Prelewd v0.2 / PFM v0.4.2 / Important Patreon Changes

Patreon changes

I've been working on a bunch of organizational changes, some of which will affect the supporter rewards going forward:

• The supporter page where you can manage your rewards has changed and is now accessible here: https://supporter.pragma-engine.com/patreon
• The supporter page now has checkboxes for toggling your credits name visibility for the Filmmaker and Prelewd credits tickers (Filmmaker is enabled by default, Prelewd disabled)
• Filmmaker preview/early-access updates are now available to $5 tiers and above (previously >= $10 tiers)
• There are now supporter-only Discord channels on the Prelewd server. To access them, you have to link your Discord account on the supporter page
• Early-access updates for the Filmmaker and Prelewd will be distributed through Discord from now on (the "#early-updates" channel on either server). This will only affect new supporters, anyone who already has an early-access DLC key will still get updates through Steam

• 5$ Tiers and above now get access to additional retarget rigs for Prelewd (available on the Prelewd Discord server)

Prelewd v0.2

A new version of Prelewd is now available! You can get it from the supporter page.

Trailer: https://pragma-engine.com/share/nsfw/prelewd_trailer.mp4

Some of the new features include:

• A new animation by DesireSFM *
• Major performance improvements *
• New project configuration options for custom Prelewd projects
• VR upper body tracking
• Major retargeting improvements
• A new menu for character flex controllers (timed $10 exclusive)

* These were already available in the early-access preview version

As mentioned above, $5 tiers and above also now have access to new exclusive channels on the Prelewd Discord server, where I will be posting new retarget rigs once in a while, which allow you to replace the characters in the animations with custom ones:

(There's both a furry and a non-furry channel for retarget rigs.)

I'm also working on a few tutorials on how to set up new Prelewd projects from SFM animations, as well as custom retarget rigs, but they're still work-in-progress: https://prelewd.pragma-engine.com/books/projects

PFM v0.4.2

I've recently released PFM v0.4.2 (Engine version 1.0.1), you can also get it from the supporter page. It includes all of the features from the early-access version, you can find the full changelog over here. Some of the other new early-access features include:

• Volumetric Lighting 
• Subdivision for LuxCoreRender
• Massive Lua performance improvements

I've also been working on updating the Lua documentation. There are over five thousand Lua function bindings and hundreds of Lua classes and libraries, which I can't document all by hand, but I've been working on and off on a system for generating a basic documentation automatically. It's almost complete now, I've already updated the auto-complete script for ZeroBrane (https://wiki.pragma-engine.com/books/lua-api/page/zerobrane-ide), as well as the database for the "lua_help" console command, but I still have to generate the wiki articles for all of the functions and add information that can't be auto-generated (function descriptions, etc.) by hand, which will still take some time😅.