Can someone tell me exactly what to use to simply change a texture from the default skin to a different skin in fixed functions? I have no clue about the FFP.

Ok try this. But as I am also new to this thing so it might not work:

Code:

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bmap myskin2=<myskin.bmp>;//skin to change to

material set_skin2
{
  skin2=myskin2
  effect="
            texture mtlSkin2;
            technique render_skin
            {
                pass P0
                {
                   Texture[0] = <mtlSkin2>;
                   ColorArg1[0] = Texture;
                }
            }
            technique fallback { pass P0 {} }//fallback renders entity normally
         ";
}
 

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Maybe I am reading too deep into this...... Are you wondering about dealing with entSkins or mtlSkins?? And, are you simply looking to change the current skin from inside an <Action> to update the current Skin pointer??

An example:
Some of my terrain "LOD", I change/unload the skins dynamically based on distance and view. For some strange effects I also cycle through some different Skins based on instructions in an <Action>.

well acutally i am trying to set texture and render states manually in D3D in a DLL.. but when i just do device->SetTexture(..) i just get nothing.. I only want to render a mesh as completely black, so i had a black texture loaded, but it seems not to work the way i am doing it.. maybe there is some simple texture stage states that make something black?