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Dual-source blending in DirectX 11
It's not described in the documentation, but dual-source blending in DirectX 11 D3D11_BLEND_SRC1_COLOR is achieved using SV_TARGET1. You would have a BlendState like this (all in fx format): BlendState CompositeBlend { BlendEnable[0] =TRUE; SrcBlend ...
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