SFM How to not be awful

[@steg3823]

If your just getting into sfm this video will help with that. However after a little while if your looking for further advancements in your sfm skill set, my channel does so happen to have a ton more info than this one gives on lighting, composition, posing and more. Also my more recent videos are better looking so yea.

[@quive5705]

Alright.

[@danshaw99]

Awesome doody

[@thememeguy1831]

Why did you wait so long to make this comment?

[@UseTheScience]

how do u even get into the folder where the frames are at

[@slither3072]

me who doesnt even know how to add a model " too complex"

[@metaldeeds6003]

SFM Update: Removed SFM (Too confusing to new players)

[@djralyks7200]

XD

[@EL_Megalomaniac]

Smb200+ remove update: removed removed(to easy to remove new players)

[@RedZeee]

we all know SFM never gets updated

[@Dehtt]

Dear god....

[@HEWHOTAWNS]

Ze insane Medic STOP COMMENTING AND MAKE VIDEOS I love you

[@Pidpie]

The real question is... Why is the scout cooking outside during winter?

[@zOOpygOOpert]

Necessity

[@IAmAbelValle]

@@zOOpygOOpert eat your cereal

[@IAmAbelValle]

@K-Soursin 123 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚎?

[@medicman9867]

because free stove

[@jamer198]

ikr

[@PaytonTate]

You should mention that SFM cameras, by default, have an atrociously high FOV, and often look far better at their default FOV.

[@NightmareCourtPictures]

That's actually a huge misconception about FOV. High FOV's can be useful and only certain shots can be achieved with a High FOV rather than a low one. It all depends on the aspect ratio of your movie. High FOV + wider aspect ratio(2.39:1) = less vertical distortion = epic awesome wide screen shots. High FOV + standard aspect ratio(4:3) = more vertical distortion = crappy distorted shit pile.

[@davidhatcher7016]

what is that?

[@chum8807]

Hi I like your videos

[@zOOpygOOpert]

But what if lower fov fits better with a lazy seen?

[@tetracev]

What is fov

[@Peasy_]

"I *donut* get it." I see what you did there.

[@steg3823]

Peasy I'm glad

[@rex198]

Peasy finding you was an accident

[@Peasy_]

k then

[@rex198]

Peasy _I'm from PMOTF2..._

[@rex198]

Peasy _I'm from PMOTF2..._

[@Remington-wl7jp]

Me: I want to try out 3D animation! My PC: Nah son My lack of patience: Nah son

[@RandoDudle]

Ummm what?

[@theshade0038]

Same

[@WingedTophat]

@@theshade0038 3 years ago

[@dice2030]

ya'll necro posting

[@Remington-wl7jp]

@@dice2030 It's cool I'm still around

[@Rigman-]

Titles video "how to not be awful", proceeds to show unorganized scene hierarchy. Haha, just bustin' your chops, great video!

[@HoovyTube]

You are pretty great. Thanks for a nice tutorial for the community coxoxooxoxoo

[@TheSlavGamer]

Yo wassup Hoovy Tube

[@liettousaikomori]

Hoovy Tube the ending to fortnite vs tf2 part 2 was kinda whack

[@OrisTV]

Your videos are getting better and better. This video is extremely well done. You are bound to explode soon. All the best :)

[@CT-oo6bc]

Oris tv. yeah

[@steg3823]

Oris tv thanks man. That means a lot to me

[@snaetos]

This has got to be one of the best tutorials on SFM that is available on here that isn't 25 minutes long and all over the place.

[@UseTheScience]

hello snaetos

[@mrpoetman3146]

hello Fuzzo

[@UseTheScience]

hello mr poet man

[@Nyuk_AllegedlyAtLeast]

I would totally have that cooking phone scout as a spray

[@brandongordon4019]

I dont even do anything sfm, but I watched all the way to the end cx. It is a really entertaining video, even to people who are oblivious to anything that's happening in the video (like me!)

