Jahshaka 0.9.1 beta Pre-release

2025-09-28T08:11:38.817000Z

Welcome to the Jahshaka 0.9.1 beta release! A year in the making and rebuilt from the ground up to run on Qt 6.9 with support for the latest Oculus libraries so you can build and explore in VR. All modules have been updated and we have opened up the asset manager to allow for a variety of 3D formats making it a powerful 3D asset management solution.

Key features of the release:

Full Qt 6.9.1 based codebase running on Windows, Linux and OsX (intel & M1)
Full cross platform, build on any OS and explore in VR in windows
Updated Oculus to latest libraries for Quest Link on Quest and Pro headsets
VR Support for Hands in Player and Controllers in the editor
Migrated all sample projects and scenes to run on Qt 6.9 codebase
Direct Support for OBJ, FBX, GLTF, GLB models
Includes many bug-fixes, cleanups, better workflows and a much more powerful application as we keep building.

Development Roadmap

We are focused on expanding the Asset module to create an industry leading 3D asset management solution. Work has also begun on upgrading the core IrisGL engine to support VTK which will bring a full PBR pipeline to future releases, along with integration with scientific data models and widgets for advanced experiences in VR.

Jahshaka Studio 0.8 Beta Released

2019-11-20T11:50:55.728000Z

The Jahshaka Project is pleased to announce the release of Jahshaka 0.8! A year in the making and rebuilt from the ground up with a powerful new node based materials and effects system with real time previews. Our new materials will be used in all scenes moving ahead to allow for the dynamic creation of high-quality environments.

We have also integrated physics into all scenes, built our own Virtual Hands so both creators and visitors can engage and manipulate scenes, rebuilt our Sky engine and added the ability to have ambient audio in scenes to bring them to life. We have also merged JahfX into the new Jahshaka.com website to make it easier to download assets and scenes.

Jahshaka 0.8 brings you a lot of great new features!

Material Editor – our new node based material builder
Physics – now fully integrated on all objects
Use hands in VR mode – grab and throw objects
Multiple sky types for more immersive environments
Ambient Audio – set background audio for scenes
JahFX merged into Jahshaka.com
We’re excited to put this release out after months of hard work and dedication. Our team is excited to see what you’ll create with these new tools.

Read the full release

You can read the foll press release over at the Jahshaka website at

https://www.jahshaka.com/jahshaka-studio-0-8-beta-release/

Download Jahshaka

You can download Jahshaka for both Windows and OsX via the links below.

Jahshaka 0.8.1 Beta for Windows
Jahshaka 0.8.1 Beta for OsX

You can fork Jahshaka over at gitHub or build it for the top Linux distributions by visiting our builds page

Join our Community!

Remember to keep in touch with Jahshaka’s development by visiting our blog at https://www.jahshaka.com/blog. Also, follow us on twitter @jahshakafx and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jahshakafx

The Team

The Jahshaka Project

Jahplayer 0.2.0 Released!

2007-04-21T01:57:05Z

The Jahshaka Project is pleased to announce the release of jahplayer 0.2.0! This update bring us closer to a final release and includes a host of critical updates that are certain to please veteran users and provide a more stable and satisfying experience to those new to the open source project.

JahPlayer is a professional grade media player capable of playing uncompressed video and image sequences at resolutions as high as 2K and 4K in real-time and features a robust set of image analysis and asset management tools. Jahplayer uses a completely hardware accelerated pipeline, allowing you to maintain the aspect ratio of the source media or change it on the fly, and is capable of both disk based playback and ram based playback.

It has a variety of professional features including:

• Variable frame rate control
• Real-time aspect ratio control
• RGBA color channel views
• A & B media playback channels with both A/B & A|B playback
• Full audio support (including audio only tracks)
• Real-time hardware based pan and zoom
• Dynamic edit points stored in the database
• Dynamic thumbnail generation
• GPU based visualization tools (RGB parade)

Jahplayer supports a wide variety of media formats from AVI to Mpeg and QuickTime and has powerful image sequence management with support for JPEG, TIF, TARGA and the latest HDR formats, including EXR and DPX. It can also down sample 4k images to 1k or 2k, and includes extensive encoding functionality to allow you to transcode media to and from a variety of different formats (including output to DV, MPG and FLV).

With its dynamic python based UI, jahplayer allows you to work at any resolution or screen size, or toggle over to full screen, 16:9 mode for HD client review sessions! Jahplayers unique reel based asset management system allows you to create and track multiple reels on the fly, and loading media is as easy as just dragging your assets straight into the timeline! You can choose between asset data views, exploded filmstrip views or even a multi-shot reel based timeline!

Jplayer 0.2.0

Along with Jahplayer you now also get jplayer, a miniature version of the jahplayer with all the same power and functionality in a sleek package! jplayers desktop integration and ease of use gives you one tool to play back all your media files, with full support for everything from DivX to Quicktime, AVI and Mpegs!

Jplayer sports real time pan and zoom, is resolution independent, can be run from the command line, has HDR sequence support, and includes a dynamic, real time video wall that can be used for the playback of multiple shots, color grading or digital dalies!

Particpation Equals Ownership!

As an open source project, jahplayer will integrate seamlessly with other software tools. And because its built on the OpenLibraries & Python, its easily expandable via 3rd party plugins, is fully scriptable and easily customizable! Experience the best that open source has to offer and try out jahplayer and jplayer today!

http://www.jahshaka.org

The Jahshaka Project

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