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Lua Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Lua Game Development Cookbook Over 70 recipes that will help you master the elements and best practices required to build a modern game engine using Lua

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849515504
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mário Kašuba Mário Kašuba
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Basics of the Game Engine 2. Events FREE CHAPTER 3. Graphics – Common Methods 4. Graphics – Legacy Method with OpenGL 1.x–2.1 5. Graphics – Modern Method with OpenGL 3.0+ 6. The User Interface 7. Physics and Game Mechanics 8. Artificial Intelligence 9. Sounds and Networking Index

Setting up blending


OpenGL allows you to change the way textures are drawn. This process is called blending and it's often used when combining multiple textures. However, blending can also be applied to texture rendering on screen. OpenGL uses a so-called "blending function" to define the mathematical function that calculates the final color value. For example, the GL_FUNC_ADD blending function defines additive blending, which is used when mixing colored lights in a scene.

This function uses two values:

  • The source value is usually a color or alpha channel value of the texture you are currently using. The source value is also called a fragment.

  • The destination value is a color or alpha channel value that's on the destination surface or the screen.

You can't directly put values into the blending function. What you are allowed to do is to use one of the predefined functions to be used for the source value or the destination value.

Note that the blending function is also used with the modern rendering...

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