No blending, something missing?

Hi, new here. I have been dealing with the Frank Luna's programming book codes for a while, and I am having problems with the blending part. My code has been changed to not use the Effect11 framework. Instead I have been using pre-compiled PS/VS shaders (or compiled shaders during built time) and managing resources/shaders using a solution he posted in his blog due Win8+ no longer supporting the D3DX11 library, I am also using DirecXTK for texture loading. Those are the changes made vs the original code.

 

I think I have everything set up but it doesn't seem to work, no blending. I omitted all the irrelevant code

 

RenderStates.cpp (RenderStates is a static class)

ComPtr<ID3D11BlendState> RenderStates::transBlendSt = 0;
ComPtr<ID3D11BlendState> RenderStates::normalBlendSt = 0;

void RenderStates::InitAll(ID3D11Device* dev)
{
D3D11_BLEND_DESC desc1 = {0};
desc1.AlphaToCoverageEnable = false;
desc1.IndependentBlendEnable = false;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].BlendEnable = true;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].SrcBlend = D3D11_BLEND_SRC_ALPHA;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].DestBlend = D3D11_BLEND_INV_SRC_ALPHA;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].BlendOp = D3D11_BLEND_OP_ADD;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].SrcBlendAlpha = D3D11_BLEND_ONE;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].DestBlendAlpha = D3D11_BLEND_ZERO;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].BlendOpAlpha = D3D11_BLEND_OP_ADD;
desc1.RenderTarget[0].RenderTargetWriteMask = D3D11_COLOR_WRITE_ENABLE_ALL;


//Transparent Blend State
HR( dev->CreateBlendState(&desc1, &transBlendSt) );


D3D11_BLEND_DESC desc2 = {0};
desc2.AlphaToCoverageEnable = true;
desc2.IndependentBlendEnable = false;
desc2.RenderTarget[0].BlendEnable = false;
desc2.RenderTarget[0].RenderTargetWriteMask = D3D11_COLOR_WRITE_ENABLE_ALL;


//Normal Blend State
HR( dev->CreateBlendState(&desc2, &normalBlendSt) );


} 

 

Main.cpp

bool InitD3D::Init()
{ 
   RenderStates::InitAll(md3dDevice);
}

//Its using the DirectXTK texture loading function
void InitD3D::LoadTextures()
{
  HRESULT h = CoInitialize(NULL);
 h = DirectX::CreateDDSTextureFromFile(md3dDevice, L"Directory.../Textures/grass.dds", nullptr, &mHillTex);
 if(!SUCCEEDED(h))
 {
  MessageBox(0, L"Failed loading texture ", L"Loading Texture", 0);
  return;
 }

  h = DirectX::CreateDDSTextureFromFile(md3dDevice, L"Directory.../Textures/water1.dds", nullptr, &mWavesTex);
  if(!SUCCEEDED(h))
 {
   MessageBox(0, L"Failed loading texture ", L"Loading Texture", 0);
   return;
  }
}


void InitD3D::DrawScene()
{

md3dImmediateContext->OMSetBlendState(RenderStates::normalBlendSt.Get(), 0, 0xffffffff);

/* Other resources for the Hill set here */

md3dImmediateContext->PSSetShaderResources(0, 1, mHillTex.GetAddressOf()); //Hill texture/SRV

/* Draw Hills here */


float blendF[] = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f};
md3dImmediateContext->OMSetBlendState(RenderStates::transBlendSt.Get(), blendF, 0xffffffff);

/* Other resources for the Waves set here */

md3dImmediateContext->PSSetShaderResources(0, 1, mWavesTex.GetAddressOf()); //Wave texture/SRV

/* Draw Waves here */

}

My results

 

 

 

 

Can anyone can help to figure out what I might be missing here? if you need any other part of the code or anything else let me know. Thank you.