Just so you know, the render targets are valid, as when I clear them with, e.g. a red or a green color, it appears in the output, even in pix.

But it still appears as if the second and third render targets aren't being written to...

When debuggin the first RT, the pixel is written to correctly:

Pixel History
Pixel (427, 298) of Render Target 0x069F85B8, Frame 616

Initial framebuffer value Alpha: 0.000 Red: 0.000 Green: 0.000 Blue: 0.000 Event 315: ID3D11DeviceContext::ClearRenderTargetView(0x0BAA5F98, 0x0017F1EC) Alpha: 1.000 Red: 0.000 Green: 1.000 Blue: 0.000 Event 329: ID3D11DeviceContext::DrawIndexed(36, 0, 0) Primitive 1 of 12

Vertex Shader:0x0BAA5EE8
Debug Vertex 0
Debug Vertex 1
Debug Vertex 2

Geometry Shader:(none)

Pixel Shader:0x0BAA5F40
Debug Pixel (427, 298)
Pixel shader output: Alpha: 1.000 Red: 0.988 Green: 0.988 Blue: 0.988
Final framebuffer color: Alpha: 0.000 Red: 0.000 Green: 0.000 Blue: 0.000 Event 329: ID3D11DeviceContext::DrawIndexed(36, 0, 0) Primitive 11 of 12

Vertex Shader:0x0BAA5EE8
Debug Vertex 0
Debug Vertex 1
Debug Vertex 2

Geometry Shader:(none)

Pixel Shader:0x0BAA5F40
Debug Pixel (427, 298)
Pixel shader output: Alpha: 1.000 Red: 0.988 Green: 0.988 Blue: 0.988
Final framebuffer color: Alpha: 0.000 Red: 0.000 Green: 0.000 Blue: 0.000 Final framebuffer value Alpha: 1.000 Red: 1.000 Green: 0.000 Blue: 0.000

But then in the 2nd render target, nothing is there!

Same pixel location as in the 1st RT:

Pixel History
Pixel (427, 298) of Render Target 0x069F8658, Frame 616

Initial framebuffer value Alpha: 0.000 Red: 0.000 Green: 0.000 Blue: 0.000 Event 317: ID3D11DeviceContext::ClearRenderTargetView(0x0BAA6048, 0x0017F1EC) Alpha: 1.000 Red: 1.000 Green: 0.000 Blue: 0.000 Final framebuffer value Alpha: 1.000 Red: 1.000 Green: 0.000 Blue: 0.000

Render Targets

Slot Buffer

0 0x069F85B8

1 0x069F8658

2 0x069F86F8

(3-7) NULL

And all of those pointers are valid, they point to the right render targets!

I dont know if this is too much to ask for, but maybe one of you guys can write a small mini tutorial with all the steps to create a directx 11 app with multiple render targets, like a small step based tutorial, e.g.:

• Do this...
• ...
• Then that

To see if I've done everything right...

I do believe that all my render targets are valid, as if I change the order of the render targets, it's still the first render target that works.

Btw, how can you check the maximum render targets your graphics card supports?

The output signature of the pixel shader:

// Output signature:
//
// Name                 Index   Mask Register SysValue Format   Used
// -------------------- ----- ------ -------- -------- ------ ------
// SV_Target                0   xyzw        0   TARGET  float   xyzw
// SV_Target                1   xyzw        1   TARGET  float   xyzw
// SV_Target                2   xyzw        2   TARGET  float   xyzw

After hours in PIX, all the render targets seems to be connected correctly, but when rendering the mesh (PIX has the quite amazing feature where you can see the resources change over time!), still only the first render target gets written to!