SFM Tutorial: Particles 101

[@hojokono]

nice but where is the other 100 tutorials on particless?

[@RainingInReverse]

DEEZ NUTZ

[@frast4024]

+TheIceTurd garyy!!!!

[@bobabooey8367]

Tosh Rocks:)

[@EpicLPer]

Now you'll create over thousands of tutorials on particles because it's so complex!

[@argodaemon]

I probably could lol

[@argodaemon]

Aerial Ace I would need exceedingly more alcohol for that to happen. ;)

[@Fina1Verse]

Argodaemon hey I just figured out something really helpful ^_^ You know how with particles, you can't see their live movement as you move them...? (which gets annoying after awhile, as I'm sure you know). Just load up a greenscreen and place it inside the particle, then drag the transform of the particle to the root transform of the greenscreen... BAM! instant particle placement guide panel, axis... thing. :P

[@branimirgacina4]

Argodaemon can you show how to put particles like the rocket trail in tf2 so they are shown like a trail and not just floating in a single spot

[@PacificPenguin]

lol at that giving the particles a life comment... anyway, this was a good introductory tutorial for particles! I'll be looking forward to the next ones!

[@dea.molition]

Well, when I clicked open to access the particles, there was nothing there.

[@Ifsshkcrjcfklhfdoydc]

i can't use sfm because of mac, but listening to you is entertaining.

[@justiceretrohunter2]

great tutorial.

[@System509]

Everytime I try to do this sfm crashes when i try to add something to the system properties.

[@nightmaredawn7333]

Lol I did everything you said... But when after movie render...the stars ain't blinking... But in the preview in Sfm it does... How to fix it?

[@KingFluffs]

Making smooth animations or a small film using all aspect from start to finish as next tutorial?

[@Yazoon_S]

I made a particle , but for some reason i can't animate it's position in the graph editor!!! I made an particle from a png file , turned it into an unlit generic transparent material , then used it as the particle's properties, and made its position a square of (0,0,0) and (0,0,0) to stay in place , however when i import it to sfm , it shows in a position , however it cannot be changed with the graph editor , i want it to move with the eyes like the tf2 professional killstreak effect , please help

[@BF-109]

i need help for heavy or a sentry with a long paricle muzzle

[@DJack276]

Da music makes me sleep! Learning makes hard by sleeping! What day is it today?

[@Ali-The-Emir]

wowzer! thanks Argodaemon! I really want to make animation like SFM to be a hobby, the video was very helpful! :D

[@sonario6489]

Can you edit the thickness of a particle? Like, say, rocketbackblast, and make it more thin or transparent so if you put the particle over the character, you can actually still see said character and he/she wont be completely obscured by the rocketbackblast?

[@Tatsu0ni]

OH FINALY PARTICLES TUTORIAL !!%@!!:DDDD

[@TsuriaDragon]

I remember your twidash video near the end where Luna is shown eavesdropping you had an starry night time sky the way you made the particles in this tutorial is that the same way you made that last scene in twidash?

[@argodaemon]

Basically. That video had a black screen with the star field placed in front. It wasn't exactly the same, but damn close.

[@TsuriaDragon]

Ah I see upon reviewing it again that one look more cinematic the stars weren't flickering just one falling shooting star but awesome to look at ^^ the first twenty six seconds of music playing is so welcoming another evening reading with ms.sparkle. Excellent job to you Argo and Orchestra design :D

[@DoctorDurian]

Thank you for doing this tutorial, even if it was a bit late :p

[@Luna_fox]

This is cool should be able to use this for fireflies as well. I was wondering if you could do cherry blossom falling because I would love to add it to my Dojo map.

[@derpyhooves4287]

Can you do something on first person view or how to do something like that Example: pony first eye view

[@HeavenDelight]

I never thought of making stars!! I WILL TOTALLY MAKE MY OWN STARS!!! :D

[@misspitz7010]

I can not see any stars in the folder :c

[@P3rm1ttedGuy]

Can someone help me , the singularity killstreak effect is broken for me , does anyone know how to fix it? :C

[@njgamer69]

how to edit model texture sfm not in sfm and how to add spy cloak to custom model

[@Tatsu0ni]

is it possible to make a circle of particles?

[@argodaemon]

Yes. Instead of "Position in Box Random", you would select "Position in Sphere Random". There is two values to look for in there. One is the "bias" which will have a value of "1 1 1". This is saying to expand 100% distance in X Y Z directions. If you drop the Z to 0, or "1 1 0", it will only expand in X and Y and make a flat circle. Then you increase the "distance" value to make the circle bigger. Hope that helps. :D

[@TsuriaDragon]

Hey Argo do you have the link for dota2 particles to download in sfm?

[@argodaemon]

I got my Dota2 particles from the game itself. I am not sure if there is any unique place to download them.

[@TsuriaDragon]

Ah so you have to purchase the game? hmm I didn't know that o will have to search on steam thanks bud.

