As for the SMH stuff that I didn't say in the video: Console commands you can't use in world keyframes: wiki.facepunch.com/gmod/Blocked_ConCommands Keys for world keyframes that you can use (Separate them with spaces): 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , a , b , c , d , e , f , g , h , i , j , k , l , m , n , o , p , q , r , s , t , u , v , w , x , y , z , Numpad_0 , Numpad_1 , Numpad_2 , Numpad_3 , Numpad_4 , Numpad_5 , Numpad_6 , Numpad_7 , Numpad_8 , Numpad_9 , Numpad_/ , Numpad_* , Numpad_- , Numpad_+ , Numpad_Enter , Numpad_. , [ , ] , SEMICOLON , ' , ` , , , . , / , \ , - , = , ENTER , SPACE , BACKSPACE , TAB , CAPSLOCK , NUMLOCK , ESCAPE , SCROLLLOCK , INS , DEL , HOME , END , PGUP , PGDN , PAUSE , SHIFT , RSHIFT , ALT , RALT , CTRL , RCTRL , LWIN , RWIN , APP , UPARROW , LEFTARROW , DOWNARROW , RIGHTARROW , F1 , F2 , F3 , F4 , F5 , F6 , F7 , F8 , F9 , F10 , F11 , F12 , CAPSLOCKTOGGLE , NUMLOCKTOGGLE , SCROLLLOCKTOGGLE SMH 3.0 is compatible with your saves from 2.0, however you'd need to save them in the new version if you would like to use the spawning function. You also can access your saves by navigating to ...garrysmod\data\smh , so you can backup your saves or move them somewhere else so they won't clog up your save menu. Prop effects can also be animated properly now. smh_makejpeg and smh_makescreenshot optionally can take a number value, it will make it start rendering from the specified frame. smh_startatone will also be considered. When you select an entity, it might not get highlighted with the halo, however it still would be properly selected and keyframes will be recorded on it. I don't quite know why halos stop working. Garry's Mod Animation Workshop discord server invite: discord.gg/hbBVJHaGNR
hey i have a problem. Every time I play the animation that I do, only the part of the beginning appears but the complete animation does not appear, what am I doing wrong? :(
Not sure if I already said it or not, but my God, your efforts and Winded's are among the pillars that carry the entire Gmod animation community, and I do not take it lightly. You have our greatest gratitude and respect! 🙏
yeah i kind of based the starting part off his tutorial, to cover the basic old usage stuff first, and then get to the new stuff. it shouldn't be too illegal, should it?
well, the "making" part would be mostly by Winded, as he developed the thing since the start of times, as I kind of just took over in 2021 as I thought that I could help out and edited some stuffs. + Winded also did the total rewrite of SMH from whatever overengineered stuff it was, so it was easier to edit it, whereas functionally it remained the same!
well, i couldn't have put up the new version to the public if there wouldn't have been an explanation on how all the new stuff works. although probably there is a need in some "advanced" tutorials about various concepts to help people make animations better
THANK YOU for this wonderful tool! I'll admit eltorro64's animation tutorial led me here since he uses stop motion helper as his main source of animation control along with ragdoll mover, I was just putting the finishing touches on my silly animation when I accidentally clicked a piece of the animation helper tool window that softlocks me D: luckily I had JUST saved & I went back here to figure out how to retrieve it & now I get that each individual save has ALL character animations that were done in that timeframe. I was able to retrieve my saved animations successfully. I am a beginner animator but I've watched enough gmod & sfm animations to get push & pull. :D
nice, although do you happen to recall how you got yourself softlocked? is it that occasion where people open save/load/properties window and then open console, which makes it so console and smh windows overlap and don't let you do anything?
Hey thanks for the video tuorial. Quick question i've key binded it to be like you have but i have to hold it down to use Stop motion helper. Is there any way i can get it to press once and keep it on screen?
Hi! You're SMH tutorials are absolutely great! They cover just everything important, I'd say! Thank you very much!!! It helped me a lot using the SMH and to know the tricks of this awesome tool! Thanks a lot! 🤩 👏 👍 🏵
well, tutorials do mostly cover the basics of using the tool, however there's still some more techniques to making more advanced looking animations with it. if you'd like to look into that, when you feel like you're familiar with the tool, you can look up 12 principles of animation, there should be some videos on youtube about these, and you could try to apply some of the principles in your stuff. they still help quite a lot with making good looking animation, both 2D and 3D.
Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️ this video helped me learn how to animate I’m so happy!!! Someday when I get really good I’ll make a video like this to help people too!
good luck! technically you could look into 12 principlies of animation stuff, there's some videos about those in 2D stuff by Alan Becker, and you can apply some of them to any animations really.
how are you trying to play it, just in case? you did record some frames for entities too? is your playhead at the start of the animation, as playback starts from playhead's position and if you have a lot of frames in framecount, it may be stuck there for a bit as it'll go through empty frames too
Hello Creator I’m Currently Using Your System/Tool And It’s Working Perfectly, but, There’s a problem basically Every Time I Input The Code to Preview My Animation It Doesn’t Work And Yes I Do Input The + Sign and Input It In The Console. Please How Do I Fix It?
well, did you have some animation recorded there to play in the first place, and was the playhead put at the beginning of it so it'll play from there? also make sure that don't animate physbones option is turned off, or else ragdolls won't play their animations
@@PenolAkushari Oh No! I’m Sorry For Wasting Your Time I Accidentally Forgot To Input The Command For The Playback [bind n +smh_playback] Thanks For The Response. Thanks.
idk if the tutorial is too fast for me to process but for some reason I am struggling with the whole “World Keyframes” thing I just can’t get the release and press key things to work properly (all I want to do is use particle stuff for like explosions)
yeah those things are tough to wrap one's head around, as their functionality also may depend on whether the stuff it's meant to activate uses toggle mode or not. is your particle thing set to be toggleable or not?
yo im having an stupid problem when i pose the face and record the keyframes it wont replay and when i go the the keyframe it is all the same but when i animate or record the poses it works
@@Petruha6472 no problem! i hope youtube won't yeet it away or something, otherwise it should stay up as long as youtube would be operational unless google does a funny and unlists old videos again and i won't happen to be able to access youtube lol
Maybe i oversaw the moment in the video but is there a way to get face poser settings back from a specific keyframe? Example: Happy Sad Cry When im finish and i notice i dont like the sad face, but the face poser has the cry face, can i get the settings back from keyframe or do i need to delete the keyframe and remake it fully?
i don't quite get what you did mean, you want to get poses from a specific keyframe you've already made, or the one you've just overwritten? if you've had several keyframes, you would need to put away face poser tool, you can do that by just switching to physgun or any other weapon, and then switch to the keyframe that has the face you need
@@PenolAkushari Yes a existing one! If i changed my face posing settings but need the settings from a keyframe i already have. when i switch to physgun click on keyframe and take out my toolgun again the settings are the same as before. not the one from the keyframe. D:
@@lumamarius ah, right, you then would need to right click on the map or somewhere else with faceposer, then you wouldn't need to switch the weapon. weapon switching is something people do for playback, not for adjusting stuff, i mixed it up edit: and make sure to select the ragdoll you animate with right click, left click will apply your current settings to the ragdoll rather than copy ones from the ragdoll you are selecting
do you still have ragdoll's face selected with the faceposer when you play animation? if so, unselect it by switching off the toolgun or right click somewhere else, faceposer's settings override what smh puts up
i tried doing frames with scout using ragdoll mover but it still doesnt play after i recorded it. and im on a laprop. how the fuck am i gonna be able to use a stopmotionhelper that can do 2 shits with a scout.
Dude this has been PISSING ME OFF for so damn long, when I load the save, the ghost is there right? I spawn the save. As the animation plays, the fucking ghost still remains just standing at the first keyframe, Ive tried everything and this shit is PISSING ME OFF so badly. Great mod tho
the ghost from spawning feature? close smh's spawn window and that one should go away, unless you did gmod save with some of those next/prev frame ghosts, these get saved as ragdolls so you'd have to remove them manually iirc, would have to fix that next time.
generally with gmod you'll probably need some way to move nonphysical bones then, as long as a model that you use has bones for hair. ragdoll mover and advanced bone tool can do that, and for storing such animation in SMH you'd use "Nonphysical bones" modifier don't think i've seen any other models handle hair in any different ways yet
I usually animate with this by recording my animation with a recording software, however there is always some really intense lag whenever I play my animation which makes recording it impossible. Is there a fix for this?
how many entities did you happen to record with smh, and how many keyframes did you record? generally having a lot of stuff in the playback can cause fps drops.
