Anyone who improves access to a medium is at least partially responsible for the art that results. Thanks for lowering the bar, I hope the next gen of animators find their way with your tools.
maybe this will finally convince me to actually learn how to make renders in blender instead of suffering through sfm lmao even if i don't end up learning it (because I'm lazy) it's still awesome to know that stuff like this exists for anyone to use, incredible work
My god.....dude. DUDE. I have been so sick of SFM for the longest time and thought I was done with TF2. You may have sucked me back in...this is incredible.
THANK YOU FOR THIS! Seeing Team Fortress animations was what got me wanting to be an animator and starting this channel. I have a long way to go before I start working with characters as complicated as these, but I’m so glad this will be there for me when I’m ready. If someone else’s comment is correct, you can also use custom models and rigs with this, and I’m happy you added that too, because that means I’ll be able to eventually make Meet the Team-style animations for my three fan-classes (once I learn how to model them), which I’ve worked hard on making believable characters and can’t wait to introduce to everyone. All that to say thank you so much for a how to video like this, I’ve been searching for it for a long time!
Oh and the face distorting thing looks like it could be a viable alternative to GMod type animations too! Mann, you got everything in here. (that last bit was a terrible pun I’m so sorry)
Hey.. best of luck to you, dude! I'm already somewhat experienced with stickfigure animating, but I want to get my animating skills to the next level!!
This would have been really useful to me 2 years ago when I worked on my crossover episode lol It's phenomenal to see progress made from what once relied entirely on Crowbar or SourceIO. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making Source content so easy to use in Blender!
Oh your just gonna make this all and post it for free and have it be beautiful and amazing and convenient huh? you're just gonna do a good job and put a lot of effort in it huh? you're just gonna opens up a new avenue for creation and catapult the tf2 blender renaissance huh? yeah. yeah. thank you. lmao thank you so much for this i know exactly what the first thing im making is
Amazing, any chance this could eventually be expanded to any source or workshop model? The potential this has of this being an SFM replacement is tremendous
the tf2-trifecta already has support for extra models. you can find a porting template in the tf2 folder, along with a special version of sourceio that i used
I would like to ask, since I'm not sure if they're suitable or not. I know Rigify + custom rigs are pretty much just Fancy controls over a Deform rig, so does that mean you could theoretically use them for Workshop Content like Taunts etc? I'm not sure if that's a thing you're going to look into or if you know any exporting plugins that work with the Trifecta, but if these rigs *can't* be used at all because More bones were added to the Deform rigs, it'd be cool to know
because the original rigs and their bone orientations have been preserved, you can use these rigs to retarget an animation onto a set of rigs that you can export animations from. others have used these for taunts and were successful
you answered my last comment about adding the robots but you didn't tell me where they are lol, sorry for sending another comment, but i dunno how else to ask lol (edit, please be specific, i am stupid!) edit 2: i downloaded the robot rigs from the google drive but when installed and spawned, theres no robot, just normal mercs. edit the 3rd, i somehow fixed it, yippie :3 thanks for your work on all this addon, king
Help please, I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but when I try to spawn clothes, they just appear on the floor and don't attach to the model. Even if I select the model, don't select it, select different elements or bones, hold down shift and other keys, the clothes don't attach. Maybe I need to put a check mark somewhere?
