Progress Demo #1 (Patreon)

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 this video, otherwise it would've taken too long to render, you'll be able to customize that of course).

The rendering takes place in the background (indicated by the green bar) and works on a copy of the scene, so you can still interact with the scene, but it's limited to screenshots so far.

I want to get a few more things done before releasing the preview for T-3 Patrons, shouldn't take more than a few days though! Technically the importer should work with any SFM session, but I've only done tests with the Meet-the-Engineer session so far.

Thank you all for your support! ❤️