Here are the steps for source film maker 1. Download it 2. Get hyped thinking I can make an actual good video 3. Watch a tutorial of some british guy going through sh*t to fast 4. Stop watching the video after one minute and think that your a pro 5. Try to spawn in a character 6. Freakout cuz you did something wrong 7. Ask a good pal to help you 8. he ignores you 9. delete the program 10. repeat all steps
Same but mine is shorter 1. Download it 2. get hype thinking i can make a good vid or poster 3.watch some tutorial 4.opens sfm and realize you have a potato pc 5.starts to have 5 fps 6.delete sfm 7.see someone doin a animation on sfm and get motivated 8.repeat
Here's my steps: 1. Download it 2. Get supa hyped to make a pro video after watching Avatar 3. Open SFM and realise you need to watch an introduction to SFM 4. Watch some pro lvl tutorial... 5. Get hyped again 6. Then having difficulty opening up a map... 7. Uninstall 8. Good Job!
Am agree. And it's mostly of FNAF or Undertale animations. I want to use Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead models to create some good animations. Heck, I may even want to try out a decent horror animation some day.
And here is how i animate: I use the graph editor to lay out my initial animation. I then select all keyframes and use the Step Tangent, which i then use the round tool. And, honestly it works out very nicely.
If you're having any sorts of trouble not being to move something - please check you're in the right timeline, the correct item/model selected, and the blue arrow playhead is in the spot you're working on. Also, SFM is a heavy resource program. If you're having issues or lag, it's most likely your setup. Posting this since many of the problems in the comments are related to the same issue.
As stated above check the if the blue playhead is in the correct selected (green) area. The monitor will only show what's on the playhead, not what's selected.
Thanks a lot for making this tutorial I've wanted to get into SFM for a few years now and didn't know where to start. I love your animations and they have motivated me to finally start learning SFM in my spare time. I look forward to more of your animations and hopefully more tutorials.
+Lt. Eddy Make a animation tutorial explaining the basics of animation and some other things that you think we need to learn love this video by the way its really good
6:12 you didnt really explain how to add that time frame where the camera can change its position. you just did it and i dont know what to do in order to change it
0:00 - Camera 6:50 - Models 9:40 - Lighting 16:00 - Animating (sorry if missed some other stuff) (*this was mostly for me to remember and goto the basic stuff I need to know*)
This video made me actually start my very first sfm animation test 3 days ago, for real. This video introduced me to what motion editor is, and i used another video to learn more about the graph editor. Switching between these 2 is pretty familiar to me now, and all I need to do is improve my actual animation posing skills so that it doesnt look stiff. Rn i'm on day 2 and i hope i can finish this by day 5-7. Thanks man! your introduction is really helpful
Thanks for the help on SFM, Lt. Eddy! The valve tutorials were way more confusing and difficult to get. Glad to see someone put them into a manner that most people can understand! Keep up the good work!
For people who don't have their timelines turning orange: Click the plus button on the top left and click "create new animation set for camera." After that, go to your secondary viewport and press the gear icon, camera, change scene, then click whichever camera you've just created (whatever it's named)
Lt. Eddy, you are a godsend. Without this video, I wouldn't know how to 'Enable Volumetrics.' Because I'm too lazy to experiment with features to figure out what they do.
the best tutorial around for beginners and for those who have a bit more knowledge. I learned some stuff i didnt know before. thank you for this tutorial.
I looked back on this video, and saw this comment. I was curious, and I saw a reply. I was curious as to what his specs were, thinking he replied, i clicked the view reply button. Turns out it was me making a shitty joke 4 months ago. Thanks me.
pro tip, when making your movement and action and whatnot, rightclick the viewport and then deselect "enable lighting", this will make everything the default lighting, which lets you see every single detail in your animation far easier
***IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS READ THIS*** This is from the creator aka Eddy him self. for people who cant move the character or camera or other stuff: If you're having any sorts of trouble not being to move something - please check you're in the right timeline, the correct item/model selected, and the blue arrow playhead is in the spot you're working on. Also, SFM is a heavy resource program. If you're having issues or lag, it's most likely your setup. Posting this since many of the problems in the comments are related to the same issue. EDIT: iam currently going trough all the comments and i just reached the end. searching for solutions for the most common once. ill update this with a list of every problem people are facing and with what solution i find.
