Gary's SFM Work

[Gary]

Decided to make some bad poses today, first-ever time using the program and hoping to see some progress.

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"Commander Sam, leader of BAR"
@Nathant18

"Eve & Vurr"
@Chezburger

"Just a memory"​

 

[MaXenzie]

Decided to make some bad poses today, first-ever time using the program and hoping to see some progress.

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"Commander Sam, leader of BAR"
@Nathant18

"Eve & Vurr"
@Chezburger

"Just a memory"​

if this is your first time then you're a prodigy

 

[Gary]

"Hold Position"

Spoiler: Creation

 

[MaXenzie]

"Hold Position"

Spoiler: Creation

dont have AO display on, it's better to add the effect in post processing

 

[Gary]

dont have AO display on, it's better to add the effect in post processing

Just trying out whatever tools I come across, not following any documentation or tutorials so I'm just winging it and finding out what's good and not good, thanks though!

 

[MaXenzie]

Just trying out whatever tools I come across, not following any documentation or tutorials so I'm just winging it and finding out what's good and not good, thanks though!

i can give you a guide to do my new lighting technique but it is very fuckin difficult

though the results are worth it

 

[Gary]

i can give you a guide to do my new lighting technique but it is very fuckin difficult

though the results are worth it

I'm very interested in giving it a try, lighting was impossible when I was working on an earlier scene I had to scrap

 

[MaXenzie]

I'm very interested in giving it a try, lighting was impossible when I was working on an earlier scene I had to scrap

open up black_void and put in a model

make a light
now remap the lights sliders in this fashion:

Intensity
Max is 50
Default is 25

Fov (Both of them)
Max is 150

Radius
Max is 1000

MaxDistance
30,000

FarZAtten
30,000

Set this light directly above and close to the model with the FoV maxed out, and radius set at 0.15 (triple click it and type this value in directly)

Then give it a natural blue light by turning down the red most of the way down, and green about halfway down

you should get something that looks like this

i'll type up the next stage now, but if you have the time you can re-create this pretty quickly

 

[MaXenzie]

Step 2

Copy paste (VERY IMPORTANT) the light you just made. If you don't copypaste it you'll have to remap all the sliders on the new light, so lets just skip the hassle

Take this new light, and put it directly under the model, pointing up at them. Change the colours to a soft orange. (Red 0, Green 0.5, Blue 0.25)

 

[MaXenzie]

Part 3

Copypaste the light again and make these changes:
Max out Constant Attenuation
Max out Max Distance
Max out FarZAtten
Set radius to 0.05
Set ShadowFilterSize to 0.02
Set ShadowDepthBias to 0.01
Set ShadowAttenuation to 0
Minimize the FOV (both of them) to the smallest it can be

Then set it at a sun's angle (45 degrees high-ish above the target) and far away enough from them that the light just about covers their entire body
Have the colors be sunlight-y (0.25 blue, 0.5 green for a nice orange)

Result comes out to this

 

[MaXenzie]

Step 4

copypaste a light that isnt the one you just made (Sky light or Ground light)

Put the FoV to normal
Put the intensity to something tiny like 0.01
Remove all radius
Then, if your model has any skin visible (Like a face) you'll want to just coat their face in this light (I recommend disabling all the other lights for this)

Set Blue and Green to 0.1 or so so you have this

Then if you want, copy the new light you made, and just light up the ear that's being bathed in the brightest light

Final result comes to this:

And that's how i light models

 

[Gary]

pre maxenzie shouting at me for facing a light to the floor:

post maxenzie shouting at me for facing a light to the floor:

thanks bud @MaXenzie

 

[Gary]

"she's pregnant with his child"
@Chezburger

i didnt title this​

 

[Chezburger]

THANK YOU

 

[MaXenzie]

@Nashi @Nathant18 there's nothing stopping me from complaining about ratings other people have received

dont dumb rate someone's art, even if the concept isnt something you agree with

its childish

 

[nash]

@Nashi @Nathant18 there's nothing stopping me from complaining about ratings other people have received

dont dumb rate someone's art, even if the concept isnt something you agree with

its childish

dw chief is cool

 

[sambo]

its childish

So is caring about ratings

 

[Gary]

@Nashi @Nathant18 there's nothing stopping me from complaining about ratings other people have received

dont dumb rate someone's art, even if the concept isnt something you agree with

its childish

dw chief is cool

So is caring about ratings

its all good

 

[Chezburger]

please remaster 'eve and vurr'

 

[MaXenzie]

So is caring about ratings

while im aware now that its a discord joke

seeing people put effort into making artwork only for random shmucks to slap a non-critiqued "this is stupid" on it with barely enough thought to even reply explaining why they dislike it is not only poor conduct in the creative section, it's downright offensive to the artist in question

you can put your dumb ratings in the HL2RP section