Creating transparent objects in DirectX is really faily simple. All you have to do is to play with the followring renderstates: device.RenderState.SourceBlend = Blend.SourceAlpha device.RenderState.DestinationBlend = Blend.InvSourceAlpha device.RenderState.AlphaBlendEnable = true When these are set all you have to do is to create a regular material with the diffuse alpha channel set to < 255. -Creating transparent objects in DirectX is really faily simple. All you have to do is to play with the followring renderstates: device.RenderState.SourceBlend = Blend.SourceAlpha　device.RenderState.DestinationBlend = Blend.InvSourceAlpha　device.RenderState.AlphaBlendEnable = true　When these are set all you have to do is to create a regular material with the diffuse alpha channel set to <　255.