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'''Release date:''' November 10, 2006

* Finished the animation blending system based on a new design. There are three built-in animator subclasses that provide general functionality, and applications can define custom animators for more specific purposes (see next note). Each animator in the tree assigned to an entity targets a range of nodes rooted at a given target node (which is often the entity itself).

* The <code>FrameAnimator</code> class is used to play an animation stored in an animation resource. This replaces the functionality that was previously part of the <code>Entity</code> class. The frame animator is based on time instead of frame number, and its rate can be changed arbitrarily. Control over the playback is accessed through the <code>Interpolator</code> object returned by the <code>FrameAnimator::GetFrameInterpolator()</code> function.

* The <code>MergeAnimator</code> class can be used to combine the outputs of multiple animators. It takes the outputs of all of its subnodes and combines them into a single output. Later subnodes can override the outputs of earlier nodes.

* The <code>BlendAnimator</code> class blends the outputs of at most two sub-animators. The weight of each animator is controlled through another <code>Interpolator</code> object that can be retrieved with the <code>Animator::GetWeightInterpolator()</code> function. Weights are always renormalized by the blend animator, so they don't need to sum to one.

* Removed the bone modifier mechanism that was being used to twist the spine of the player as he looked around. This is now handled by a custom animator called <code>SpineTwistAnimator</code> in the game code.

* Fixed a bug that could cause a crash on exit when using microfacet shading together with fog.

* Fixed a crash that would occur if you combined dual textures, refraction, and environment mapping in a single material.

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