VBGamer

I thought someone certainly would have mentioned this already, but there is a very good article at http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991115/bestimt_freitag_01.htm on using stencil buffers for real-time shadows in Direct3D. Also, I believe there are a couple examples in the C++ section of the SDK that could be worth checking out. HTH, Noah Adler