you did make sure to move a limb or something on the second keyframe? if you recorded two keyframes but didnt move anything then it obviously wont animate, but just asking
for some reason when I try to face pose it works but the entity stays with that pose until I change the pose and it will not animate no idea what Im doing wrong
switch off faceposer or select "ground" with faceposer to make it delesect that entity - faceposer updates face of selected entities every tick so it overrides smh's setting that only does it once per frame switch
I was about to say how do you make the playback play the whole animation but I realized you're not supposed to press you're supposed to hold it sorry I'm a little slow
@@PenolAkushari thanks for the video by the way I have lots of ideas for animations but source filmmakers too complicated and I already play Garry's mod a lot
@@OneIncherPincher ai, i happened to do a switch from sfm to gmod myself since sfm was laggy and crash happy on my old pc, and then i kinda stuck with gmod lol
that's the funny thing, i didn't write them, i copied them from the code. could probably make some better way for binding world keyframe stuff now though
It's this tool, I probably would need to add it to the tutorial for the new version once it goes up. Won't be soon though steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104576786&searchtext=standing+pose+tool
How do you stop the face from going all weird like when I move it there’s nothing moving but when the face is like messed up and then when I go back it doesn’t change it’s permanently
i assume that's the thing that happens when you didn't initialize model's faceflexes, sounds scary, but all you do is right click a ragdoll with faceposer before recording it with SMH, so it will set some tf2 faceflexes to be 0.5, as otherwise SMH assumes that they are 0 by default, which messes stuff up. (stuff like jaw flexes on hwm tf2 guys)
that would require knowing quite a bunch of stuff, posing, fight choreography, timing and all that stuff. if you're just starting off, i'd suggest to start with the basics, you could check out 12 principles of animation which go through some concepts that could be applied to any animation to make it look a bit better, and then try to apply some of those to your stuff. you also could use some reference, like try to animate some stuff like walking from one of those videos where a person walks on youtube, although also do think about how exactly does the stuff move in your reference as to be capable to reproduce some of that stuff you did, and then also make some changes to achieve some sort of animation style that you desire, like cartoony stuff is quite keen on exaggerated movements.
when i do playback, it keeps stopping after a few frames, is this a common problem? i can't find anything about it online, it might just be funny linux moment EDIT: I JUST REALIZED I HAD TO HOLD THE BUTTON TO MAKE IT KEEP GOING. DISREGARD THIS COMMENT
Quick question, whenever I'm trying to record a frame, I hit the record button and nothing happens, I have the right addons. I have the same keys binded, is there something I'm doing wrong?
just in case, have you selected an entity (ragdoll, prop) to record stuff onto in the first place? you do it by opening up smh menu and right clicking on an entity you want to record poses of, it should get highlighted by green halo, but sometimes it doesn't work due to some rendering stuff, but it still gets selected
there's quite a bunch. out of "essential" stuff, ragdoll mover, standing pose tool and physgun undo are quite a must have, i'd say, and they all are made by Winded. as for the quick selection wheel thing, this edition of radial menu ( steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=265292490&searchtext=radial+menu ), would need some messing around with setting up binds and the tools you want to use yourself, you also can assign console commands to it, like physgun undo, very handy. if you're dealing with tf2 guys or the like, there's tf2 paint to color some of the specific cosmetic items in specific tf2 colors, and also easy bonemerge tool to easily attach cosmetics to the guys, although it only works properly if the cosmetic was meant to be on the guy you're merging it to, as using scout's cosmetic on heavy might not quite work.
I seem to have a wierd issue with smh_save preset in that I think my name prevents it from working. My name on steam contains the character "﷽" (Actually it's the only character in my name) and thus doesn't seem to make a save. If i change it to some temp name it saves fine, but even renaming that save file that has the temp name to the steam name I usually use doesn't remedy it either. Any way to fix this?
Seems like your OS doesn't support those characters? Or you can name them fine like that when browsing files? It could be related also to the characters that gmod's file writing system supports. If you want to use smh_quicksave, then you may need to rename your steam name to something else while you work for now, I'm afraid, but if you use usual saving throught save window, then that wouldn't be needed, although it will take longer, of course
generally for particles i've seen people move away particle emitter stuff out of the view with 2 frames that do not have gap between them, so thing you want to hide moves instantly away from view (unless you have smooth playback which may make it a bit weird)
i put in my bindings but when i press the key it says "unknown command +smh_menu unknown command -smh_menu" and "unknown command +smh_playback unknown command -smh_playback" and idk what to do
steam workshop didn't happen to mount the addon correctly. i recall someone disabling all their addons except for smh and then it started to work, after what all the addons can be enabled back up with no issue
@@PenolAkushari When I type in smh_playback or smh_menu, I can’t see anything popping up, therefore the command doesn’t exist, even when following the steps I still can’t seem to see anything of the said commands
@@babyboo-ek5qn You do type them in as +smh_menu and +smh_playback, right? Does anything pop up in console when you type in smh in general, like smh_record or so? Could be that gmod workshop didn't properly mount the addon so you may need to disable some other addons to make it work, and it can be random of what you'd have to disable
@@babyboo-ek5qn Yeah gmod workshop sometimes does that. If you really want some of those addons, you can just find smh in its workshop folder and unpack its .gma and put it into gmod's addons folder, then it should work I think without any issues with whatever addons you'd enable
hey, i'm back. i have a problem with the playback part of SFM. When i hold the key binded to this command, the frame drop will drop really. Yet my device can consistently run GMOD around 60 FPS. The frame rate does not drops when i mess with the timeline manually. Am i the only one having such problem?
