Anonymous at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:17:56 UTC No. 856784

Its UI is taco bell with a side of prune juice levels of spicy explosive diarrhea. it you're already used to it, then i guess more power to you. but Blender does everything SFM does, but with more versatility, and a none shit UI.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:33:53 UTC No. 856789

>>856769
>but Blender does everything SFM does
I somewhat agree with that but why do people say
>ts UI is taco bell with a side of prune juice levels of spicy explosive diarrhea
why do people hate sfm UI? , could you tell me

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:35:00 UTC No. 856790

>>856789
was meant for >>856784

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:41:23 UTC No. 856792

>>856789
>>856790
Its hard to explain. if you're already used to SFM, or SFM was your first software of its type, then you won't have any idea why or how the UI could possibly be bad. Blender, Photoshop, Sony Vegas. these are just some examples of UIs that "make logical sense". they're borderline self explanatory. SFM doesn't make sense at a glance. its downright offensive to where you naturally expect things to be, especially if you're coming from those other software.

Anonymous at Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:58:30 UTC No. 856794

>>856792
>UI doesn't tell you anything
> doesn't follow industry standard
I guess those are legitimate reasons to hate sfm UI fair enough

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Oct 2021 06:33:25 UTC No. 856831

>>856769
It's a Source Engine animation tool. It is what it is. It's worthless for anything except making Valve game themed animations and porn.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:06:12 UTC No. 856878

>>856831
>and porn.
why is sfm so popular with porn anyway

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:16:34 UTC No. 856880

>>856878
low barriers to entry

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Oct 2021 20:16:30 UTC No. 856892

It renders a lot quicker than Blender, and the viewport virtually never lags so it has that going for it.

Anonymous at Sun, 17 Oct 2021 02:43:36 UTC No. 856934

>>856880
yea but blender can also have a low vary to entry and low quality blender stuff generally looks better than low quality sfm stuff

Anonymous at Sun, 17 Oct 2021 20:13:02 UTC No. 857040

>>856892
you could just disable textures and decimate models

sfm has an archiac model importing process too

Anonymous at Sun, 17 Oct 2021 20:37:43 UTC No. 857044

>>856892
It better render quick because it's a real time video game engine with graphics from 2007, but yeah technically true.

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:20:13 UTC No. 857068

>>856934
SFM has been around longer and gets advertised from Source games like CS:Go and TF2.

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:14:26 UTC No. 857156

>>857068
>>856892
I actually think that the reason why sfm is popular is becouse of the workshop, if you are a random dude who just wants to have a picture of whatever character holding a banana or something and you don't have that many art skills while not caring about cuality , you have all the models you need (problably) in the workshop

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:25:38 UTC No. 857162

>>856792
> borderline self explanatory.
> Blender

HAHAHAH Fuck no.
You need to fucking actively learn that shit.
And one you know and have experience in it, then it seems logical.
not in the farthest fuck is blender close to any definition of self explanatory

Anonymous at Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:50:38 UTC No. 857299

>>857162
Blender's UI is commonly referred to as "retard friendly". it took me no time to learn where everything was.

Anonymous at Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:00:55 UTC No. 857425

>>857299
Retards lack proper judgement and the ability to differentiate between good/bad and useful/useless.
Blender being "retard friendly" and you learning it in no time is not a valid statement about its quality.

Anonymous at Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:37:18 UTC No. 857433

>>857162
>>857299
>>857425
clearly blender is not retard friendly since I don't understand it

Anonymous at Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:08:25 UTC No. 857440

>>857433
then you are a special retard, not a mainstream retard.

Anonymous at Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:44:29 UTC No. 857444

>>857440
I am the golden retard that gives retard hunters more points then?

Anonymous at Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:23:42 UTC No. 857452

>>856769
I think what primarily keeps people staying on the SFM is that as an animation tool where one just wants to skip the 3D modeling, texturing and map making then it is a pretty good software for what it does.

The problem is that it is effective abandoned and even the Source 2 Filmmaker is lacking some features that the original Source Filmmaker has so effectively it is kind of "just there" for Valve to show off to outsiders what the Source and Source 2 game engine have and Source 2 Filmmaker is just a gimmick program to just exist. I think Source Filmmaker (the one with the workshop) was the one that was genuinely intended to be out there for public use but is effectively abandoned at this point.

Another reason for why SFM may still be used is not only to make NSFW animations for Patreon bucks but also because there is a style and way that SFM renders objects and lights everything.
Its just this unique "Source Engine render" look that I think is what gives every SFM animation (when lit and rendered right) its own charm that can't seem to be properly replicated in other software or at the very least the process of visual replication of the way SFM renders animations and images has not been found yet.

Some anon has inquired about it in the main Blender general >>857419

>pic-related
Rendered in Source Filmmaker edited in Photoshop
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/R3R6rE

Anonymous at Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:43:31 UTC No. 857480

>>857452
what are your favorite sfm works anon

Anonymous at Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:55:34 UTC No. 857555

>>857480
>what are your favorite sfm works anon
My current favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suOYQJhkFzU
I know its heavily edited but man it does a good job and I wonder just how much of it is SFM workshop ported stuff and has been modeled, textured and ported into SFM for this project alone.

Anonymous at Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:09:56 UTC No. 857590

>>857555
a fellow harry101uk fan I see , yea I really like his stuff too , I hope I can make something of that quality someday really.

Anonymous at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 02:03:55 UTC No. 857662

>>857156
You can still import literally everything into Blender itself using addons, that includes SFM files, you can download shit from the workshop and load them up in Blender instead.

Anonymous at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 02:06:22 UTC No. 857663

>>857662
I know but most people are way to lazy to do that

Anonymous at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 03:41:00 UTC No. 857673

>>857425
Its a UI. what do you judge the "quality" of a UI on other than it being a means of allowing the user to interact with all the functions as easily as possible.

Anonymous at Fri, 22 Oct 2021 03:54:53 UTC No. 857675

newfag to sfm here

are there any maps that dont require me to spend 20 fucking dollars on two games ill never play so that it isnt covered in glowing red "error" signs

thanks

Anonymous at Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:20:51 UTC No. 857938

>>857675
yea a lot of them in fact , just search in the workshop

Anonymous at Sun, 24 Oct 2021 06:32:39 UTC No. 857979

>>856934
hence why you get sfm/blender compilations on pornhub