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23yrold3yrold wrote:

> Hello. I've recently been learning more and more about 3D theory (sin, cos,
> CrossProduct, DotProduct, BSP's, matrices, etc.) but I can't get Allegro to
> display a single bloody polygon. The tutorials the library comes with are
> not a huge help; they're filled with pointers to the point of confusion (are
> those truly necessary?) and set up for those random rotations and such. All
> I really want at the moment is little more than the bare code needed to
> display a few polys so I can play with the matrices etc. to make sure I know
> this stuff.

Hi - for that, some sheets of paper, a pencil, a rule and a notion
of linear algebra will help more. Also an accessible tutorial.
The best I know (in terms of readability) is the "Peroxide" series,
with C and Pascal examples. Follow link from my 3D page

  http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/gdemont/e3d.htm

HTH

G.