would you happen to have freeze all disabled? also how many keyframes do you have recorded for the playback? i fucked up greatly with optimizing the thing, for now i could suggest enabling freeze all as that should lower the calculations the thing would need to do so it won't need to determine which physbones of ragdoll were frozen or no
@@PenolAkushari Yup! Freeze all made it a lot smoother! Thanks for your great addon, pal. If I ever happens to upload some Gmod animations on my channel, it's all thanks to you!
As for the SMH stuff that I didn't say in the video:
Console commands you can't use in world keyframes: wiki.facepunch.com/gmod/Blocked_ConCommands
Keys for world keyframes that you can use (Separate them with spaces):
0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , a , b , c , d , e , f , g , h , i , j , k , l , m , n , o , p , q , r , s , t , u , v , w , x , y , z , Numpad_0 , Numpad_1 , Numpad_2 , Numpad_3 , Numpad_4 , Numpad_5 , Numpad_6 , Numpad_7 , Numpad_8 , Numpad_9 , Numpad_/ , Numpad_* , Numpad_- , Numpad_+ , Numpad_Enter , Numpad_. , [ , ] , SEMICOLON , ' , ` , , , . , / , \ , - , = , ENTER , SPACE , BACKSPACE , TAB , CAPSLOCK , NUMLOCK , ESCAPE , SCROLLLOCK , INS , DEL , HOME , END , PGUP , PGDN , PAUSE , SHIFT , RSHIFT , ALT , RALT , CTRL , RCTRL , LWIN , RWIN , APP , UPARROW , LEFTARROW , DOWNARROW , RIGHTARROW , F1 , F2 , F3 , F4 , F5 , F6 , F7 , F8 , F9 , F10 , F11 , F12 , CAPSLOCKTOGGLE , NUMLOCKTOGGLE , SCROLLLOCKTOGGLE
SMH 3.0 is compatible with your saves from 2.0, however you'd need to save them in the new version if you would like to use the spawning function.
You also can access your saves by navigating to ...garrysmod\data\smh , so you can backup your saves or move them somewhere else so they won't clog up your save menu.
Prop effects can also be animated properly now.
smh_makejpeg and smh_makescreenshot optionally can take a number value, it will make it start rendering from the specified frame. smh_startatone will also be considered.
When you select an entity, it might not get highlighted with the halo, however it still would be properly selected and keyframes will be recorded on it. I don't quite know why halos stop working.
Garry's Mod Animation Workshop discord server invite: discord.gg/hbBVJHaGNR
hey i have a problem. Every time I play the animation that I do, only the part of the beginning appears but the complete animation does not appear, what am I doing wrong? :(
no wait I fixed it, I had to hold down the designated key 😅
it doesn't work for me it just says unknown command +smh_meanu
@@JAcerx1 spelling
how do i change the ui to look like the ui in the video?
Not sure if I already said it or not, but my God, your efforts and Winded's are among the pillars that carry the entire Gmod animation community, and I do not take it lightly.
You have our greatest gratitude and respect! 🙏
Unfathomably correct
@@mrdkiscool1407 what’s going on?
@@tylergamerphung Nothing happened, my comment was just a grammatically incorrect way of saying that I agree.
@@mrdkiscool1407 I see, just wondering.
Have a nice day!
hmmm moonshine.@@tylergamerphung
This update will make animation SO much more streamlined, thank you much!
thanks for the update, its beautiful
im one of those who use external recorders, so i really appreciate that smooth playback option, thanks again!
SMH is to animators like how GZDoom is to game developers.
They're both very viable options.
shameless semi-related reelism 2 plug
this reminds me of how dasboschitt started the tutorial. you both have common stuff in this tutorial i must say
yeah i kind of based the starting part off his tutorial, to cover the basic old usage stuff first, and then get to the new stuff. it shouldn't be too illegal, should it?
@@PenolAkushari not illegal. it gives the vibes of how much of a connection there is. it's amazing.
@@E7ajamy after all, all progress is generally made while standing on the shoulders of giants
@@PenolAkushari ye. good work
Yeah I noticed that too.
Thanks for making the *best* animation tool for Gmod! I use it in basically every video and I love it!
well, the "making" part would be mostly by Winded, as he developed the thing since the start of times, as I kind of just took over in 2021 as I thought that I could help out and edited some stuffs. + Winded also did the total rewrite of SMH from whatever overengineered stuff it was, so it was easier to edit it, whereas functionally it remained the same!
