Render a BMP, JPEG, or PNG Image with DirectX?

Question

How do you render a BMP, JPEG, or PNG image file in 3D with DirectX in Windows? (E.g. let's say I want to render four images so that they look like a cubicle or something.)

I've seen this done easily with a Java OpenGL library (JME I think?), but it seems like DirectX needs textures, and doesn't take in regular images. :(

Is this correct? If so, how do I convert it to a texture programmatically?

Answer 1

DirectX 9: D3DXCreateTextureFromFile

DirectX 10: D3DX10CreateTextureFromFile and D3DX10CreateShaderResourceViewFromFile

DirectX 11: D3DX11CreateTextureFromFile and D3DX11CreateShaderResourceViewFromFile

Read the details of each, but most all of the popular file formats are supported. (includes BMP, JPG, and PNG)

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