hi all, i am working on a small project of my own; I would like to rotate the camera around an object; As of now the camera is in still position in front of the object I would like to rotate the camera around the object or around Y-axis without using glRotate - i.e., just plain matrix, how do i go about constructing that matrix. thanks for your help, boyd

Google "rotation matrix." Why not use glRotate? It does all the work for you.

I would first want to try out without using OpenGL and then would like to go for OpenGL; this would makes more sense in understanding the background math

~ boyd