Earned a sub and a like purely for the fact that you stated you had no music playing in the background, with intentions to allow us, the viewer to have their own music
just getting into animation Film making ty so much for this , I have so many creative ideas just lurking deep in the recesses of my brain That I can really begin to explore and to share with everyone....
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I've been trying to learn how to use SFM for awhile but never got a hang of it, but your video have been much help in using SFM. ^^
Thanks Lt.Eddy, this helped me out a lot. I tried looking at one from Valve and had no clue wtf they were doing. Now I just got to practice some more :D
I can follow this tutorial! I love how you make me understand haha other tutorials use technical terms which make me go to Google to find the meaning haha thank you for this video!
+zefra Umm. Sfmlab is really difficult for me to understand. Until then, i am working with steam. Once I have mastered animating with Steam and I need money, I'll think about it.
Thanks man I really appreciate this, this brought enough motivation to use SFM. It was complicated at first but after 4-5 days messing with it, I fully understood most if not all its technical aspects. I've actually created a short clip, so yeah, thanks and cheers!
![[SFM] ,,The Scout who Never Gave Up" {MN: Episode 1}](/img/n.gif)
Here are the steps for source film maker
1. Download it
2. Get hyped thinking I can make an actual good video
3. Watch a tutorial of some british guy going through sh*t to fast
4. Stop watching the video after one minute and think that your a pro
5. Try to spawn in a character
6. Freakout cuz you did something wrong
7. Ask a good pal to help you
8. he ignores you
9. delete the program
10. repeat all steps
Same but mine is shorter
1. Download it
2. get hype thinking i can make a good vid or poster
3.watch some tutorial
4.opens sfm and realize you have a potato pc
5.starts to have 5 fps
6.delete sfm
7.see someone doin a animation on sfm and get motivated
8.repeat
STF: TF2 an SFM this is too accurate
Here's my steps:
1. Download it
2. Get supa hyped to make a pro video after watching Avatar
3. Open SFM and realise you need to watch an introduction to SFM
4. Watch some pro lvl tutorial...
5. Get hyped again
6. Then having difficulty opening up a map...
7. Uninstall
8. Good Job!
the same goes with fruity loops, photo shop, etc. lol
Sooo true
Animating Tutorial starts at 15:07, for everyone who knows the basics.
This should be at the top.
It is for me! XD
Or read desc
AgitatedGoose thanks
Your an actual legend
Oh thank god a tutorial narrated by someone that isn't a year away from puberty. You get kudos for that alone, good sir!
I feel ya. And every one of those I see, the one's that sounds like dying cows, they all make fnaf animations.
really cringy ones.
Am agree. And it's mostly of FNAF or Undertale animations. I want to use Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead models to create some good animations. Heck, I may even want to try out a decent horror animation some day.
Josephi Krakowski let me guess you watched the one with the guy doing a commission
@@matthewvalentine7382 Given how this was 3 years ago, I have no idea.
Josephi Krakowski yeah after I replied I realized that, and just was too lazy to delete it
>Taking notes
>Sees "rig_ashley_nude"
*>Taking notes faster*
Disgusting
Why is your pfp alphys uhhh.... i don’t need to go further
That is a scuffed profile
@@BardiXOfficial yours is too
@@-Genki not as bad as that alphys porn
Finally a tutorial understandable by people who aren't nuclear physicists.
Thanks, Eddy!
watches valve tutorial: ok i'll figure it out someday........
watches this video: ok i got it!
Adam Tozser finally a tutorial that's actually FUCKING LOGICAL
what does nuclear physics have to do with animation? This was a horrible analogy and I'm very disappointe
Mehoi It's called figurative language
dissapointe?
6:09 You need to hold the Shift key to create the second line
Thank you
Thank you so much
Searches "Source filmaker basics"
Sees all the long videos
Oh god
literally me 26 seconds ago
the longer ones are generally the better ones for some reason
@@thenachothief more thorough
Christ that timeline really looks intimidating.
It really is, but you get used to it
@@punishedfortniter
God can you give me some m&ms for life?
And here is how i animate: I use the graph editor to lay out my initial animation. I then select all keyframes and use the Step Tangent, which i then use the round tool. And, honestly it works out very nicely.
This video helped me figure out SFM. I'm now actually making animations, no thanks to Valve's tutorials.
