SFM Tip of the Day - Games - Facepunch Forum

Tip of the Day #37- Creating Light Kits Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrwP1F3QGPU[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;LrwP1F3QGPU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrwP1F3QGPU[/video]

Tip of the Day #38 - Setting the Near and Far distance of a camera Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4_duYdBdEQ[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;G4_duYdBdEQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4_duYdBdEQ[/video]

Tip of the Day #39 - Making a Camera Track a Model Full credit to YouTuber [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-E7N8xWpQ"]MulleDK13[/URL] for his tutorial on how to make this work! Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZbZeNj-kw8[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;0ZbZeNj-kw8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZbZeNj-kw8[/video]

Tip of the Day #40- Using Constraints for Fun and Profit Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB89S3M6fsc[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;pB89S3M6fsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB89S3M6fsc[/video]

Tip of the Day #41 - The Rule of Thirds + an overlay grid (Yes, others have done this. But it bears repeating) Linky Thing: [url]http://youtu.be/QsRy5EVggyg[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;QsRy5EVggyg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsRy5EVggyg[/video]

I like your work, some are interesting, some useful, most are actually useless. Its not because its bad, or not explained enough, its because I found them too "complicated" for most SFM users. Who's gonna care about particle effects while they dont even know how to do good animation with graph mode ? Just sayin', keep doing tutorials, I found them useful, but nobody explained me how to animate stuff months ago ;)

[QUOTE=ornafulsamee;37574519]I like your work, some are interesting, some useful, most are actually useless. Its not because its bad, or not explained enough, its because I found them too "complicated" for most SFM users.[/QUOTE] I have to disagree! Just because a tutorial doesn't seem useful to you, it doesn't mean it's not useful for everybody else. Also, I think there are enough animation tutorials on youtube, which explain keyframes etc, the valve tutorial covers this briefly, as well. The Tips of the Day usually deal with things that are specific SFM topics, certain tools or mechanisms. All tips explain one certain topic, which might be useful for a lot of people. I'm really happy whenever I see there's a new video out, because you often learn stuff you didn't know so far. I guess as soon you dig a bit deeper into SFM, new questions will arise, often these questions are adressed in the Tips of the Day :)

[QUOTE=ornafulsamee;37574519]I like your work, some are interesting, some useful, most are actually useless. Its not because its bad, or not explained enough, its because I found them too "complicated" for most SFM users. Who's gonna care about particle effects while they dont even know how to do good animation with graph mode ? Just sayin', keep doing tutorials, I found them useful, but nobody explained me how to animate stuff months ago ;)[/QUOTE] There's LOTS of tutorials on animation, and it's something that you don't learn in a day or two- there's bunches of books and requires years and years of experience to consider yourself a master. These are simply tips, he can't explain any kind of animating in under 10 minutes. These aren't complicated, it's stuff good to know about. If you feel like there's a lack of animation tutorials especially made for SFM, check Maya ones and do all the animation in Maya. There you go.

[QUOTE=Freshz24;37575303]There's LOTS of tutorials on animation, and it's something that you don't learn in a day or two- there's bunches of books and requires years and years of experience to consider yourself a master. These are simply tips, he can't explain any kind of animating in under 10 minutes. These aren't complicated, it's stuff good to know about. If you feel like there's a lack of animation tutorials especially made for SFM, check Maya ones and do all the animation in Maya. There you go.[/QUOTE] I dont want to animate under maya, I never animated before SFM and I dont even known it was the same method as other log. There is a lack of animation tutorials on SFM, I actually dont give a shit myself because I'm already experienced enough to make stuff with good quality, but when you see most of videos that comes with animation like those made in july... I'm going to make a little step by step tutorial for the basics, to the fully detailed animation, its not that hard to explain. EDIT : Not hard but too long, maybe later :o)

[QUOTE=ornafulsamee;37575341]I dont want to animate under maya, I never animated before SFM and I dont even known it was the same method as other log. There is a lack of animation tutorials on SFM, I actually dont give a shit myself because I'm already experienced enough to make stuff with good quality, but when you see most of videos that comes with animation like those made in july... I'm going to make a little step by step tutorial for the basics, to the fully detailed animation, its not that hard to explain. EDIT : Not hard but too long, maybe later :o)[/QUOTE] Ceruleanoak makes animation tutorials.

