Creating Bitmaps of RGB888 format

[Anonymous]

I am creating a bitmap and setting it as the diffuse map for an object.

I used Bitmap and BitmapInfo classes to create the bitmap from an image buffer. the bitmap is saved to a file and this bitmapInfo is used to set diffuse map of the object.

But I need to support RGB888 format without alpha.

Now I could support only RGBA8888 format.

How is it possible to create Bitmap with only RGB channels in 3ds max sdk?

the code snippet currently used is given below.

//creating BitmapInfo 

BitmapInfo bi;

bi.SetType( BMM_TRUE_32 );
bi.SetFlags( MAP_HAS_ALPHA );
bi.SetWidth( (WORD)width);
bi.SetHeight( (WORD)height);
bi.SetCustomFlag( 0 );
bi.SetPath(filename);

Bitmap cust_bmap;

cust_bmap = TheManager->Create(&bi);

for(int i=0;i<height;i++)

{

std::vector<BMM_Color_fl> pixelscheck( width );

//fill pixelscheck for each row 

cust_bmap->PutPixels( 0, i, width , &pixelscheck[0] )

}

FILE* file = _wfopen(filename,_T("wb"));
if (!file)
{
return ;
}

cust_bmap->OpenOutput(&bi);

cust_bmap->Write(&bi, BMM_SINGLEFRAME);
cust_bmap->Close(&bi);
fclose(file);

//apply it to BitmapTex

bitmaptex->SetMap(bi.GetAsset());