This is awesome, have you got any idea how to include the particle effects from the demo too? Or spawn them? I'm trying to film a scene hiding in a smoke, but there is no smoke ;(
The new smokes seem like not supported yet, when you spawn their animation set the simulation doesn't work and it renders only placeholders. You can spawn the old csgo-style smokes tho, the best working animation set seemed to be explosion_smokegrenade_adaptive
@@paperino0 thanks for the follow up. At least we have the old ones but still ain’t perfect. I fired it up a few times to see if there was a solve just meddling around and also have the question posted in the Eagle team discord.
Thank you very much. Never actually did any work with source filmmaker and just wanted to make a clip all of a sudden. 10 minutes and explained basically anything I would need as a newbie!
this was insanely helpful; my struggle at the moment is after i record the section of my replay, SFM has a 70% chance of just crash/closing everytime i interact with the viewport. all windows on the same monitor; but will try opening the console immediately
Whenever I click on tools no matter if I have source filmmaker open or not, source film maker does not appear. Like it just says workshop tools anything I have to do to make it show up on under the assets browser?
I cannot download my demos from Steam. Any ideas why this is happening? When I click "Download Replay" the black steam window comes up but it does not take me into windows explorer. If i highlight the black window it says "The resource could not be found"
As far as I can tell, not yet... hoping the next few updates let us import/swap those with the stock models. We're also experimenting with cloth simulated player jerseys that sit on top of the player models. So far that hasn't worked either.
Do you know how to change lightning? When i'm trying to use camera settings like "maplightscale" or "timeofday" nothing happens.. Would be nice to make some dark cinematics with nice spit lights etc.
Afaik the world/map lighting in S2FM is baked in place. You would need to migrate all assets and sequences into something like Blender and relight everything.
There are various methods of moving FBX information between the software. I would be curious as to why other than simply having more control over what you're manipulating perhaps? I would make sure you aren't violating any of Valves public asset agreements though if you're producing something to sell.
this worked so good until a couple of weeks ago... maybe there was an update in cs2 that changed something? Now when i'm trying to do it it crashes, when ever i click in the viewport it just crashes with out an error message. any ideas?
Okay so, say I wanted to focus on a particular models hand and have the camera locked to that hand, is that possible or would I manually have to zoom the camera in and slowly make key frames as the hand is moving? I’m a little shaky on selecting the character models like animation skeleton so I’m not sure if I have to select the hand in the skeletal view as well.
Oh yes! You would use some flavor of constraint (point, orient, parent or aim). From the Animation Set Editor: Select the camera transform FIRST Ctrl-click the transform of the hand (or anything else really) Right-click on the hand transform, click constrain 'this' to 'that' (cam to hand) Choose 1 of the 4 flavor and experiment from there. Here's a pic ref from my open session: imgur.com/a/ufTcRJm If you wanted to build a more advanced form of a follow rig, check out this tutorial: ua-cam.com/video/YFwqupGzk7M/v-deo.htmlsi=khY0aTOHO0dZMRCR - This is from S1FM but they mention the subtle changes from s1 to s2. A bit more steps but you pick it up quick and it's a great little constraint loop all around. Once this is built, you can set a constraint and the operation will be somewhat easier and you'll have the model-based markers also.
@@muchcharmndr I cannot describe the monumental “aha” moment that I have just experienced. I will use your pointers and that video as soon as I get back to my Pc. Thank you for responding, up until now I haven’t been able to find what I’ve been picturing since I didn’t know the vernacular for camera animation.
When you do the recording, make sure you aren’t recording any of the lighting elements. If you grab the world lighting it’ll duplicate and look broken. You can also add the duplicated lighting element and just hide it.
yo man great vid! is there anything i have to do to eb able to timescale to 0.25 bc nothing happend when i do it, i can only do 2 and so on but not to slowmo... help appreciated :)
Just to confirm, this is from right-clicking on the clip in the clip editor and setting time scale? or are you doing this from the Vconsole? I can test to see if this behavior changed from recent updates also (others reporting weirdness).
There's no single fix for this. I assume you went into the motion editor and tried to smooth stuff out and yeah it breaks other stuff. If you parent the weapon to the hands and same with the belt accessories you'll get close. I also found that setting the demo time scale super low like 0.1 and then recording that will get you more frames for the anim but it still is noticeable. Hopefully valve continues to update S2FM for CS2.
If you recorded a demo and left the lights checkbox on, the single global light is probably overriding everything else. Add it to the Animation Set Editor (should be the only light you can add) and hide via clicking the eye icon to the left of it.
Soon I hope. I'm trying to get an audio mixing tut developed before making a part 2 for S2FM. Last I checked there is still no way to bake the smoke grenades tho...
Definitely! Just make sure you’re in first person cam and the cameras checkbox is ticked in the record window. Keep in mind you’ll have to stick with this view since it’s just floating arms and weapon if you setup an external camera.
Are you using more than one display? It could be a matter of which window the viewport is in. Also open the Vconsole right when you load into S2FM before doing anything else and see if that solves the crash.