Thank you very much!
Valves video SFM tutorial taught me how to do posters so, only 59 more of those and I'll have 1 minute of video...
+Grim Reaper Tom 1 second*
where ya went boah 😕
If you're having any sorts of trouble not being to move something - please check you're in the right timeline, the correct item/model selected, and the blue arrow playhead is in the spot you're working on.
Also, SFM is a heavy resource program. If you're having issues or lag, it's most likely your setup.
Posting this since many of the problems in the comments are related to the same issue.
Too long, just gonna keep practicing. But is there a way to upload stuff from sfm directly?
+Lt. Eddy whatis this called
+Brocraft Home of the cool
This is Source Film Maker.
When I set up camera 1, I can't move it around even if I'm in graph or motion editor. Do you know how to fix it
As stated above check the if the blue playhead is in the correct selected (green) area. The monitor will only show what's on the playhead, not what's selected.
Been using for 3 years and I've gotta say, this is one of the best tutorial videos for SFM right now.
+TheNoskap Glad to hear! :)
are you still here? it would be cool if you can help me help others with their problems. Eddy sadly doesnt resond to comments anymore on this.
@@mitschcrafter6766 yeah sure
@@noskap thank you man. spend a good time going trought the comments. starting to make a list with all the problems.
Thanks a lot for making this tutorial I've wanted to get into SFM for a few years now and didn't know where to start. I love your animations and they have motivated me to finally start learning SFM in my spare time. I look forward to more of your animations and hopefully more tutorials.
"I've got no music playing in the background--"
*Immediately likes*
What I got from this tutorial:
*BIG. WIEEEEEEEENER*
10/10
it's time to stop
It'zYaLocalGamer agreed
was at the exact time when i read this
saving this video for later, finally a good tutorial.
thanks eddy
+KittyRabi Hopefully it's good! D:
Everyone please let me know if there's anything I can do for the future.
+Lt. Eddy Make a animation tutorial explaining the basics of animation and some other things that you think we need to learn love this video by the way its really good
I admire that kind of animation. And I admire it and you can give me the code or key to download it
CrazyBrothersStyle R2-D2 SFM is free on steam...
Thanks a ton for the guide! Used this vid to make my first SFM animation XD
You don’t know how much this helped! My pc is a potato so yeah.
6:12
you didnt really explain how to add that time frame where the camera can change its position. you just did it and i dont know what to do in order to change it
yes he did.... you press enter
hold shift
@@drago5819 so hold shift or not?
Hold shift
0:00 - Camera
6:50 - Models
9:40 - Lighting
16:00 - Animating
(sorry if missed some other stuff)
(*this was mostly for me to remember and goto the basic stuff I need to know*)
6:00 Whenever I click my viewport to move my camera the timeline doesn't change to orange. It stays green, why is that?
I fixed that problem but when I press enter it doesn't let me create frames like you said? It just stays the same.
can you tell me how you fixed it.
I cant get that shit to work either. My blood pressure is increasing rapidly.
xXCrossArrowXx Shift? Idk
make sure you have camera 1 selected in BOTH viewpoinsts
I always used the motion editor never the graph, and now I see the huge impact it has on the animation
SFM is by far the hardest animation program EVER!
in my opinion blender is easier i haven't really had any practice with sfm yet so i wouldnt be able to compare
But i think it's the most effective one.
Think that's hard?? Blender is much harder.
mmd is probably the easiest
i don't agree and i just realized im 2 years late.
17:32 you got me on that one. I'm glad your not a boring person that just shows you how to. :D
i can do things now
necro Poster
Good job
This video made me actually start my very first sfm animation test 3 days ago, for real. This video introduced me to what motion editor is, and i used another video to learn more about the graph editor. Switching between these 2 is pretty familiar to me now, and all I need to do is improve my actual animation posing skills so that it doesnt look stiff.
Rn i'm on day 2 and i hope i can finish this by day 5-7. Thanks man! your introduction is really helpful
Thank you for listing the shortcuts! Hope you do some more tutorials like this, yous a pretty good teacher! :D
22:22
he knows what we're here for!
How to piss off thousands of people instantly: Does it work like Roblox Studio!?
