
                       Quake Army Knife

                            QuArK

                    version 5.0.b4  (beta)



This program is distributed as BETA version. No support.


Main news in this version :

 * 3D viewer for software only, without using any external library

 * Writes .map files with enhanced texture positionning. Use the
    TXQBSP (for Quake 1) or TXQBSP3 (for Quake 2) version of the
    compilers. See the QuArK 5 home page for more information.


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Comments and bug reports are welcome ! Please don't send an e-mail
just to say : "in the previous version I could do that, now it seems
that I cannot any more..."  because it's only a beta version. There
are features from QuArK 4.07 that have not been put in 5.0.b4 yet.

It is recommended that you delete your old "Setup.qrk" if you
already downloaded and used previous alpha releases.

Try opening "Hello.qrk" with QuArK and looking around. In the "Open"
dialog box, notice the long list of file types that can be opened.
All these file types are already more or less fully supported. This
list will be even longer in future versions !

In this version the configuration files have been included in compact
format, the format that will be used for the final non-beta releases.
This format makes smaller files and is substancially faster to load
than the full text format.

Although you can save yourself these files back in full text format,
this will not restore the comments I've written in the original files.
The "hackers" within you should download the "tech infos package"
where I explain how this all works and what you must know if you want
to work with QuArK's structured text file format.

There are still some chunks of data that need to be ported from
QuArK 4.07 to 5. This includes the list of all entities, and the
texture pages. IF YOU WANT TO HELP and make it yourself, have a look
at these three .qrk files. Please E-MAIL ME BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO WORK
so that you are sure no one else is already working on the part you 
plan to do ! You will of course have CREDITS for this. For more
information see http://www.planetquake.com/quark/armin/q5help.html.


A list of what's planned in future versions would be too long...
Mainly just everything that is clearly missing !

If you want to help with DOCUMENTATION, too, you are welcome.

Don't e-mail me "when is the next version coming out ?". The answer is
when it's done ;-)  It will of course be announced first at

      http://www.planetquake.com/quark/armin/index.shtm

Thanks to a lot of people for help and ideas for QuArK 5. (A more
detailed list of these people will come)



 ** As usual, this program comes with NO WARRANTY AT ALL ! 
 ** Use at your own risks.



Armin      -       arigo@planetquake.com
