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Update news: Lighting & Video recording

Hey, all!


Another quick update on what I'm working on. I don't know how frequent these posts are going to be, but I'll try to publish something every couple of days or so!

Anyway, I'm currently working on importing light sources from SFM session files. Sadly, that is not quite as straight-forward as it may seem, so this post is going to be a little more technical (but hopefully not too boring ;) ).


Lighting Conversion

Pragma, Cy...

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Progress Demo #1

Hey, all! :)

Here's a short video (timed Patreon exclusive) showcasing what I'm working on at the moment. The GUI is just a placeholder, of course, as is the lighting, the skybox, etc, I mainly wanted to show off the session loader and the raytracing with Cycles.

You can generate quick preview shots which only take a second to render, but have a very low resolution and sample count (currently 512x512 with 4 samples, denoised), or high-quality shots (1024x1024 with 64 samples for t...

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Project Goals and Overview

Hey, all!


I'm sure you're all curious on what my concrete plans for the near future are, so here's a quick rundown:

The end-goal of the project is to create a fully functional, open-source alternative to the source filmmaker, with various improvements, new features, as well as higher moddability and stability. I've created a survey a while back to gather feedback in regards to working with the source filmmaker, I'll be using the responses from that (as well as general f...

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