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Robogineer — Not Sucking at SFM #1: Loading a Map
Published: 2012-12-01 22:59:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 8479; Favourites: 101; Downloads: 69
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Part 1 of 5-Not enabling Motion Blur and Ambient Occlusion will make your game lag less.
-Making the Depth of Field #Sample a higher number will increase the accuracy at which AO and dynamic shadows are rendered, but will take longer to render.
-HDR allows you to fiddle around with the Tone Scale (AKA how dark or light a scene is). Non-HDR maps' lighting looks like crap and doesn't allow Tone Scaling.
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your tutorial looks great but im so dumb google cant find what im looking4. maybe you could say where to get the map n stuff
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When I load a map I the map except a few things are invisible in lots of random places, and will only show if I look a certain direction.
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Hey, this is my first time trying out sfm and my brother told me to look at your tutorials. I'm trying to do the first step where you right click and render settings but every time I right click, nothing appears. And yes, I am clicking it in the main view port. Do you possibly know what the problem is?
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I had a similar problem, try launching the SDK when Steam asks you to launch just the application or the kit. If it doesn't work either, try verifying the cache files of the game (right-click on the name of the game > Properties > Local files > Verify files or something like that).
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this really helped out
doreikuplz.deviantart.com/art/…
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for some odd reason, when ever i load a map. the camera shows nothing. i get a big screen full of black void. is it still in beta or am i just having bad luck?
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You must have spawned under the map. Look around you to find the map.
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it also says on launch of sfm teir0.dll or something isn't there. could that be the problem? or is that just a bug?
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That happens to me too. It works fine for me...
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well thats the thing. even when i look around. [which i believe i'm doing right] i don't see jack. yet when i'm in game mode i can see. SFM is very confusing to me D:
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I don't know then. Does this happen on every map?
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jsut tested 3 other maps. for soem reason when i unload a map i can only acess that map again but thats a different story. i just wanna be able to see first off. i wanted to give it a try again since you put a tutorial up but nope, sfm still broken :L
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I'm sorry, I don't know what the problem is ;~;
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well balls. thats alright though. i thank you for trying to help. i just hope steam support doesn't try to slap me in the face again with it's 'did yuo do this? or that?' :C
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yeah for some reason the source engine does not like my desktop at all. theres lighting issues in gmod and halflife and steam did jack bout that too.
this is why i can't have nice things D:
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Seriously? That's uncalled for.
I told you, I didn't want to be limited like that. You can disagree with me all you want, but you should not be disrespecting my decisions like that.
But that is one of the reasons I gave up on SFM, but only one of them.
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I was just making an example. I don't hate you, but I don't necessarily like you either. Plus, I'm not limiting you, you're limiting yourself.
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I fail to understand how using more maps is "limiting".
Besides, it wasn't just the HDR maps, all of my maps were brighter than they should be.
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Then use my tutorial that we are arguing on and get better.
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Except there are two problems:
1. I no longer use SFM for several reasons, including the lighting issue. I thought I mentioned that.
2. This doesn't help me with posing, and there are ways of replicating SFM's posing.
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This tutorial does help with posing, buddy. Have you even read it?
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It tells you HOW to pose. And then it says "Try to go for a natrual looking pose"
How does that help me, who already knows how posing works? And the rest only applies to SFM... and doesn't really help with any poses that can't be made with those animations.
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Look at photos of people, hell, take photos of yourself and study them. Not trying and quitting is for the weak.
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I have trouble learning like that honestly, in fact I think I've done that sort of thing before and it wasn't much help if I recall correctly, I do have an example of that off the top of my head but it was on SFM on a non-HDR map, so I'll spare your eyes.
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If you want as many HDR maps as you want, go here [link]
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Just how many times to I have to remind you I've quit SFM for several reasons?
I'm sorry if I'm sounding rude here but I just don't understand how you keep missing that point.
Is it because I mentioned it being on SFM? It's an old pic...
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It's not like I have much of a choice...
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SOmetimes, even if some TF2 maps that actually have HDR. You convert them to be SFM compatible.... sometimes they don't get the HDR.
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"You don't want your picture to look like it was made by Mattwo."
God damn it lol
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When I loaded my map... it was very bright... like it was from a poorly shaded comic book... is it my graphics card or did I do something wrong?
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In the first panel, do you see the tab that says "Enable Lighting"? That's probably where your problem is.
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*gras some of the popcorn and joins*
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