If animating is sure to result in victory then you must ANIMATE! Valve said that and I think he knows a little more about SFM than you do pal because they invented it! And then they perfected it so no living man could best them in the ring of popularity! Then they used their animating money to buy 2 of every character in the world. Then they herded them on a map and then they animated the crap out of them. (I do not own the copyrights to the text, may contain mistakes)
"He knows a little more about source filmmaker that YOU do, pal; 'cause he INVENTED IT! Then he PERFECTED it so no living man could out-direct him in the ring of honor!"
I think the graph editor is by far the easiest way to animate. I actually thought that it was very difficult to operate, but once I tired it, It's not so bad.
@@ClassicSonicPersonafter all these years I continued to pursue 3D animation and after using unreal engine blender and Maya. HELL YEA this is easy now! unreal engine makes me want to cry😂
Animating's a good job, mate. It's challenging work, out of doors. I guarantee you won't go angry, cuz in the end of the day, as long as there is 2 models left in a planet, someone's gonna want those two move.
@@davidhatcher7016 Just drag it to the point you want, the camera will move from point A to point B. You can create new key frames in between to adjust the movement so it doesn't do things like clipping through the model.
I know it sounds obvious, but with any tutorial, doing it at the same time as the person really helps! Was watching before and had no clue what things meant :)
To clarify, Valve have used the SFM for pretty much most of their game trailers so that includes the Portal trailers, the Left 4 Dead trailers, the Half Life trailers,the DOTA trailers, any of the gameplay or major cinemtic scences they have shown were all developed with the SFM, meaning that with creative ingenuity and good experience with the filmmaker, anyone could surpass what Valve made.
Your first frame is set to 113 as well, go to the first frame where you want the camera to start roatating and set it to another number. It's not explained at all in the video, but it looks like that if you select an area and an animation set you'll see the value of the first frame in the first box and the value of the last frame in the 2nd box.
If you re-position your workspace (Slide drag a tab to a different position), you can grab the tab 'animation set editor' and slide them next to Viewport 1 or 2. This makes room to expand other tabs while taking in lesser space. At least I've got the input windows back.
animatings a good job mate,it's challenging work,indoors,i guarantee you'll not go hungry because at the end of the day as long as theres two companies left on the planet someone is gonna want something animated.
Got stumped on the whole F hotkey thing, didn't work for me. Found out the button for it is called Normalize Curve Display, right above the graph and next to where it says Keymode [Spline]. It's the two wavy lines with the arrows going up and down. Hope this saves some headaches. Edit: After going back, the graph still wasn't properly working, so I had to move the camera directly to change the curves. Not sure if anyone else is getting these problems, but if you don't know a proper way to fix it, hope this helps.
@ 2:12 or so "Now let's frame the curve by hitting the F hotkey. . . " Which F hotkey is the default? I can't seem to find it in the key map. Great tutorials by the way, my only criticism is to flash up the keys on screen as you us them. Thanks!
I followed until this. This part should tell us what we want to do with the graph editor at the beginning of the video. I couldn't make it work like in the video, controls must have changed too much since then.
To all the people who are being incredibly ignorant and writing ridiculously stupid comments, insulting the person who is trying to show us how to do this- If you do not understand, re-watch the video, and remain calm. Animation takes time, and if you are not committed enough to re-watch a video a couple of times, and mess around in the program until you get things right, then animation obviously isn't for you.
Yes, except in TF2 it works for 1-2-1, 1-3-1, 2-1-2, 2-3-2, 3-1-3, and 3-2-3. In SFM, it's only 1-2-1, 2-1-2, 1-3-1 and 3-1-3. Basically what I'm saying is you can only quick switch between two of the three, and one of them is always the first tab (timeline).
The graph editor seems to be more easier for me to control when it comes to animating. I'll be sure to practice a lot with it. Thank you for this tutorial. I'll watch the guide over and over until I get everything in SFM. :)
I actually found this easier than the time selection thing, still pretty hard but things actually make more sence here. Still need to experiment a little more with it, but I think I can say without a doubt that animating with this graph editor is easier than using the time selection.
it's probably far harder for everyone who wasn't nerdy enough to play with 3d softwares. seriously, these tutorials felt like a piece of cake, even if i was a super noob with blender and 3ds max, but, for instance, i would have serious troubles with vegas pro or photoshop or after effects tutorials.
