Thank you for all the work on these videos dude. I can't describe how much my artwork has improved thanks to your tutorials. This video has probably saved me so much performance for SFM, thanks to the updated lighting tips you gave. Hell, I never even knew that motion blur can affect lights in that way! I have learned so much cool shit from this channel, and I just want to give my thanks! Keep up the great content!
Glad I stayed subscribed, this shit is genuinely funny, and I've learned a ton more than I thought was possible with the lights in the program! Thanks for this man!
I recently just finished an SFM artwork rewatching your old lighting tutorials over and over to try and get it right and then you go and upload this the second I'm finished..... glad your back tho
Thank you for making this, this tutorial was both fun and entertaining! I like that part in the end where you talk about experiences. I view tutorials videos such as yours to something like an XP boost, it won't level up your skills instantly but it sure does help getting you to level up faster.
As a person who's been using your lighting method on your "How to Improve Your SFM Artworks" video" for 90% of my renders, this video made my renders a lot better than before. Really like your lighting trick here, especially the motion blur because that was really cool. Also one question but how would you light indoors or do you use the same lighting method? Especially since indoor interiors have tight spaces like a house or tunnel of some sort.
Indoor is a little trickier with walls and whatnot. You’ll need two basic things Two 360 lights on each end of the room ought to do the trick. Make sure it’s constant atten is up, and turn down intensity. Turn radius up. If your room has any bright lights, you might also want a bounce light (500 radius light with no shadows under the ground)
@@cgijoe5671 Very late response my apology but I need help again. How do you do lighting when making animations since I'm slowly getting into animations and I saw snippets of your animations because lighting animations imo is different compared to renders imo? Especially since I don't think you can do the animated lights methods when doing animations.
@@Armordude91122Cute you actually can. You just can’t if you’re splitting up your shots, because the first frame of every shot has no motion blur. Other than that animated lights method works fine. Lighting animations is harder because you gotta account for other camera angles, but if your camera is cutting back and forth, you can move the lights accordingly
With your guide, I felt like I've improved quite a bit! I appreciate it very much! One question - How shall I do lighting when it comes to making a scene indoors, ya know?
What breaks artists isn’t lack of talent, it’s lack of commitment to building talent. If you don’t really care enough to work for it, that’s fine. But don’t let the lack of skill be what stops you from building it.
what if the camera has to pan or move in any way? what if there's multiple shots? this method looks great for static shots but if the camera ever has to reveal more of the background, or the map or what have you, would I need to set up more ambient lights to cover more ground? could i get away with using an enormous ambient light covering the whole map, so wherever my characters go, the background will be properly lit? Or Should i only be thinking about lighting what the camera sees, and make individual lighting set ups for each camera?
You should be using an enormous ambient light yes, that means bringing your light way up to the top of the skydome and then lowering the fov as much as you can while covering the scene (higher fov means worse shadows) Generally you only need to light what the camera will see
i enjoy how "recently uploaded" to you is 8 months ago this is a great tutorial btw, i don't understand it at all because i don't use sfm yet i watched almost the whole thing 👍
Love these tutorials you make my guy I just wish these tutorials could be atleast weekly and not like almost a year apart my knowledge on SFM is kinda basic and most of the tutorials you find on the internet are literally stuff from like 2011-2013 like there’s hardly any new tutorials made in the last 2 years and it’s frustrating 😭
Thank you for the tutorial! Feel like I've gone from complete beginner to sorta beginner lol I have to ask though, when burying a bounce light underground, the light sometimes doesn't penetrate the ground, how do I fix this?
Great tutorial, only one gripe I have with it is you don't explain why our ambient lights need shadows on. I don't really see the point in having shadows enabled when there's no visible effect in the render
You want shadows enabled for your ambient light because you don’t want light leaking through into areas it doesn’t have line of sight on. If you want a good example of this, go outside mid day and look at the shadow under a parked car. Unlike your shadow, which is blue, the car’s shadow is totally black.
