Alpha Blending D3D Problems

Thanks guys for sending me to: http://64.33.37.114/ddab.html That really helped me out alot. The only problem im having now is this guys function: LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE7 MGM_LoadBitmap(LPDIRECTDRAW7 lpDD,LPDIRECT3DDEVICE7 lpDevice,char * string,DDPIXELFORMAT surfaceformat); I tried to load a bitmap and it jumped out of the game! I tested the D3D and D3D Device objects for if they worked and they all succeeded. So im thinking that I did something wrong with the DDPIXELFORMAT structure when I passed it. Everything compiles fine it just screws up right as soon as I load a bmp with that function. ex. SurfaceRequest requester; ZeroMemory(&requester,sizeof (requester)); requester.BPP=32; requester.AlphaBits=8; requester.FoundIt=false; lpDevice->EnumTextureFormats(( LPD3DENUMPIXELFORMATSCALLBACK )EnumTextures, ( void* )&requester ); if (requester.FoundIt==false) { PostQuitMessage(0); } lpdds7 = MGM_LoadBitmap(lpdd7,lpDevice,"footman.bmp",requester.ddpf); I got that from the site and of course I thought that the code above would fill with all the necessary DDPIXELFORMAT info before loading the bitmap. Please, if you have gotten this guys code to work show me what I am doing wrong [edited by - Theta_Alpha on June 15, 2002 2:59:12 PM]