I haven't been having problems either. But i have played a game where you can customise your clothes and i had to use 3d modeling to be able to put them where i want.
um...I'm assuming you are talking about how he had the camera following the scout. That was just from him recording the scout and soldiers. The camera views for those were automatic
I figured it out - if the toolbar is too condensed, SFM starts removing buttons/text fields. If you just make the SMF window longer, the two number fields will reappear.
Presumably it works in any source engine game, although there might be different releases for different games like the SDK (I don't know, but I know it /does/ work in L4D in some way since its what they used to make the videos in that).
Just a note if you are not using a english keyboard then the jump between keyframes is a bit difficult, meaning that you can not do it unless you change your keyboard setting by hitting alt+shift and then using the two to the top left of the enter key, on most keyboards I have seen otherwise I suggest you google "american keyboard" to see where the bottons would be for you.
If you can't figure out why you can't make the curve it's because he decided to use a hotkey that does not show it's been selected. You can change the curve by holding your middle mouse button or clicking the "move" button that's next to the "select" button directly above the graph editing view.
this part is weird. lol this is only if u want that 180/360 spin around your character, not everyones going to use that shot tho. If your're into action scenes or any video requires high motion scenes like comedy for example then maybe learning this would be useful. I'm not really looking for fast flashy scenes but if I do I'll come back to this when I need it!
There will be, because it's a much easier tool for the "common man" to use. SFM is a tool built by nerds for nerds. It isn't something most people can instantly pick up and use like Gmod.
Regardless of what mode I was in, it did not work in any of them, but when I started a new project and tried to move the camera in the graph editor, it created the green dots. That is very odd, but at least I can make use of the graph editor's features in a new project, thanks.
bendito sean los subtítulos generados por google, llegue hasta esta parte y la verdad me costo mucho poner los cambios que quería, porque no seleccionaba la parte donde los quería (al inicio o al final) pero ya lo supere y me quedo horrible, pero ya entendí como funciona, por cierto, hacer estas modificaciones de cámara me marean
oh damn, is there a way to change this up? I'm doing this on a 1440x900 monitor and it's too squished for it to show up. Luckily I've got a dual screen so I can stretch it over, but I'd rather keep it on one monitor.
Ok so when im trying to move the camera like you are at 2:05 it just jumps back to its original position for me and doesn't create the keyframe. it doesn't show the line of green dots in the viewport either, the camera just moves back to it's original position like i'm not allowed to move it or something. HELP
Is there like a dictionary for all the terms he's using? There's like a bunch of convoluted names that aren't repeated enough to understand through context.
"We'll talk about this later" should be on his calling card.
why?
@@davidhatcher7016 because he always says that
@@velarowo tru
Turn this into a drinking game.
@@nuclearbomb9483 Sorry but i don't have demo's liver
This is one of the hardest part of SFM. Don't worry if u dont get it for the first time. I re-watched the whole series a couple times before I got it.
I need help, what hotkey is he talking about?
that's what i plan on doing. start making my own projects and just re watch the tutorials if I'm confused or forgot something
trying to remember all these hotkeys is like trying to run TF2 on Windows 98
Lol
this comment makes me sure that he really lives up to his name
DAMMIT! He didn't tell me to hit CRTL+S to save. Now i've lost all my graph work! ;)
Sad story bro.
he says in tutorials before this.. if you not see this is not him problem.
@@XDJUNIORJ425XD obvious joke.
@@loogielicorice HAHA LOL LEMON LMON
@@XDJUNIORJ425XD delete your google account please
If animating is sure to result in victory then you must ANIMATE! Valve said that and I think he knows a little more about SFM than you do pal because they invented it! And then they perfected it so no living man could best them in the ring of popularity! Then they used their animating money to buy 2 of every character in the world. Then they herded them on a map and then they animated the crap out of them. (I do not own the copyrights to the text, may contain mistakes)
Hahahahaha.
And from that video forward, anytime a bunch of animation sets are together it's called an animation.
