This is code part of a camera class that I am looking at and trying to understand. D3DXMatrixRotationAxis(&matRotAboutRight,&m_Right,m_fRotAboutRight); D3DXMatrixRotationAxis(&matRotAboutUp,&m_Up,m_fRotAboutUp); D3DXMatrixRotationAxis(&matRotAboutFacing,&m_LookAt,m_fRotAboutFacing); D3DXMatrixMultiply(&matTotal,&matRotAboutUp,&matRotAboutRight); D3DXMatrixMultiply(&matTotal,&matRotAboutFacing,&matTotal); D3DXVec3TransformCoord(&m_Right,&m_Right,&matTotal); D3DXVec3TransformCoord(&m_Up,&m_Up,&matTotal); D3DXVec3Cross(&m_LookAt,&m_Right,&m_Up); if(fabs(D3DXVec3Dot(&m_Up,&m_Right)) > 0.01) { D3DXVec3Cross(&m_Up,&m_LookAt,&m_Right); } D3DXVec3Normalize(&m_Right,&m_Right); D3DXVec3Normalize(&m_Up,&m_Up); D3DXVec3Normalize(&m_LookAt,&m_LookAt); float fView41,fView42,fView43; fView41 = -D3DXVec3Dot(&m_Right,&m_Position); fView42 = -D3DXVec3Dot(&m_Up,&m_Position); fView43 = -D3DXVec3Dot(&m_LookAt,&m_Position); m_ViewTransform = D3DXMATRIX(m_Right.x, m_Up.x, m_LookAt.x, 0.0f, m_Right.y, m_Up.y, m_LookAt.y, 0.0f, m_Right.z, m_Up.z, m_LookAt.z, 0.0f, fView41, fView42, fView43, 1.0f); I understand the RotationAxis calls and Multiply calls but how does the D3DXVec3TransformCoord() work? How does it get the right vector and the up vector how does it diffrentiate it from the same matrix? What is fView41,fView42,fView43? EDIT: Ok I found out what the function does, but now that makes me think why do we need to multiply the matrix by the up vector to get the new up vector? [Edited by - TehCoyote on January 11, 2008 8:57:54 PM]