The dx sdk documentation is a big vauge about the differences between the blend render states and the texture stage states. The renderstates i'm reffering to are D3DRS_DESTBLEND D3DRS_SRCBLEND D3DRS_DESTBLENDALPHA D3DRS_SRCBLENDALPHA and the texture stage states are D3DTSS_COLOROP D3DTSS_COLORARG1 D3DTSS_COLORARG2 D3DTSS_ALPHAOP D3DTSS_ALPHAARG1 D3DTSS_ALPHAARG2 To me it seems like conceptually there is some overlap between then. Could someone shed me some light on these two topics please? Thanks,

Thanks, I'm started to understand a bit better now. I'm curious about how a vertex's color will effect the the rendering, and how the alpha component of the vertex plays a role.

I beleive the vertex's color is passed into the texture stage 0 as D3DTA_CURRENT. Is this correct?

Edit:
Thanks, I got my point sprites blending the way I want them to, thanks again!

[Edited by - SiliconMunky on July 2, 2005 5:07:19 AM]