I get a bucnh of crappy errors when I try to build a graphics sample with VC++. I used to use DirectX7, but I upgraded to DirectX8 and modified it for DX8. But I''m having problems with header files that use the D3D8 types. For instance, I use a function: operator LPD3DMATERIAL8() { return *this; } and it gives me wierd errors like, "This looks like a ctor..blah blah". I have the include file correct #include ??? and the libraries are included. What might be going wrong. This sample is due to my teacher in two days!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! What are YOU doing!!

goto ''tools->options->directories'' ''inlude files'' & ''libraries'' sections. Remove the dx8 entries & manually add the dx7 paths. If the errors are still there, it''s not a dx8 problem.

Maybe you shouldn''t have dicked with a working system when you had a deadline looming in two days And try to come up with more descriptive titles.

Sorry about the title, I was busy throwing my wireless mouse across the room when I typed it!!. Anyway, I upgraded to DX8 a while ago and most of my library is converted. I have some wrapper classes that encapsulate things like D3DMATERIAL8 but VC++ won''t recognize the type. I checked my include directories and library directectories and they are correct. Any other ideas.

Check your includes and make sure you are including d3d8.h and not d3d.h.

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Yeah they are

Unless that's embedded within the class defintion, you need a scope resolution in front of the operator overload

class CMyGfxClass{operator LPD3DMATERIAL8();};CMyGfxClass::operator LPD3DMATERIAL8(){return *this;} 

Magmai Kai Holmlor
- The disgruntled & disillusioned


Edited by - Magmai Kai Holmlor on March 7, 2001 12:39:18 AM

Its embedded

I''ve had that error when I have a method in my class, that does not return anything, but i''ve forgotten to declare the retrun type void.

Stoo

Ok, I scrapped the operator stuff, it seems ''LP''D3DMATERIAL8 is not quite the same as it is in DX7. So now I have another question that is just as wierd. I made myself a class sL3D to do light work for me. Basically its derived from _D3DLIGHT8 and has a buncyh of constructor to make creating basic lights alot easier. It uses the memset(blah, blah, blah) function to initialize a temporary veriable in the constructors. Its called like this.

sL3D temp;
memset(temp, 0, _D3DLIGHT8);

this worked great in DX7, but in DX8 it says it can''t convert from temp (sL3D) to _D3DLIGHT8. But they are exactly the same!! sL3D is derived from _D3DLIGHT8 and contains no extra members, only constructors. What''s going on.....AHHH!