[QUOTE=ornafulsamee;37574519]I like your work, some are interesting, some useful, most are actually useless. Its not because its bad, or not explained enough, its because I found them too "complicated" for most SFM users. Who's gonna care about particle effects while they dont even know how to do good animation with graph mode ? Just sayin', keep doing tutorials, I found them useful, but nobody explained me how to animate stuff months ago ;)[/QUOTE] I'm not an animator by trade- what I do know about animation is what I've learned from other videos and the like. I don't do tutorials on animation largely because I'm not qualified. I am, however very good at finding things out that either make things easier for people or may simply not be apparent to the novice user. My goal is not and never has been to teach people animation. I would be doing a disservice by trying to teach a subject at which I am a novice. [editline]7th September 2012[/editline] Tip of the Day #42- Using the SHIFT and CTRL movement modifiers Linky Thing: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YuwrSwxC8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YuwrSwxC8[/URL] Video Thing: [video=youtube;59YuwrSwxC8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YuwrSwxC8[/video]

Tip of the Day #43 - Manipulating Lights as a Camera Linky Thing: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepxTBVtgfk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepxTBVtgfk[/URL] Video Thing: [video=youtube;HepxTBVtgfk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepxTBVtgfk[/video]

Tip of the day #44 - Projecting Light Gobo Textures Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ne0K8c6FdY[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;8Ne0K8c6FdY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ne0K8c6FdY[/video]

Posted late due to forum outage- Tip of the Day #45 - Making Ragdolls of your recorded models Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5EB-BznEg0[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;H5EB-BznEg0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5EB-BznEg0[/video] [editline]13th September 2012[/editline] Tip of the Day #46 - Importing models from TF2 and other source games Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdsZSjHkbxw[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;QdsZSjHkbxw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdsZSjHkbxw[/video]

Tip of the Day #47 - Remapping Slider Ranges Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCUzPO_IJk4[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;LCUzPO_IJk4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCUzPO_IJk4[/video]

Tip of the Day #48 - Slow In, Slow Out Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVHOBpDA9II[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;uVHOBpDA9II]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVHOBpDA9II[/video]

Tip of the Day #49- Frozen Cameras and Models and How to Fix them. Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey82HQUXPP8[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;Ey82HQUXPP8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey82HQUXPP8[/video]

Tip of the Day #50 - Using Helpers for Fun and Profit Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTu0HpLNM9Y[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;xTu0HpLNM9Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTu0HpLNM9Y[/video]

Tip of the Day #51 - Deleting sample data from specific portions of an animation set Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qifj-h0wzQM[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;qifj-h0wzQM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qifj-h0wzQM[/video]

Tip of the Day #52- Movie Export Settings Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1gZ5pWZrs[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;OT1gZ5pWZrs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1gZ5pWZrs[/video]

Tip of the Day #53 - Using Field of View and Camera Position for Fun and Profit Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6xx6yU88Q[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;0m6xx6yU88Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6xx6yU88Q[/video]

Tip of the Day #54 - Accessing Hidden Controls of an Animation Set Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpqEhjZBWG4[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;TpqEhjZBWG4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpqEhjZBWG4[/video]

Tip of the Day #55 - the History Window Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISoj2BGjPc[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;hISoj2BGjPc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISoj2BGjPc[/video]

Tip of the day #56 - The Keyboard Shortcuts Window Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZH1Lv8_5yI[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;oZH1Lv8_5yI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZH1Lv8_5yI[/video]

Tip of the Day #57- Removing parts of TF2 models Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeaQVfwuGI[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;NTeaQVfwuGI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeaQVfwuGI[/video]

Tip of the Day #58 - Using Offset Mode in the Graph Editor Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30h2wBEONMM[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;30h2wBEONMM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30h2wBEONMM[/video]

Tip of the Day #59 - Using the Work Camera Lock for Fun and Profit Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcCX5kkvTA[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;sBcCX5kkvTA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcCX5kkvTA[/video]

SFM Tip of the Day #60 - Adjusting Time Scales in your Shots Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO5Cs_Gf6Jc[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;RO5Cs_Gf6Jc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO5Cs_Gf6Jc[/video]

Tip of the Day #61 - Adjusting the Time Scale of Individual Shot Elements Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnXPr6_dymk[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;vnXPr6_dymk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnXPr6_dymk[/video]

Tip of the Day #62- the Ramp, Spline and Round Presets Linky Thing: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pX8WgwEWc[/url] Video Thing: [video=youtube;G_pX8WgwEWc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pX8WgwEWc[/video]