Unless it's a poster.
Meet the animator 💀
We are meming a comment made over a decade ago 💀💀💀
@@CatzTheCanadian *tf2 intro theme plays*
"What do we do now?" "Now? Let's go practice animation."
I am finally realizing what troubles SFM animators have to go through.
"He knows a little more about source filmmaker that YOU do, pal; 'cause he INVENTED IT! Then he PERFECTED it so no living man could out-direct him in the ring of honor!"
2:33, he says to zoom vertically it is shift + mousewheel but it's actually control + mousewheel.
Thanks I couldn't do it lol
It doesn't work for me either :(
What is the mousewheel
@@theantidevil4life its that thing that you scroll with in the middle of your mouse
I think the graph editor is by far the easiest way to animate. I actually thought that it was very difficult to operate, but once I tired it, It's not so bad.
this part is where it gets hard
No that’s the Motion Editor Part. Watch the full tutorial before commenting.
@EnderElectrics well people have a harder time on different things then you.
It's pretty easy
@@ClassicSonicPersonafter all these years I continued to pursue 3D animation and after using unreal engine blender and Maya.
HELL YEA this is easy now! unreal engine makes me want to cry😂
@@XDM_Studios Good for You! Experience is key.
Animating's a good job, mate. It's challenging work, out of doors. I guarantee you won't go angry, cuz in the end of the day, as long as there is 2 models left in a planet, someone's gonna want those two move.
I’m an animator dad, not a crazed illustrator! What the difference be? One’s a job and the other’s mental sickness!
I spent 2 and a half hours trying to get the camera to rotate how I wanted.
He is explaining it the hard way. You can just move the camera in the Primary Viewport (or Secondary viewport, wherever you placed your active camera)
@@EnderElectrics
how?
@@davidhatcher7016 Just drag it to the point you want, the camera will move from point A to point B. You can create new key frames in between to adjust the movement so it doesn't do things like clipping through the model.
@@gojiratheking1065 ok
I know it sounds obvious, but with any tutorial, doing it at the same time as the person really helps! Was watching before and had no clue what things meant :)
Taking notes helps too
To clarify, Valve have used the SFM for pretty much most of their game trailers so that includes the Portal trailers, the Left 4 Dead trailers, the Half Life trailers,the DOTA trailers, any of the gameplay or major cinemtic scences they have shown were all developed with the SFM, meaning that with creative ingenuity and good experience with the filmmaker, anyone could surpass what Valve made.
after my first day i got here, im gonna go to sleep now, you probably wont see this but thank you.
I regret thinking this would be easy.
Me too man I just wanted to animate and now they got me doin math n shi :(
@@SweetGeneral1 for reel, for reel, my drilla
The Graph Editor was a lot easier to use than the motion editor
Some tutorials think they can outsmart me. I've yet to meet one that can outsmart graph.
Your first frame is set to 113 as well, go to the first frame where you want the camera to start roatating and set it to another number. It's not explained at all in the video, but it looks like that if you select an area and an animation set you'll see the value of the first frame in the first box and the value of the last frame in the 2nd box.
the pyro is hovering
boi didnt cntrl shift lmao
Honestly my favorite part of SFM. I like how i can just puppet the characters around.
If you re-position your workspace (Slide drag a tab to a different position), you can grab the tab 'animation set editor' and slide them next to Viewport 1 or 2. This makes room to expand other tabs while taking in lesser space. At least I've got the input windows back.
animatings a good job mate,it's challenging work,indoors,i guarantee you'll not go hungry because at the end of the day as long as theres two companies left on the planet someone is gonna want something animated.
Got stumped on the whole F hotkey thing, didn't work for me. Found out the button for it is called Normalize Curve Display, right above the graph and next to where it says Keymode [Spline]. It's the two wavy lines with the arrows going up and down. Hope this saves some headaches.
Edit: After going back, the graph still wasn't properly working, so I had to move the camera directly to change the curves. Not sure if anyone else is getting these problems, but if you don't know a proper way to fix it, hope this helps.
Oh my gosh, your a life saver! Thank you sooo much!
