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hardware alpha blending

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0 comments, last by MJP 15 years, 11 months ago
is there a way to do alpha blending in d3d directly to the backbuffer without using sprites or geometry like with updatesurface or something like it?
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Not that I'm aware of. AFAIK you have to go through the rendering pipeline if you want blending in the ROP's.

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