texture displays improperly

Ok, I decided to get a little into directx again, and I decided to use direct3d for 2d graphics (rather than use direcdraw).

I managed to get things to display just fine with transparency until I went to make a small cursor (17x17 pixels). It looks fine, except there's a square around it! I thought maybe photoshop was playing tricks on me and somehow I had changed the red by 1 or something around the edge. Nope, its the right color (magenta).

So I try to make the image larger and draw something around the outside. Run the program again, cursor looks the same! Hmm, maybe I saved under the wrong name. But I try to draw inside the square and when I run the program again, the inside of the square has changed, but nothing outside has changed!

Here's how I load the texture:

Code:

bool object::LoadTexture(char *fileName, LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 d3dDevice)
{
    			
    //Use a magenta colourkey
    D3DCOLOR colorkey = 0xFFFF00FF;
   
    // Load image from file
    if (FAILED(D3DXCreateTextureFromFileEx (d3dDevice, fileName, 0, 0, 1, 0, 
          D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8, D3DPOOL_MANAGED, D3DX_FILTER_NONE, D3DX_DEFAULT, 
          colorkey, NULL, NULL, &texture)))
    {
        return false;
    }
    D3DSURFACE_DESC surfaceDesc;
    texture->GetLevelDesc(0, &surfaceDesc);
    width = surfaceDesc.Width;
    height = surfaceDesc.Height;
  
   
   return true;
}

And I use a D3DXSprite to display it:

Code:

Sprite->Draw(texture,NULL,NULL,&D3DXVECTOR2(width/2,height/2),rot,&D3DXVECTOR2(x,y),0xFFFFFFFF);

I'll also attach images of what my cursor looks like in photoshop then in the program.

Well I fixed the problem but I still don't know why it wasn't working.

I had the file saved as a 32 bit *.tga so I decided to save it as a *.png and that worked. So then I saved it as a 24 bit tga and that worked as well. Can anyone explain why that happened?

Well its hard to tell from that little chunk of code what exactly went wrong. I could only say it sounds like the d3dxcreatetexturefromfileEx was having issues, or it returned S_OK when it shouldn't (it will do that from time to time, for me at least). Might help to post your render loop as that would shed some light on the situation.

Photoshop has some bugs. CS doesn't save alpha to files correctly at all, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was doing some other funky stuff to you.

It may have been the mag filter since it's just on the edge, but in your screen shot it's very well defined. However if it actually looks blurry, then it's because of the filtering.

Yup it was definitely a clearly defined border, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was an issue with photoshop. Anyways, it isn't really an issue since it works with 24-bit textures; I guess I don't even need it to be 32-bit

Technically, from what I've read, things are converted into 32-bit mostly anyway. Its hard to say what exactly happens, but I believe 32-bit is the "true" color depth its shown at regardless of anything else. ( I could be wrong as I am in no way a expert in directx... a somewhat seasoned user, but by far no expert )

As for PS I didn't know it had that bug, you learn something new every day