Irrlicht Engine

say I have the following:
_gui_text = _gui->addStaticText(L"Your hardware or this renderer is not able to use the "\
L"needed shaders for this material. Using fall back materials.",
core::rect(150,20,470,60));
I tells me the following error:
c:\Documents and Settings\bstryker\Desktop\Visual ...

I'm trying to user camera->getUpVector() to take the camera up vector in order alter the direction the player (3rd person) moves in response to conrtols (I.E. player presses up, and the character moves in the direction of the camera's up vectore (towards the top of the screen))

For some reason the ...

I'm trying to render a billboard with a cloud on it. I have two questions. First, why does my billboard only render a single,solid color?

IBillboardSceneNode * cloud = _smgr->addBillboardSceneNode(0,dimension2d<f32>(1000.00,1000.00),_player->GetPosition(),-1);
video::ITexture * cloudTex = _driver ...

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks you guys.

I'm trying to move the MyEventReceiver class from one of the irrlicht examples to a seperate .cpp and .h file (clean up the code), but when I then try to make an instance of it, and feed it to createDevice it gives me this:

error C2259: 'MyEventReceiver' : cannot instantiate abstract class

here's ...