[@leffan3107]

I watched your video like years ago and "Use the spine bones to make it look good" stuck with me until I had a computer capable of running sfm. Now everythong seems so easy for me to learn and to put into practise. You basically put everything I learned through other videos into this one and it's well done. Thanks a lot, dude

[@mitigated_ga11]

Yo, thank you so much for thus! I'm just starting out in making SFM posters, specifically for Splatoon, and this really helps me see what I have to work on... mostly lights and camera details. I appreciate this a lot 👌🏾

[@RandoDudle]

From all of the tutorials i saw for sfm this is the best so far thanks steg

[@RedZeee]

One more thing to increase the quality of your picture in terms of resolution! When exporting as Movie/ Image Sequence, you will notice that the max quality you can select is 720p. To increase that, go into the launch options and type -sfm_resolution 1080 (or 2160 respectively) and you'll be able to get that sweet full HD or 4k. As opposed to posters though, you cannot use any other resolution above 720p other than 1080p or 4k, else the export will be entirely black.

[@aryanpatra875]

Thank god for this

[@aryanpatra875]

God being steg

[@DSFII]

Aryan Patra lol

[@luciusrex8604]

go make posters for google+

[@aryanpatra875]

kk

[@riggz._]

Really helpful! Anything you said about 'new sfm'ers' I would look at the stuff I would normally make and just agree, my work has improved alot thanks to you, please make more!

[@BotherRed]

If you were a sniper main it would be. SFM How to not be AWPful

[@bio7554]

Sir Red get out...just leave. lol

[@flava2358]

i ll slap you

[@ArchVileDaClown]

Sir Red HI I'm a retire sniper MAIN and I find that offensive nah just kidding that was a good pun

[@vladwell3726]

Cyanide called he wants his pun back

[@jovanstokic7274]

now im goin to make an sfm poster :3 wait.. how do i load the map ._.

[@That0melette]

Right click the black screen(where it says no map loaded), and you should see an option that says "Load Map". Then just look up the map you want.

[@raidon7184]

Ctrl L

[@tall_prince]

Yeah those work.

[@LuxuriantCarrot]

r/woooosh

[@Cag03]

r/whooooosh

[@Akio_Kuno]

Ahhh fuck, this is pretty advanced. I've always been a big fan of SFM and always been wanting to learn how to use it and all, but it's way too complicated. But awesome video as usual Steg, your videos never fail to entertain me.

[@Moomoo-]

Finally a good vid of a sfm tutorial

[@charmyzard]

It's all trying to learn new stuff... *untill that moment when you move the camera, and you it 1/3 of a frame per second.*

[@edv.3788]

Instructions not clear, had to get an eyepatch

[@scintesto]

I just got goosebumps when i heard the first few notes of the song, god damn that opened up a bank of memories

[@CptSourcebird]

The "Bad lighting" bit actually reminded me of someone. Good on you, mate.

[@GoldBearanimationsYT]

Very good tutorial

[@Noblongg]

I literally grew up watching your content and I still love it to this day.

[@tilerandom]

@@Noblongg You watch Love Taste animations?

[@Creeperjr5]

Thx Steg, I knew lighting was important and all (I am currently in my third year of vid production) and i wanted to get into SFM a bit, this helped a lot

[@internetexplorer4]

Wow this was a really great video! So glad it popped up in my recommendations.

[@pikalop]

Eheh... I love how this is a bsic tutorial AND I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DOOoOOooOo

[@sharkbrostar9glory59]

This is the stuff Rookies Should to as a former sfm youtuber (atm) I'm glad a person like ur vid exist it goes to show my sfm skills were still here even when I had a long hiatus of sfm Thk u so much for ur guidance

[@sam-gh8oe]

great scout poster : beef, salt and anger.

[@mapbot4007]

This video was 7 years ago. The algorithim is insane yet helpful ngl

[@DriftSnow]

This video is my go-to referral when every sfm artists asks for feedback on reddit

[@TylerMcNamer]

How I pose characters is I do them myself, take a picture, and use the photo as a reference.

[@Stoner_Bun]

about 1000 hours in SFM. I had no idea volume lighting was a supported thing. Best day ever.

[@plope_]

I did not absorb absolutely any of this whatsoever, but I will continue to use SFM while telling myself I know what I'm doing now.

[@jonytf]

Wow. Even being a more experienced SFM user, I learned so many tricks I had never known previously. Thanks for such a useful and concise video!

[@Apelsinns]

Watching this now, I agree Lighting is the thing that gets me stuck as a beginner.

[@eemeliranta4864]

"But if you export it as a poster, it removes all the bloom in it" So THAT'S why my rendered images felt like they were missing something, thanks for mentioning!

