Source Filmmaker Tip of the Day

[Wallachia]

Originally Posted by Cyclometh

Tip of the Day #37 - Creating Light Kits

In today's Tip of the Day I show you how to create Light Kits and briefly discuss lighting basics.

http://youtu.be/LrwP1F3QGPU

Thank you!

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #38 - Setting the Near and Far distance of a camera

In today's Tip I show you how to set the minimum and maximum distance of a camera's "vision", which allows you to create some interesting visual effects.

http://youtu.be/G4_duYdBdEQ

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #39 - Making a Camera Track a Model

In today's Tip of the Day I show you how to make a camera track and pan with a model's motion, without moving itself.

http://youtu.be/0ZbZeNj-kw8

Credit to YouTube user MulleDK13 for the information on how to do this!

[Wallachia]

Dear Jimeth Lins a.k.a Cyclomer,

I'd like to request a tip of the day about creating fading animations.

Thanks in advance.

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #40- Using Constraints for Fun and Profit

In today's Tip, I show you how to lock orientation of two or more objects together so you can make them move together- for example, making two sentries move exactly the same way by only animating one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB89S3M6fsc

[Desseler]

Originally Posted by Cyclometh

Tip of the Day #40- Using Constraints for Fun and Profit

In today's Tip, I show you how to lock orientation of two or more objects together so you can make them move together- for example, making two sentries move exactly the same way by only animating one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB89S3M6fsc

A much more long-term compatible way to go about doing this is to lock the "root" of the master sentry to the slave sentry's root rotation. You get the same exact effect, but it's much more friendly when it comes to long-term edits.

And thank you for all of these videos that you have made! They've helped me sooo much with my Source Filmmaking journeys.

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #41 - The Rule of Thirds

In today's Tip of the Day I show you how to use the Rule of Thirds to make more interesting shots in your SFM videos. I also provide a link to download an overlay grid for your own videos.

http://youtu.be/QsRy5EVggyg

[rc_cola]

Originally Posted by Cyclometh

Tip of the Day #41 - The Rule of Thirds

In today's Tip of the Day I show you how to use the Rule of Thirds to make more interesting shots in your SFM videos. I also provide a link to download an overlay grid for your own videos.

http://youtu.be/QsRy5EVggyg

Where did you save the two files? When I apply it I get the pink and black texture that tells me it isn't reading the texture file.

[Cyclometh]

Originally Posted by rc_cola

Where did you save the two files? When I apply it I get the pink and black texture that tells me it isn't reading the texture file.

Several people have reported this. Try putting it your "materials" folder, make sure you got both the VMT and VTF file out of the archive, and restart SFM.

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #42 (Don't Panic!) - Using the SHIFT and CTRL modifiers

In today's Tip I show you how to use SHIFT and CTRL to change movement speed for better camera positioning and more accurate puppeteering.

http://youtu.be/59YuwrSwxC8

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #43 - Manipulating Lights as Camera

In today's tip I show you how to make a light behave like a camera for the purpose of manipulating it in your scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HepxTBVtgfk

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #44 - Projecting Images via Light Gobo Textures

In today's tip I show you a little bit about using lights to project images and discuss what is and isn't possible with projected textures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ne0K8c6FdY

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #45 - Making ragdolls of recorded models

In today's Tip, I show you a technique for creating ragdolls and animating them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5EB-BznEg0

[Cyclometh]

Tip of the Day #46- Extracting Models from TF2 and other Source Games

In today's tip I show you how to extract models from Team Fortress 2, so you can have all the hats, weapons and such that aren't in the base SFM distribution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdsZSjHkbxw

[faber]

Hi

thanks for all these useful tips!

I have to say that there's a better way to import models
link:http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=2824377
You need a dx90 & dx80 copy in order to see them in your model browser.

I imported Alien swarm and Portal files using this procedure, without any problem.

/offtopic I made this video using the overlay grid you uploaded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7kK8jJO5c