You probably won't notice this but I'm a bit confused on the constant attenuation part? It just makes mine unnaturally super bright even after doing all you did
It’s because constant attenuation makes it so that lighting is evenly distributed no matter how far away. It’s so bright because there’s no falloff. Just turn down the intensity a TON
@@cgijoe5671 still a bit blocky but i will play around. Also how high do you reccomend the intensity for the sunlight? Mine looks to bright even with the intensity at 10
@@MegaDestinywarrior I recommend eyeballing it, different times of day will be different brightness. Would be best to check a reference image. And it shouldn't be blocky with radius, unless your sun light is super high up
It's RT from the uncertain for the head, the eyes are just lights in sfm with a half circle gobo. The clothes are from Half life alyx. The hands are from a custom robot I ported myself
@@SiddTheKing I use uber lights, available in the element viewer (right click on light, show light in element viewer). From there you can use width and height sliders. I also just rotated lights angle to get happy/sad/angry
Thank you for all the work on these videos dude. I can't describe how much my artwork has improved thanks to your tutorials. This video has probably saved me so much performance for SFM, thanks to the updated lighting tips you gave. Hell, I never even knew that motion blur can affect lights in that way! I have learned so much cool shit from this channel, and I just want to give my thanks! Keep up the great content!
Glad to help, people in the sfm discord swear it’s common knowledge but I call bs on that
@@cgijoe5671 Let's be real here, the SFM Discord is so far up its own ass sometimes it's almost not funny.
best sfm channel ever so underrated pls never stop you're the goat
My friend just started learning SFM. Can't wait to show her all the same tutorials you made that helped me :D
The motion blur trick blew my mind!
Great video, can't wait to do this in sfm
Glad I stayed subscribed, this shit is genuinely funny, and I've learned a ton more than I thought was possible with the lights in the program! Thanks for this man!
12:33 FOR REAL?
I DIDNT KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
I recently just finished an SFM artwork rewatching your old lighting tutorials over and over to try and get it right and then you go and upload this the second I'm finished..... glad your back tho
13,000 hours that means you're a master.
I really do appreciate the ambience my good sir. I understood lighting, but never knew how to do proper environment lightings.
So glad to see more content from you.
Thank you for making this, this tutorial was both fun and entertaining! I like that part in the end where you talk about experiences. I view tutorials videos such as yours to something like an XP boost, it won't level up your skills instantly but it sure does help getting you to level up faster.
As a person who's been using your lighting method on your "How to Improve Your SFM Artworks" video" for 90% of my renders, this video made my renders a lot better than before. Really like your lighting trick here, especially the motion blur because that was really cool.
Also one question but how would you light indoors or do you use the same lighting method? Especially since indoor interiors have tight spaces like a house or tunnel of some sort.
Indoor is a little trickier with walls and whatnot. You’ll need two basic things
Two 360 lights on each end of the room ought to do the trick. Make sure it’s constant atten is up, and turn down intensity. Turn radius up.
If your room has any bright lights, you might also want a bounce light (500 radius light with no shadows under the ground)
@@cgijoe5671 Very late response my apology but I need help again.
How do you do lighting when making animations since I'm slowly getting into animations and I saw snippets of your animations because lighting animations imo is different compared to renders imo? Especially since I don't think you can do the animated lights methods when doing animations.
@@Armordude91122Cute you actually can. You just can’t if you’re splitting up your shots, because the first frame of every shot has no motion blur. Other than that animated lights method works fine.
Lighting animations is harder because you gotta account for other camera angles, but if your camera is cutting back and forth, you can move the lights accordingly
With your guide, I felt like I've improved quite a bit! I appreciate it very much!
One question -
How shall I do lighting when it comes to making a scene indoors, ya know?
Returning 5 months later ive learned that i really just suck and im probably never going to be good at making art. Still a great guide though.
What breaks artists isn’t lack of talent, it’s lack of commitment to building talent. If you don’t really care enough to work for it, that’s fine. But don’t let the lack of skill be what stops you from building it.
I cant wait to try these tips out thanks! keep it up!
what if the camera has to pan or move in any way? what if there's multiple shots? this method looks great for static shots but if the camera ever has to reveal more of the background, or the map or what have you, would I need to set up more ambient lights to cover more ground? could i get away with using an enormous ambient light covering the whole map, so wherever my characters go, the background will be properly lit? Or Should i only be thinking about lighting what the camera sees, and make individual lighting set ups for each camera?
You should be using an enormous ambient light yes, that means bringing your light way up to the top of the skydome and then lowering the fov as much as you can while covering the scene (higher fov means worse shadows)
Generally you only need to light what the camera will see
@@cgijoe5671 wow i wasnt expecting a reply. thanks a lot! that's really helpful.
worth the wait, really did learn quite a bit
i enjoy how "recently uploaded" to you is 8 months ago
this is a great tutorial btw, i don't understand it at all because i don't use sfm yet i watched almost the whole thing 👍
That audio was recorded like 7 months ago, legit a relic of the past
Thank you I've been struggling with scene lighting and this was very helpful!
