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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++
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?
hmmm dont know that function
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...
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.)
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....