Hi, I´m doing deferred shading for the first time and I´m having a problem with using multiple render targets and cannot figure out the cause. I´m rendering the depth to a R32F texture which I set as render target 0. To render targets 1 and 2 I set other textures to which I render color, normals etc. Now, everything I render to render targets 1 and 2 works as it should. I can render each of those channels seperately to the screen to view them. But the depth texture is always gray, looks like value 0.5f; Even when I hardcode the value in the pixel shader to other values, like 0.0f or 1.0f, then it still comes out gray. After trying many things without any success, I tried using render target 3 for the depth instead of 0, also changed the pixel shader for that so that it writes to COLOR3, and now it works. But I still cannot figure out why, and I´m stuck with rendering dummy data to render target 0 because you cannot use render targets 1, 2, and 3 without using render target 0. I ran out of ideas and have no more clue as to where in my code I should look for the fault. Does anyone have any idea why render target 0 might behave differently than other render targets. Does render target 0 have different set of rules? Or are there render states that must be set per render target? Peter

Ok, I tried what you suggested.

Depth is good now but the colors are now all gray.

Debug runtime doesn´t say anything

Well my scene always looks fully white. If you read the tutorial on ziggyware about deferred shading (http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?article_id=155) i think they mention the same.

maybe you can post some pictures somewhere so we can see what you mean?