Sorry about my past post didn''t mean to confuse you.

Well the files that come with the DirectX7 SDK are there for you to look at for ideas and to assist you in the making of your game, they show you the features that DirectX has. You can delete them if you want, but what i would do is run a few of them to see what sort of features they have and then go through them and look at the source code and stuff...

hopefully i didn''t confuse you this time...and the book thing i said before annoy that.

if you''re making mainly models, nendo is a good solution (my only problem is it doesn''t show coords or rotation values), theres a downloadable demo at www.nichimen.com... to register it is $100.
and those claims about 3dsmax (watered down) for free are as far as i know, false. (read up on it at http://www2.discreet.com/games/dc_gmax1.html... btw, read all the links below on the page)

nendo is excellent imo for modelling, some other programs:
blender (free i believe)www.blender.nl (btw thats an L)
milkshape3d (don''t know much about this one)
truespace 3 (i think thats correct) was also released for download (haven''t messed around with this, but i''ve heard good stuff about it from people i know)

anyway, if you aren''t doing anything precise i would recommend nendo. it also outputs to .x format (registered),i''m not sure which of the others do.

-mike