Valve you're freakin awesome thanks so much!!! This is like a gift to all the creative people in the world. This is seriously one of the nicest things a company has ever done, bravo guys, keep at it!
I'm having trouble with it too because I'm not familiar with these types of programs. I'm having to take it very slowly and exploring every little thing before moving on to the next.
Hey Valve I went to the Game World in a Map and It's just pitch Black and I move and I see Every Team Fortress 2 Character With Highly Disturbing Broken Mouths. I'll be having nightmares tonight
@@biggestboss2968 the map is cp_cloak or cloak, extremely terrifying map. Pyro looks normal but sniper and scout... I wont forget. Sniper looks like Piss Cakehole after saying "im gonna carve you", and scout has a silly grin but his lower lip is twisted and forms loops. This cannot be seen through the viewport.
When I was first trying to learn SFM through trial-and-error, I actually figured out the gameplay recording on my own and managed to make something where I had a bunch of Scouts swarming a reference posing Heavy.
I can see this being a CPU hog, good thing I have 8GB RAM lol. But seriously thank you very much Valve, you've made this really easy, versatile and professional program for any use in filmaking. Extremely great work this will be a big hit in the machinimating community! :D
yeah even if the animations are kinda lame only using the pose to pose animation is pretty simple just watch the valve videos and you're good to go, but i agree messing around with sequences and custom animations and all that crap seems to hard
I have exactly the same glitch. After 4 years of development. Btw If you try to record a sentry like that, there will be all variations of it (lvl 1, 2, 3 and bluebrint) on the same place
when i go into the "gameworld" once i choose my player everything is black, i can hear the sounds of my weapons when i fire and running when i run, but i can't see any of that, its as though scout went blind
If you read the FAQ they state that, and this is a direct quote: "In the past, we’ve found that giving away our tools for free leads to the community creating amazing things for themselves and for others. All the items in the Team Fortress Workshop, and in fact Team Fortress itself, are a testament to how amazing the community’s creations are. We can’t wait to see what amazing creations you make with the SFM." What makes you think they would just turn around and charge for it?
Click windows and open up whatever tabs/windows you need. The main ones (from what I believe) are the Primary Viewpoint, Console, Animation Set Editor, Element Set and the Timeline...
I can't wait for the beta key, I always wanted to make a little machinima, but I couldn't find the right tools. I heard of SFM when people found it in the beta files, but I wanted to wait and see if you ever will release it, I'm glad that you did VALVe. Well, I hope I can get the beta, I didn't get Global Offensive or DOTA, but I hope the one that really counts will help me out. :)
There are a lot of things that would be much easier to do in Gmod, like positioning ragdolls. Ideally we will get some relationship between the two soon. Garry is planning to work on it.
Very helpful, Thanks a bunch. However, I am not hearing t he beeps. I have music disabled. Is it regarded as part of the music? Or do I need to change a setting in the movie window?
If there is one thing I recommend it's animate as the video shows and save then watch the next video.. Don't rush through a couple videos then animate. You must learn as you work through it and it will have the best outcome.
+RhysKArbonate Tough, 99% of the sfm contents will be related with tf2 or with what the fans want (eg overwatch, fnaf and all that stuff), so you'll tryhard to find props.
Yeah, I think that, with the kind of people getting in, SFM won't really get past Meet the Heavy parodies until the final release, when all of us that have been begging for it can finally have it. (Don't get me wrong, I love some of the Meet the Heavy spoofs and intend to make one myself when I can, but I think it's about time for people to start posting some nice, long, epic videos. I already have a story in mind that could become an entire hour-and-a-half-long movie.
had to restart sfm a couple of times becuase the program kept breaking, but i managed to record a scene on doublecross of regular fighting. thanks for the tutorial!