Now i understand why it takes a while for SFM animators to make videos
@ 2:12 or so "Now let's frame the curve by hitting the F hotkey. . . " Which F hotkey is the default? I can't seem to find it in the key map. Great tutorials by the way, my only criticism is to flash up the keys on screen as you us them. Thanks!
It's amazing what this application is capable of, even from a decade ago, or more.
I followed until this. This part should tell us what we want to do with the graph editor at the beginning of the video. I couldn't make it work like in the video, controls must have changed too much since then.
To all the people who are being incredibly ignorant and writing ridiculously stupid comments, insulting the person who is trying to show us how to do this-
If you do not understand, re-watch the video, and remain calm. Animation takes time, and if you are not committed enough to re-watch a video a couple of times, and mess around in the program until you get things right, then animation obviously isn't for you.
Man, it feels good when you at least START to understand.
Yes, except in TF2 it works for 1-2-1, 1-3-1, 2-1-2, 2-3-2, 3-1-3, and 3-2-3. In SFM, it's only 1-2-1, 2-1-2, 1-3-1 and 3-1-3. Basically what I'm saying is you can only quick switch between two of the three, and one of them is always the first tab (timeline).
The graph editor seems to be more easier for me to control when it comes to animating. I'll be sure to practice a lot with it. Thank you for this tutorial. I'll watch the guide over and over until I get everything in SFM. :)
Oh the sweet memories of how Maya's graph editor gave me such nightmares when I first started learning it...
that felt like an hour
I'm really liking source film maker, incredibly helpful tutorials, thanks Valve :D
I actually found this easier than the time selection thing, still pretty hard but things actually make more sence here. Still need to experiment a little more with it, but I think I can say without a doubt that animating with this graph editor is easier than using the time selection.
'cause at the end o' the day, as long as there's two animator's left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone's film
Insanely true. I'm quite certain I would have understood this if he had somehow eliminated or went easy on the technical terms...
What curves of chronic and sustained difficulty!
This is an amazing tool. It makes things a lot easier.
The number field only appears if there's enough room on the menu. Narrow the the menus on the left hand side until they show up.
2:05 Nah, my brain melted here. 3 Errors before any of this even started happening. Nice knowing yall
Some think they can out smart me . . . maybe, but I have yet to meet one that can outsmart SFM.
it's probably far harder for everyone who wasn't nerdy enough to play with 3d softwares.
seriously, these tutorials felt like a piece of cake, even if i was a super noob with blender and 3ds max, but, for instance, i would have serious troubles with vegas pro or photoshop or after effects tutorials.
One shudders to imagine what inhuman coding lies behind that screen.
...what dreams of filming and sustained animation.
2:12 is there a specific mouse I need for this to work? Cause I can't get the lines to move. Like it does here in the example.
I guess my basic 3D modeling class that I took a while back really helped, because unlike everyone, I haven't been having any problems.
I haven't been having problems either. But i have played a game where you can customise your clothes and i had to use 3d modeling to be able to put them where i want.
sfm's videos titles are more creative than my name
I am so ducking serious about learning how to use SFM to animate FNaF to the point where I am writing NOTES about all this.
lol
This man does this for a living I think he might know a little bit more than most of us.
Im ready for the challenge I already have two storys for the heavy :D
Hint with the Tab button: It works exactly like the Q button (last weapon used) in TF2.
how do you drag the line? I tried using pressing "F" and holding it as well--2:18
um...I'm assuming you are talking about how he had the camera following the scout. That was just from him recording the scout and soldiers. The camera views for those were automatic
And then he herded all the entities onto a map, and then he animated the crap out of every single one.
I figured it out - if the toolbar is too condensed, SFM starts removing buttons/text fields. If you just make the SMF window longer, the two number fields will reappear.
This took me 400 hours to understand this ... for 12 seconds
Bethesda releases creation kit, gives basic tutorials that don't help much. Valve releases a film studio, and explains how to do everything.
That's the point. The pyro and wheelbarrow only exist in the second clip. Not in the others.
Presumably it works in any source engine game, although there might be different releases for different games like the SDK (I don't know, but I know it /does/ work in L4D in some way since its what they used to make the videos in that).
