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**              J A H S H A K A   I M A G E   I N T E G R A T O R              *
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**                        http://www.jahshaka.com                              *
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** Release:  Mon June 2 23:53:52 2003                                          *
**      by:  Jah Shaka                                                         *
**   email:  jahshaka@users.sourceforge.net                                    *
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** Copyright (C) 2000-2004 The Jahshaka Project                                *
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** This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,             *
** but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of              *
** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the               *
** GNU General Public License for more details.                                *
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       >>>>> Welcome the the Jahshaka 1.9a8 alpha release! <<<<<

Jahshaka now uses an even/odd version number scheme like the Linux kernel.
Odd numbered versions (such as 1.9.7) designate new developmental releases.
Even numbered versions (such as 1.9.8) designate stable releases.

Since this is currently alpha software, be very careful (as mentioned above)!

Jahshaka currently runs on Linux, Windows, OsX and Irix.  We have
tested on Redhat 9.0, Windows XP, Irix 6.5.18 and OsX 10.2 although most
other linuxes and windows should work.

>> COMPILING

To run jahshaka, you need to compile first if you are working with the source.
If you have downloaded the binary, skip over to GETTING STARTED

The only dependencies you need are Qt 3.x, freetype 2.x and glut 3.7+. You can 
find these online easily by doing a search in google. For audio support you
need libsndfile which is available for windows, linux and osx

>> GETTING STARTED

To execute jahshaka, go to the jahshaka main directory (where this file is) 
and type:

./jahshaka (for linux)

or 

double click on the jahshaka file (for windows or OsX)

>> EXPERIMENTING

To start using jahshaka, simply load a few clips onto the desktop by clicking the 
Load Clip button. We currently only support stills and image sequences but media
file support is on the way.

Once you have a few clips, check out the modules.
Create a layer, and then to get a clip to fill it, hit the 'Get Desktop' button.
Select a clip from the desktop, and then hit the red 'return' button to use it.

In order to save-out scene files they must have a .jsf extension. Saving and
loading is done through the World layers object menu.

>> FEEDBACK

So far things are working nicely, and the force-play option in the controller
is a great example of what hardware accelerated open-gl can really do
when its put to good use. The interface is a mess, and we are cleaning it up for
the next alpha release, plus making things a lot more slick and intuitive.


>> FORUMS

Please report all bugs to the Jahshaka forums at:

http://www.jahshaka.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=9

Any feedback about the release can be posted in the artist feedback forums at:

http://www.jahshaka.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=5

Thanks and Enjoy!

Jah Shaka
The Jahshaka Project


