Hey guys, my first post here... I have a bit of experience with DD7 and since using it, I have slightly worked with DX8 and DX9. Now, from my experience, I have discovered that in order to keep the old graphic cards happy, textures should be loaded with widths/heights in powers of two...

I am trying to make a user-friendly interface for a project that is closer to a game engine than an actual game. In DX9/Vb.Net I accomplished this by loading my graphic file in a Bitmap class, using GDI+ to render the bitmap to a slightly larger bitmap and then loading the texture from memory...

My question is, can this be accomplished in vb6/dx8? Any hints/tips to get the ball rolling for me?

Thanks!

Here you have a module to load in memory textures by two different ways, one is using hash tables and the other two arrays. It is also dynamic, so you can have control about memory.



It loads pngs but it can be extended to other formats.

Sorry, here is the link: https://code.google.com/p/parraengine/source/browse/trunk/client/codigo/modGraphicsLoader.bas