Incorrect colour blending when using a pixel shader with XNA
- by MazK
I'm using XNA 4.0 to create a 2D game and while implementing a layer tinting pixel shader I noticed that when the texture's alpha value is anything between 1 or 0 the end result is different than expected.
The tinting works from selecting a colour and setting the amount of tint. This is achieved via the shader which works out first the starting colour (for each r, g, b and a) :
float red = texCoord.r * vertexColour.r;
and then the final tinted colour :
output.r = red + (tintColour.r - red) * tintAmount;
The alpha value isn't tinted and is left as :
output.a = texCoord.a * vertexColour.a;
The picture in the link below shows different backdrops against an energy ball object where it's outer glow hasn't blended as I would like it to. The middle two are incorrect as the second non tinted one should not show a glow against a white BG and the third should be entirely invisible.
The blending function is NonPremultiplied.
Why the alpha value is interfering with the final colour?
