I am trying to figure out how to do multipass texturing as opposed to multitexture in a single pass. Currently I blend three textures according to two blend weights, one stored in the vertex diffuse alpha and the other in the vertex diffuse rgb. This way works fine, but I am trying to allow for more passes in the future. So I tried to switch it over to single texture passes that get alpha blended onto the frame buffer. But if I am outputing the texture color as the pixel output to be blended, how do I specify the blending weight? I can't use the color anymore because it contains the texture color. Surely I am missing something. I can't believe that it would be this difficult to do multipass rendering. Can anyone give me any insight into how to do this?? Thanks in advance, Jason Z

Wouldn't the alpha channel of the current pass be the alpha of the texture on the current pass? It seems that this is the case because my first and second passes seem to produce a fairly even mix of the first two textures. Is there another state to set so that the vertex alpha gets passed through to the final output?

Thanks again,

Jason Z