Load Bitmaps....

[CyberCarsten]

I have asked this question a million times, but I never get it to work....how can I load a picture into the game I'm currently working on(I'm using DirectX) without a bunch of advanced functions???

I have tried LoadBitmap but it didn't load the picture...

BTW: I'm using C++

[Valkan]

Well... I've done a litle bit of directdraw a while back, and i'm sure I remember seeing a CreateSurfaceFromFile function or something like that... couldn't you use that?

[CyberCarsten]

hmmm dont know that function

[NoteMe]

I hav never used DX in C++, but I looked it up in my DX for VB book and I found it. The function Valkan is refering to looks like this.

CreateSurfaceFromFile( file as String, dd As DDSURFACEDESC2) As DirectDrawSurface7

If you have problems using this, post again...

[Valkan]

don't know the function... what version of DX are you using? Because if your using DX8, i think that DD was remove from it (meaning no CreateSurfaceFromFile.)

[NoteMe]

That is true. As you can see of my code. It was a DD7 Surface. That means that you have to use the DX7 SDK. How smart this is, depends on what kind of App/Game you are making.

If only want to use DX8 (You could use both DX8 and DX7) you have to use D3D I think, and then you would have to load a picture, and set the camera to look right at it, so it looks like a 2D image. I don't know how to do this jet. Sorry....