blending

No, unless you tell me how you compute your alpha.
Well, in fact I have an idea which is to use ping-pong rendering and fragment programs but it''s quite unfocused and it won''t be too fast.

What do you mean by 'blends dark colours more than light colours'? Do mean so that if you blend a dark colour over a light colour you will get a dark colour and if you blend a light colour over a dark colour you will also get a dark colour? If so then try:

glBlendFunc(GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR, GL_SRC_COLOR)  

or

glBlendFunc(GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR, GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_COLOR)  

Note that these both require the GL_NV_blend_square extension. I thought there was another extension that also supported these blending modes, but I can't find it at the moment.

Enigma

EDIT: Typo

[edited by - Enigma on June 8, 2004 11:48:59 AM]

Ah, OK. In that case you probably want the complete opposite of what I suggested:

glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR) 

or

glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_DST_COLOR) 

May I ask why you''re using GL_SRC_ALPHA as your destination blend factor? Does your image have an alpha channel? If not then it''s probably the same as using GL_ONE, and probably slower.

Enigma

Thanks Enigma

glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_COLOR) yeilds exactly the results I was orignaly after.

The only issue is that for this particular application I prefer the results I got from GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_SRC_ALPHA. The blend is being used on a sprite of a star so the brightness you get with this method is a nice touch.

Again thanks for the tip that it will run quicker with GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_ONE there is no alpha channel so I have changed that line.

I was only using GL_SRC_COLOR, GL_SRC_ALPHA because despite how many times I read the red book I dont understand the mathematics behind blending and I just experimented with values until I found something suitable. Perhaps I should look into blending a bit more.

Again thanks

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