Recent reviews by Magic Max

I bought this on sale for 20 dollars and I can safely say I have not wasted a Steam Card on anything more useless than this program. I sincerely apologize to anyone who bought it for full price. I'd probably shoot myself before spending one hundred dollars on this. It looks great on the store page, sure, seeing the nice looking Spy being edited, animated, and put right into SFM. That's how they getcha.

First of all, most of the animations you have to pay for on their website. Yes, they've got the free thing, and that's nice, but if they would have told us that we had to pay for even more stuff, things would be different. I came in looking for a nice editor and stock animator and was thoroughly disappointed.

Speaking of the editor, there's only so much you can do. The body editing was slightly extensive but ultimately useless, cookie cutter clothing options with only a fair amount of designing options. But hey, you COULD get the DLC that includes next to nothing for an extra amount of cash! $$$$$$$$$$$

I think the biggest let down, however, was the exporting and file saving. In the video, you see the guy making the Spy model, rigging and animating it, and putting it into SFM. Nice and simple, all done in a short amount of time. This could not be further from the truth. Not only did I have to sign up to their website, be offered to purchase animation sets, and wait years for the downloads to get ready, but you CAN'T SAVE IT AS A .MDL FILE. This boggles me to no end. Why not? If they know most people on Steam are using it as a way to make custom models and import them to SFM, why not include a .MDL option?

There is a way to convert it, however, if you're willing to download and learn a whole new program. I gave it a shot and was instantly confused, I couldn't even open the correct files even though they were sitting in plain sight. No program should have its user go through this much extra work to simply export a model in the correct file.

tl;dr Even if you're an avid Source Filmmaker user like myself, do not purchase this program. It's got disappointing amounts of customization, horrible user interface if you want to export something, and unless you're a 3D model genius, you're not going anywhere with this. It's a whole scene just trying to export one model correctly and was a waste of my time and money. Definitely not recommended.