If you found this video helpful, you prob would get a kick out of my other sfm videos where I talk about things like posing, shapes, effects, and other neat stuff.
I'm new to SFM and personally I found lighting to be the WORST pain. I literally had no clue how to set it correctly until I found your tutorial. Thanks man!
I might have rushed a few parts lol, but I hope the wait was worth it. Also Im planning on working on a few fun ideas in my head soon so hopefully you guys might see an increase in uploads about soonish for a little bit at least.
Steg Linear and Quadratic attenuation basically controls how sharp your light is, why it increases intensity is because the change in brightness suddenly becomes steep. Why is there linear and quadratic? It's more for fine tuning how much the light drops after the increase in radius.
Constant Attenuation can come in handy sometimes when trying to make a light that's supposed to be the sun in a really big scene since it doesn't have any falloff. You can also use it to create a giant fill light by simply locking it onto the camera. This will then basically allow you to adjust the color of all the shadows in your scene. I hope this somewhat made sense. :P
@steg your response to the Radius slider was "hmmm" which implies you don't know what it does. it actually does something very useful. the radius determines how smoothly shadows blend out into light. but, this change is only visible in the clip overlay, which makes a pre-render of the scene. press f2 to quickly go into the clip editor to see how the radius affects your pieces
Really appreciate this video! I just got into making posters and stuff in sfm and I know practically nothing about lighting in sfm! So thanks, it helped a lot.
Hey Steg, I am person who has been with source for a while and I am just now stepping my foot into the world of Source Filmmaker, and my first stop was some tutorial videos, so I chose yours, I hope you know, you have done me well and you deserve more subscribers, thank you so much for the videos!
The radius slider can be used to make the further shadows more blurred. You can see this irl by standing outside on a sunny day and looking at the difference between the shadows of your feet and lower legs and the shadow of your head. For the light radius to be seen in SFM, you need to have DoF samples turned on and to either render or prerender. :)
Constant Attenuation means the light never drops off no matter the range. Linear Attenuation means the light drops off at a linear rate, like a straight decline from 100 to 0. Quadratic means an exponential decay of intensity, basically the light will be strong and then drop off hard eventually.
i wish i could do the things you do in sfm... its laggy for me (when i try to do things with at least 4 lights and a volumetric light) and ao doesnt even work for me...
radius is only visible when previewing a render. essentially spreads out the light in a smooth an natural way, best see for fill lights or lighting a whole scene with a low base light.
I'm a little embarrassed to say this but I'm gonna say it anyway... I never knew you can just click and drag the lights to the camera. I remember it being mentioned in the original sfm tutorials by valve but I guess it didn't stick. I should start using that.
I literally just wanted to know how to add a light into sfm. Why could I not find it in the video? And it should be at the very start even cuz how can you do lighting if you don't know how to import it.
I'm working on a video right now and I only using three lights because the map is already lit up very brightly is a baseball field that I'm using so the film light I'm not really using it so I'm just going to continue with the video and see where it goes thank you anyway for this video because I was really skipping one important detail of this lighting tutorial
I have question for that poster at 2:14, where did you get those props for the city? I had a poster idea in mind that uses a city as a setting but since people are selfish and won't let me download an sfm version of evocity from gmod, I need to find an alternative
So, I make a light, except, the light isn't showing, there's no light. I've already set my models and props for taking the actual pic, but when I go to do the lighting, it doesn't light it up like it should. Am I doing something wrong?
1) Do you have light disabled, Check by right clicking. 2) Try wiggle your work camera it might need to update. 3) Is this your first or 8th light? Sfm cant have more than 8 lights
sfm is a bit weird. Either its just being weird or somethings broken. Try messing around until it works. If nothing works try verify files in steam preferences. If that doesn't work ask around on google.
It depends on what your referring to. Its either because I exported it as a movie image so it kept the bloom. Or its some post processing effect in photoshop
How do you animate lights? For example, id like the lights turned off at the beginning of my film, and after a few seconds they turn on, but I cannot figure out how to do that. Could anyone help me out?
Also, is it possible to timestamp the intensity of the light, for example, the intensity of the light starts out as low and after a few seconds intensity is full (I'm trying to achieve a look of a broken flickering light)
When I messed around with it I noticed something, when I made it dark and put light Intensity to full, it wasn’t even bright, I’m I doing something wrong here bro?
If you found this video helpful, you prob would get a kick out of my other sfm videos where I talk about things like posing, shapes, effects, and other neat stuff.
:O bet
Btw your very entertaining
how do you get lights tho
stop bullying me i just came to your channel.
I'm new to SFM and personally I found lighting to be the WORST pain. I literally had no clue how to set it correctly until I found your tutorial. Thanks man!
>Makes poster
>Uses no rimlights
Steg: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Literally me
This is the tutorial that FINALLY made me break my chain of using pre-made lightkits in my posters, thanks so much for this.