Love these tutorials you make my guy I just wish these tutorials could be atleast weekly and not like almost a year apart my knowledge on SFM is kinda basic and most of the tutorials you find on the internet are literally stuff from like 2011-2013 like there’s hardly any new tutorials made in the last 2 years and it’s frustrating 😭
saying my guy unironically really tells us all we need to know.
Mad underrated chanel.
I don't even animate, and yet this was very entertaining.
Such a great video! You deserve more viewers and subscribers!
I really needed this, thanks
Probably not gonna see this, but what models did you use for the characters at 5:17 ?
I noticed bounce light is more subtle in indoor places and is more noticeable in outdoors
Thank you for the tutorial! Feel like I've gone from complete beginner to sorta beginner lol I have to ask though, when burying a bounce light underground, the light sometimes doesn't penetrate the ground, how do I fix this?
If you increase the min distance slider that’ll move the start of the the light forward which should fix it
@@cgijoe5671 Thanks !
Thanks for the video. Commenting for the algorithm. ^-^
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that will help. thank you
Does this work on maps too? And if yes, what do i do about maps that already have lighting?
Where do you get your props from? I can't seem to find any good ones
(Specifically the skybox)
Scenebuild mega pack is where I get mine from
I know you probably wont reply 1 year later, but thank you so much for this tutorial. It's really helped me, and I love your videos so far :)
Thanks! More tutorials are coming soon
I've been trying to find a Halogram screens for my posters and have found none that work any recommendations on props I can use
Finally, point lights
That helped me very much thank you
I'm having a problem with my volumetrics, they're coming out as a bunch of white lines. How do I fix this?
Thank you so much...
My genshin animation look so stale..
I hope your tips will change things up
Thanks for the tips bro I make really poo animations and my lighting is very poo so thank you bro 🙏🙏🙏
Great tutorial, only one gripe I have with it is you don't explain why our ambient lights need shadows on. I don't really see the point in having shadows enabled when there's no visible effect in the render
You want shadows enabled for your ambient light because you don’t want light leaking through into areas it doesn’t have line of sight on.
If you want a good example of this, go outside mid day and look at the shadow under a parked car. Unlike your shadow, which is blue, the car’s shadow is totally black.
1:02 pyro if he never dmed that dude
every time i try to edit the vertical, everything breaks. and i cant even make a poster.
You probably won't notice this but I'm a bit confused on the constant attenuation part? It just makes mine unnaturally super bright even after doing all you did
It’s because constant attenuation makes it so that lighting is evenly distributed no matter how far away. It’s so bright because there’s no falloff. Just turn down the intensity a TON
how do you get the light to be in a light bunch
Scenebuild mega pack? Which one?... google shows a few xD
Turned down shadow aten, fliter and depth bias but shadows still blocky.
What do wrongM
use a small bit of radius
@@cgijoe5671 still a bit blocky but i will play around. Also how high do you reccomend the intensity for the sunlight? Mine looks to bright even with the intensity at 10
@@MegaDestinywarrior I recommend eyeballing it, different times of day will be different brightness. Would be best to check a reference image. And it shouldn't be blocky with radius, unless your sun light is super high up
I also looked this up on google but it says stuff like mirrors and polished metal reflect light
bro which sfm model do you use to narrate urself?? please help me out i want a model like that
It's RT from the uncertain for the head, the eyes are just lights in sfm with a half circle gobo. The clothes are from Half life alyx. The hands are from a custom robot I ported myself
@@cgijoe5671 thanks broo. i really appreciate ur help. and i want you to know that ur sfm tutorials helped me alot too. so thank you for that
@@cgijoe5671 i have a question about light gobo thing. how do you manipulate it to show impressions??
@@SiddTheKing I use uber lights, available in the element viewer (right click on light, show light in element viewer). From there you can use width and height sliders. I also just rotated lights angle to get happy/sad/angry
@@cgijoe5671 bro the amount of effort you put into this is mind blowing.. thank you yet again. im currently practicing the stuff you taught me in sfm!
i need a tutorial of Animation. PLEASE :3
how you did the fog?
Particle effect from workshop
I bought half life alyx, and used the fucking hammer editor more than I used SFM2
He’s over here with 13000 hours while I’m here at 3000 ;_;
We're all learning. Im only at 350 hours
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Sfm, more like, not sfm. Blender bettah 🤓🤓🤓🤓
What?
bro thinks he's funke