How to make sprites in SFM?

[Trevor]

So, I'm planning to make a VN based on TF2. Nope, not a dating sim. F*ck that. It's basically a guide for new players, or an advanced guide for player's with 50 - 100 hours of the game.
There will be indepth guides of the game, like crafting, weapons, hats, gamemodes, maps... it will be update very often
I know that they can find guides online and on Youtube, but this is for people who likes VNs and guides on the internet are just separate, like Uncle Dane, ArraySeven, MrPaladin, TF2Wiki,... I just want it to be in one place.
There will be sprites made by SFMs, background, screenshots of the games,... you name it
But, how do you make sprites without the background?

It's quite ambitious.
I'm going to make it with Ren'Py
So, what do you think?

[EmperorFaiz.wav]

There is greenscreen model in SFM and not to mention a better version with more skin colors on the workshop.

All you have to do is put the model behind the character, render as poster, import into Photoshop or GIMP, remove the green color and set the pic with transparent background and save as PNG format.

Also, can you tell me more about your VN project of yours? I'm curious.

[Trevor]

Originally posted by EmperorFaiz.spook:

There is greenscreen model in SFM and not to mention a better version with more skin colors on the workshop.

All you have to do is put the model behind the character, render as poster, import into Photoshop or GIMP, remove the green color and set the pic with transparent background and save as PNG format.

Also, can you tell me more about your VN project of yours? I'm curious.

Oh, it's a guide for TF2.
There will be guides for each class. How they are and how to play effectively.
Info about gamemodes, weapons, class, subclass. What do's and don't's of each class.
There's a lot to cover, but maybe I'll tell you later on
It's going to be very big and ambitious

[Capt Fuzzy]

This sounds very intriguing, and being that my 'day job' is a video editor, I know a lot about how to use green and blue screen (chroma keying is the 'technical term' for it, btw), I'd be interested in being considered if you decide to put a 'team' together to do this...

[Trevor]

Originally posted by Capt Fuzzy:

This sounds very intriguing, and being that my 'day job' is a video editor, I know a lot about how to use green and blue screen (chroma keying is the 'technical term' for it, btw), I'd be interested in being considered if you decide to put a 'team' together to do this...

eh... i don't know. i only do it in my spare time, and I don't want to bother anyone, 'cause i could have quit anytime. but right now, i don't need any help yet

[Trevor]

Originally posted by Capt Fuzzy:

This sounds very intriguing, and being that my 'day job' is a video editor, I know a lot about how to use green and blue screen (chroma keying is the 'technical term' for it, btw), I'd be interested in being considered if you decide to put a 'team' together to do this...

Originally posted by TrevorP:

Originally posted by Capt Fuzzy:

This sounds very intriguing, and being that my 'day job' is a video editor, I know a lot about how to use green and blue screen (chroma keying is the 'technical term' for it, btw), I'd be interested in being considered if you decide to put a 'team' together to do this...

eh... i don't know. i only do it in my spare time, and I don't want to bother anyone, 'cause i could have quit anytime. but right now, i don't need any help yet

♥♥♥♥... I mean, how the hell do you guys do poses in SFM? That stuff is hard!

[surfer171]

Originally posted by TrevorP:

Originally posted by Capt Fuzzy:

This sounds very intriguing, and being that my 'day job' is a video editor, I know a lot about how to use green and blue screen (chroma keying is the 'technical term' for it, btw), I'd be interested in being considered if you decide to put a 'team' together to do this...

Originally posted by TrevorP:

eh... i don't know. i only do it in my spare time, and I don't want to bother anyone, 'cause i could have quit anytime. but right now, i don't need any help yet

♥♥♥♥... I mean, how the hell do you guys do poses in SFM? That stuff is hard!

One is to watch the valve official source filmmaker tutorial, two is referencing and three is practice. Don't use sequence, it's cheap and effortless

[Trevor]

Originally posted by surfer171:

Originally posted by TrevorP:

♥♥♥♥... I mean, how the hell do you guys do poses in SFM? That stuff is hard!

One is to watch the valve official source filmmaker tutorial, two is referencing and three is practice. Don't use sequence, it's cheap and effortless

sequence?

[Zappy]

Originally posted by TrevorP:

sequence?

Pre-made animations/poses stored in models. As you didn't seem to know that, I take it you haven't looked at the official tutorials, in which case you may want to watch and mimic/follow along the official tutorials to learn the basics of Source FilmMaker.

[EmperorFaiz.wav]

Originally posted by TrevorP:

Originally posted by surfer171:

One is to watch the valve official source filmmaker tutorial, two is referencing and three is practice. Don't use sequence, it's cheap and effortless

sequence?

Your first mistake is not bother to look up the tutorials at all. Don't act so surprise that you can't do anything on SFM. Visit my thread to get started Newbie's Guide to SFM