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Updated Getting Started Documentation

Jarl2d Reaches Beta

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PositionPath release

PositionPath

Animation made easy

Java Animation Rendering Library

What Jarl can do for you...

Jarl2D is a tool for creating stunning 2D animations with no programming required. Complex animations can be easily created from simple xml files. There are currently over 50 examples and more being added constantly.

Jarl2D also comes with a simple GUI that allows you to quickly expirement and develop your animations.

If you are a developer, you'll enjoy the plugin model for extending Jarl2D, to add your custom shapes, filters, and other plugin types of objects.

Wednesday, April 30 -- 2003

Updated Getting Started Documentation

One of my immediate goals with the Jarl2d project, it to try to incrementally improve the documentation. (Not one of my strenghts). With that in mind, i've updated the Getting Started section. I hope this is useful for new users. As always, if you have any questions please let me know, and i'll do my best to answer them.

Monday, April 28 -- 2003

Jarl2d Reaches Beta

Jarl2d inches closer to its first release with Jarl2d 0.5: Beta1. This release brings:

A simple win32 installer (thanks to Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
A animation preview feature that allows you to preview your rendered animations. (For further info on generating movies see this FAQ
A bug fix for the Gradient Painter
Better feedback for frame rendering

As always, feel free to send me your feedback. Happy animating!

Thursday, April 24 -- 2003

PositionPath release

Along with some GUI enhancements (better rendering feedback and error handling) the latest release contains a new Trait: Position Path Check it out!.

Tuesday, April 22 -- 2003

Jarl2d Releases 0.3 -- Brand New UI

Jarl2d has a completely new face. Jarl2d's GUI was completely rewritten from the ground-up to make animation creation even easier. There is a brand new Object Tree viewer which allows you to visually inspect all the objects that make up your animation.

Jarl2d's new cross platform GUI also supports rendering full animations from the GUI. It also has a much more responsive rendering pipeline as well as other usability features that will make Jarl2d animation creation a much improved expirience.

Tuesday, April 22 -- 2003

New Color Guide

With the latest release of jarl2d, there is an expanded set of built-in colors as well as a useful color guide.

(See example20.xml for creating the color guide)

OrangeRed	MediumRed	Red	Scarlet	VioletRed
Orchid	MediumOrchid	DarkOrchid	DarkPlum	BlueViolet
Fuchsia	Pink	Plum	Violet	SpicyPink
DarkPurple	Purple	MediumVioletRed	NeonPink	Salmon
MidnightBlue	DarkBlue	NewMidnightBlue	NeonBlue	RichBlue
Sky	SteelBlue	SlateBlue	Blue	CadetBlue
CornFlower	DarkSlate	LightBlue	DarkGreenCopper	Firebrick
Sienna	Orange	MediumGoldenrod	MandarinOrange	Goldenrod
Coral	BrightGold	Yellow	LimeGreen	GreenYellow
DarkOliveGreen	YellowGreen	SpringGreen	SeaGreen	LightGreen
MediumSpringGreen	MediumSeaGreen	MediumForestGreen	ForestGreen	HunterGreen
DarkGreen	Green	Aquamarine	Aqua	MediumAquamarine
MediumTurquoise	Turquoise	MediumSlateBlue	MediumBlue	DarkTurquoise
LightSteelBlue	Brown	CoolCopper	Copper	Brass
Bronze	BronzeII	Gold	OldGold	Silver
LightGray	DustyRose	DarkTan	Feldspar	Quartz
NewTan	LightWood	MediumWood	DarkWood	BakersChocolate
DarkBrown	GreenCopper	IndianRed	Khaki	Chocolate
Tan	Thistle	Wheat	LightGrey	DimGrey
Grey	DarkSlateGrey	Black	Gray	Lime
Maroon	Navy	Olive	White	Teal

Monday, April 21 -- 2003

Updates coming soon

I Just wanted to provide some details about the next alpha release coming by the end of the week. It will contain the following:

Bug fixes like stripping the line feeds off of the *nix shell files
Fixed the Trace Trait
Added a bunch of new built in colors
A totally revamped GUI

I'm very excited about the new GUI. It allows you far more control over your Jarl project like controlling the dimensions of the frame (for quick previews) as well as a detailed look into all of the current Jarl Objects being used by your project. Look for the new release soon!

Friday, April 11 -- 2003

DirectX commandLine avi builder for jarl2d images

You can now use this DirectX based tool on windows systems to generate avi files from your rendered jarl2d images. Just download the zip file and extract it to a directory. From a command prompt type:

createMovie.bat renderedImageDir outputName.avi

and your images will be converted into a movie.

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