Okay, first of all I really don''t know shit about Direct3D so no flames, please. Well I managed to whip together some textures and mapping them onto a polygon and then onto the screen. The purpose of this, of course, was to be able to use the (possible) hardware acceleration Direct3D offers for certain effects. The normal transculent alpha blending went just fine but I got stuck when I tried to do the additive counterpart. Quickly I managed to get what I wanted but it wasn''t using my alpha values! It just added the source and destination colors up. Hmm. So the question is; what SetRenderState(...) and SetTextureStageState(...) would I have to call to attain this certain effect? "Paranoia is the belief in a hidden order behind the visible." - Anonymous

That was exactly what I was doing all the time >. Are you sure there is absoutley no way of having it use the alpha channel? I stuck some alpha values into the vertices...can''t it just use them dammit! All I was looking for was something like d = s + d * a. Well, thanks alot for the help. I guess I''ll have to do without the alpha channel.

"Paranoia is the belief in a hidden order behind the visible." - Anonymous