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Pragma currently only supports rendering image sequences, which means you still need a video editing program to merge the individual frames into a video. To render an image sequence in Pragma, all you have to do is increase the Number of frames slider in the ...

The viewport window provides a real-time preview of your scene which you can interact with to select actors, move them around, etc. Movement To move the work camera around in the viewport, click (and hold) the right mouse button and drag the cursor around. A...

The actor editor window is where you can add new actors to your scene, or change actor properties. An actor can be anything from a light source to a prop or the sky. The actors are all displayed in a tree-structure on the left-hand side of the actor editor: ...

The Graph Editor () is where you can animate actors and actor properties: Animating Properties PFM uses keyframe animations and animation curves, please familiarize yourself with them if you aren't already. Most actor properties can be animated, with the ...

This article is a work-in-progress. Creating a Particle System To create a new particle system, open the particle explorer by selecting Windows > Particle Catalog in the menu bar. If you want to add a particle system to an existing particle system file/colle...

The model catalog shows a list of all of the available model assets. This includes all of the assets installed in Pragma, as well as all of the assets available through your installed Source Engine (and Source 2) Steam Games. You can open the model catalog ...

Above is the initial view you should be seeing when launching PFM for the first time. The interface is very similar to that of SFM, so if you're familiar with SFM you should feel mostly at home. That being said, there are significant differences as well. Her...

Fog is currently only available for the Pragma renderer. To get a similar effect with Cycles/LuxCoreRender, see Volumetric Lighting. To add fog to your scene, click the -button in the actor editor and select New fog controller. If the option is not availabl...

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To be able to animate using inverse kinematics, you have to set it up first. Luckily doing so is fairly straight-forward: Create an articulated actor in your scene Expand the bone list actor > Components > animated > bone in the actor editor Right-click t...

Volumetric lighting can be used to create fog, light beams, dust in the air and similar effects. In PFM there are several different volumetric effects available depending on the renderer you're using. Volumetric Spot-Lights Volumetric spot-lights are curre...

PFM comes with an internal web-browser with bookmarks to various websites with a large amount of free 3D assets. You can open it via Windows > Web Browser in the menu bar. Downloading any files through this browser will automatically trigger Pragma's impor...

This article is a work-in-progress! Please check back another time. This workflow assumes that you have already set up a project ready for rendering, and that you have read the article about the rendering window. For rendering posters, it is recommended that...

This workflow assumes that you have already set up a project ready for rendering, and that you have read the article about the rendering window. For rendering animations, it is recommended that you use the Pragma renderer. Using a raytracing renderer like Cyc...

Please see this article for information on how to render for Virtual Reality devices.