   Loading an alpha as a texture?
  Gotta easy question for you!  [smile]I have a texture that contains an alpha that I want to use as a separate texture.  But I can't figure out how to load that alpha into its own texture object...  How do I load that image's alpha into a separate texture object?  I can get as far as 'D3DXCreateTexture' to create an object to hold my new texture, but I don't know how to actually load the image's alpha into the texture object (if that makes any sense).  Anybody have any ideas on how to do this?Thanks in advance for the help, I really appreciate it!   
  You need to lock the surface and extract the pixel data; throw away the non-alpha data, and provide that data to the new texture. There's no "magic way" of doing it (other than perhaps using render-to-texture).   