This is really weird. I have a project (a DLL if that matters) and I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition. I need to load models, before I used the lib3ds and everything was fine. Now I want to actually display properly animated models and so I went for FBX and the respective SDK. I can open the included example projects, compile and run them absolutely fine, but in my own project there is some trouble. I have, of course, added both the "include" and the "lib" folder from the sdk and added the additional dependency "fbxsdk_md2008d.lib" - the project is also set to "multi-threaded debug dll" etc. First of all, I get a shitload of errors when I don't include <fbxsdk.h> at the top before anything else. If I only go as far as including the allegro libraries before, I have 100+ errors in the fbxsdk header files. Can this even be right? If I include it at the top, it introduces one tiny error in this line:

device->SetTransform ( D3DTS_WORLD, &( scaling_matrix * ( rotation_matrices[0] * rotation_matrices[1] * rotation_matrices[2] ) * translation_matrix ) );

error C4238: nonstandard extension used : class rvalue used as lvalue

This is in the model::Draw function and all the xxx_matrices are simply vectors. I know there is no problem with any of this because, without the dang FBX SDK it all works smoothly. I can't find a lot of information on that error and with the example on the MSDN I don't see any connection to my situation there. For reference, I did compare all project settings side-to-side with the example project and set EVERYTHING equal and it's still the same. I'm thoroughly confused and I'd appreciate any help whatsoever. Please let me know if I wasn't specific enough, you need more info etc. Thanks ahead of time.

You're right, this works:

combined_matrix = scaling_matrix * ( rotation_matrices[0] * rotation_matrices[1] * rotation_matrices[2] ) * translation_matrix;	// use multiplied matrices	device->SetTransform ( D3DTS_WORLD, &combined_matrix );

Still confused as to why the FBX SDK had any influence on this but it's good to know this works.

I have language extensions activated btw.

Thanks for the quick help.

Try searching in the FBX SDK for the string "#pragma warning". I'll bet you'll find a pragma that turns on that warning (C4238, it's actually a warning by default), and turns it into an error.

A quick search seems to show that this file is part of the SDK:
kaydara.h
In there, you'll see "#pragma warning(error : 4238)", which turns on your warning as an error.

If this bugs you (but you should be paying attention to the warning, as magic_man explained!), you can store the current warning setup state before you include the header, and restore it after:

#pragma warning(push)#include <fbxsdk.h>#pragma warning(pop)

Okay that explains one or two things. Although I didn't ever notice a warning before there either...

Anyways, thanks for the help.