Irrlicht Engine

Hello,

I've taken a look at the source code and more specificly at the types beeing defined by irrlicht.

irr::u8 would be the same as unsigned char.

So I tried to make my custom classes return const unsigned char * pointers so that the value could be passed to irrlicht functions, since both should be equal by definition.

Yet when I try this, my compiler complains with :

invalid conversion from 'const unsigned char*' to 'const irr::c8*'.

What can't this be done ? they're the same type are they not ?

u8 is an unsigned char. c8 is not

c8 is a signed char, there's you problem, return a signed char instead of an unsigned one and it will work.

*slaps self*

ok i've updated all my unsigned char * types to signed char * types, but still its giving me the following error ::

Invalid Conversion from 'const signed char*' to 'const irr::c8*'

nvm solved it