a way to use multiple maps in one SFM video

[hoholoco]

im working on a video but i want to change a map in one point but i dont know how

[Pte Jack]

https://youtu.be/wKzuVZ5Bvrc

[hoholoco]

thank you i tried but i change level in one shot but then that changes the rest an if i change the map in the element viewer even if its one shot it changes all the other shots also i get wrong map loaded

[surfer171]

Sounded to me like you didn't follow as being taught in the video.

[R234]

I would recommend to not do that at all. It's best to have the parts that take place in different maps be different project files, or just render the shots that are separately.

[Zappy]

Personally, I recommend exporting part of the animation on one map, then just switching map manually and exporting the rest from there.

[Pte Jack]

I don't know why Zappy and R234 don't like the map switch in a single session method. You can only work on one shot at a time anyway and if the map isn't loaded for the shot you're working on, it just a quick changelevel (mapname) command in the console to load it. I prefer to keep a single project in one session instead of having to bounce through multiple sessions for one clip. But everyone does things differently in SFM and all the methods given work fine. So, you now have 3 options to choose from.

[Zappy]

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

I don't know why Zappy and R234 don't like the map switch in a single session method.

It switches map mid-export for one, and secondly if you want to change the map in order to work in it so you can see how it looks, you have to re-do the stuff in the element viewer every time.

[Pte Jack]

Originally posted by Zappy:

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

I don't know why Zappy and R234 don't like the map switch in a single session method.

It switches map mid-export for one, and secondly if you want to change the map in order to work in it so you can see how it looks, you have to re-do the stuff in the element viewer every time.

What stuff in the element viewer? And what do you mean it changes map mid point? I don't get what you mean.

[hoholoco]

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

Originally posted by Zappy:

It switches map mid-export for one, and secondly if you want to change the map in order to work in it so you can see how it looks, you have to re-do the stuff in the element viewer every time.

What stuff in the element viewer? And what do you mean it changes map mid point? I don't get what you mean.

yeah me either im so confused

[Zappy]

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

What stuff in the element viewer?

Clearing out the "mapname" of the session, which I believe gets reset every time you load a map (as if it doesn't, how'd Source FilmMaker know what map to load when loading a session anyway?).

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

And what do you mean it changes map mid point?

I don't mean that. I mean it changes map mid-export. By that, I mean it changes map while exporting.

[hoholoco]

im really confused can someone just tell me

[Zappy]

These are the options you have gotten on this thread.
(Note that they're sort of 3 different options, not the same one.)

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

https://youtu.be/wKzuVZ5Bvrc

Originally posted by R234:

I would recommend to not do that at all. It's best to have the parts that take place in different maps be different project files, or just render the shots that are separately.

Originally posted by Zappy:

Personally, I recommend exporting part of the animation on one map, then just switching map manually and exporting the rest from there. [Then use a video editor to combine the two exports.]

[Pte Jack]

Originally posted by Zappy:

Clearing out the "mapname" of the session, which I believe gets reset every time you load a map (as if it doesn't, how'd Source FilmMaker know what map to load when loading a session anyway?).

Once you clear the session map, it stays cleared. You add maps at the shot level.

Originally posted by Zappy:

I don't mean that. I mean it changes map mid-export. By that, I mean it changes map while exporting.

That is correct, the shot level map is loaded as the play head enters a shot while rendering.