[@cejaythegreatandawesome]

for a more detailed light composition use a nice mix of difused objects in the backround aswell as using a three point light

[@smirn.4547]

Nice tutorial man, i am an experienced sfmer myself and i gotta say you touched on topics that other tutorials havent and i think this is the best one on KZbin so far.

[@blue-boi]

well I have been doing SFM for about a year and a half and some stuff in this video I did not know about o.o so thanks a lot for this! now I can start doing my stuff better and better! thanks for this video!

[@jdprofanitybatman5212]

This is a fun tutorial to watch, even if I don't use SFM

[@axeltehbeast316]

Hey thanks man. Ive been doing digital 2D for a while and have been playing with sfm lately. This helped alot. I couldnt really find information on little nuances like, being able to change model colors with material override, that you are even able scale the model, thought I was stuck with default sizes of environment props; nor that you were capable of moving a light similar to a camera

[@atlascove1810]

*RULE.* *OF.* *THIRDS.*

[@Phasebot]

You know I was in a film class that we made short films irl, and we always went by the “rule of thirds” which is the 9 square box you find on your phone’s camera, or sfm if you activate it.

[@robertdixon3592]

finally a good SFM tutorial

[@kayy42332]

i started like 10+ days ago ive got the hang of the basics and a few stuff but sfm is great and just fun to create posters and movies

[@zem6300]

I knew a helluva lot of this, as I have 170 hours, but some of this actually REALLY helped me.

[@Theawesomeking4444]

dang, if only you uploaded this video before i uploaded my awful videos

[@j-69]

My laptop can't handle sfm lol

[@Cucumberous112]

vex lol nub

[@donmagulon]

actually sfm is free

[@recursionn]

Wiktoo He means he dosnt use his computer for games so he dosnt have a graphics card (maybe) and directx (also maybe)

[@recursionn]

oh shit

[@moahammad1mohammad]

Use a cloud workstation then.

[@_flaming28_95]

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME VOLUMETRIC LIGHTING also you are a Really good at sfm

[@ShortName777]

this is better than most tutorials I've seen... now I know how to get more than 8 lights... :P

[@sonicdudeatdawn2]

you son of a.... my life would've been much easier if you uploaded this a year earlier!

[@PashaGamingYT]

Being awful would be an improvement... Wait, this is a tutorial for people who are awful...? I need more...

[@Diva_Dan]

You should do a video where you take a few really bad SFM posters, say what's bad about them in particular, and remake them yourself and see how well you can do!

[@coolchouzhao]

I usually use ik rig for a certain standing pose, then switch for the default rig for upper body when I’m done with the legs/feet

[@etranimations1624]

this is a really good tutorial and I think that it can help get more people familiar with sfm. -ETR animations

[@acethescout2772]

One of the best tutorials out there! I made a really nice looking sexy poster and it was my first time!!!

[@HighLordMullins]

Well now, learned a few neat tricks with this tutorial . . . wish I knew about these when I first started, thanks.

[@captainturtle8513]

Thanks for the tutorial man i've been wondering how to move libs but i didn't realise that you have to change the timelime

[@atmosphererobin3103]

I love the battleblock theater music

[@jumpz_ssb4157]

This is actually really good

[@servedya]

You've helped me so much dude I just got into sfm thanks bro

[@howardthemoose3526]

This actually was pretty good! I'm just getting into it. I select a map, but it won't load the map, it shows the loading icon but when fully loaded it doesn't load the map at all. Anyway this was pretty helpful and the music was from BattleBlock Theater. NICE MUSIC.

[@RedZeee]

Just give it time. If your pc is slow, it might even show SFM as freezing. You just gotta wait a bit

[@kentraviousanimations4446]

The ost from battleblock Theater gives me nostalgia

[@luigifangamer1874]

THIS IS SO CONFUSING SHAGGY HELP ME

[@fishybh542]

i really like the battle block theater music XD

[@Komegatze]

Thank you for making this! sfm was so hard to understand before this was made! though i would like to know how to get missing cosmetic models on the character. i want to make a medic poster with the ward and a brush with death

[@steg3823]

+Omega Cat HD either look up manual sfm updates or look the cosmetics up on the workshop

[@Komegatze]

Steg k thanks

[@Komegatze]

Steg im not sure what you mean by looking up manual sfm updates

[@CareBear]

I still export my posters as a poster, but I add bloom later in photoshop with Magic Bullet, but I did not know about going into the camera in the element viewer to increase the quality of Depth of Field, thanks!

