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10<h1 id="TEV_STAGE_PROPERTY">Texture Combiners - Stage Properties</h1>
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12<p>Edits details relating to the stage settings of  the texture combiners.</p>
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15<h2 id="TEV_STAGE_STAGE">Texture Combiners - Managing and Setting Stages</h2>
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17<p>Select texture combiner stages to edit and configure stages.</p>
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19    <img src="images/material_tev_stage_stage.gif" alt="Managing and setting texture combiner stages">
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24    <li>
25        <p>Sets the number of stages to use.</p>
26        <p>Six stages can be used,  numbered 1 ~ 6.</p>
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29    <li>
30        <p>Selects the stage to be configured.</p>
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32    <li>
33        <p>Sets whether to use the output of the previous stage as the input source of the buffer.</p>
34        <p>Selects whether to copy the result of the stage to the buffer.</p>
35        <p>Can only select stages 2 ~ 5. The copy operation cannot be performed on stage 1 and stage 6.</p>
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37    <li>
38        <p>Sets the combine mode.</p>
39        <table width="200">
40            <thead>
41                <tr><td>Selectable items</td></tr>
42            </thead>
43            <tbody>
44                <tr>
45                  <td>Replace with Source 0 color</td>
46                </tr>
47                <tr>
48                  <td>Source 0 x Source 1</td>
49                </tr>
50                <tr>
51                  <td>Source 0 + Source 1</td>
52                </tr>
53                <tr>
54                  <td>Source 0 + Source 1 - 0.5</td>
55                </tr>
56                <tr>
57                  <td>[Source 0 x Source 2] +[ Source 1 x (1- Source 2)]</td>
58                </tr>
59                <tr>
60                  <td>Source 0 - Source 1</td>
61                </tr>
62                <tr>
63                  <td>(Source 0 + Source 1) x Source 2</td>
64                </tr>
65                <tr>
66                  <td>(Source 0 x Source 1) + Source 2</td>
67                </tr>
68            </tbody>
69        </table>
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71    <li>
72        <p>Sets what will be the source.</p>
73        <table width="200">
74            <thead>
75                <tr><td>Selectable items</td></tr>
76            </thead>
77            <tbody>
78                <tr>
79                  <td>Texture 0</td>
80                </tr>
81                <tr>
82                  <td>Texture 1</td>
83                </tr>
84                <tr>
85                  <td>Texture 2</td>
86                </tr>
87                <tr>
88                  <td>Texture 3</td>
89                </tr>
90                <tr>
91                  <td>Constant</td>
92                </tr>
93                <tr>
94                  <td>Polygon color</td>
95                </tr>
96                <tr>
97                  <td>Output from previous stage</td>
98                </tr>
99                <tr>
100                  <td>Buffer from previous stage</td>
101                </tr>
102            </tbody>
103        </table>
104    </li>
105    <li>
106      <p>Sets the color stage operand.</p>
107        <table width="200">
108            <thead>
109                <tr><td>Selectable items</td></tr>
110            </thead>
111            <tbody>
112                <tr>
113                  <td>RGB</td>
114                </tr>
115                <tr>
116                  <td>1 － RGB</td>
117                </tr>
118                <tr>
119                  <td>Alpha</td>
120                </tr>
121                <tr>
122                  <td>1 - alpha</td>
123                </tr>
124                <tr>
125                  <td>RRR</td>
126                </tr>
127                <tr>
128                  <td>1 - RRR</td>
129                </tr>
130                <tr>
131                  <td>GGG</td>
132                </tr>
133                <tr>
134                  <td>1 - GGG</td>
135                </tr>
136                <tr>
137                  <td>BBB</td>
138                </tr>
139                <tr>
140                  <td>1 - BBB</td>
141                </tr>
142            </tbody>
143        </table>
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145    <li>
146        <p>Sets the scale.</p>
147        <p>Can be set to one of these three values: 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0</p>
148    </li>
149    <li>
150        <p>Shows and confirms the arithmetic expression.</p>
151        <p>An expression is displayed based on the content of the selected combine mode, and this expression reflects the content of the selected source, operand and scale.</p>
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153    <li>
154        <p>Sets the constant.</p>
155        <p>When <I>Constant </I>is selected as the source, this selects which constant to reference.</p>
156        <p>Constants 0 ~ 5 can be selected.</p>
157    </li>
158    <li>
159        <p>Sets the alpha stage operand.</p>
160        <table width="200">
161            <thead>
162                <tr><td>Selectable items</td></tr>
163            </thead>
164            <tbody>
165                <tr>
166                  <td>Alpha</td>
167                </tr>
168                <tr>
169                  <td>1 - alpha</td>
170                </tr>
171                <tr>
172                  <td>R</td>
173                </tr>
174                <tr>
175                  <td>1 - R</td>
176                </tr>
177                <tr>
178                  <td>G</td>
179                </tr>
180                <tr>
181                  <td>1 - G</td>
182                </tr>
183                <tr>
184                  <td>B</td>
185                </tr>
186                <tr>
187                  <td>1 - B</td>
188                </tr>
189            </tbody>
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