Depth stencil not working - DirectX 10 C++ - c++

Question

I have a DirectX10 + C++ problem.
Basically we're at the early stages of rendering, and for some reason our depth stencil seems to be failing to understand our model. Basically, here is everything we are doing:
Load shader, model and texture
Initialize DirectX
Draw
The model, shader and texture all load and work correctly, however (as shown in the screenshot below), the depth stencil is clearly not doing its job and the shader is being used in the wrong places. I have also included our initialization method in case you need it to figure it out. We believe we have tried almost everything but knowing our luck we have probably missed out 1 line of important code ^.^
We also saw that someone else had the same problem, however their fix didn't work (their problem was that they had set the near clipping plane to 0.0, however ours is not 0.0 so that is not the problem)
Thanks in advance!
Problem screenshot
void GraphicsDeviceDirectX::InitGraphicsDevice(HWND hWnd)
{
DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC scd; // create a struct to hold various swap chain information
ZeroMemory(&scd, sizeof(DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC)); // clear out the struct for use
scd.BufferCount = 2; // create two buffers, one for the front, one for the back
scd.BufferDesc.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM; // use 32-bit color
scd.BufferDesc.Height = 600;
scd.BufferDesc.Width = 600;
scd.BufferUsage = DXGI_USAGE_RENDER_TARGET_OUTPUT; // tell how the chain is to be used
scd.OutputWindow = hWnd; // set the window to be used by Direct3D
scd.SampleDesc.Count = 1; // set the level of multi-sampling
scd.SampleDesc.Quality = 0; // set the quality of multi-sampling
scd.Windowed = true; // set to windowed or full-screen mode
//set scan line ordering and scaling
scd.BufferDesc.ScanlineOrdering = DXGI_MODE_SCANLINE_ORDER_UNSPECIFIED;
scd.BufferDesc.Scaling = DXGI_MODE_SCALING_UNSPECIFIED;
//discard back buffer dontents
scd.SwapEffect = DXGI_SWAP_EFFECT_DISCARD;
//dont set advanced flags
scd.Flags = 0;
// create a device class and swap chain class using the information in the scd struct
if(FAILED(D3D10CreateDeviceAndSwapChain(NULL,
D3D10_DRIVER_TYPE_HARDWARE,
NULL,
D3D10_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG,
D3D10_SDK_VERSION,
&scd,
&swapchain,
&device)))
{
throw EngineException("Error creating graphics device");
}
//Push graphics device to Persistant Object Manager
//PerObjMan::Push(device);
//Push swapchain to Peristant Object Manager
PerObjMan::Push(swapchain);
// get the address of the back buffer and use it to create the render target
ID3D10Texture2D* pBackBuffer;
swapchain->GetBuffer(0, __uuidof(ID3D10Texture2D), (LPVOID*)&pBackBuffer);
device->CreateRenderTargetView(pBackBuffer, NULL, &rtv);
/*D3D10_TEXTURE2D_DESC descBack;
pBackBuffer->GetDesc(&descBack);*/
pBackBuffer->Release();
pBackBuffer = NULL;
//Push graphics device to Persistant Object Manager
PerObjMan::Push(rtv);
ID3D10Texture2D* pDepthStencil = NULL;
D3D10_TEXTURE2D_DESC descDepth;
ZeroMemory(&descDepth, sizeof(descDepth));
descDepth.Width = 600;
descDepth.Height = 600;
descDepth.MipLevels = 1;
