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Why this Piece of S[spoiler]hit[/spoiler]oftware got the most [spoiler]Porn[/spoiler] community Compared to Blender & Maya ?
>>513180
Because of the early valve models that were ready to go. People also imported the Gmod nude models and they could be easily animated.
Also, easy as fuck to learn, good interface, a bunch of premade valve assets that could be used for scene building and basically whatever they liked.
>>513183
This
(I don't animate porn though.)
No, I think the reason is just that gabenfags are autistic and don't even consider using proper animation software.
Market
Same reason millions of hours of talent are wasted making fucking Elder Scrolls mods
>>513180
That's easy, it's hard to port/make the maps from the games, whereas sfm just uses them out of the box.
Once it hits PBR we're moving to SFM. Diffuse is disgusting now compared to the new industry standard. SFM is an amazing product, and it will become even more popular once PBR is introduced too the workflow.
>>513180
It's easier and faster (but much less powerful) than animating / learning to animate in Maya / Blender / whatever and renders really quickly (of course this goes back to the problem of not knowing how to setup your non-SFM software)
Because it's user friendly. Any chump can pick it up and animate some shitty porn in like, a couple of hours, even someone who's never animated before.
Try doing that with blender.
>>513285
ITS TAKEN ME A MONTH. I'd have probably used SFM if I didn't need it to be a game that i can play in my Oculus Rift.
Can't put SFM in my rift. Gotta make the porn models in blender and then shove them into Unreal.
Then again I have had to pick up from where i left off like four years ago so yeah I've had to play a lot of catch-up here. I'm just glad that I can do this on the side while I'm at work.
Because everything is prepare, you're working with ready assets, instead of making everything on the go, all you have to do is animate and build a scene
>>513285
Blender is easy like sfm, no ?
>>513303
SFM is from Valve. Valve is coming out with the Vive. I would expect SFM Vive support to be announced on the 29th when they launch the preorders.
Still, it'll pay off down the line to use Unreal. Much more flexibility.
>>513285
Really? I think gmod is harder to understand than 3ds max or something, which is why I never played gmod.
>>513678
GMod is not an Animating software.
GMod is Video Games.
>>513180
It's really easy to use, basically you need one 10 minute tutorial and you can become make your whatever your perv mind will imagine
>>513678
>gmod is harder to understand than 3ds max
top kek
People use gmod for posing but it's not game or software that suposed to be a 3d tool.
>>513693
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>513736
The tutorial you need is more like an hour and 20 minutes, and that doesn't cover the much needed ability to bring in flexes.
Still, you're right. It's pretty fucking easy to learn.
Maya is the best and its easy as pie too.
the only answer to you all is GIT GUD.
>large and ever-expending library of content
>any idiot can figure it out in a week
>good results rendered in realtime
Shit made in SFM honestly looks better than 99% of poser/daz shit that ground away for hours and hours rendering.
>>514230
DAZ is waaaaaaay better than SFM
i even wanna fap to DAZ still Image than SFM animated garbage.
>>514266
whats le difference
>>514267
sliders everywhere
>>514266
>DAZ is waaaaaaay better than SFM
I have not seen a single good DAZ animation.
Seriously.
Either good animators don't use it, or it's shit.
>>514428
Animation functions are shit. Options are to either buy a bunch of addons and animation shit from daz to cobble together some semi working mess or export to 3D app of your choice.
>>513180
Is there any decent 3d porn made using Blender or Maya out there? I want to see how much the quality differs
>>514487
That really depends on the author/artist.
>>514487
affect3d uses Poser for his girlfriends 4 ever. With final renders done in 3DS Max
>>514487
Blender :
AndreyGovno
Cherizen
PewPosterus
Vsmnd
Maya :
Ellowas
SFMReddoe
thats all i know.
It's easier for someone to make decent animations in SFM than it would be for them to learn Blender/Maya.
Everything is already setup in SFM, meaning you can just focus on the animation instead of the rendering.
Basically, I think SFM is perfectly fine for 5 second loop porn.
it is ok to post 3d porn sfm in here ?
>>514557
blue board, so no.
You can link to /aco/ where it's allowed though.
People keep saying SFM scene is dead, but there's still 50+ artists and such releasing new content all the time.
I wish there was a general dedicated to people porting content over to SFM, but it'll always be the same 4-5 individuals doing it
>>514689
Lordaardvark is the one that port models btw.
but his models always have an problem on the shoulders.
There are also a fuck ton of models available in the xnalara / xps communities.
SFM is the worst thing to happen to porn this decade
Thanks Valve
>>514701
You mean best.
would never have had all the port rips we have without it.
>>513180
does anyone even use sfm for non-porn stuff? lol
>>514713
those people who want those saxxy awards i think.
>>514708
SFM is all low poly garbage because the retards using it keep the game models as is instead of subdiving them / making the models higher poly. Hardly anyone uses proper muscle deformation / volume bones too.
Pron makers: If your model isn't going into a game don't leave it as some low poly crap, no one wants to see edges
>>513180
only MLP/Furries/FNAF/OverusedLizModel fags is using SFM.
>>515311
way more than that, sorry
it's faster to render if you wanna make something to look ok, and not realistic. some people animate outside sfm because well, for learning basic stuff sfm is ok, it's quite limited.
>>514862
Also game rigs are modelled standing in a neautral position because theyre just going to be walking around mostly. In porn there's lost of open legs and squatting. I think its best for porn if you model the neutral position with the legs slightly open
>>513193
>millions of hours of talent
Well not like any of us could get a job anyways.
