HELP! Need URGENT help with animation system

[Dr.Mysterios]

I ran into one hell of a problem with my FF7Battle IE4 project:
I was happily going about laying out a forward kinematics jointed animation system, when I discovered this:
1-Directx (in it's Javascript form as DirectAnimation) can't manipulate a model's vertex and point values, and it can't read the Retained Mode keyframe animations from an X file. That means I can't get the position values of a vertex of one limb(eg:thigh) and use it as the position of another limb(eg:lower leg)    YIKES!
2-I read the help desperately in search of a solution, and found that if I program my animations in a DirectAnimation Transform activeX control(Transform is like an extension of  DirectAnimation which allows Direct3D Retained Mode functions to be used in the form of activeX controls to your main html file. ActiveX controls are like plugins for your browser eg: the control that allows you to read Word files on the browser) I can use the functions available in Direct3DRM.
Feeling somewhat relieved, I dust off my Visual C++ 5.0 CD install it and open up a sample project from the DXMedia SDK. I remember to include the LIB and INCLUDE directories and press run and what do I get but a 102 errors?!!

Now I'm really stuck  

I think I might have forgotten how to set up the DirectX so if someone can show me all the steps I'd appreciate. Or you can just solve the riddle of the animation without vertex functions!

[mirex]

2- try to post here some of thos 102 errors, so we can tell you whats wrong.
Btw, is that include directory & lib name correct ? Didn't you moved that lib somewhere else ?

[Dr.Mysterios]

Problem Solved!
I solved the problem with Visual C++. I did type in the right addresses, but somehow it still didn't work.So I just copied all the lib & include files to the Visual C++ lib & include directories. Turns out that Visual C++ 5.0 kept referencing the Directx lib and include files present in it's own directories, which are from Directx 5.0. So I'm OK for now, but I need ideas for the game I'm making so if you have any suggestions just... you know what to do.

[Dr.Mysterios]

I read an old post from the FF7 remake team asking for team recruits. Since I was thinking if my game could be an online extension of the main one, like chocobo world for FF8. How about that?
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