One image many colours (DDraw 7 & vb6)

[BodwadUK]

Hello,

I have been practising my direct draw 7 in VB6, I have created a game that will use the same bitmaps for up to 8 players of different colours. Other than creating bitmaps for each stick man colour is there a way of using the one bitmap but convert its colour based on which player I am blt'ing?

I have tried Palettes but they run too slow, I might have to write a function that creates the images in memory on the fly

[singularis]

Are you limited to DirectDraw or DirectX7 ?

You could make the vertices (that you are going to cover with the texture) the color you wish in Direct3D7

If you are doing this as a hobby, I recommend switching to DirectX8 ( I am starting to sound like Jacob Roman!)

[BodwadUK]

managed to do it by locking the surface and setting the pixels

Thanks though