I did everything and it worked. However, when I opened a new blender file it didn't work its like it only worked for that one specific blender file. How do I fix that? Edit: Nevermind it just magically worked now. Thanks for the addon btw I really appreciate it
find the DEF- bone collection (which ever bone collection has the bones with the DEF- prefix). select an object, select the armature, enter pose mode, select the DEF- bone you want to parent to, press ctrl+p, and parent to bone
EDIT 2: Ok so after like 2 hours of debugging, I discovered the reason for the crashes was my Blender version. I feel silly. If anyone else is having the same issue, update to Blender 4.2.2. EDIT: Blender simply crashes if I try to use this at all. I can't install items/rigs through the scene properties, so I did the manual installation but it crashes Blender when I try to scan. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Trifecta addon but that did nothing. Is this a common issue? If so, does anyone have a solution? If it helps, I get a metric ton of "WARN (really long data string here) -> data is NULL for type 46" in the Blender console while scanning, which makes me think it _might_ be corruption, but that would make zero sense because I'm extracting with WinRar like I'm supposed to. I've been making SMD animations for custom TF2 game modes for a long time and have always wanted to put my skills to work for videos, but have never wanted to learn SFM because of how insanely clunky, slow, and just generally ugly it is. I think this might be exactly what I needed to finally give videos a go! Looking forward to trying it out in the near future.
this is weird, because all of this should work down to 4.0. all the footage here was recorded on 4.1 (out of personal preference) but i don't know why it doesn't for you. 4.2 does work though
this is weird, because all of this should work down to 4.0. all the footage here was recorded on 4.1 (out of personal preference) but i don't know why it doesn't for you. 4.2 does work though
is there currently a way to convert the mercenaries skin to the voodoo cursed version? haven't had much luck finding the zombie mats myself since all I get are results for the cosmetic piece.
does that bone merge tool works universally too? or is it only in this tf2 trifecta package? I quite want that for working with stuff other than tf2 assets too
how about me taking just that function and make it a standalone addon? all credit goes to you and this addon, of course this way people that work with me can use it without installing the whole trifecta addon
both methods of installation should include everything. if you installed through the addon, did the download process happen to cancel before the weapons got downlosded?
@@hisanimations I downloaded manually because downloading through the addon doesn’t download everything. But there are no weapons. I paused in the beginning of the video where you gave Heavy a weapon and I tried searching for exactly what you did, but no weapons. Edit: I just realized what I did wrong. When downloading, I pressed Download twice, so when two zip files started to download, I thought that they were both the same so I cancelled one. Turns out I needed both and they weren't duplicates. Well, I have weapons now, but how do you animate them? I don't see any bone controls on the weapons that have moving parts, but in this video, you were able to move the soda popper
Does any of this work with HL2 or any other Source games? I feel like, in technical complexity, many of those are effectively subsets of what you already support for TF2 lol
Hi, i really want to use your addons but all my textures are black ! When importing and in the base .blend file of the cosmetic. I'm on Blender 4.2.3. Please help :(
as of the tf2-trifecta 3.1.0, the robots are downloadable and usable with the tf2-trifecta. more rigs can be spawned with OptiPloy, but material switching must be manual.
@@hisanimations poggers, ill try that out now, thanks :3 edit: i updated the addon and reinstalled the items, how do i spawn the robots? btw, the gunslinger and short-circuit is fucked up when spawning and adding it to an Engineer, the bones don't line up and its all weird, might wanna take a look at that idk.
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hisanimations May not be pregnant, but he never fails to deliver
You've won the internet. It's only downhill from here.
how have i never seen anyone make this joke before
dw I'll make him pregnant
....Ew.
I can change that
This man built a goddamn goldmine of content by himself
Anyone who improves access to a medium is at least partially responsible for the art that results. Thanks for lowering the bar, I hope the next gen of animators find their way with your tools.
I love the TF inspired blender theme. It took me a bit to realize!
it's very coincidental lol
maybe this will finally convince me to actually learn how to make renders in blender instead of suffering through sfm lmao
even if i don't end up learning it (because I'm lazy) it's still awesome to know that stuff like this exists for anyone to use, incredible work
a big selling point is being able to render transparent images instead of using green screens lol
You sir... did god's work for the TF2 community
My god.....dude. DUDE. I have been so sick of SFM for the longest time and thought I was done with TF2. You may have sucked me back in...this is incredible.
