What is something good to learn D3D with? Any particular book, source code, anything? and what are the different members of the MATRIX structure? any help is appreciated, thanks

I would suggest reading the DirextX SDK documentation itself as most D3D books out there are no less confusing. For practicals, try reverse-engineering the samples provided with the SDK =)

Best regards,
Sherman

There are a couple of books that cover retained mode, but they all suck. Your best bet is the SDK examples.

The best (and I think so far ONLY) D3D IM tutorial in a book is in:

DirectX, RDX, RSX and MMX technology
ISBN: 0-201-30944-0

Theres a lot of cool stuff in the book, a good purchase if you ever see it around (its pretty cheap from amazon too)

I''ve found that just messing around with the samples help. Yeah they''re a bit hard to understand but once you know where the rendering code is try doing whatever you want. When I started, I modified it to do stuff like draw more triangles, added lights, etc., it doesn''t have to be complicated. Oh and be sure to read the SDK documentation.