[Coding] D3D Menu Texture Help

[zmansquared]

Hey guys

Sorry if this is wrong section (if so please move). I made a d3d menu for a game, but i want the background of the menu to be black or what ev and a picture to be in that black area. how would i do that?

I am not asking for you guys to paste code, you can or just give me some links to tuts or stuff.

Thanks guys

[|KungFuPenguin|]

o.0 Just draw a black rectangle then draw the sprite image on top ?

[zmansquared]

I can do sprites but that lags the game. someone said to use a texture but i need help. a tut/book or something

[learn_more]

Originally Posted by zmansquared

I can do sprites but that lags the game. someone said to use a texture but i need help. a tut/book or something

we can't give you a book,
and maybe if you are creating the sprite every frame that is the reason why it lags?

also, is the search function blocked for you?
because you seem unable to find the previous 300 threads with the same question...

[|KungFuPenguin|]

uhm .. sprites use textures to draw. LPD3DXSPRITE is the interface and LPD3DXSPRITE:raw has the texture to draw as a parameter.

EDIT: and what learn_more said

[zmansquared]

well i found this http://www.uc-forum.com/tutorials/di...g-sprites.html
but gellin said that it would lag

[Geek4Ever]

why do people always ask gellin anyways
it wont hurt to try it out(Trial and Error)

[zmansquared]

Well do you have any ideas geek?

[learn_more]

Originally Posted by zmansquared

Well do you have any ideas geek?

do you really need it to be spoonfed to you?

[|KungFuPenguin|]

well actually that would lag ( if im correct) cause beginscene is called many times per frame so it would be constantly recreating the texture and sprite interface. But if you added an 'init' bool like if(!bInit) { create stuff; bInit = true} then it would solve this issue.

[zmansquared]

learn, i wasnt even asking for crap. i just need ideas or something along those lines. give me a break