so XNA 2.0...
I had animation all figured out. But then Microsoft was like "BAM update!" and XNA 2.0 came out. Now animation doesn't work at all. For anybody. ever. (Actually I'm sure it still works quite nice if you have 3dsMax and can easily make nice .fbx models, but for all of us that don't have shit-tons of cash life isn't so easy).

so here's my problem
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basically my animated .x file has his crotch glued to the screen and won't move away from it no matter how much the camera turns. The annoying thing is that this code worked fine under XNA 1.0

To be nice the problem here is that the Animation Library team appears to have abandoned the project, even though it is incompatible with the new version of XNA, and everybody and their mom was using it. (in other words its not Microsofts fault).

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game update
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well in between working on animation I've done a bit of coding on the new game.
I've decided to name it "To Whatever End", that seemed fitting for some reason.
I had to start a whole new project because of the release of XNA 2.0, but rebuilding my framework turned out to be fairly easy, as most of the classes could be copied directly over.
I have decided to add an absurdly complex system for handling game objects:
1. abstract class gameobject
2. animation:gameobject (animation_man)
3. physics:animation (physics_man)
4. penetration:physics (penetration_unarmored)
5. armament:penetration (armament_handheld)
6. ai:armament (ai_man)
7. toplevel:ai (nordwindranger)

This will almost certainly be a bad decision in the long run (I bet components would be better, but then you have to give everything access to the whole, and its a big mess). In any case I'm just doing this as a hobby, so who cares.