[jgraham]

The current version of DXEngine require a little bit more work to create custom effects. An advantage of this is that this gives you better performance.

Anyway, for the future I plan to provide an easier way to add custom effects - something that will be more like in the XNA.

Do you have a timeline on this?  In the mean time what is the best way to add multiple passes?  Looks like the MeshObjectNode can accept multiple materials...
MeshObjectNode(MeshBase mesh, Material[] materials);

Would you recommend using that to simulate multiple passes or multiple meshobjectnodes with the same mesh?