silverlan

VR, Asset Import Pipeline and Performance Updates

Hey all, it's that time of the month again! 😄

General

So, turns out VR is a little more taxing than I thought, so my performance improvements from last time weren't quite enough an...

LuxCoreRender, Fur Rendering, Performance improvements and a new Prelewd animation

Hey all! Here's another quick overview of what's currently being worked on 😋

Filmmaker

LuxCoreRender

I've added support for LuxCoreRender, which is a pathtracing ren...

[NSFW] Prelewd Radial Menu Customization / PFM updates

Prelewd

I've been working on some Sims-style radial/pie menus to replace the drop-down menus for character customization:

2020-11-13 21:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Prelewd Project Launch / Important Patreon changes

[Content Warning: All links in this post are NSFW (non-furry and furry content)]

Hey all!

I already mentioned in my last post I was going to launch a new project to try...

Animation Retargeting / Color Management / Misc

Animation Retargeting

This is something I've really wanted to do for a while, and it turned out much better than I expected: I've implemented an animation retargeting system, which...

Cycles Updates

Apologies for the long wait since my last post. I've made a bunch of changes and improvements to my implementation of the Cycles renderer, which is always time consuming since there's no proper dev...

Wiki Overhaul / Update News

New Wiki

I've been dissatisfied with the old Wiki for a while now, so I've finally switched to a different wiki software now (2020-08-18 14:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Status Update

Hey guys!

I haven't posted any updates recently since I've mostly been busy with some internal engine updates that I can't really show very well, but here's a rough overview of some of the re...

Post-processing and render tools

External render tool

I've added an external render tool which can be used as an alternative to re...

Meet the Soldier - Raytraced

Better late then never, here's finally the full Meet the Soldier short, rendered with Cycles (+Pragma for the particle systems)! It won't be the final render, since there's still a lot of room for ...

Particle Updates

Hey all!

I'd love to say that I'm done with particles, but they've proven to be a bit more finicky than I'd like. I ended up having to rewrite parts of my particle system implementation (as w...

Progress Overview

Hey all!

I'm working on a bunch of stuff simultaneously at the moment, so I don't have anything complete to show, but here's a general overview of what's being worked on:

2020-05-12 17:57:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Material Editor / Public Source Code

Hey all!

Here's the material editor I was talking about in my last post 😋 . Its purpose is primarily to make the import of texture assets as easy as possible, as well as allow you to edit ...

Model Import/Export and Model Catalog Updates

Apologies for the lack of posts lately, I've been very busy working on the import/export capabilities, but it wasn't something I could show off very well until now.

That being said, these fea...

glTF Asset Export

A lot of people have been asking for a proper model exporter for Pragma recently, so I've decided to implement support for exporting models in the 2020-03-28 17:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Half-Life: Alyx - Russell's Lab - 360° Cycles render

Just a quickie, I've added support for rendering panorama (as well as orthographic) images with Cycles, which allows you to create 360° videos (among other things):

Ortographic:

2020-03-24 05:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post