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                     THE ARK DISTRIBUTION
                   " Ark Roleplaying Kernel "

          Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Contributors of the Ark project
      Please have look at the "AUTHORS" file for a list of contributors.

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1. License (or "Legal Stuff")
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to:

	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	59 Temple Place, Suite 330
	Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

See file COPYING for license details.


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2. Goals
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	The first goal of the Ark libraries and associated
programs is to create a powerful and flexible framework to create
(networked/single player) role playing games, without having to write a
single line of C++.

	All the user has to do is to create game data (models, textures,
world), and define the behaviour NPCs, in Lua. The engine contains a full
outdoor 3D engine, with support for skeletal animation, and triangle-
accurate collision detection. It also contains tools to create world and
quests, and loaders for the most common low-polygon 3D formats. 

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3. Playing !
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The keybindings are : 

  [up, down, right, left]                     moves the player
  [mouse click]                               speaks, picks up an object, reads..
  [tab]                                       switches the camera to manual mode
  [moving the mouse to a screen side]         in manual mode, moves the camera 
  [mousewheel]                                zooms
  [Page Down / Page Up]	                      changes the camera height
  [F10 / F11]                                 changes the gamma 
  [F12]                                       screenshot (in ~/shotX.tga)
  [ESC]                                       come back to the game menu

Options : You can change the screen resolution in ~/.arkhart/arkrenderer.cfg ; 
to run the client fullscreen, just type ./Client/arkclient --fullscreen 

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4. Troubleshooting
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Be sure you have followed _all_ the instructions of the INSTALL ; especially
check that you have run both install.sh scripts (you might want to edit
~/arkhart/*.cfg to check).

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5. Can I help ?
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	Sure, you're welcome to give us any help you can. Take a look at the
NEWS file to know what is already implemented ; there is a TODO for the
project, but it isn't really up-to-date. Anyway, you should definitely
contact us at staff@nekeme.net

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