I believe you'd need to make a copy of the original map, load it into Hammer and make your lighting adjustments. From there you'd bake the new lighting and then export it for use in S2FM. Baking takes a LONG time depending on your hardware specs.
I try to open demo after set map to Dust2. But I failed many times, cs2 crashed, with log: ERROR! VK call failed! result = VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY. I am using RX 6700xt 12GB, also 32GB DDR4 RAM. I open my monitor, when I open my demo, my VRAM increased to 11.9GB then crashed. I google all day, but found nothing, nobody has the same ERROR. What should I do?
Did you install the CS2 Workshop tools? From Steam games: CS2 properties, DLC, check the box for Workshop Tools and then start CS2, choose workshop tools and start the S2FM from there @@muchbetternow
I’ve checked after every update and the data still can’t be recorded to SFM. There are smoke volume entities but I’m unsure if those have to be linked to the grenade mesh, triggered and baked the appropriate tick number. Still a mystery but hoping they can fix this in an update 😫
@@Soze94 do you have any other apps running while you have SFM open, particularly anything that would need to use your GPU? Also another thing to try it using it from another fresh user account just to test if it’s either windows or just the user profile.
This is awesome, have you got any idea how to include the particle effects from the demo too? Or spawn them?
I'm trying to film a scene hiding in a smoke, but there is no smoke ;(
Let me see if smokes are their own entity and need to be added to the sequence.
sparkles being dedicated for the community as always, cheers I've found you here
The new smokes seem like not supported yet, when you spawn their animation set the simulation doesn't work and it renders only placeholders.
You can spawn the old csgo-style smokes tho, the best working animation set seemed to be explosion_smokegrenade_adaptive
@@paperino0 thanks for the follow up. At least we have the old ones but still ain’t perfect. I fired it up a few times to see if there was a solve just meddling around and also have the question posted in the Eagle team discord.
@@muchcharmndr I also wrote a mail to valve asking if they'll support it eventually or if there's a work-around :) will follow up if there's an answer
Thank you very much. Never actually did any work with source filmmaker and just wanted to make a clip all of a sudden. 10 minutes and explained basically anything I would need as a newbie!
This is exactly what I need.
This guy knows his s***!
this was insanely helpful; my struggle at the moment is after i record the section of my replay, SFM has a 70% chance of just crash/closing everytime i interact with the viewport. all windows on the same monitor; but will try opening the console immediately
Same bro, any fix?
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Can the stuttering playermodels be fixed?
ur the g my guy
Whenever I click on tools no matter if I have source filmmaker open or not, source film maker does not appear. Like it just says workshop tools anything I have to do to make it show up on under the assets browser?
I cannot download my demos from Steam. Any ideas why this is happening? When I click "Download Replay" the black steam window comes up but it does not take me into windows explorer. If i highlight the black window it says "The resource could not be found"
Nice! If you find a way to load FX it would be great if you could do a follow up video. Subbed!
Thanks! I poked around last night and didn’t find anything for the smoke yet but still reading up and bugging a few discord folks.
Lovely tutorial, just a quick question, is there anyway to get the players skins from the demo, into the recorded playback in SFM? Thanks.
As far as I can tell, not yet... hoping the next few updates let us import/swap those with the stock models. We're also experimenting with cloth simulated player jerseys that sit on top of the player models. So far that hasn't worked either.
@@muchcharmndr okay, thank you for the reply ❤️
Do you know how to change lightning? When i'm trying to use camera settings like "maplightscale" or "timeofday" nothing happens.. Would be nice to make some dark cinematics with nice spit lights etc.
Afaik the world/map lighting in S2FM is baked in place. You would need to migrate all assets and sequences into something like Blender and relight everything.
howd you import the maps into sfm?
How to stop crashes??
Hi, I'm from Russia, I use Google translator. Please answer one question, is it possible to transfer the demo from S2F transfer to UE 5 ?
There are various methods of moving FBX information between the software. I would be curious as to why other than simply having more control over what you're manipulating perhaps? I would make sure you aren't violating any of Valves public asset agreements though if you're producing something to sell.
this worked so good until a couple of weeks ago... maybe there was an update in cs2 that changed something? Now when i'm trying to do it it crashes, when ever i click in the viewport it just crashes with out an error message. any ideas?
I'll have to check. I haven't touched S2FM in a few weeks also. Let ya know!
I have this exact problem and it's the most frustrating thing ever. do you know how to fix it?
Okay so, say I wanted to focus on a particular models hand and have the camera locked to that hand, is that possible or would I manually have to zoom the camera in and slowly make key frames as the hand is moving? I’m a little shaky on selecting the character models like animation skeleton so I’m not sure if I have to select the hand in the skeletal view as well.
Oh yes! You would use some flavor of constraint (point, orient, parent or aim).
From the Animation Set Editor:
Select the camera transform FIRST
Ctrl-click the transform of the hand (or anything else really)
Right-click on the hand transform, click constrain 'this' to 'that' (cam to hand)
Choose 1 of the 4 flavor and experiment from there.