Eccentrics face posing so good i love making my mercs produce inhumanly exaggerated expressions
you called 😏
@@EccentricFM omg... eccentrics i didnt see you there 😳😳 hi😍😍
When you eat a cookie without knowing there's raisins inside it 2:43
oatmeal raisin cookies are unironically one of my favorite cookies
THANK YOU FOR THIS! Seeing Team Fortress animations was what got me wanting to be an animator and starting this channel. I have a long way to go before I start working with characters as complicated as these, but I’m so glad this will be there for me when I’m ready.
If someone else’s comment is correct, you can also use custom models and rigs with this, and I’m happy you added that too, because that means I’ll be able to eventually make Meet the Team-style animations for my three fan-classes (once I learn how to model them), which I’ve worked hard on making believable characters and can’t wait to introduce to everyone.
All that to say thank you so much for a how to video like this, I’ve been searching for it for a long time!
Oh and the face distorting thing looks like it could be a viable alternative to GMod type animations too! Mann, you got everything in here.
(that last bit was a terrible pun I’m so sorry)
Hey.. best of luck to you, dude! I'm already somewhat experienced with stickfigure animating, but I want to get my animating skills to the next level!!
@@king_garnet_morgan Thanks, mate!
(imagined this in my terrible sniper impression as I wrote it, heh)
This would have been really useful to me 2 years ago when I worked on my crossover episode lol
It's phenomenal to see progress made from what once relied entirely on Crowbar or SourceIO. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making Source content so easy to use in Blender!
can't wait to see the ragdolls part 🗣
thank you for allowing SFM people discover and use Blender easily
Oh your just gonna make this all and post it for free and have it be beautiful and amazing and convenient huh? you're just gonna do a good job and put a lot of effort in it huh? you're just gonna opens up a new avenue for creation and catapult the tf2 blender renaissance huh? yeah. yeah. thank you.
lmao thank you so much for this i know exactly what the first thing im making is
yes
also i can't make the ports paid cause i didn't make the assets lol
Instructions unclear, got adhd
It's so awesome to see this project flourish more and more each time I hear about it!
Oh, my, god! Its beautiful!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for creating this for people to make art with!
hisanimations you have a special place in my tf2 heart
epic
2:28 for all the people who were hesitant to make the switch from sfm , I think you sold blender right there
Amazing, any chance this could eventually be expanded to any source or workshop model? The potential this has of this being an SFM replacement is tremendous
the tf2-trifecta already has support for extra models. you can find a porting template in the tf2 folder, along with a special version of sourceio that i used
So amazing, man!
damn, he actually did it.
5:00 jerma jumpscare
Nice TH-cam recommendation , I might experiment with this : )
i love this guy
thank you tf2 andrew price!!! 😍😍😍😍
tf2 emporium wake up, peak just dropped
thanks, I already used it to blow up heavy with a neutron star
I would like to ask, since I'm not sure if they're suitable or not. I know Rigify + custom rigs are pretty much just Fancy controls over a Deform rig, so does that mean you could theoretically use them for Workshop Content like Taunts etc?
I'm not sure if that's a thing you're going to look into or if you know any exporting plugins that work with the Trifecta, but if these rigs *can't* be used at all because More bones were added to the Deform rigs, it'd be cool to know
because the original rigs and their bone orientations have been preserved, you can use these rigs to retarget an animation onto a set of rigs that you can export animations from. others have used these for taunts and were successful
you answered my last comment about adding the robots but you didn't tell me where they are lol, sorry for sending another comment, but i dunno how else to ask lol
(edit, please be specific, i am stupid!)
edit 2: i downloaded the robot rigs from the google drive but when installed and spawned, theres no robot, just normal mercs.
edit the 3rd, i somehow fixed it,
yippie :3
thanks for your work on all this addon, king
I wanna see Eltorro64rus use this already
well done
Time to learn blender again xd
What an insane tool for beginners like me. Awesome work ! Is it possible to import Unusual effects tho ?