No doubt this is going to Help tremendously
I've used this for years (even with the standalone physics recorder) but this new update is awesome.
You're awesome dude. I've been dying for an updated tutorial on SMH
well, i couldn't have put up the new version to the public if there wouldn't have been an explanation on how all the new stuff works. although probably there is a need in some "advanced" tutorials about various concepts to help people make animations better
THANK YOU for this wonderful tool! I'll admit eltorro64's animation tutorial led me here since he uses stop motion helper
as his main source of animation control along with ragdoll mover, I was just putting the finishing touches on my silly animation
when I accidentally clicked a piece of the animation helper tool window that softlocks me D:
luckily I had JUST saved & I went back here to figure out how to retrieve it & now I get that each individual save has ALL character animations that were done in that timeframe.
I was able to retrieve my saved animations successfully. I am a beginner animator but I've watched enough gmod & sfm animations to get push & pull. :D
nice, although do you happen to recall how you got yourself softlocked? is it that occasion where people open save/load/properties window and then open console, which makes it so console and smh windows overlap and don't let you do anything?
as someone that has been makeing stuff with powerpoint I had a mental brake win I found this.
Amazing work!
This is a very useful video, so it deserves more likes and subscribers
Even though I have gotten SMH down I still come back here for fun.
I didn't think it was this simple, i thought it was gonna be complicated.
My biggest threat to learning has been particle effects. I got no idea how to make THEM work in stop motion helper.
Fruits and Vegetables and textures.
I still don't know how to use the t-pose tool, but I finally know how to use the animation tool. I'm excited so far.
good stuff man, and nice job replying to all the comments, crazy dedication
thank you so much sir
Hey thanks for the video tuorial. Quick question i've key binded it to be like you have but i have to hold it down to use Stop motion helper. Is there any way i can get it to press once and keep it on screen?
based fumo enjoyer
It all makes sense now. Many thanks and keep up the good work 👍
Thanks! This helps so much! Great detail and easy to understand! Love this addon and video!
I wish the music wasn’t so loud
Geez, this music are so high!
Thanks for the help
Hi! You're SMH tutorials are absolutely great! They cover just everything important, I'd say! Thank you very much!!! It helped me a lot using the SMH and to know the tricks of this awesome tool! Thanks a lot! 🤩 👏 👍 🏵
well, tutorials do mostly cover the basics of using the tool, however there's still some more techniques to making more advanced looking animations with it. if you'd like to look into that, when you feel like you're familiar with the tool, you can look up 12 principles of animation, there should be some videos on youtube about these, and you could try to apply some of the principles in your stuff. they still help quite a lot with making good looking animation, both 2D and 3D.
@@PenolAkushari Thank you! 💐
Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️ this video helped me learn how to animate I’m so happy!!! Someday when I get really good I’ll make a video like this to help people too!
5:14 theres no load button now
It wont let me make him do the stand pose, like it just doesnt show up
Its not in the vanilla gmod there is an addon on the workshop called something like stand pose
THANKS FOR THAT UPDATE!!!!
I have been having massive frame drops when animating more than 3 things on screen. I don't know why
What ever you do do NOT bind ; to smh menu
It just locks you into the menu and you have to force shutdown Garry's mod to get out
As soon as I realised how it’s done, I knew I’d be able to do this as I’ve done stupid stick figure animations in a similar way 😂
Thanks for the tutorials
Been trying to get into animating in gmod and god it’s hard
good luck! technically you could look into 12 principlies of animation stuff, there's some videos about those in 2D stuff by Alan Becker, and you can apply some of them to any animations really.
face poser don't works more... someone have a alternative face poser to use?
thx bro that so helped me
Thanks, I just downloaded SMH and I'm bad at it, but I'm getting better!
I animated Kleiner running like A Train and exploding Mossman
THANKS HELLO FROM 2024❤
Thanks for the help!
Ooo...so that's why I couldn't play the animation I made. Thx.
the spawn button is nice
great guide, thanks to the author
Wow very good tutorial👌
Thx for the amazing and simple guide 👌
POV: You want to make a GMOD arg
I’m a beginner and this helps a lot
Why won’t it work? My animation doesn’t play. I got it to play once. This tutorial is very helpful tho!
how are you trying to play it, just in case? you did record some frames for entities too? is your playhead at the start of the animation, as playback starts from playhead's position and if you have a lot of frames in framecount, it may be stuck there for a bit as it'll go through empty frames too
Why when I type the console command, play animation, but why is mine not moving at all?
why cant i bind the menu to n instead of binding it to b?
i need help, i try animating walk cycles or just generally stuff thats supposed to be not on foot, and it keeps staying on foot
when I right click they dont turn green. how to fix
Hello Creator I’m Currently Using Your System/Tool And It’s Working Perfectly, but, There’s a problem basically Every Time I Input The Code to Preview My Animation It Doesn’t Work And Yes I Do Input The + Sign and Input It In The Console.
