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SFM: Easy Nice Lighting
By Landeyx
Valve has added some nice touches in SFM, making it easy for users to make some awesome things easily, today I will light up (get it?) a trick for SFM lighting.
   
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Intro
Valve has added some nice touches in SFM, making it easy for users to make some awesome things easily, today I will light up (get it?) a trick for SFM lighting.
My name is Landeyx, and today I'll show you how to do this, it's pretty easy.
If you use this trick, your lighting will look somewhat like this:



This can also be coloured:



How To Do The Lighting
Step 1: Spawn a model

Step 2: Go into the motion set editor


Step 3: Hold ctrl and select a bone (I prefer the neck bone)


Step 4: Something should light up in the animotion set, right click it and hover over utilities and click "create lights"

Step 5: Play arround with the lights which are just created and create some nice lighting

Make sure to edit your render settings to Depth of field 1024 override and turn motion blur off.


Thanks for reading!
Rate this guide up if you liked it, may not be super-detailled but I hope it helps you!

Other guides:

Landeyx's Guide To SFM:
http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=469537166
13 Comments
Heavy Balls Guy 22 Aug, 2020 @ 10:21am 
This shit, and not a guide
blazingflames 6 Jul, 2020 @ 11:32am 
also this does not involve a pinch of technique
blazingflames 6 Jul, 2020 @ 11:31am 
i remember doing these exact things (without looking at this) and now i think to myself, "i shouldnt do this lighting ever"
mainly because it ends up hurting the image more than making it pretty
the freak 29 Feb, 2020 @ 9:14am 
" yes, move the lights. "
ZergSquad 7 Nov, 2019 @ 9:13am 
rofl guide
Yulian 25 Oct, 2019 @ 8:36am 
This guide in a nutshell:
How to light up nicely:
Step 1. Spawn in light, and adjust it so it would look good.
Gent 28 Sep, 2019 @ 3:17pm 
Hallo, ik denk dat je me weer uit Discord hebt verwijderd en ik vraag me af of je me nog een keer kunt toevoegen :) Gent#0851
i, thrower of rocks 10 Oct, 2018 @ 8:16am 
Honestly if you must do these lights, use Pybun's colored shadows guide, easily spruces up any light set
marty 17 Jan, 2017 @ 12:04pm 
you literally just told readers to spawn a light and use it.
Paintbrush Poltergeist 5 Aug, 2016 @ 2:22pm 
The DAG light kits are a major drain on performance too. Just thought I'd let you be aware of that.