I might have rushed a few parts lol, but I hope the wait was worth it. Also Im planning on working on a few fun ideas in my head soon so hopefully you guys might see an increase in uploads about soonish for a little bit at least.
nice neck lol
Steg
Linear and Quadratic attenuation basically controls how sharp your light is, why it increases intensity is because the change in brightness suddenly becomes steep.
Why is there linear and quadratic? It's more for fine tuning how much the light drops after the increase in radius.
Steg nah, you’re good
can u help with making a dark atmosphere with a map that has lights
my volumetric lights don't work is there a fix
"Playing with your stuff until you like it"
good job, wow, amazing explanation
Jesus Christ I remember that contest and animation... thanks for the lighting tips tho
Constant Attenuation can come in handy sometimes when trying to make a light that's supposed to be the sun in a really big scene since it doesn't have any falloff.
You can also use it to create a giant fill light by simply locking it onto the camera. This will then basically allow you to adjust the color of all the shadows in your scene.
I hope this somewhat made sense. :P
8:50 playing with your stuff until you like it.
Are you thinking of something ?
😳
I'm not the only one!
Yoo I watched this video until 2:38 and paused since I had class and came back thinking it was an actual sunset!
Oh wait... it is
Holy shit i had no idea you could drag lights in the viewport lmao
same xD
Same 😂
same
yeup.
@steg your response to the Radius slider was "hmmm" which implies you don't know what it does.
it actually does something very useful. the radius determines how smoothly shadows blend out into light. but, this change is only visible in the clip overlay, which makes a pre-render of the scene. press f2 to quickly go into the clip editor to see how the radius affects your pieces
I learned about it a day after I made this video lol
Now do an expert lighting tutorial pls :D
Genuinely this single video helped make my second poster leagues better than my first
Really appreciate this video! I just got into making posters and stuff in sfm and I know practically nothing about lighting in sfm! So thanks, it helped a lot.
Hey Steg, I am person who has been with source for a while and I am just now stepping my foot into the world of Source Filmmaker, and my first stop was some tutorial videos, so I chose yours, I hope you know, you have done me well and you deserve more subscribers, thank you so much for the videos!
The radius slider can be used to make the further shadows more blurred. You can see this irl by standing outside on a sunny day and looking at the difference between the shadows of your feet and lower legs and the shadow of your head. For the light radius to be seen in SFM, you need to have DoF samples turned on and to either render or prerender. :)
(at least I think)
@@TurnTwister yes agreed.
I’m so happy to be part of the sfm community
"Apparently the other two lighting tutorials weren't advanced enough for you guys"
Me, who just saw this video: :(
This is the most helpful 11 minutes i have used.
This is a perfect tutorial for someone like me who is still learning how SFM works.
Aww man that viewport light moving thing changes everything
FINALLY YESS now do a posing tutorial lmao
*t-pose intensifies*
You got what you wish for
Radius is the God of all sliders in sfm.
Dude this video is amazing i always come back here when i forget things xD
Constant Attenuation means the light never drops off no matter the range. Linear Attenuation means the light drops off at a linear rate, like a straight decline from 100 to 0. Quadratic means an exponential decay of intensity, basically the light will be strong and then drop off hard eventually.
i wish i could do the things you do in sfm...
its laggy for me (when i try to do things with at least 4 lights and a volumetric light) and ao doesnt even work for me...
Get a better pc then, I used to have the same issues you did.
Well, some of the Light Settings may seem to be confusing, but nevertheless - SFM is weird, but i love it.
In my opinion the sniper shot was looking perfect even before you added the 2 extra lights
Those Lorax fem scout fingers tho
Dude, your a god at this, you definitely earned a sub for this.
"I encourage you to go outside"
Unsubscribed, reported, blocked.
this helped me alot im strugling what to be a film producer or a gamer for youtube ill think about film production
Huh. I just found this vid. Very nice tutorial, Steg. I'll keep this in mind when I'm doing more SFMs.
*putting a character in a cave, puts on 50 rim lights*
radius is only visible when previewing a render. essentially spreads out the light in a smooth an natural way, best see for fill lights or lighting a whole scene with a low base light.
You are my God in SFM poster dud uwu saludos desde Mexico :D
Boi u saved my posters with this light as camera thing thx
I'm a little embarrassed to say this but I'm gonna say it anyway... I never knew you can just click and drag the lights to the camera. I remember it being mentioned in the original sfm tutorials by valve but I guess it didn't stick. I should start using that.
"just mess with it until it looks good" so just like a school project, got it
I literally just wanted to know how to add a light into sfm. Why could I not find it in the video? And it should be at the very start even cuz how can you do lighting if you don't know how to import it.
why do all the sfm tutorials use a fem scout for demonstration?
A science lesson with steg
I can’t remember if i put the advanced option or not. Is it any way you can check it without uninstalling?
The SFM Wizard of lore, Steginheim.
