Vertex buffer problems, I think?

I got my Direct3D window working. Now I am trying to draw a triangle, and it doesn't draw anything. I checked all the code several times, and I can't see anything wrong with it. I included the source with a MSVC++ 6 workspace and project.

I wont help you until you change your name to freedom fry.





hahahah, get it? Freedom fry? hahahaha.

LMAO...i sense a nickname coming on hahah

What's the problem? I'm running DX8 and when I ported it over to DX8.1 it wouldn't even create a window. You shouldn't pass

D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING

You should let that be software vertex processing when you create the device. Not all video cards support that in hardware. Anyways, you should start checking more return values and then translate the HRESULT in a message. i just glanced through it and nothing really shot out at me but I'll look again tomorrow morning.

The problem is, the triangle never draws. The clear command is working properly, but the triangle never is drawn on the screen.

edit: I've added error checking to every single DX function I made, and every time I call them, and I am not getting any errors whatsoever.

This is really weird. I copied the exact code from FillVertexBuffer() into StartDirect3D() and it worked. But I need it to work from FillVertexBuffer().

After seeing your last post its clear what the problem is. In your function FillVertexBuffer you take a pointer to the vertices. The function is prototyped as follow:

Code:

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HRESULT FillVertexBuffer( CUSTOM_VERTEX vertices[] );

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Whenever you so sizeof(vertices) in the code that will always return 4 because that is a pointer! You are receiving a pointer to an array in the function. You need to either pass in the size or find another way to do it.

sorry for reviving dead thread, but I was on vacation all week. Anywayz, I tried changing it to

Code:

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        if(FAILED(VertexBuffer->Lock(0, sizeof(CUSTOM_VERTEX)*3,
                (void**)&pVertices, 0)))
            return E_FAIL;

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and it still doesn't work!

I thought your problem was it wouldn't work in the one function and I told you about the sizeof pointer issue. That didn't clear it up?

you were right. I forgot to change the sizeof() in the memcpy() too. I hate when I do stupid stuff like that, but I guess that is just learning:)