thank you! and no, it is not possible to port unusual effects. they can only be recreated through geometry nodes or other methods
Help please, I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but when I try to spawn clothes, they just appear on the floor and don't attach to the model. Even if I select the model, don't select it, select different elements or bones, hold down shift and other keys, the clothes don't attach. Maybe I need to put a check mark somewhere?
addon and blender itself latest version, I installed all files directly through the addon button
please redirect your question to the tf2 blender community, you will be able to receive help there
eltorro64rus made an advanced face poser for gmod
rad
i love u hisanimations😘
😮
Thank you 🩷🩷💐💐
Hell yea
My Savior from the evil SFM
hey, I'm in this video 👁👄👁
YOUR THE GOAT
Perfect!!
I don't animate or use Blender but this is cool as f*ck. GJ!
I want to honor your work with an animation... After I learn how to animate. [gotta wait sum]
8:03 how do I know what to put in for the path?
you're the best
im no expert, but is it possible to quickly add HWM flexes to a face cosmetic and import it back in sfm?
no, it is not possible
@@hisanimations fuck
I just thought this would be cool if you can import your own character into this and have the rigs setup
@@VOLKUEN that's what optiploy is for
I did everything and it worked. However, when I opened a new blender file it didn't work its like it only worked for that one specific blender file. How do I fix that?
Edit: Nevermind it just magically worked now. Thanks for the addon btw I really appreciate it
Are there any conflicts if this and OptiPloy are both enabled?
nope! there should be no conflicts at all.
there is nothing in the drivers, the rigs paks documents are empty
can you clarify?
What if I want to export it as a model to be used outside of blender?
how to get your blender theme? it looks cool, like tf2
i'll drop a link soon
How do I attach a different weapon to a rig
find the DEF- bone collection (which ever bone collection has the bones with the DEF- prefix). select an object, select the armature, enter pose mode, select the DEF- bone you want to parent to, press ctrl+p, and parent to bone
EDIT 2: Ok so after like 2 hours of debugging, I discovered the reason for the crashes was my Blender version. I feel silly. If anyone else is having the same issue, update to Blender 4.2.2.
EDIT: Blender simply crashes if I try to use this at all. I can't install items/rigs through the scene properties, so I did the manual installation but it crashes Blender when I try to scan. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Trifecta addon but that did nothing. Is this a common issue? If so, does anyone have a solution? If it helps, I get a metric ton of "WARN (really long data string here) -> data is NULL for type 46" in the Blender console while scanning, which makes me think it _might_ be corruption, but that would make zero sense because I'm extracting with WinRar like I'm supposed to.
I've been making SMD animations for custom TF2 game modes for a long time and have always wanted to put my skills to work for videos, but have never wanted to learn SFM because of how insanely clunky, slow, and just generally ugly it is. I think this might be exactly what I needed to finally give videos a go! Looking forward to trying it out in the near future.
this is weird, because all of this should work down to 4.0. all the footage here was recorded on 4.1 (out of personal preference) but i don't know why it doesn't for you. 4.2 does work though
this is weird, because all of this should work down to 4.0. all the footage here was recorded on 4.1 (out of personal preference) but i don't know why it doesn't for you. 4.2 does work though
@@hisanimations Yeah that definitely explains it then, I was running on 3.5 lol. It does work now that I’m on 4.2, and it’s fantastic!
So are all TF2 assets available with this? Like map structures and items, cars, civilian and 10th merc models, etc?
maps, props and materials are available under the Source Engine Blender Collection, which you can find on my channel.
is there currently a way to convert the mercenaries skin to the voodoo cursed version? haven't had much luck finding the zombie mats myself since all I get are results for the cosmetic piece.
The quadfecta
TYSMMM!!!!
I added it, but got an error and can't find anything tf2 related in scene
does that bone merge tool works universally too?
or is it only in this tf2 trifecta package?