descDepth.ArraySize = 1;
descDepth.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT;
descDepth.SampleDesc.Count = 1;
descDepth.SampleDesc.Quality = 0;
descDepth.Usage = D3D10_USAGE_DEFAULT;
descDepth.BindFlags = D3D10_BIND_DEPTH_STENCIL;
descDepth.CPUAccessFlags = 0;
descDepth.MiscFlags = 0;
HRESULT hr;
hr = GetGraphicsDevice()->CreateTexture2D( &descDepth, NULL, &pDepthStencil );
if(FAILED(hr))
throw EngineException("FAIL");
PerObjMan::Push(pDepthStencil);
D3D10_DEPTH_STENCIL_DESC dsDesc;
ZeroMemory(&dsDesc, sizeof(dsDesc));
// Depth test parameters
dsDesc.DepthEnable = true;
dsDesc.DepthWriteMask = D3D10_DEPTH_WRITE_MASK::D3D10_DEPTH_WRITE_MASK_ALL;
dsDesc.DepthFunc = D3D10_COMPARISON_FUNC::D3D10_COMPARISON_LESS;
// Stencil test parameters
dsDesc.StencilEnable = false;
dsDesc.StencilReadMask = 0xFF;
dsDesc.StencilWriteMask = 0xFF;
// Stencil operations if pixel is front-facing.
dsDesc.FrontFace.StencilFailOp = D3D10_STENCIL_OP_KEEP;
dsDesc.FrontFace.StencilDepthFailOp = D3D10_STENCIL_OP_INCR;
dsDesc.FrontFace.StencilPassOp = D3D10_STENCIL_OP_KEEP;
dsDesc.FrontFace.StencilFunc = D3D10_COMPARISON_ALWAYS;
// Stencil operations if pixel is back-facing.
dsDesc.BackFace.StencilFailOp = D3D10_STENCIL_OP_KEEP;
dsDesc.BackFace.StencilDepthFailOp = D3D10_STENCIL_OP_DECR;
dsDesc.BackFace.StencilPassOp = D3D10_STENCIL_OP_KEEP;
dsDesc.BackFace.StencilFunc = D3D10_COMPARISON_ALWAYS;
// Create depth stencil state
hr = device->CreateDepthStencilState(&dsDesc, &dss);
if(FAILED(hr))
throw EngineException("FAIL");
// Bind depth stencil state
device->OMSetDepthStencilState(dss, 1);
PerObjMan::Push(dss);
D3D10_DEPTH_STENCIL_VIEW_DESC descDSV;
ZeroMemory(&descDSV, sizeof(descDSV));
descDSV.Format = descDepth.Format;
descDSV.ViewDimension = D3D10_DSV_DIMENSION::D3D10_DSV_DIMENSION_TEXTURE2D;
descDSV.Texture2D.MipSlice = 0;
// Create the depth stencil view
hr = device->CreateDepthStencilView( pDepthStencil, // Depth stencil texture
&descDSV, // Depth stencil desc
&dsv ); // [out] Depth stencil view
if(FAILED(hr))
throw EngineException("FAIL");
PerObjMan::Push(dsv);
// Bind the depth stencil view
device->OMSetRenderTargets( 1, // One rendertarget view
&rtv, // Render target view, created earlier
dsv); // Depth stencil view for the render target
D3D10_VIEWPORT viewport; // create a struct to hold the viewport data
ZeroMemory(&viewport, sizeof(D3D10_VIEWPORT)); // clear out the struct for use
GameToImplement::GameInfo::Info info = GameToImplement::GameInfo::GetGameInfo();
RECT rect;
int width = 0;
int height = 0;
if(GetClientRect(hWnd, &rect))
{
width = rect.right - rect.left;
height = rect.bottom - rect.top;
}
else
{
throw EngineException("");
}
viewport.TopLeftX = 0; // set the left to 0
viewport.TopLeftY = 0; // set the top to 0
viewport.Width = 600; // set the width to the window's width
viewport.Height = 600; // set the height to the window's height
viewport.MinDepth = 0.0f;
viewport.MaxDepth = 1.0f;
device->RSSetViewports(1, &viewport); // set the viewport
}

Answer 1

I fixed it, thanks to catflier's nod in the right direction. Turns out I was actually releasing the rasterizer state too early for the depth stencil to be used.
I'll leave this answer here for anyone who has the same problem.