Well when ever I try to make the scout run on recording, I run to the end of somewhere. When I review the video, the scout just sits where I stopped... I mean,... WTF
+SwagGirl9876 ! Did you try to use "Teleport player to camera" when looking at somewhere near the map? some maps are very far away from the "spawn" point
I heard DevilArtemis usually uses SFM and Blender in his videos. How do you get Dragon Ball Models in 2024??? O.o And Zelda models too. I know in Gmod Nintendo took them down. But any way to make a Zelda film would be great. :) How do you get sound effects too? And Saiyan Auras, etc?
When I do the soldier Take, The scouts wont move! Once the take is finished the Video is the scout moving and the soldier just standing still! any help?
When I try to make a recording, but have already cut the sequence into multiple shots, that recording ends as soon as it hits a cut. I did the 2 scouts fine, but later wanted to add a third, but he only showed up in the first shot. How can I make him appear across the full sequence like the others?
I can't even get to game mode. I need to have my desktop running in order for source film maker to run, so ever time I hit f11 it just takes me to my desktop
Zakirullah Yazid Source Filmmaker is in beta, meaning there's gonna be a lot of bugs. To say someone is unlucky for finding a bug in a program with a lot of bugs makes no sense.
How to make an animation 1. make a soldier go into a scene 2. make an enemy spy disguised as a spy sneak up behind him 3. make the soldier do the MAGGOTS taunt 4. as he says it the disguised enemy spy shoots him ass and it ends 5. you have an amazing animation.
going into this without knowing a very much, I recently started doing a spy journey and I wanted to make an intro for my videos with my spy. I've already learned how to take a poster in SFM and it's now my profile picture and my background on my channel :) I'm willing to have patience and learn a lot!
I did everything that you said, when I got to the record bit, I recorded the scout running, then after I stop recording, the recorded scout just stands where he was when the recording finished, I play it over but he does not move at all, he just stands still where he was standing at the end of recording, how to fix and what am I doing wrong? Please reply A.S.A.P it'll be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I had the same thing. What you have to do is go to your graphics card settings and set SFM to use your GPU for graphics processing. By default for some reason, SFM is set to use the integrated CPU graphics which aren't as good. I'm assuming your computer's graphics is fairly good.
How can i interact with recorded things ? How can i sap sentrys, shoot guys and how can i make ''first person'' as sniper so you see the scope in the camera ? Hope i get good tips
I'm having an issue with my SFM. Every time I move or record the screen middle screen keep flashing to black like strobe lights. Is there an explanation for that, and if so, how do I make it stop.
You know what would be nice? A feature where a previous recorded clip would actually work in the game world. Like if he recorded the RED soldier first and the rockets exploded on the ground, and then the scouts get recorded right afterwards and happen to be in that explosion and take damage from it. It'd definitely be a nice feature
You could record one clip as another class and then have a medic in another clip run after him. use particle effects and the sound effects to make it seem as if the medic is healing him
When I use the f11 key there's this smaller window where I control the scout. When I press it again it doesn't go away. And if I try to record it goes away and oh! Great! It says no map loaded! Yeah SFM great work
For the F11 hotkey, it doesn't work for me. I can only activate game mode by going to the "Windows" tab within the SFM editor and when I'm there I can't switch back unless I pause it, and click back onto the editor. When I click record, I have to go to the window, I tried the whole process, and it only recorded the part at the place where I stopped the scout from running.
Alternatively, changing the layout (Windows, down at the bottom is Layouts) will allow you to just use those. And the Custom layouts are the same as the default if you don't change them.
What if you want to record without using the actor models(as in record without seeing the players holding their gun in first person)? How would I do that?
I think its just that its naturally just set to a resolution that you can't use,just change the resolution that fits your screen and it should work,worked for me
I finished an animation (releasing it soon, most likely the 8th of February, 2015), and it has 26 shots on 5 maps, and when i watched it, it did everything on one map, which looked REALLY messed up. how do I fix this?
you have to higher the camera you have teleported the player to and make sure that it is high enough for the character to be able to fit upon the ground
I'm still hanging in there, couldn't select the (Red Team) Didnt use same map, not sure if i even have this game, but just copied the blue guy a 3rd time, and set him down wind for an ambush.. On to 02 Editing... Still want to know why HL2 maps don't show up?