Here's a pic ref from my open session: imgur.com/a/ufTcRJm
If you wanted to build a more advanced form of a follow rig, check out this tutorial: ua-cam.com/video/YFwqupGzk7M/v-deo.htmlsi=khY0aTOHO0dZMRCR - This is from S1FM but they mention the subtle changes from s1 to s2. A bit more steps but you pick it up quick and it's a great little constraint loop all around. Once this is built, you can set a constraint and the operation will be somewhat easier and you'll have the model-based markers also.
@@muchcharmndr I cannot describe the monumental “aha” moment that I have just experienced. I will use your pointers and that video as soon as I get back to my Pc. Thank you for responding, up until now I haven’t been able to find what I’ve been picturing since I didn’t know the vernacular for camera animation.
@@lukeX2m more to come also! thx for subbing :D
Do you know how to include good lighting and shadowing effects to the replay that are natively in the game ?
When you do the recording, make sure you aren’t recording any of the lighting elements. If you grab the world lighting it’ll duplicate and look broken. You can also add the duplicated lighting element and just hide it.
@@muchcharmndr thank you
yo man great vid! is there anything i have to do to eb able to timescale to 0.25 bc nothing happend when i do it, i can only do 2 and so on but not to slowmo... help appreciated :)
Just to confirm, this is from right-clicking on the clip in the clip editor and setting time scale? or are you doing this from the Vconsole? I can test to see if this behavior changed from recent updates also (others reporting weirdness).
@@muchcharmndr yes rightclicking and clip editor and then tilescale
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hi team
So, is there a way to fix laggy anims in pov? I tried to edit them but it only ruined the position of viewmodel
There's no single fix for this. I assume you went into the motion editor and tried to smooth stuff out and yeah it breaks other stuff. If you parent the weapon to the hands and same with the belt accessories you'll get close. I also found that setting the demo time scale super low like 0.1 and then recording that will get you more frames for the anim but it still is noticeable. Hopefully valve continues to update S2FM for CS2.
Can I export it to Blender?
you can and its not as complicated
shadows are not loading properly anymore when importing a demo, is there a fix for this issue?
If you recorded a demo and left the lights checkbox on, the single global light is probably overriding everything else. Add it to the Animation Set Editor (should be the only light you can add) and hide via clicking the eye icon to the left of it.
@@muchcharmndr thanks, ill check it out asap
Is there any updated tutorial for this ?
Soon I hope. I'm trying to get an audio mixing tut developed before making a part 2 for S2FM. Last I checked there is still no way to bake the smoke grenades tho...
does this method also work for pov
Definitely! Just make sure you’re in first person cam and the cameras checkbox is ticked in the record window. Keep in mind you’ll have to stick with this view since it’s just floating arms and weapon if you setup an external camera.
my sourcefilmmaker crashing when clicking viewport any ideas? Good job brother 🔥🔥
Are you using more than one display? It could be a matter of which window the viewport is in. Also open the Vconsole right when you load into S2FM before doing anything else and see if that solves the crash.
for me it crashes when I shift+left click to position models
Is there a way to change the map day/night cicle ?
I believe you'd need to make a copy of the original map, load it into Hammer and make your lighting adjustments. From there you'd bake the new lighting and then export it for use in S2FM. Baking takes a LONG time depending on your hardware specs.
thank you @@muchcharmndr
Everytime I try to load a demo I get "unable to extract addons from file" how do I fix that
Does it have to do with the demos being on a previous patch?
Anyone have any idea, I still cant find a solid answer to why this is happening
I try to open demo after set map to Dust2. But I failed many times, cs2 crashed, with log: ERROR! VK call failed! result = VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY. I am using RX 6700xt 12GB, also 32GB DDR4 RAM. I open my monitor, when I open my demo, my VRAM increased to 11.9GB then crashed. I google all day, but found nothing, nobody has the same ERROR. What should I do?
I can watch this DEMO in cs, also HLAE. I need S2FM to make film.
Did you install the CS2 Workshop tools? From Steam games: CS2 properties, DLC, check the box for Workshop Tools and then start CS2, choose workshop tools and start the S2FM from there @@muchbetternow
OMG
I’ve checked after every update and the data still can’t be recorded to SFM. There are smoke volume entities but I’m unsure if those have to be linked to the grenade mesh, triggered and baked the appropriate tick number. Still a mystery but hoping they can fix this in an update 😫
@@muchcharmndr ua-cam.com/video/vvma9W-h7dE/v-deo.htmlsi=Au076CgSRn8C_14Y
Why did this clip just upload the clip 9 days ago?
@@RPX4S this footage looks like demo playback footage in-engine, not from SFM.
Would love to use SFM but it crashes all the time, totally unusable for me...
What are your specs? Runs beautifully for me
@@Xaileth i7 14700K not overclocked, RTX 4080, 32GB DDR5 6000MHZ Cl32 (32, 36, 36, 72 timings)
@@Soze94 do you have any other apps running while you have SFM open, particularly anything that would need to use your GPU? Also another thing to try it using it from another fresh user account just to test if it’s either windows or just the user profile.