Rendering

To render your scene, switch to the "Cycles-Renderer" tab above the viewport. You should see a black square image with several render options to the right and several buttons below it.

If you want to get a quick preview render, click the "Render Preview" button. This will render an image with a very low sample count and low resolution, which gives you a rough idea of what the final render will look like, but should not be used as your final render.

When rendering an image for a new project or a new map for the first time, Pragma may appear frozen for a few minutes, this is because some additional asset conversions are required for the Cycles-renderer. Subsequent renders should not take as long.

To render your final image(s), press the "Render Image(s)" button. Depending on the complexity of the scene, your hardware, the specified sample count and various other factors, this can take anything between several seconds and minutes. Once rendering is complete, the image will automatically get saved to the specified output directory on your harddrive, you can press the "Open Output Folder" to open it in the system explorer.

You can use the render options to change the resolution, sample count, number of frames to render, etc. To get more details about a specific option, hover over it with the mouse and a tooltip should appear.

In general it is not recommended to render a large sequence of images or images with a large sample count / high resolution directly in Pragma and to use the external render tool instead. Please see that section for details.