Java2D advanced blending mode (multiply, overlay, divide, ...)

Hi everyone,
on a RFE I voted for, I read that new blending mode such as multiply, overlay, divide, lighten, etc will be optimized with Dolphin.
I am developing a full-screen java game and the AlphaComposite is sometime not sufficient to make the effects I need. I have been implementing the blending modes I need manually but this seriously decrease my frame rate. I would love seeing these "standard Photoshop/GImp" blending modes added to the optimization pipeline.
The proposal was to make use of pixel shaders leverage to achieve this in DOlphin.
Any news that could make me happy ?
Vince.

Noone has any info on the implementation of the advanced blending mode in Dolphin ?
For those who are interested in this topic, have a look at Romain Guy's Weblog, http://www.jroller.com/page/gfx?entry=new_blendings_modes_for_java2d
My concern is that this wonderful implementation by Romain Guy is not going to wor for me since my game fps would be seriously decrease if I break the hardware optimization pipelines. The openGL and DirectDraw pipelines are working really well and new optimized blending modes would definitely be valuable.
Vince.

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[svn:fx-4.0.0] 13428: Add mask and advanced blend mode support to SpriteVisualElement

Revision: 13428
Revision: 13428
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-01-11 15:16:16 -0800 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010)
Log Message:
Add mask and advanced blend mode support to SpriteVisualElement
SDK-24949 - Can't apply hue blend mode to FXG instance
Copied blendMode and mask logic from GroupBase.
QE notes: Add tests to SVE
Doc notes: Update docs to mention mask and blendMode support
Bugs: SDK-24949
Reviewer: Pete, Ryan
Tests run: checkintests, FXG
Is noteworthy for integration: Yes
Ticket Links:
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    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24949
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AlMostabed wrote:
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>
http://dunnbypaul.net/blends
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>
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Paevo Kelley wrote:
> I have a colored gradient bitmap image in "heat" mode
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>
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Intel something, 6 cores, 12GB RAM, and NVIDIA GTX 590 graphics card, (driver 306.97)
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no
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Does the problem only happen with your final output, RAM preview, or both?
everywhere
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see above
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