Wizrealm....
Grab a bit of FFP code, from one of these forum effects, that you would be interested in learning what is doing what. Send it to me, I'll comment it for you.
I am in the huge process of making a complete terrain tutorial that will have chapters devoteted to using texturing effects. This will cover the nuts and bolts, and the hows and whys of alot of FFP and vs1.1/ps1.3 crap we use.
Email me an example that you want commented and I will. Email should be in my profile.
Cool?? Cool!