Oh no
Genius idea for letting viewer play music throughout your video. Much love
I laught hard when you said "I deserve oscar." XD Now you need to wait for it like Leo or make movie with bear :D
Thanks for the help on SFM, Lt. Eddy! The valve tutorials were way more confusing and difficult to get. Glad to see someone put them into a manner that most people can understand! Keep up the good work!
22:27 - 3 years later, this man was spittin the truth.
For people who don't have their timelines turning orange: Click the plus button on the top left and click "create new animation set for camera." After that, go to your secondary viewport and press the gear icon, camera, change scene, then click whichever camera you've just created (whatever it's named)
22:29 just blew so many covers, I swear I could hear it.
Well I'm finding this much harder than I originally thought I would have but having a great tutorial like this really helps. Thanks a bunch
Thanks for the tutorial dude! Only one I've actually understood 😂
Lt. Eddy, you are a godsend. Without this video, I wouldn't know how to 'Enable Volumetrics.' Because I'm too lazy to experiment with features to figure out what they do.
"Map loading always takes a really long time" *map loads in less than 5 seconds*
HiddenRealm he fast forward it if you didnt listen
no im saying my computer loaded it in 5 seconds, he said it would take a while
ohhhhh, then you got a nice pc
I got it in 3sec one time and another time took 7minutes
@@zylsa1168 true.
the best tutorial around for beginners and for those who have a bit more knowledge. I learned some stuff i didnt know before. thank you for this tutorial.
Great video, thanks a bunch mate. Also, any chance of knowing your PC specs?
good
I looked back on this video, and saw this comment. I was curious, and I saw a reply. I was curious as to what his specs were, thinking he replied, i clicked the view reply button. Turns out it was me making a shitty joke 4 months ago. Thanks me.
@@g-gnome505 God damn it
@@mysterymuffn lmao
Best Tutorial In History.
You're here to make Overwatch porn
Don't lie to me
Doyoulikewaffles? Yeawelikewaffles! What about furry overwatch porn
DO YOU LIKE PANCAKES? YEAH WE LIKE PANCAKES!
ABadUnfunny9/11Joke I am gay thx
Fuck you, that's the reason I'm here xD
XDDDDDDD
pro tip, when making your movement and action and whatnot, rightclick the viewport and then deselect "enable lighting", this will make everything the default lighting, which lets you see every single detail in your animation far easier
When I hold control with a character model loaded, bones don't show up...
graph editor should work.
Jade Hunter motion editor
Getting a laptop next month and wanted to start sfm. Clearest tutorial ever, even better then Valves. Plus 1 sub my good sir.
who took notes to use in sfm while watching, am I the only one?
I wasn't but now that you mentioned it, i am now.
Cheers!
Cheers!
cheers!
chairs
Duncan Mcfarland chores
***IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS READ THIS***
This is from the creator aka Eddy him self. for people who cant move the character or camera or other stuff:
If you're having any sorts of trouble not being to move something - please check you're in the right timeline, the correct item/model selected, and the blue arrow playhead is in the spot you're working on.
Also, SFM is a heavy resource program. If you're having issues or lag, it's most likely your setup.
Posting this since many of the problems in the comments are related to the same issue.
EDIT:
iam currently going trough all the comments and i just reached the end. searching for solutions for the most common once. ill update this with a list of every problem people are facing and with what solution i find.
Thanks man
I lik ehow the tutorial was so smooth and told me everything but, still doesn't fix my animation skills ;/
thats on you. you get better by trying.
Yo, great timing, I'm downloading SFM at this very moment! Thanks so much!
*watches 39 mins sfm tutorial*
*tries to download sfm*
*downloads in 2 hours*
*runs it*
*laptop can't handle it*
If u wanna make animations and can't run source filmmaker try gmod
eddy, our 4 mana boy. this and the other videos is actualy the reson i got into animation. thank you so much for your time ed boy, keep on claping
how do you *make* a character?
You can use Blender to make a model. But it'll be very hard
Asmegra thx. ill look up how.
Np
I'm really glad I found your channel, never knew you made a tutorial and it's pretty easy to follow along.
im only here 2 learn to make some hentai
How's that going? XP
lets be honest most of the people that use sfm use it to make the pronz
My feelings are hurt
Fonz Suda just a question I doubt you'll answer since it's on an outdated comment, but does sfm work with csgo the way it does with tf2
TKT Ashes Yeah you just have to have the game and import the textures, there is videos on TH-cam.