Please How Do I Fix It?
well, did you have some animation recorded there to play in the first place, and was the playhead put at the beginning of it so it'll play from there? also make sure that don't animate physbones option is turned off, or else ragdolls won't play their animations
@@PenolAkushari Oh No!
I’m Sorry For Wasting Your Time I Accidentally Forgot To Input The Command For The Playback [bind n +smh_playback] Thanks For The Response.
Thanks.
ah, nice now that's solved, probably i should've started with asking whether the bind was done correctly
idk if the tutorial is too fast for me to process but for some reason I am struggling with the whole “World Keyframes” thing
I just can’t get the release and press key things to work properly (all I want to do is use particle stuff for like explosions)
yeah those things are tough to wrap one's head around, as their functionality also may depend on whether the stuff it's meant to activate uses toggle mode or not. is your particle thing set to be toggleable or not?
i cant play the animation.
5:29 But how to rename a models/entity, to do not being confused of choosin' a same models?
you mean the part at 8:33 ?
Oh... I forgot it. I apologize for that... 😅
yo im having an stupid problem when i pose the face and record the keyframes it wont replay and when i go the the keyframe it is all the same but when i animate or record the poses it works
thx bro i didnt even know how to make the character start animation only with u btw what phygun skin u using?
i'm using this one steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=945145478&searchtext=gravity+gun
@@PenolAkushari Hey man i always get the gmod demantia and come back here thanks again for having this video posted :)
@@Petruha6472 no problem! i hope youtube won't yeet it away or something, otherwise it should stay up as long as youtube would be operational unless google does a funny and unlists old videos again and i won't happen to be able to access youtube lol
Maybe i oversaw the moment in the video but is there a way to get face poser settings back from a specific keyframe?
Example:
Happy
Sad
Cry
When im finish and i notice i dont like the sad face, but the face poser has the cry face, can i get the settings back from keyframe or do i need to delete the keyframe and remake it fully?
i don't quite get what you did mean, you want to get poses from a specific keyframe you've already made, or the one you've just overwritten? if you've had several keyframes, you would need to put away face poser tool, you can do that by just switching to physgun or any other weapon, and then switch to the keyframe that has the face you need
@@PenolAkushari Yes a existing one! If i changed my face posing settings but need the settings from a keyframe i already have. when i switch to physgun click on keyframe and take out my toolgun again the settings are the same as before. not the one from the keyframe. D:
@@lumamarius ah, right, you then would need to right click on the map or somewhere else with faceposer, then you wouldn't need to switch the weapon. weapon switching is something people do for playback, not for adjusting stuff, i mixed it up
edit: and make sure to select the ragdoll you animate with right click, left click will apply your current settings to the ragdoll rather than copy ones from the ragdoll you are selecting
The face animation isn't working for me, is there a separate addon i need to have?
do you still have ragdoll's face selected with the faceposer when you play animation? if so, unselect it by switching off the toolgun or right click somewhere else, faceposer's settings override what smh puts up
@@PenolAkushari that worked! thanks!
when i try to open it it says its creating errors
really good tutorial! thanks!
i tried doing frames with scout using ragdoll mover but it still doesnt play after i recorded it. and im on a laprop. how the fuck am i gonna be able to use a stopmotionhelper that can do 2 shits with a scout.
The playback key isn’t working for me
Dude this has been PISSING ME OFF for so damn long, when I load the save, the ghost is there right? I spawn the save. As the animation plays, the fucking ghost still remains just standing at the first keyframe, Ive tried everything and this shit is PISSING ME OFF so badly. Great mod tho
the ghost from spawning feature? close smh's spawn window and that one should go away, unless you did gmod save with some of those next/prev frame ghosts, these get saved as ragdolls so you'd have to remove them manually iirc, would have to fix that next time.
My animation didn't play back. I tried to press n and it doesn't work
I found it, you need to hold the n key.
do i have to really hold the binded button for this menu? bs
Thanks for your program. Could you tell me how to make hair animation?
generally with gmod you'll probably need some way to move nonphysical bones then, as long as a model that you use has bones for hair. ragdoll mover and advanced bone tool can do that, and for storing such animation in SMH you'd use "Nonphysical bones" modifier
don't think i've seen any other models handle hair in any different ways yet
I usually animate with this by recording my animation with a recording software, however there is always some really intense lag whenever I play my animation which makes recording it impossible.