[@DJack276]

So I was creating an sfm where sonic the hedgehog was caring twilight, and I tried to lock twilight to sonic's hands so that it would actually look like he was carrying her, but when I did that, the results were pretty weird (ex: I resized twilight so she would fit in sonic's hands, but when I added a lock to her, her hair went back to the default size and was big compared to her body.) but whenever I try to lock her to sonic's hands, she never really locks onto his hand. So is my sfm being buggy or is there a solution to this? Also, how do you make the graphics higher quality? does adding lights and depth of field just make it look that good or is there actually a way to adjust the graphics somehow?

[@mochi_moomoo2659]

I've got a question, where did you get that 10241 thing from?

[@maniacisaspy3728]

Nice tutorial, But I'm trying to make it snow and I only have a regular particles folder and no particles 2.0, I can't find any snow or anything in the folder, Please help

[@argodaemon]

The 2.0 was just me grabbing the more recent particle folder from TF2. I kept it separate in case it broke anything. DOTA2 may have a snow particle, but otherwise I am not sure if one exists.

[@maniacisaspy3728]

Oh? Is there anywhere I could find particles 2.0? If not i'll check dota 2 out.

[@JakeABee]

Argodaemon how about a pulsing particle? If you can.

[@argodaemon]

Jakub gorski Haven't really made a pulsing particle before. I think it would just be a particle that is created and dies over time, then restarts.

[@adepth3858]

+ManiacIsASpy steamcommunity.com/groups/OpenSourceFilmmaker/discussions/0/828924672579311430/ this ones really good i use it

[@Mane01mlp18]

I wish i could make my own particles, reason to low on memory/ram

[@battlemedic7346]

I tried, but after making it I can't get to it. I think SFM just hates me. No particle will spawn.

[@changel1ng868]

Very late, but you need to restart your clip (So take the playhead and drag it behind the beginning of your clip). And then the particle system should be right in your face.

[@unknowng4835]

Do You Have Steam?

[@LuxrayStarketallanleponey]

KZbin bug ou j'ai plus les sous titre sur cette vidéo ?

[@tozakisaana]

How do you make the tumnalls

[@jakesherwood6980]

you need to understand the fundamentals of grammar first.

[@voicehead]

Yes, Gigi, I am afraid there is no such thing as a "tumnall".

[@GhostTheAssassin]

Please could you teach us how to change a scene from day time to night time, i.e in say.. The tf2 2fort map. Or show us how to create our own skyboxes and use them in our sfm videos! .. You could make your star field a skybox background! :D that would epic!!

[@argodaemon]

Day to night is map dependent. If the map has a lot of light, it is hard to make it "night" without recompiling it without lights, which is beyond what I really know. Skyboxes is about the same and the information is pretty easy to find in a Google search. It is mostly picture editing and conversion; not much SFM.

[@DJack276]

There is a map editor deep within the team fortress 2 files, but I forgot exactly where, and if you found it, you would have to create the map from scratch. Plus, it's as hard to use as sfm, maybe even harder!

[@maxwellthunderstone6127]

thank you very helpful

[@wolfabsessionaj]

How do you make sfm videos more then 1 minute long I just can't figure it out _ Thanks

[@argodaemon]

Are you having issues with the models freezing after 1min?

[@wolfabsessionaj]

No i just don't have the length it doesn't go any longer the 60 seconds and idk why Argodaemon

[@argodaemon]

wolfabsession aj There is two different ways a scene "ends". The scene has a length, but there is also the movie length. The movie length can be extended by grabbing the film-type bit at the start and end of the project. The scenes can either be extended or others added to fill in the movie.

[@wolfabsessionaj]

If I understood as you can probably tell Im not very bright Argodaemon

[@DJack276]

wolfabsession aj Follow me carefully, I'm going to tell you in great detail what you need to do: you grab the edge of the blue and make it bigger!

[@Fo_xu]

Thanks so much dude!

[@antleft1]

can someone tell me what sfm stans for pliz

[@mokow3732]

retardation

[@JoseMat2953]

Can u teach me?

[@dea.molition]

0:38 That's alot of black holes.

[@whydopeoplecryformrmes1834]

How long till fallout equestria part 2

[@starsonata321]

Well; he worked on the first part for 6 months so I think you have the answer :)

[@whydopeoplecryformrmes1834]

Ok

[@stealthy3244]

thx man

[@M4FFeT]

Cool

[@poti732]

hello l want to reslze the ghost unusual effect because lts sooo blg and the spy head ls lttle plssss HELP

[@argodaemon]

Péter Niczinger Resizing can be complicated, as it can require changing texture sizes, speed of movement, force amounts, number emited, distances, etc. There is no universal rescale option. :(

[@poti732]

oh thx :)

[@PandeeChannel]

+Argodaemon Root Transform Scale

[@kittensforever2172]

hey can u do a video on how to get a costom background to open

[@SkiMaskBros101]

Cipher

[@seriesmylittlepony6536]

GRACIAS POR SUSCRIBIRTE A MI CANAL

[@ghostboy42]

I don't even see TF

[@DaGator]

This is not helping at all............

[@collinheidrich8270]

e Viral how

[@MrStreetboy80]

I’m Gona have to add 101 views to this video to get this! 😆