Tf2 players be like: "Dude just rocket jump."
I'm SOOO glad Valve made these videos. I was lost when I opened SFM the first time.
Valve you're freakin awesome thanks so much!!! This is like a gift to all the creative people in the world. This is seriously one of the nicest things a company has ever done, bravo guys, keep at it!
Legendary Ever !
yeah
It took this man's comment 10 YEARS to have a single reply
this didnt age well, both tf2 and sfm have no more love
I thought i could learn SFM lol what was i thinking lmao
You can!
Immortal Vela yeah same here. 😢
I'm having trouble with it too because I'm not familiar with these types of programs. I'm having to take it very slowly and exploring every little thing before moving on to the next.
how is it hard lol
@@TheDankEngineer its very confusing for someone who has no experiance with this program myself included
Hey Valve I went to the Game World in a Map and It's just pitch Black and I move and I see Every Team Fortress 2 Character With Highly Disturbing Broken Mouths. I'll be having nightmares tonight
You got the hardware morphs
what map is it?Im curious now
@@biggestboss2968 the map is cp_cloak or cloak, extremely terrifying map. Pyro looks normal but sniper and scout... I wont forget. Sniper looks like Piss Cakehole after saying "im gonna carve you", and scout has a silly grin but his lower lip is twisted and forms loops. This cannot be seen through the viewport.
@@biggestboss2968 it is cp_cloak. pic here. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=81356121. It is of demoman.
@@j.s.radhakrishnan2006 LOL thats hillarious
When I was first trying to learn SFM through trial-and-error, I actually figured out the gameplay recording on my own and managed to make something where I had a bunch of Scouts swarming a reference posing Heavy.
Legendary Ever !
lol
funny XD
same. mine just stands where I stopped recording
hey blazers nfkrz here
omg nfkrz
why are u here
hold up you used sfm at one point?
when i recorded the soldier part it deleted the whole animation.
wtf.
Epic Shane Animations i found u lel
Epic Shane Animations Happened to me. I went to delete a take and just "disconnected from server"
You do realise its different for everybody, right bruh?
Did you ctrl+s
Bobtheawesome gaming and more Subscribe wow you are literally crying over a comment.
I can see this being a CPU hog, good thing I have 8GB RAM lol. But seriously thank you very much Valve, you've made this really easy, versatile and professional program for any use in filmaking. Extremely great work this will be a big hit in the machinimating community! :D
reading this now i was like at least?
I tought it was called Shortfilmmaker when i was younger XD
haha
its basically what it is
DUDE OMG SAME
might as well be
I would LOOOVE to see a Portal version too. Bonus points if it can import demo files from the actual game as a starting point.
Legendary Ever !
so hard i rage quitted and started making posters
it is hard, but keep trying!
Good stuff don't come easy hah. You can make some amazing stuff with this program though.
yeah even if the animations are kinda lame only using the pose to pose animation is pretty simple just watch the valve videos and you're good to go, but i agree messing around with sequences and custom animations and all that crap seems to hard
MrSmeshy do u want a saxxy award
please just don't you made me cringe so hard dude
i get a glitch where after i record something i will just get a still frame of scout standing where i ended the recording
I get that too :/
That's not a glitch
The position of the scout depends on where you are in the timeline
3 years kater the glitch still exists
I got that glitch as well, It was really anoying at first, but just restart filmaker and it will go back to normal!
I have exactly the same glitch. After 4 years of development. Btw If you try to record a sentry like that, there will be all variations of it (lvl 1, 2, 3 and bluebrint) on the same place
when i go into the "gameworld" once i choose my player everything is black, i can hear the sounds of my weapons when i fire and running when i run, but i can't see any of that, its as though scout went blind
That happen to me.
It is because ur pc didnt load it try upgrading ur pc
blind lol
Just reload the mal again.Was working for me😊
These game mode recordings are gonna make walk cycles so much easier to animate
This so helpful! At first, I just wanted to make posters, now I wanna see what I can do with this!