So SFM is already dead ?
lots of animators i know arent using it anymore.
all of them is moving to blender & maya.
>>517258
no its not dead by a long shot.
tons of models still get released weekly, and there's atleast 50+ videos that get made weekly at rule34 using SFM.
I'm also actively porting models over to SFM.
>>517258
I've noticed quite a few better quality animations, i.e obvious smoothing, not jagged shitty game level models you see in sfm. Are there any Maya/blender ready model/rig releases?
>>517269
looks like shit
>>517274
thanks for the compliment
>>517269
wft is it?
>>517275
its not a compliment, its fuckin horible
>>517280
>doesn't know who polly esther is
kids these days
>>517269
Anon, make her actually moving around and fucking someone, or the underages around /3/ will keep trowing shit at you.
>>517285
dude I'm just porting it. I didn't even make the model. I've got a backlog of like 10+ models that need to be ported to SFM, so I never have time to actually use them.
>>517286
do you upload your ported model to sfmlab ?
>>517354
i honestly had forgotten about sfmlab. I'll upload it there once I finish making some small adjustments.
>>517286
where did you get the model from?
>>517366
Nice.
Is there any example of actual good animation made in source film maker?
>>517444
>https://sfmlab.com/item/1312/
Wow man...... I think You're better than LordAardVark....
What models you're already ported to sfm beside this ?
>>517445
For SFW : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSQJbA9ZuL0
For NSFW : Search StudioFow. But beware, Their fetish are Japanese level of weird.
>>517473
Isabelle from Animal Crossing was my first port, but I've decided I'm going to redo her since I learned much more in the past 2 weeks. Still a bunch of things I don't know/bad at.
>I think You're better than LordAardVark
Nah he could probably knock out a proper port in a few days. it takes me like a week
I can´t stand the wobbly SFM cam
it´s ALWAYS the same wobbly movement in every SFM animation
not to mention the limitations when it comes to shading
>>517993
Of course it has many limitations. It's meant to render animations for source games from 2009. People use it because it's easy to jump in and make decent animations. Also already has IK rigs for thousands of game models.
Someone would have to already be advanced to make decent animations in blender/maya + setup their own ik, which isn't hard, just takes more time.
I'd personally switch to blender if I were being paid/commissioned to make animations.
how the fuck? please
Once SFM gets PBR workflows it will become a much better Animation and Render toolkit. Stated this when the thread started we will be switching all our renders to SFM because of the fast production level it can export. Renders take less time as well as the animation process is much friendlier. It's just that our entire material and asset workflow use PBR and we'd have to be very experienced in it to get anything close to the graphical fidelity at which we achieve in Maya. PBR will make it revolutionary.
>Almost 80% of good sfm porn animators is switching to Blender or Maya.
SFM is dead. Time to move on. Thread Closed.
>>518492
recalculate normals
>>518498
yup, this toy for making tf2/dota memes will totally replace maya in production environments! you just watch!
i'm also fully expecting wacom to go out of business once the new etch-a-sketch hits the market. it's some next level shit.
>>518618
It obviously won't replace them you idiot. But it will signifigantly lower costs because of the consistent license updates we do with over a dozen Mayas. We also license several plugins and SFM will be a good alternative. Maya and such will forever be King of rendering, but for what we are doing we don't need it if SFM gets PBR. Good job on reading comprehension you idiot.
>>518618
So does blender.
>>513180
Its not popular anymore b t w
Everyone used Blender & maya now for making porn.
>>513180
I installed this today and tried to follow the Valve tutorial.
Problem is it runs at 5 fps.
Now, I don't have a top tier pc but specs are giid, and even though it's a laptop it shouldn't have this problem.
Key Specs:
2.4 GHz quad core CPU
Nvidia 755m GPU
12GB RAM
I've already tried disabling lightning and ambient occlusion and I only got 2 fps out of it.
>>520992
OS ?
7 or 10 ?
>>520992
Update drivers maybe, also make sure the SFM is actually using the Nvidia GPU and not the IGP.
You also failed to mention the OS (Win7/8/10/ME, Gentoo?) and what kind of CPU you have (Intel, AMD, Zilog?). Post a Speccy screencap?
>>514487
>>514517
don't forget this guy, he was a supervisor for the Revenant.
https://adeptussteve.tumblr.com/
Also real talk, you wanna know why SFM is used the most? because It's easy. Every lazy hack can pick it up, take a model someone ported over to it, open a patreon, and make thousands monthly animating a pastel coloured pony fucking Samus' ass raw.
S2FM is out and these fucks are so lazy at what they do, they don't move over to a better updated engine that supports .FBX files, they'd rather wait around for someone to convert to .smd or .dmx because these guys are too stupid to actually learn how to bring these models in themselves. Why else do you see D.Va (and other overwatch characters) get fucked with her jumpsuit still on? Because these fucks don't know how to even do a simple retexture. most of them are talentless hacks, and they make more money than most of us here.
>>518618
I still remember when SFM first came out and some chuckle fuck actually said Pixar was watching what people made with this and will probably hire people using it.
>mfw
>>518498
>Renders take less time as well as the animation process is much friendlier.
Yo, ever heard of Maya's Viewport 2?
check this shit out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xetf8KqDF5c
https://youtu.be/AZu-zjtd6PQ
>>514266
Mmm delicious uncanncy valley sliders are my favorite!
http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?order=5&q=DAZ
>>521416
people not knowing how to use shaders is not daz's fault
>>521059
>>521339
>>521376
Yeah sorry forgot to post OS
Nvidia control Panel says I'm using Nvidia GPU
