How can I get SFM 2 for free?

[76561199486280041]

I am kindly asking for assistance, and thank you to all who are reading this or have the time to reply.

So, I am working on Half-Life animations, mainly combine scenarios. I want to start animating but the original SFM keeps crashing for the most basic stuff. no offense to those who use SFM, but I've watched a review on SFM 2 and I really feel like this would help me boost my skills.

However, I quickly realized that I need to pay to get the extra SFM 2. ( Which is really dumb, to be honest ) and I don't know what to do, I tried going on Unreal Engine 5 but I can't import models (Half-life Alyx models ) there, SFM won't stop crashing, and I have no Idea what to do.

If anyone knows ANYTHING, on how to get SFM 2 and how to import those models in then PLEASE PLEASE tell me.

Or, if you don't play HF:A anymore, or if you by any chance have a copy, could you please gift it to me so that I can use the engine? Yes, I know this sounds stupid. And I am sorry, But I am stuck in a ditch and I have no idea what to do.

Thank you all for reading this, if you have any ideas on how to get my hands on SFM 2 I will be super grateful.

[R234]

DOTA2 has S2FM as well.

I doubt S2FM is any less crash-prone, though. Most of the times SFM crashes, it's due to user error. It simply has fewer safeguards than most programs. If you tell us the context in which you're getting these crashes, we might be able to help you avoid them.

[76561199486280041]

I dunno, I really want to try out S2FM because of the new tools and stuff, it really just looks sorta easier to navigate through,

Most of the errors I've gotten are particle errors, whenever I select a particle, for example, I tried to download a gun smoke particle from the Workshop, and whenever I tried to open the thing it always just crashes my program.

Also about DOTA2, Is it possible to get the Half-Life Alyx models on the DOTA2 S2FM version?

[R234]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Average F2P:

Most of the errors I've gotten are particle errors, whenever I select a particle, for example, I tried to download a gun smoke particle from the Workshop, and whenever I tried to open the thing it always just crashes my program.

Does it really crash, or does it just lock up and stop responding? If it's the latter, SFM does do that sometimes, it just means it's loading. It should sort itself out after a minute or so. Usually when it does that when browsing particles, it's caused by missing materials. If it's Workshop particles you might be missing certain dependencies, I'd check the submission's description. You could also link to the submission so we can have a look at it.

Other than that, you might want to check that you're not running out of memory, see if the "mem" counter in the lower right doesn't go over 3000 or so.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Average F2P:

Also about DOTA2, Is it possible to get the Half-Life Alyx models on the DOTA2 S2FM version?

I would think so. Same engine. Should be a simple matter of copy-paste.

[76561199486280041]

javascript:ShowEnlargedImagePreview( {LINK ENTFERNT}'https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/499141183393085346/2887E30A67A2B220659C30A0355E4B0B75346711/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false' ); - One of the particles that I got from the Workshop that keeps crashing,

All of the particles that I have downloaded constantly crash, I tried to look up on YT for some tuts but I can't really find any solution. Might swap to Blender to just make Half Life animations at this point

[76561199486280041]

Yeah nvm, the link got removed instantly, it's a cig smoke particle.

[R234]

Oh, is that Tacoman's HD Cig Smoke? I recall that one being extremely resource heavy, spittng out over ten thousand particles at a time. What if you use good old cig_smoke from cig_smoke.pcf, do you still get crashes?

[76561199486280041]

Yeah that one,

I dunno though, let me check real quick

[76561199486280041]

yup, it crashed