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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) 2000-2003 VisualMedia, LLC.                                   *
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** This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,             *
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** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the               *
** GNU General Public License for more details.                                *
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       >>>>> Welcome the the Jahshaka 1.9a1 alpha release! <<<<<

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

Jahshaka currently runs on both Linux and Windows. The OsX and Irix builds 
are currently being cleaned up and will follow with the alpha 2 release. We have
tested on Redhat 8.0 and Windows XP 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.

>> STARTING 

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

./jahshaka (for linux)

or 

double click on the jahshaka.bat file (for windows)

>> 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 hit
the 'Get Desktop' button to go get a clip to fill it with. Select a clip from the
desktop and then hit the red return button to return with 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.

Since this is alpha, Jahshaka is currently a graphics-memory hog and so you
really need at least 32mb to play around, 64 to enjoy and 128mb to do real work.

>> FORUMS

Please report all bugs to the Jahshaka forums at:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=76063

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

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=130364

Thanks and Enjoy!

Jah Shaka
The Jahshaka Project