Is there a fix for this?
how many entities did you happen to record with smh, and how many keyframes did you record? generally having a lot of stuff in the playback can cause fps drops.
@@PenolAkushari
2 ragdolls and less than 100 frames, about 10 keyframes
@@YTDani75 were you using projected lights/lamps? just in case
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Nope nothing at all
@@YTDani75 does that happen on any map, or you're working on some specific one? and lags only occur when doing playback?
once I right click on the ragdoll and record two keyframes it does not play
you did make sure to move a limb or something on the second keyframe? if you recorded two keyframes but didnt move anything then it obviously wont animate, but just asking
I can't seem to find the console or advanced settings is that just something with an update for gmod?
yeah as of some update it's now bindable to any button, you may need to scroll down to the misc category in controls and bind it to something
for some reason when I try to face pose it works but the entity stays with that pose until I change the pose and it will not animate no idea what Im doing wrong
switch off faceposer or select "ground" with faceposer to make it delesect that entity - faceposer updates face of selected entities every tick so it overrides smh's setting that only does it once per frame switch
IT IS NOT WORKING FOR ME IN GMOD
there is no stand pose for me what do i do?
this is a good tutorial, thank you.
I was about to say how do you make the playback play the whole animation but I realized you're not supposed to press you're supposed to hold it sorry I'm a little slow
yeah people generally have some issues with it, so probably in the future there could be more options for these things like toggles and whatnot
@@PenolAkushari thanks for the video by the way I have lots of ideas for animations but source filmmakers too complicated and I already play Garry's mod a lot
@@OneIncherPincher ai, i happened to do a switch from sfm to gmod myself since sfm was laggy and crash happy on my old pc, and then i kinda stuck with gmod lol
@@PenolAkushari how do i animate face flexes because for some reason they dont work for me
Great tutorial, although I don't think you covered copying and pasting keyframes. How do I do that?
1:42 , you only can copy existing stuff on currently selected entity, as there's no keyframe "copy-paste" between different entities.
@@PenolAkushari Ah, thanks!
EVERYTIME I right click a ragdoll the face gets a halo not the body.
which ragdolls do you use? and halo is mostly a rendering thing, sometimes it may not appear at all but stuff would still get selected
@@PenolAkusharigman and some other half life ragodlls
*bind b +smh_menu*
*bind n +smh_playback*
Idk why he didnt write that, but had time to write EVERY key you can use.
that's the funny thing, i didn't write them, i copied them from the code. could probably make some better way for binding world keyframe stuff now though
How do u make the Ragdoll stand up? Someone please help me
It's this tool, I probably would need to add it to the tutorial for the new version once it goes up. Won't be soon though steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104576786&searchtext=standing+pose+tool
Interesting
How do you stop the face from going all weird like when I move it there’s nothing moving but when the face is like messed up and then when I go back it doesn’t change it’s permanently
i assume that's the thing that happens when you didn't initialize model's faceflexes, sounds scary, but all you do is right click a ragdoll with faceposer before recording it with SMH, so it will set some tf2 faceflexes to be 0.5, as otherwise SMH assumes that they are 0 by default, which messes stuff up. (stuff like jaw flexes on hwm tf2 guys)
Thanks
how to make a fighting animation like the one at 0:03?
that would require knowing quite a bunch of stuff, posing, fight choreography, timing and all that stuff. if you're just starting off, i'd suggest to start with the basics, you could check out 12 principles of animation which go through some concepts that could be applied to any animation to make it look a bit better, and then try to apply some of those to your stuff. you also could use some reference, like try to animate some stuff like walking from one of those videos where a person walks on youtube, although also do think about how exactly does the stuff move in your reference as to be capable to reproduce some of that stuff you did, and then also make some changes to achieve some sort of animation style that you desire, like cartoony stuff is quite keen on exaggerated movements.
WTF i cant bound the playback what do i do ?
help where is to stand the npc up?????
so I bonded n to smh_playback and its sill not playing, can somebody help me?
when i do playback, it keeps stopping after a few frames, is this a common problem? i can't find anything about it online, it might just be funny linux moment
EDIT: I JUST REALIZED I HAD TO HOLD THE BUTTON TO MAKE IT KEEP GOING. DISREGARD THIS COMMENT
whats that mod where u put the ragdoll into a stand pose?
