Well I seem to be having some trouble trying to get my multipass render to work. I have 3 passes: light, diffuse, glow.

I first draw the light and than render the diffuse on top of it and modulate it. The alpha channel of the diffuse render contains the mask for the glow so I try to preserve it with glBlendFuncSeparate but it doesn't seem to work. I know the alpha channel is good as I can change the blend of the diffuse to do an alpha test and the correct parts are transparent. When I use it on the glow, it does not work.



// ** draw lightmap here **

glEnable( GL_BLEND );

// take the color of the lightmap and multiple it by the diffuse
// destroy previous alpha while maintaining source's
glBlendFuncSeparate( GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_ZERO, GL_ONE, GL_ZERO );

// ** draw diffuse here **

glDisable( GL_BLEND );


glEnable( GL_BLEND );

// mask using diffuse's alpha while keeping colors intact
glBlend( GL_DST_ALPHA, GL_ONE );

// ** draw glow here **

glDisable( GL_BLEND );



I know that glBlendFunctSeparate might be the cause of the error but the syntax looks good, if I change the diffuse blend to glBlendFunc( GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA ) so I know the alpha is good but still for some reason it is reset to 1 when I do the glow draw.

Thanks for any help !