• Source Film Maker Sucks

    So some of you might know that I’ve been trying to put together this counter strike 2 edit for about a month now. Last night I loaded up the source 2 version of SFM and tried to get at least 1 more scene completed. For some reason, some of the objects that show up have turned black and are missing either textures or lighting. I couldn’t figure it out because once I reloaded the scene the textures fixed themselves. However I had already left it overnight to cook up the video so I basically wasted four hours. Here’s a photo of the crappy A site of Nuke.

    For some reason the entirety of the bomb site and many of the metal textures are just black. I’ve been having this issue quite a bit on many maps and can’t really figure out what is going on. The fix I had for this was just to rerecord the whole demo file and set up the camera shot again.

    The other big issue with SFM is that every freaking ragdoll becomes a T pose for some reason. I legit had to redo all the bones to match my recording clips because in game the ragdolls don’t T pose like this holy crap. Not to mention the weird lighting bugs that crop up.

    For some reason smokes also don’t show up in my capture of demos. And I actually have no idea how to recreate the volumetric smokes of CS2 so I’ve just been doing a bunch of editing BS to make it happen. It’s a whole nightmare.

    Why the hell is motion blur built into posters when I’m trying to make a still image. Can’t SFM see when I’m exporting that I want to export it as a poster NOT as a 1 frame movie? Like last time I checked most posters don’t include motion blur on the subject.

    I also recently found out that my computer sucks because one of my memory sticks has gone bad and is crashing everything so this project is probably going to take a long time. I might post an update on it but probably not because this crap is seriously pissing me off. And if anyone has a solution for these problems please tell me. I need to know.

  • I have wanted to make a website for a few years at this point but only really got around to figuring out how to do it now. I guess I should put a little greeting to whoever ends up randomly stumbling upon this page.

    I’m potato is yum or strangemudkip. I’m someone who consumes an absurd amount of anime, manga, webcomics, and video games. I’m probably going to make many pages on this website for my anime recommendations and such and word dump my opinions on random crap that happens. I honestly don’t know why anyone would read this but whatever. Might be interesting for me to look back at this after I graduate college. Might be interesting or incredibly depressing. That would be hilarious.