GetRenderState

nobody there to answer this question? - I would be extremely thankful, since the DirectX documentation is very cryptic and I could not find any samples, neither in the DirectX samples nor via internet search.

[edited by - MB on March 22, 2003 10:46:09 AM]

How about using array...

We create world.

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Is there a way to get all the render states (and the respective values) in one rush instead of retrieving every single one via GetRenderState(&STATE, value);

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When I needed renderstate tracking, I used an array big enough to hold all the renderstates where array[D3DRS_SOMETHING] gives you the state itself.

To fill that array, I just initialized all the states at the beginning using SetRS() and setting the corresponding array entry instead of doing GetRS() calls.
Of course, that took a while to write

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Is the CaptureBlock method suitable?

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This method captures device state and saves it in a "state block" (== black box). You can use the state block with ApplyStateBlock and such, but as far as I know you can't poll information out of it.


Cheers,
Muhammad Haggag

[edited by - Coder on March 22, 2003 3:33:15 PM]

Thanks Muhammed, you confirmed what I feared I had to do. So I gonna start writing a lot of lines

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Thanks Muhammed, you confirmed what I feared I had to do. So I gonna start writing a lot of lines

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To save your time: I believe drunken hyena (www.drunkenhyena.com) has already written such code and incorporated it into his dhEngine. His code deals with state-caching, and as far as I recall, it saves the state of the device on initialization.

You can download the code from his website, and if you find that he's removed the state-caching functionality, you can mail him for some obsolete version.

Cheers,
Muhammad Haggag

[edited by - Coder on March 22, 2003 5:46:44 PM]