If you read the FAQ they state that, and this is a direct quote:
"In the past, we’ve found that giving away our tools for free leads to the community creating amazing things for themselves and for others. All the items in the Team Fortress Workshop, and in fact Team Fortress itself, are a testament to how amazing the community’s creations are. We can’t wait to see what amazing creations you make with the SFM."
What makes you think they would just turn around and charge for it?
Maybe the fact it’s been 11 years and it’s still free
Click windows and open up whatever tabs/windows you need.
The main ones (from what I believe) are the Primary Viewpoint, Console, Animation Set Editor, Element Set and the Timeline...
I can't wait for the beta key, I always wanted to make a little machinima, but I couldn't find the right tools. I heard of SFM when people found it in the beta files, but I wanted to wait and see if you ever will release it, I'm glad that you did VALVe.
Well, I hope I can get the beta, I didn't get Global Offensive or DOTA, but I hope the one that really counts will help me out. :)
0:15 - When you said to press F11 to switch to game world, whoa.
Which keyboard buttons I got click first in order to go to the "Select a team" menu in the 3:38 mins, and to chance team and specialty unit?
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@@imnotcreative3570 I know im late as fuck but you're a life saver
Muito bom ,além é claro os tutorias dos sdks.
There are a lot of things that would be much easier to do in Gmod, like positioning ragdolls. Ideally we will get some relationship between the two soon. Garry is planning to work on it.
11 years later and garry still planning on make relationship with sfm
fr
Very helpful, Thanks a bunch. However, I am not hearing t he beeps. I have music disabled. Is it regarded as part of the music? Or do I need to change a setting in the movie window?
I bet it's the music.
Yeah it was I figured it out
TheQuantumMechanic Brilliant.
the fact that you can actually play tf2 in sfm-
Fun fact: you can actually play 2007 TF2 in sfm. Are you time traveling :O
If there is one thing I recommend it's animate as the video shows and save then watch the next video.. Don't rush through a couple videos then animate. You must learn as you work through it and it will have the best outcome.
I don't want to use Team Fortress for animations though.
This is just the basics, you can do whatever you want if you get the hang of it.
+RhysKArbonate Tough, 99% of the sfm contents will be related with tf2 or with what the fans want (eg overwatch, fnaf and all that stuff), so you'll tryhard to find props.
yes but Team Fortress has many wonderful characters and props to make anything else better
good job you let me make a war scene using only scouts and me XD
Yeah, I think that, with the kind of people getting in, SFM won't really get past Meet the Heavy parodies until the final release, when all of us that have been begging for it can finally have it. (Don't get me wrong, I love some of the Meet the Heavy spoofs and intend to make one myself when I can, but I think it's about time for people to start posting some nice, long, epic videos. I already have a story in mind that could become an entire hour-and-a-half-long movie.
is this the guy that made emesis blue
hey source filmmake YOU ROCK YOU ARE AWESOME AND YOU JUST GOT A SUB!
SHUT THE FRICK UP!!
but how to use workshop models instead of tf2 characters. i want to recreate the joker stairs scene with big smoke
Maybe download them and then search for them
A noble cause
had to restart sfm a couple of times becuase the program kept breaking, but i managed to record a scene on doublecross of regular fighting. thanks for the tutorial!
Well when ever I try to make the scout run on recording, I run to the end of somewhere. When I review the video, the scout just sits where I stopped... I mean,... WTF
+Cronnic Creator me toooo
i think you forgot to go back to the beginning of the shot
Lol! I thought for the Red Soldier, you were going to speed pogo all the way there!😅
I have windows 8, I can't f11. Can I change the hotkey?
*****
I fixed the problem. Hold down fn while you push f11.
***** i don't even have an FN key
Where is FN key for Windows 8?
peter phan it depends on your keyboard
click FN key :D
its actually a really good starting video to make. everyone should!
F11 only darkened the screen. How do I change that?
