look at it. You wouldn;t care if I make a few mods to it so I can get it to work for pacman, would you?

EDIT:
Woah, any chance I could get you to explain how I might use that for pacman.

Either that or I'll have to have someone respond with a simpler explination...While that is some of the best commenting of code I have ever seen, I've also never even glanced at direct3d, and that is a bit complex for me as of now.

some psudocode of what i'm looking for

  bool Output(){	int counter = 0;	int temp = 0;	int origX = 1; // starting positions for where	int origY = 1; // to draw to	//directdraw stuff, such as locking	// put board onto backbuffer	for (counter = 0; counter < BOARDHEIGHT; counter++)	{		for (temp = 0; temp < BOARDWIDTH; temp++)		{			origX += TILEWIDTH;						// code to output a tile here		}		origY += TILEHEIGHT;	}	// put dots onto backbuffer	for (counter = 0; counter < NUMDOTS; counter++)	{		//more directx stuff	}	// a little bit more code to put pacman on screen	//flip backbuffer and primary surface		// close directx stuff		return true;}  

Edited by - lessthanjoe on January 31, 2002 9:01:41 PM

no, I understand the logic fine, what I need to learn is the directx syntax.