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Loading and Displaying Bitmaps

Started by giant Dec 7, 2001 at 7:32 AM 2 replies 300+ views

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Dec 7, 2001 at 7:32 AM

Hi. I am new to DIrectX, so for my first project, I decided to write Pong. Simple I know, but a good place to start. I have the functionality of the game working, in 256 color mode, but now I want to add bitmaps for the paddles and the ball. I have DirectX setup fine, to use DX7, (Lp....4 or whatever it is) I bought the book, "Tricks for the Windows Game programming Guru''s", and using this I tried to load a bitmap, create a surface, attach the bitmap to the surface the blit the bitmapped surface to the primary surface, but it doesn''t work. It compiles and links fine, but when I execute it, I just get a blank black screen. I would like someone to point me to a tutorial, on the topic, or if anyone has some code that does just that, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Giant "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I''m not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

zipless

Dec 7, 2001 at 7:53 AM

Theres another thread going that you''ll want to look at
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=70018

Sounds like the same problem, you need to make sure that the surface is Blited every cycle. If thats not it then it''s almost certainly a problem with loading the bitmap file.

giant

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Dec 7, 2001 at 7:57 AM

Thanks for the detour to the other thread. Just found it a few minutes ago myself, and am certain that it is the same problem.

Giant

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I''m not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

dark_angel09

Dec 7, 2001 at 8:37 PM

i had the same probelm, only with a different book, i felt REALLY stupid once io solved the problem, check if u have the image in the same folder as the executable, if its not there put it there and try again. if its not the same probelm well, then im just an idiot i guess and i am a newbie, latez

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