6:45i try to do the same things like you but nothing happen i need ur help
Science lesson with steg
The cut off, height and others sliders works With uberlight, go to element viewer by clicking on a light and check uberlight
I'm working on a video right now and I only using three lights because the map is already lit up very brightly is a baseball field that I'm using so the film light I'm not really using it so I'm just going to continue with the video and see where it goes thank you anyway for this video because I was really skipping one important detail of this lighting tutorial
Thanks you so much Stefanie I needed this
AO jitter doesn’t support on my computer so I don’t have to do extra steps
How do you fix rainbow lights shining threw walls on the map
This is very helpful tutorial. Thank you.
great video! this should really help with my posters. what do you use for your 2d animations?
i have a question for u sfm master,
how i can get so good looking textures like your sniper hat
my looks squarely
Maybe you have ambient occlusion off?
thank for this now i know how to light i been trying to fine others but some of them are not good sometimes...
How you change light colour?
Quick question, how do i change the camera to the light to where you can move the light around with the camera like you did threw out the video?
Looks like it's time to update my notes on SFM
Why is lighting not just like in hammer editor
I have question for that poster at 2:14, where did you get those props for the city? I had a poster idea in mind that uses a city as a setting but since people are selfish and won't let me download an sfm version of evocity from gmod, I need to find an alternative
So, I make a light, except, the light isn't showing, there's no light. I've already set my models and props for taking the actual pic, but when I go to do the lighting, it doesn't light it up like it should. Am I doing something wrong?
1) Do you have light disabled, Check by right clicking.
2) Try wiggle your work camera it might need to update.
3) Is this your first or 8th light? Sfm cant have more than 8 lights
so, get this, I restart sfm, the lights work, it crashes, then I load it back UP, then everything is pitch black
SCREW IT! I'm gonna just go make another one lol
sfm is a bit weird. Either its just being weird or somethings broken. Try messing around until it works. If nothing works try verify files in steam preferences. If that doesn't work ask around on google.
I gave up on that one. Thanks tho :D
How do i make light reflections on models?
for some reason bloom, when I export, it does nothing. I can see it having an effec ton the timeline, but it does nothing when I export the poster.
You can’t get bloom with export it has to be image sequence
2:34 "im not a scientist"
bitch the poster is GORGEOUS!!! So much effort and thinking! Tysm for your tutorial!
what about lighting a camera shot?
With the volumetric setting, when I turn it on it’s just white wires, no foggy light. Could someone tell me how to fix this?
How does yours have that shine to it? Like the glow
It depends on what your referring to. Its either because I exported it as a movie image so it kept the bloom. Or its some post processing effect in photoshop
@@steg3823 ah ok
Help i was only able to drag and drop instead of see what its actually lighting
Sounds like you need another viewport window. Which should be under windows
what is this last thing you used at the end of the video, is it a part of SFM???
Thanks for the tip!
Is there a way to have your background completely dark and your foreground mostly lit. I'm still very newbie to SFM so I would like a tip or two.
Load the map void. It’s a map without anything in it. Turn off lighting to use it at first
you should make an ambient occlusion tutorial :)
i love your tutorials and they are great, keep up the good work
Apologies but when i export the image lights go away. I don't know why
2:15 how do you make rock fly from the road like that
why do sessions weight so much? i made 20 seconds animation and its 4gb.
I don't understand how to put a midnight light
i want that femscout picture as a wallpaper, can i find it somewhere?
Also what kind of computer do you use
Hey. Loved your vid, but I have one problem. I tired using volume intensity but it won’t work.
Thanks mate, trying to make a thumbnail for a tf2 video and i need this shit for lighting.
It would be amazing if you could use the rtx features in sfm
Very cool.
How do you animate lights? For example, id like the lights turned off at the beginning of my film, and after a few seconds they turn on, but I cannot figure out how to do that. Could anyone help me out?
Also, is it possible to timestamp the intensity of the light, for example, the intensity of the light starts out as low and after a few seconds intensity is full (I'm trying to achieve a look of a broken flickering light)
You're a legend
but idk what to click to do the lighting
When I messed around with it I noticed something, when I made it dark and put light Intensity to full, it wasn’t even bright, I’m I doing something wrong here bro?
This helpeed alot!
I cant have more than 10 lights :( i dont know why
Why does it not let me change the color and just stay white :(
I have a question SFM says that it will uneffect rendering but only Viewports
after typing "-sfm_resolution 2160" Is that what i've should have?
I got a very stupid and simple question: My shot is in the building. The building is PITCH BLACK. How do I make it look like daytime??????
Light a fire?
BONFIRE LIT
how do i lower the intensity on the lights
Bro when I load my models they are all fuzzy. Anybody got a fix?
*sees bloom*
Steg’s discord: RREEEEEEEEEEEEE
how to set infinite lights problem?
This tutorial oddly matches with lighting in painting.
nice job though, really mean it
how do I make a scene dark?