SFM Trains Tutorial - How To Animate Trains

[@FlyingScott]

Listen I don't know what the editing program did to the first few seconds of audio, I can't change it, please don't kill me.

[@theannoyingk2794]

how do you connect the cargo from the train?

[@FlyingScott]

@@theannoyingk2794 Rig the roottransform

[@theannoyingk2794]

@@FlyingScott ok scott so i must rig the root transform?

[@theannoyingk2794]

@@FlyingScott last what do you rig transfrorm

[@FlyingScott]

@@theannoyingk2794 Yes, just click the root of the loco or the wagon in front of whichever wagon you want to connect, and drag it over to the root of the wagon behind it.

[@Molten_Mike]

Thank you for explaining I honestly will start animating them hopefully if I can but this really helped because I was going to do some british-trained animations even though I am not in the UK I am in the US's only peninsula

[@loogiboi85]

Me whos a noob to SFM at 2:00 : WHAT KIND OF DARK MAGIC IS THIS!?!?

[@Ifellupthestairs_010]

same

[@jamesrailer3906]

1:34 Running in the 90s!

[@danielabuzura]

1:34 bonjour

[@Larynx_the_Changeling]

How to get on the tracks?!?

[@typowski]

what map do you use??

[@FlyingScott]

this one was arena_well

[@nickzimmermann5323]

Train model link ?

[@bluegooseproductions]

EEYY!!!

[@cameronmatthew4467]

What does Sfm mean

[@FlyingScott]

It means "Source Filmmaker" :)

[@oldcharliebean239]

where did you get the steam particle?

[@FlyingScott]

It's a stock TF2 particle, smoke_blackbillow, with the particle definition of "whitebillow".

[@oldcharliebean239]

Thanks

[@oldcharliebean239]

Also is there a easier way to get the locomotive to sit on track rather than moving to the rails then have to make sure it is actually on the track?

[@FlyingScott]

@@oldcharliebean239 No, that's all manual labour. You have to be willing to put the effort in, after all.

[@oldcharliebean239]

Damn

[@tankthehedgehog105]

I Hope Someone Can Soon Make A LBSCR E2 Later On For SFM

[@ЛиванскийСеверо-Ледовито-Океан]

Good tutorial, thank you)

[@trainboy7]

We need more Train related maps for SFM.

[@oldcharliebean239]

Agreed

[@engineboy53productions15]

Absolutely

[@tommytheblackfive4467]

Definitely

[@thecursedcombine3951]

Thanks, now i can't unsee the bogie wheels being static.

[@Eurofish2010]

when i search for arena_well nothing appears

[@FlyingScott]

Do you have Team Fortress 2 installed?

[@Eurofish2010]

@@FlyingScott No, but i will

[@tommytheblackfive4467]

This'll be helpful in the future if i have the motivation to animate(which i dont rn because i didnt even go through puberty yet) thanks

[@oldcharliebean239]

Thank you for making this

[@theannoyingk2794]

my sfm is not behaving good its has glitches

[@angus80w]

it looks so hard to animate

[@DavidGolem09]

Where do you get those train maps?

[@rat4032]

Nice video

[@beamergaming184]

how do you connect the coaches

[@FlyingScott]

Drag the root of the coaches to the root of the locomotive (or the coach in front of it). This method is used to connect any and all assets meant to move in unison.

[@beamergaming184]

Ok!@@FlyingScott

[@mcfc_lads1894]

how do you add the trains in tho?

[@FlyingScott]

Once you've subscribed to them via the SFM workshop, you use the same method as the particles, but you choose the "animation asset" rather than "particle" when you click on the big plus sign in the top left.

[@JintySteam1]

if say the class 33 turns around a corner do you have to turn the bogies manually?

[@FlyingScott]

Yup, and it is quite tricky to keep them centred at times. Practice makes a-little-less-than-terrible-but-also-not-quite-perfect!