Hi all! I want to change the color of my texture when drawing it using alpha blending technique. I can''t seem to get it right though, as I always get one out of two errors: 1) Transparency doesn''t work 2) The backgruond color influences the alpha blending Here are some snippets from my code: pD3DDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ALPHABLENDENABLE, TRUE); pD3DDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_SRCBLEND, D3DBLEND_ONE); pD3DDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_DESTBLEND, D3DBLEND_ONE); pD3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_COLOROP, D3DTOP_MODULATE); pD3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_COLORARG1, D3DTA_TEXTURE); pD3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_COLORARG2, D3DTA_DIFFUSE); pD3DDevice->SetTextureStageState(0, D3DTSS_ALPHAOP, D3DTOP_DISABLE); These properties work perfect if the background color is set to black. A white pixel in my texture becomes red if I set the diffuse color in my vertex buffer to red. However, if I have a blue background, the same pixel will become purple! That is, the background color is part of the blending. If I instead change the D3DRS_DESTBLEND to for instance D3DBLEND_ZERO, the pixel does become red as it should, but instead the transparency information is neglected. Any information that would help me solve this is appreciated.

You have to draw all solid faces of your world first, then you have to render your transparent stuff and set zwrite to 0 before rendering transparent stuff (don''t forget to set zwrite to 1 when rendering solid stuff)

It''s normal that the color of your object mixes with the background color, because this is what alpha-blending do, it mixes the color of your object with the color of the stuff wich is already there -> your background!

Lupin:
As I understand your answer I should draw things starting from the front and go backwards...?

I''m actually working in 2D, and that''s why the question is a bit basic. I''m used to drawing the background first and then adding things on top of it. But since 2D in DirectX 8 is a special case of 3D, I probably should do things as they are done in 3D.


alfmga:
Sorry about my poor lingo. I actually don''t want to modulate the alpha channel, only the RGB channels.

ALPHA-blending could ONLY manipulate the ALPHA-channel, RGB is unchanged.

ALPHA-blending means to turn something into an transparent object, you could blend transparent and solid objects together to one object to get an solid object wich looks like it has changed RGB values, but Alpha-blending only changes the alpha-values of your object