I quite want that for working with stuff other than tf2 assets too
@@nerro984 works universally
@@hisanimations nice
how about me taking just that function and make it a standalone addon? all credit goes to you and this addon, of course
this way people that work with me can use it without installing the whole trifecta addon
When I turn textures on, blender crashes, does anyone have that problem? I'm using the last version of blender
how do I find the tf2 items path, the one in the video (I:\tf2items3) doesn't work.
How do you add bullets and props?
you can find that in the Source Engine Blender Collection with the TF2 archive
I installed it just fine, but the files don’t come with any weapons. Where do I get the weapons?
both methods of installation should include everything. if you installed through the addon, did the download process happen to cancel before the weapons got downlosded?
@@hisanimations I downloaded manually because downloading through the addon doesn’t download everything. But there are no weapons. I paused in the beginning of the video where you gave Heavy a weapon and I tried searching for exactly what you did, but no weapons.
Edit: I just realized what I did wrong. When downloading, I pressed Download twice, so when two zip files started to download, I thought that they were both the same so I cancelled one. Turns out I needed both and they weren't duplicates. Well, I have weapons now, but how do you animate them? I don't see any bone controls on the weapons that have moving parts, but in this video, you were able to move the soda popper
Does any of this work with HL2 or any other Source games? I feel like, in technical complexity, many of those are effectively subsets of what you already support for TF2 lol
Hi, i really want to use your addons but all my textures are black ! When importing and in the base .blend file of the cosmetic. I'm on Blender 4.2.3. Please help :(
Fixed in TF2-Trifecta 3.1.4
You may now successfully download _resources.blend to fix black materials. Only download in a blank .blend file.
my weapon textures are all black? what do I do?
I installed in the addon itself
Fixed in TF2-Trifecta 3.1.4
You may now successfully download _resources.blend to fix black materials. Only download in a blank .blend file.
How do I disable spy's cig in blender? especially eccentric's
and then how do I insert it as a model to use?
busted everywhere watching this
sadly blender just crashes when trying to scan for items :
everytime? what blender version are you on?
I’ll check, it’s been a while since I’ve last updated blender
Well now the items work but dont want to attach
hisanimations
corrosionchannelations
Question does this have mvm robots other than just mercenaries?
MVM rigs are one of the downloadable rigs through the scene properties
@hisanimations alright thanks
he actually looks like scout wtf
me? 😭
Yes,
but very good
why is there any video talking about this?
Html error. Is there anyway to fix that?
@@brandonneumann4043 either wait awhile, or go through the less convenient way
This is the best thing!!!!
Heavy has best thing!!!
It is his, do not touch,
Or he will kill youu!
Btw,
Add the robots or imma come to your house :)
@@ShellShocked78-g3x later
as of the tf2-trifecta 3.1.0, the robots are downloadable and usable with the tf2-trifecta. more rigs can be spawned with OptiPloy, but material switching must be manual.
@@hisanimations poggers,
ill try that out now, thanks :3
edit: i updated the addon and reinstalled the items, how do i spawn the robots?
btw, the gunslinger and short-circuit is fucked up when spawning and adding it to an Engineer, the bones don't line up and its all weird, might wanna take a look at that idk.
@@hisanimations i can't find the robots,
can you help?
awuhee
Help, why are the cosmetics spawning with the color 'V O I D'
Fixed in TF2-Trifecta 3.1.4
You may now successfully download _resources.blend to fix black materials. Only download in a blank .blend file.
As good as this is, it does not offer support for Unusual effects. Pretty good, but simultaneously totally useless for certain purposes
My dad works at nintendo
Hisanimations can I kiss you
umm... gay??? 😘
It'd be nice if it wasn't Blender lol.
yeah whatever man...
Last
Second last
can anyone top this comment??
@@hisanimations "Can we get much higher?"
Middle
Good lord I'm bout to bust
:(
Can we all stop using SFM now? Excuses are running thin
P.S ily ❤
yes