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Effect state groups (Direct3D 10)

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Effect states are name-value pairs in the form of an expression.

Blend state

Effect state Group
ALPHATOCOVERAGEENABLE, BLENDENABLE, SRCBLEND, DESTBLEND, BLENDOP, SRCBLENDALPHA, DESTBLENDALPHA, BLENDOPALPHA, RENDERTARGETWRITEMASK Members of D3D10_BLEND_DESC

Depth and stencil state

Effect state Group
DEPTHENABLE, DEPTHWRITEMASK, DEPTHFUNC, STENCILENABLE, STENCILREADMASK, STENCILWRITEMASK Members of D3D10_DEPTH_STENCIL_DESC
FRONTFACESTENCILFAIL, FRONTFACESTENCILZFAIL, FRONTFACESTENCILPASS, FRONTFACESTENCILFUNC, BACKFACESTENCILFAIL, BACKFACESTENCILZFAIL, BACKFACESTENCILPASS, BACKFACESTENCILFUNC Member of D3D10_DEPTH_STENCILOP_DESC

Rasterizer state

Effect state Group
FILLMODE D3D10_FILL_MODE
CULLMODE D3D10_CULL_MODE
FRONTCOUNTERCLOCKWISE, DEPTHBIAS, DEPTHBIASCLAMP, SLOPESCALEDDEPTHBIAS, ZCLIPENABLE, SCISSORENABLE, MULTISAMPLEENABLE, ANTIALIASEDLINEENABLE Members of D3D10_RASTERIZER_DESC

Sampler state

Effect state Group
Filter, AddressU, AddressV, AddressW, MipLODBias, MaxAnisotropy, ComparisonFunc, BorderColor, MinLOD, MaxLOD Members of D3D10_SAMPLER_DESC

See Sampler type (DirectX HLSL) for examples.

Effect object state

This effect object Maps to
RASTERIZERSTATE A Rasterizer State state object.
DEPTHSTENCILSTATE A Depth and Stencil State state object.
BLENDSTATE A Blend State state object.
VERTEXSHADER A compiled vertex shader object.
PIXELSHADER A compiled pixel shader object.
GEOMETRYSHADER A compiled geometry shader object.
DS_STENCILREF AB_BLENDFACTOR AB_SAMPLEMASK Members of D3D10_PASS_DESC.

Defining and using state objects

State objects are declared in FX files in the following format. StateObjectType is one of the states listed above, and MemberName is the name of any member that will have a non-default value.

StateObjectType ObjectName {
 MemberName = value;
 ...
 MemberName = value;
};

For example, to set up a blend state object with AlphaToCoverageEnable and BlendEnable[0] set to FALSE, the following code would be used.

BlendState NoBlend {
 AlphaToCoverageEnable = FALSE;
 BlendEnable[0] = FALSE;
};

The state object is applied to a technique pass using one of the SetStateGroup functions described in Effect Technique Syntax (Direct3D 10). For example, to apply the BlendState object described above the following code would be used.

SetBlendState( NoBlend, float4( 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f ), 0xFFFFFFFF );

For a tutorial describing the use of states see State management.