But yes it should be the same
02:50 The setting is in the right-click menu, called "Show Scene Hierarchy".
8:23 That's what she said :P
you naughty boy....
haa
XD haahahahaghahahahahahahahahahaah
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Earned a sub and a like purely for the fact that you stated you had no music playing in the background, with intentions to allow us, the viewer to have their own music
I'm still confused.
just getting into animation Film making ty so much for this , I have so many creative ideas just lurking deep in the recesses of my brain That I can really begin to explore and to share with everyone....
MLP Porn ?
just joking....
Anyone else saw that the file is called "tuts_4_tits.dmx"? XD
yup i saw tuts_4_tits as the session XD
Hehe ;)
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I've been trying to learn how to use SFM for awhile but never got a hang of it, but your video have been much help in using SFM. ^^
10:44 "She is LIT"
The best SFM tutorial that i have seen! Thank you, this helps a lot!
It's really cringy to watch that character. It's like a scout, the male one, but with boobs ! I'm getting confused
!
im going to have to re-watch this over and over to get it. I think i got it but need to catch the details. we got this!
wow first properly done sfm tutorial ive ever seen! ty
Thanks man, I'm trying to learn the ropes of sfm and this video helped :p
I came here to learn SFM, left with a banger playlist
Thanks Lt.Eddy, this helped me out a lot. I tried looking at one from Valve and had no clue wtf they were doing. Now I just got to practice some more :D
I can follow this tutorial! I love how you make me understand haha other tutorials use technical terms which make me go to Google to find the meaning haha thank you for this video!
This was a truly AMAZING tutorial! You were very easily understood and didn't take any more time than you needed to. Bravo!
Dude, you have no idea how much this helped me. In just one day I created a Dancing DeathClaw :'0. Thank you.
a dancing deathclaw sounds interesting....
Oh, it sure is. :^>
+zefra Umm. Sfmlab is really difficult for me to understand. Until then, i am working with steam. Once I have mastered animating with Steam and I need money, I'll think about it.
Thanks, since i have a history with editing i find the line graph editor really easy to use.
I was installing source filmmaker and taking notes off all this while watching this Video...helped a lot thx
Kinda happy that I ran into this, thanks for the rather well detailed step by step video editing
One good thing about sfm is that its been so neglected that you can watch an 4 year old tutorial and it still be up to date
This is the only tutorial video that help 😇 and its basic so I'm very thankful😊
I didn't know about the smoothing element. holy crap that really beats going frame by frame like I thought you had to do in animation.
Well I never really used it, I was just freaking mind blown whenever I saw an SFM.
Heard a sound, paused and checked for notifications, then heard "aaaand I'll just turn off notifications." Made me laugh :)
Oooohh!
I've been waiting for this!
Thanks a lot man! This really helped build my animation skills
thank you sir, you helped me learn a few things about sfm!
Thanks man I really appreciate this, this brought enough motivation to use SFM. It was complicated at first but after 4-5 days messing with it, I fully understood most if not all its technical aspects. I've actually created a short clip, so yeah, thanks and cheers!
+Digital Cold Excellent to hear :) Cheers fella
I can't wait until I get enough time to do something like this. Thanks Eddy
Finally, A helpful tutorial.. Thanks
MAAAAN!! I cant thank you enough! This helped me soooo much!
Thank you Eddy. Finally you have the tutorial I've been looking for. Thanks to you, now I'm making SFM animations that are awesome. :D
This tutorial was great. Gave me a lot of useful tips. Keep it up!
thanks for making this, its a great tutorial!
i hope one day someone makes SFM useable by the commen man
and just for superhumans
Thanks man! With this video, I have learned almost everything in SFM! With the info in this video, I figured out everything else by myself! :D
Thanks for this. Good start and stuff. I just got started to messing around with this.
It doesn't turn orange for me...4:38
Didn't work for me either
I already love you so much for the music suggestion
Hey I am just getting into this animating stuff and I'm not that smart. How do I move the object that I have in front of me?
Watch the vid.
Bruh
This was the most helpful video I could find
Help! how did you cut them "In-betweeners"? 22:02
Thanks bro this really helped and before i saw this i did not know what to do
The tip at 16:01 makes this entire video worth watching