This looks very similar to how I would move objects on a 2D plane with Flash. I like it^^
How do I move the tangen handles? I'm making a random video as a tester where scout yells that he's a unicorn while he's running from rockets.
Just a note if you are not using a english keyboard then the jump between keyframes is a bit difficult, meaning that you can not do it unless you change your keyboard setting by hitting alt+shift and then using the two to the top left of the enter key, on most keyboards I have seen otherwise I suggest you google "american keyboard" to see where the bottons would be for you.
If you can't figure out why you can't make the curve it's because he decided to use a hotkey that does not show it's been selected. You can change the curve by holding your middle mouse button or clicking the "move" button that's next to the "select" button directly above the graph editing view.
THANK YOU!
You're hilarious. Are you going to give me a ton of trololols, insults, or viruses now? You do that.
-fwoosh-
DO YOU BELIEVE IN CODING.
IN AN YOUNG VALVE HEART.
Is anybody else getting a weird camera spazz when trying to move about the map on any camera?
Yeah, I have no clue why, but I opened fraps and it fixed it somehow, don't ask me how, because I don't know.
this part is weird. lol this is only if u want that 180/360 spin around your character, not everyones going to use that shot tho. If your're into action scenes or any video requires high motion scenes like comedy for example then maybe learning this would be useful. I'm not really looking for fast flashy scenes but if I do I'll come back to this when I need it!
one shadows to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that graph
for beginners ,like myself , i would recommend cinema films' tutorial series
There will be, because it's a much easier tool for the "common man" to use. SFM is a tool built by nerds for nerds. It isn't something most people can instantly pick up and use like Gmod.
Regardless of what mode I was in, it did not work in any of them, but when I started a new project and tried to move the camera in the graph editor, it created the green dots. That is very odd, but at least I can make use of the graph editor's features in a new project, thanks.
bendito sean los subtítulos generados por google, llegue hasta esta parte y la verdad me costo mucho poner los cambios que quería, porque no seleccionaba la parte donde los quería (al inicio o al final) pero ya lo supere y me quedo horrible, pero ya entendí como funciona, por cierto, hacer estas modificaciones de cámara me marean
Animations. You know what has a lot of animations? Blokes that animate their life away with flash. Professionals, have standards.
Thanks so much! worked perfectly! props! and happy filming!
Am I the only one who understood every tutorial easily except for this.
oh damn, is there a way to change this up? I'm doing this on a 1440x900 monitor and it's too squished for it to show up. Luckily I've got a dual screen so I can stretch it over, but I'd rather keep it on one monitor.
@7redroster7 well 1. It is the same component adjusted in this video and 2. Rotation is in it's name so I figured?
Animator's a good job, mate.
For starters it only works with TF2 but they intend to make it compatible with other source games
Phew! Thanks for reminding me how to save - I forgot for a second there.
wait it gets better!when the model woke up his rig was missing and the animator was never heard from again!
Finally got it at the end, good grief this shit is bananas.
The Graph Editor scares me
Every Source engine game trailer by Valve since Orange Box has been created with SFM.
But Baye! You- you forget to tell me to hit that save button! TT~TT
This step is a little confusing at first, but spend a couple hours messing around with it and you'll get used to it.
Ok so when im trying to move the camera like you are at 2:05 it just jumps back to its original position for me and doesn't create the keyframe. it doesn't show the line of green dots in the viewport either, the camera just moves back to it's original position like i'm not allowed to move it or something. HELP
after rewatching this I got the hang of using the graph editor
This is like inception alla over again... although i understood that eventually so maybe i will understand this eventually
I used to have a keyboard that had all Function keys, way back. It was fucking huge.
Is there like a dictionary for all the terms he's using? There's like a bunch of convoluted names that aren't repeated enough to understand through context.
and in that day forward everytime a bunch of animations is edited together its called a film!
when i press f it goes spastic and spreads my shot out to look 100 times as long.
my sfm might be broken,i tried restarting the program and my computer but it wont let me animate period,it doesnt give me any key frames or anything.
we love you Valve
If watching a tutorial is sure to result in understanding then you must watch!
they went beyond three
they made portal trailers with sfm too, right?