Hi, I need some help with a problem that has been bugging me for days... I need to draw the frames that I'm going to use in a 2D game before it starts, in 3D. I'm using DX7, and for what I've seen in many code samples the only way to do it is using D3D Retained Mode. The problem is that it draws everything to directdrawsurface4 surfaces instead of 7 (the ones I'm using). It also requires that I initialize DDraw not as DD7, but as DD4! How can I draw the 3D models for my 2D game then? Any idea? It doesn't really have to be retained mode in DX7. I just want to draw some 3D stuff to DDraw7 surfaces.