[@coolchouzhao]

I normally use 126 because holy hell it takes long to export beyond that

[@agentlinrov1474]

I need to learn from you. Be inspired from you. You make SFM look easy.

[@generalriot1804]

there is a reason i don't sfm for images. gmod may be an ass for posing sometimes, but atleast i don't feel like a cretin with brain disfunction trying to remember the most unintuitive shit ever.

[@cartooncharacter9920]

general riot on god bro like wtf is some of this shit

[@luis377]

i like how he said he was gonna do the basics but he never tells us how to make a camera or spawn a model

[@Mark6O9]

I wish I didn't forget how to move the models limbs.

[@BeziTank]

Steg is scared of Bonnies on the thumbnails XD 0:33

[@hubanimations]

I had no ideas about the Alt control on the camera or quality settings.

[@sneakypop6237]

ur making new sfm makers feel bad

[@The_asdfghjkl]

You could also type -sfm_resolution 1080 -w 1920 -h 1080 into your startup commands to export in 1080p

[@usanthonyb]

I don't know. You say there are some pretty dull tutorials out there, but I feel Argodaemon does a pretty decent job at explaining it... Even if it involves ponies.

[@steg3823]

usanthonyb I refuse to watch a tutorial with those creepy models .-.

[@KarjamP]

Not many people realize this, but what you're actually doing is projecting thoughts through yor work. Tus, the right kind of attitude towards your projected thought is needed in order for you to do things right. If you're unaware of what you're doing, or if you rely on rules more than actually projecting your thoughts, your work will show, and it may not be able to properly shine, as the result. You either need to see your projected thoughts as the very forms of truth they are (since thoughts can only exist when considered such), or you need to believe them to be representations of the actual thing. Valve has the latter attitude towards the thoughts projected through their work. Works done with either of those two attitudes tend to be associated with quality. Cade in point, the 2016 Extended Saxxt winner, a Half Lfe 2-related short called "Reinstated: The Arrival", was made by someone who truly saw their projected thoughts as reprrsentations of the actual thing.

[@animus6648]

Nice background music, and an amazing tutorial!

[@Rotte736]

dude i cant find it ! do you have the name?

[@yairstvgames3859]

Thanks man you the only guy who can really help in SFM👍

[@liamk3451]

I still have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

[@KrazeeCookie-x3w]

Yay I don't suck anymore!!!! Thanks man

[@coolchouzhao]

For some reason, I never see myself using the BrownOutv slider, I feel like the outer eyebrows looks weird

[@springharry1256]

This was soo helpful, I can’t thank you enough!

[@hecka_cool]

meanwhile I still can't figure out how to spawn an entity

[@Kurk4soul]

thanks man you've really helped me cause I'm making a new series and i want to make a trailer for it and i wanted to know basically how not to be awful :D (i already know how to do half of it I'm just shit with lighting)

[@steg3823]

If you have issues with lighting make sure you see my video I made all about lighting

[@Kurk4soul]

@@steg3823 oh... Thanks man i didn't expect a reply but i will..

[@Kurk4soul]

@@steg3823 oh and also i dont know if im just being stupid but whenever i try to move an object it keeps on going back to the original place it was already in (i haven't been using SFM in a while but am i forgetting something before i move a object

[@steg3823]

Sketchy there’s a 3 modes for sfm near the middle/ bottom of the screen. On default it’s on the left, clipping mode. You can’t move objects without being on the middle mode.

[@Kurk4soul]

@@steg3823 yeah i figured it out

[@MagitaROE]

5:19 When I click add new animation set for lights, it justs adds a light instead of making a group like yours. How to fix?

[@_Spekku_]

Wow, this program is cery useful!, Thank y- *CRASHES *

[@kpai2179]

thank you, It helped me make my curent profile picture

[@Probable.Orange]

>people use more than 3 lights to light a single character

[@unclered4236]

“Hey honey my steak tastes strange”

[@half-lifescientist5184]

but my guy, what if im making terrifying SFM glitch monstrosities on PURPOSE?

[@C.A._Old]

Masterpiece Ever!

[@GazixVR]

this is extremely helpful, thank you for sharing

[@FeZ_1875]

I have a problem with sfm. In most of the maps I load, the atmosphere just looks weird and I dont know how to make it darker do you have a solution for this?

[@asger7442]

Now I am not awful thanks