I use it. It is fine.
+SwagGirl9876 ! Did you try to use "Teleport player to camera" when looking at somewhere near the map? some maps are very far away from the "spawn" point
you can do that in right clicking either the map, or clicking the camera button.
No problem! Always glad to help!
every comment here has +1, lol, nice.
I love this!!! Great Advice!!
when i went into the game world i crashed sfm lol
I heard DevilArtemis usually uses SFM and Blender in his videos. How do you get Dragon Ball Models in 2024??? O.o And Zelda models too. I know in Gmod Nintendo took them down. But any way to make a Zelda film would be great. :) How do you get sound effects too? And Saiyan Auras, etc?
When I do the soldier Take, The scouts wont move! Once the take is finished the Video is the scout moving and the soldier just standing still! any help?
Same problem here.
[Sound of scout running] Amazing tutorial and text :D
was that a voice crack? 0:56
+PixelCharm LOL
"and don't forget hit control S to save your work" Is SFM's way of saying like and subscribe
so how can a character kill a character?
I am interested in the answer too.
Kaan F.P.S Oynuyo me too
well when a character gets hit you can press a kill bind to make the character die to make it seem like the other character killed the other character
o o f Or you can do it by pose-by-pose.
When I try to make a recording, but have already cut the sequence into multiple shots, that recording ends as soon as it hits a cut. I did the 2 scouts fine, but later wanted to add a third, but he only showed up in the first shot. How can I make him appear across the full sequence like the others?
I cant get the f11 key to work with windows 8. help me
I have windows 8 too, i just went to the little settings (next to camera) and clicked it. then i went over to the "Record Game" button :)
I can't even get to game mode. I need to have my desktop running in order for source film maker to run, so ever time I hit f11 it just takes me to my desktop
Never mind, I figured if out
thanks. but now my problem is getting out of game mode
EpicGravity, isn't f11 dim?
This is so Usefull. Thanks you random person
I have a question because my computer says there is a map loaded but..... It's just a black screen :(
Just wait
This bug can be the cause of the camera spawning outside the map. Try moving around the camera a lot and you'll eventually find the map.
yeah if your unlucky
Zakirullah Yazid Source Filmmaker is in beta, meaning there's gonna be a lot of bugs. To say someone is unlucky for finding a bug in a program with a lot of bugs makes no sense.
Ok yea Lol Thanks
this is a great video ill give props to source filmaker for coming out with an intelexctual filiming decice
how did he change character?
+Joe Ridgley i cant either
+Joe Ridgley try "," key
+Joe Ridgley Like he normally would in TF2
, Change class
. Change Team
I can change the character too.
How to make an animation
1. make a soldier go into a scene
2. make an enemy spy disguised as a spy sneak up behind him
3. make the soldier do the MAGGOTS taunt
4. as he says it the disguised enemy spy shoots him ass and it ends
5. you have an amazing animation.
What is a "him ass"
how do you delete them
With delete button
going into this without knowing a very much, I recently started doing a spy journey and I wanted to make an intro for my videos with my spy.
I've already learned how to take a poster in SFM and it's now my profile picture and my background on my channel :)
I'm willing to have patience and learn a lot!
i'm depressed. F11 doesn't work on my computer. :(
3:07 I don't have the "manage takes" option.
Great vid, exactly what I needed thanks! worked perfectly!
i'm glad you're telling me to save my work xD because i allways forget that xDD
I didint watch this for the tutorial, i watched it to hear his actually nice and smooth voice.
класс!!! всегда мечтал быть режжисёром!!!!!!!)))) а свои миры и своих героев можно создавать?
I did everything that you said, when I got to the record bit, I recorded the scout running, then after I stop recording, the recorded scout just stands where he was when the recording finished, I play it over but he does not move at all, he just stands still where he was standing at the end of recording, how to fix and what am I doing wrong? Please reply A.S.A.P it'll be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
1:44 "Were going to stop time with the spacebar..." XD
za warudo
dude this is AWESOME!