Stand pose tool steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104576786&searchtext=stand+pose+tool
Quick question, whenever I'm trying to record a frame, I hit the record button and nothing happens, I have the right addons. I have the same keys binded, is there something I'm doing wrong?
just in case, have you selected an entity (ragdoll, prop) to record stuff onto in the first place? you do it by opening up smh menu and right clicking on an entity you want to record poses of, it should get highlighted by green halo, but sometimes it doesn't work due to some rendering stuff, but it still gets selected
@@PenolAkushari that work! Thank you!
which other addons do you use? like the ragdoll mover
there's quite a bunch. out of "essential" stuff, ragdoll mover, standing pose tool and physgun undo are quite a must have, i'd say, and they all are made by Winded. as for the quick selection wheel thing, this edition of radial menu ( steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=265292490&searchtext=radial+menu ), would need some messing around with setting up binds and the tools you want to use yourself, you also can assign console commands to it, like physgun undo, very handy.
if you're dealing with tf2 guys or the like, there's tf2 paint to color some of the specific cosmetic items in specific tf2 colors, and also easy bonemerge tool to easily attach cosmetics to the guys, although it only works properly if the cosmetic was meant to be on the guy you're merging it to, as using scout's cosmetic on heavy might not quite work.
@@PenolAkushari could you link the mods you said? i would need some of them
@@veracc technically all the things should be up on workshop, they will probably come up as first results if you search for them
I seem to have a wierd issue with smh_save preset in that I think my name prevents it from working. My name on steam contains the character "﷽" (Actually it's the only character in my name) and thus doesn't seem to make a save. If i change it to some temp name it saves fine, but even renaming that save file that has the temp name to the steam name I usually use doesn't remedy it either. Any way to fix this?
Seems like your OS doesn't support those characters? Or you can name them fine like that when browsing files? It could be related also to the characters that gmod's file writing system supports. If you want to use smh_quicksave, then you may need to rename your steam name to something else while you work for now, I'm afraid, but if you use usual saving throught save window, then that wouldn't be needed, although it will take longer, of course
Yo i need your help.
How do i make a bullet or the smoke around the gun appear and disapear ?
(They are not changeable with color and texture)
generally for particles i've seen people move away particle emitter stuff out of the view with 2 frames that do not have gap between them, so thing you want to hide moves instantly away from view (unless you have smooth playback which may make it a bit weird)
@@PenolAkushari thx
Hi, if i right click on the ragdoll in the smh menu it wont turn green pls help
Generally green halo thing may bug out and not render in some occasions but the entity you right clicked on should still get selected
i put in my bindings but when i press the key it says "unknown command +smh_menu unknown command -smh_menu" and "unknown command +smh_playback unknown command -smh_playback" and idk what to do
steam workshop didn't happen to mount the addon correctly. i recall someone disabling all their addons except for smh and then it started to work, after what all the addons can be enabled back up with no issue
Does it get inside of your computer the animation?
can anyone help me? my SMH menu is viewing in chinese, but i have no idea what these symbols mean :,)
For some reason even when downloading the addon, I cant find the smh_playback or smh_menu commands
With the + prefix? It is an important one, just in case
@@PenolAkushari When I type in smh_playback or smh_menu, I can’t see anything popping up, therefore the command doesn’t exist, even when following the steps I still can’t seem to see anything of the said commands
@@babyboo-ek5qn You do type them in as +smh_menu and +smh_playback, right? Does anything pop up in console when you type in smh in general, like smh_record or so? Could be that gmod workshop didn't properly mount the addon so you may need to disable some other addons to make it work, and it can be random of what you'd have to disable
@@PenolAkushari So the “Turn off some addons” idea has worked! Thanks for that suggestion, or I wouldn’t have known.
@@babyboo-ek5qn Yeah gmod workshop sometimes does that. If you really want some of those addons, you can just find smh in its workshop folder and unpack its .gma and put it into gmod's addons folder, then it should work I think without any issues with whatever addons you'd enable
So we still can't load animations on different maps? I don't remember if the creator said it's impossible or not so I wanted to check.
spawning function can help with that, although it can be a bit tricky to get things right
hey, i'm back. i have a problem with the playback part of SFM. When i hold the key binded to this command, the frame drop will drop really. Yet my device can consistently run GMOD around 60 FPS. The frame rate does not drops when i mess with the timeline manually. Am i the only one having such problem?
would you happen to have freeze all disabled? also how many keyframes do you have recorded for the playback? i fucked up greatly with optimizing the thing, for now i could suggest enabling freeze all as that should lower the calculations the thing would need to do so it won't need to determine which physbones of ragdoll were frozen or no
@@PenolAkushari Yup! Freeze all made it a lot smoother! Thanks for your great addon, pal. If I ever happens to upload some Gmod animations on my channel, it's all thanks to you!