This helped me so much! Thanks!
Your favorite film, videos, and music, were made on Macs. Food for thought.
I had the same thing. What you have to do is go to your graphics card settings and set SFM to use your GPU for graphics processing. By default for some reason, SFM is set to use the integrated CPU graphics which aren't as good. I'm assuming your computer's graphics is fairly good.
Recorded characters are nice for creating a background for an animation scene.
How can i interact with recorded things ? How can i sap sentrys, shoot guys and how can i make ''first person'' as sniper so you see the scope in the camera ? Hope i get good tips
I'm having an issue with my SFM. Every time I move or record the screen middle screen keep flashing to black like strobe lights.
Is there an explanation for that, and if so, how do I make it stop.
THANK YOU AMAZING SAINT!! :D
You know what would be nice? A feature where a previous recorded clip would actually work in the game world. Like if he recorded the RED soldier first and the rockets exploded on the ground, and then the scouts get recorded right afterwards and happen to be in that explosion and take damage from it. It'd definitely be a nice feature
You could record one clip as another class and then have a medic in another clip run after him. use particle effects and the sound effects to make it seem as if the medic is healing him
So thanks for the Nightmares Valve. Great Software Valve. Really. Ger-ate. 😕
When I use the f11 key there's this smaller window where I control the scout. When I press it again it doesn't go away. And if I try to record it goes away and oh! Great! It says no map loaded! Yeah SFM great work
Thanks so much this made mine look great.
Got lost somewhere quarter-way through. Fuck it.
thanks for making film maker but work on half life 3
REALLY HELPFUL! :,D DIDN'T SEE THESE!
For the F11 hotkey, it doesn't work for me. I can only activate game mode by going to the "Windows" tab within the SFM editor and when I'm there I can't switch back unless I pause it, and click back onto the editor. When I click record, I have to go to the window, I tried the whole process, and it only recorded the part at the place where I stopped the scout from running.
THEN try FN + F11
These videos helped me
I am making a FNAF animation and when i go to shoot im out of the map.
And how do i use the FNAF models i got them but how do i use them?
i love how your icon looks like how you're laughing at him
Being the 6,900th person to like the video is... an honor.
Alternatively, changing the layout (Windows, down at the bottom is Layouts) will allow you to just use those. And the Custom layouts are the same as the default if you don't change them.
What if you want to record without using the actor models(as in record without seeing the players holding their gun in first person)? How would I do that?
all cubemaps just kinda broke, the scouts dissapeared, solider just got stuck inside the ground. i give up
Since you can record game plays of Team Fortress 2, think you can let us do the same thing with other games like Splinter Cell or Halo?
What button for record on the keyboard do I use.
I think its just that its naturally just set to a resolution that you can't use,just change the resolution that fits your screen and it should work,worked for me
I finished an animation (releasing it soon, most likely the 8th of February, 2015), and it has 26 shots on 5 maps, and when i watched it, it did everything on one map, which looked REALLY messed up. how do I fix this?
you have to higher the camera you have teleported the player to and make sure that it is high enough for the character to be able to fit upon the ground
is it possible to chance animations while using record... like if I don't like the face the game character makes could I change it?
yiy
It should work in portal and CS too, but they won't have any facial rigging.
I'm still hanging in there, couldn't select the (Red Team) Didnt use same map, not sure if i even have this game, but just copied the blue guy a 3rd time, and set him down wind for an ambush.. On to 02 Editing... Still want to know why HL2 maps don't show up?
I thought you could only play as blu scouts
Cool
oh thank you :) I`ve miss understood it!!! I thought i have to press f11 when i was in the game :D im from germany so i miss understood it :) Thx
If you pressed F11 from the game side and ended up with the gray layout with orange text, just press wjndows on the top left and select "QT Port"
2020 anyone?
I used to use the NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS. It worked fine for me in Garry's Mod, I'm not sure how well SFM would have worked though.
It is the SOURCE film maker. It works with games that run on the SOURCE engine only.