Faceposer Tutorial 2: Choreography and Hammer (pt 2)

[imapotatoify]

whenever i try to load the scene in to the logic choreographed scene it goes to sound files help please!

[Baxten123]

umm umm umm umm uummmmmmmmmmmmmumumummumumumum­um JEEZUS nice video though

[KoushAcalledKukA]

nice work.. thank you for this great tutorial

[pwnzro]

my rebel is in my squad but the flag is unchecked....wtf..

[stomcode]

Ummm

[IcoVir]

dude you need to work on your speaking skills, um is very annoying and distracting.

[MrFaiz995]

@IcoVir I also have this problem which is cannot speaking properly. Help?

[TheCompleteERROR]

BEST ENDING TO A TUTORIAL EVER. should do comedy machinima! :D

[thehumor]

i save it and name the actor correctly but he doesnt want to say it?? help?

[Mrluisao17]

dude stop saying umm please really annoying

[ThePirishman]

@Mrluisao17 Dude, just be happy he makes these videos

[Mrluisao17]

@ThePirishman i know but its annoying

[WIN7GT]

UUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

*give weapon_gun* *Shoots itself*

[drudigger]

ok are u doing umm on purpose?

[QwukeStudioz]

@drudigger yes because it adds suspense.

[OhMyGmod]

@ 1:22 technically, it's not a spoiler, the trailer gave that away

[BeaverSoilder]

i cant find scene in "target eneties named" all i get is somthing like keypad_18

[SortOfAlrightMedia]

awesome music where did you get it?

[lillasyra]

um um um um um um um um um um um any way um um um um um um um um um

greate vid btw

[AxelsDawn]

When running my map with the event in HL2, I get this error in the console, and it won't load the map:

FS: Tried to Size NULL filename!

CModelLoader::Map_IsValid: No such map 'maps/Scene.bsp'

map load failed: Scene not found or invalid

Any idea why?

[Haloisawesome22]

nice tutorials.... but you should have bleeped the spoiler you dick! jk, i know how most of it goes. thanks for makin these

[Machado270]

i can create a map in counter-strike source?

[kapacek95]

OMG , KATANA314, YOU ROCK!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS! I WAS LOOKING FOR IT FOR A LONG TIME. Subscribed!

[QwukeStudioz]

@kapacek95 omg omg omg, nerd faggot.

[RickTheStickman2]

SPOILER LOL

[DivBMesa]

@Someone7089

well in gmod put the tick into "npc ignore players"

[Dudey91188]

I need help ,I do everything right went through it twice and it doesn't work in game help please?

[bmxster21]

How can you just add it to Garry's mod instead of using Hammer.

[AlTheUnderdog]

@bmxster21 well now that won't work if you want to do this in a different game now would it?

[AlTheUnderdog]

@bmxster21 Oops sorry i read "why don't" instead of "how can" just get the npc-scene tool and install scenes, theres a tutorial by spartandude123 on how to.

[twunk12]

I love the way he says um, as if hes ending a question.

[ddookk91]

that's cool, what's the music in the end???

[mthed747]

Can you trigger the scene by using a area the player walks to?

[LilEasterTheTot]

Yea, use a trigger_once.

[sourceplayer151]

IM sorry.. you suck at explaining how to add it in hammer.. what do you mean by you dont need to put anything in the target? how else will hammer know???? You cant "name" actors in source sdk, next time you make a tutorial explain how do apply the scene to the npc first

[ZealotStudios]

Omfg this is like doing Gmod!!

Ty dude.

[starwolffan13]

wow that's a lot!! that's bad! x"D}

[B4IRUTUARU16]

you ruin half life for me lol jks

[babygunit1911]

Great tutorial dude. I learned a lot :D

[dooglesbe]

lol i loved it when you slipped in the spoiler accidently XD you covered yourself pretty well aswell, its true nobody should mod the game without completing it first :)

these are great tutorials as well, you have helped me alot so thanks ^^

[starwolffan13]

Ehm..... Dude You Say Ummmmm To Much :)

[lastxp]

I count 58 times he says Umm

[notilhenger]

have a problem with that?

[pointwert]

@lastxp Does it matter smart ass?

[Mwz92]

@lastxp FUCK ITS ANNOYING WHY DD U HAVE 2 TELL ME !!

[PamelaSvirnersen]

A lot of you had problems with loading a custom .vcd scene into hl2 ep2 version of hammer (can preview in hammer, but when running a map actors won't act in scene). Well Here's the solution:

Open Faceposer, Load your scene, Click File -> Rebuild scene.image...

After that you should see your scene working in game.

[gega2202]

Xbox noise at 1:35 .

[Shotec1]

can i get my scene into garrys mod?

[XxminisheaffyxX]

i think so because its the same way you get maps into garrys mod

simply move the compiled map folder into garrysmof maps foler but make sure it was made int he hl2 engine

[Wiltonboy]

is he ment to be moving around like he is bored at the end of the video???

[DayVour]

Did he press ctrl+t at 5:08? I find it stupid that he's already prepared a lot of things because it confuses the viewer. I guess I'll just create the outputs.

[FeedMEBabies]

Yea, he hit ctrl+T

[PDXclan]

and how would i be able to make a transition between some behaviours?

[PDXclan]

just please tell me how to make the guy continously walk with the walk_all gesture :)

[halomanalden]

lol at the end. "how dare you ignore me... i outta stab you in the back." *opens console* "give weapon_knife" LOL

[iamhereforever]

@halomanalden he says "you better ignore me"" lol

[DayVour]

I get really confused around 5:08 because you've already prepared your out/inputs. When I use hammer and create that entity I don't see 2 inputs and outputs it's blank. And with the constant ummms it's hard to understand exactly what I'm suppose to be doing.

[CTPAX92]

You sure you are in keypad properties, not in the npc_citizen properties?

[jpeg1994]

problem solved for the last 2 just type in the scene that you used ex: "test.vcd" its that simple. and yes i just did it 2 mins ago lol

[fambiniX]

...that didnt really make sense, where do i type this in?

[jpeg1994]

you type it in before you hit the browse button on the screen at 3:59 the box right above it

[fambiniX]

hey, whenever i try and load a scene for my "logic_choreographed_scene" it comes up with a menu with sounds - i dont want sounds, i want that list that came up on the vid

[Krowzman]

Awesome stuff bru

[Thedutchjelle]

Love the end :P

Nice tutorial. I'm just getting into HAMMER mapping, but with this added to my maps, I can make sure my newbie maps stand out already :P

[Headcrabman99]

I was really looking for a poser with no ragdoll physics

[maleable11]

how can you make an animation in GMOD?

[bobabeens]

haha yeeeahh i got it to work. thx for all the help man

[StuntBanker]

Is there a way to use a custom dialogue and animation in GMOD?

[XwawawaX344]

Yes

[roxes787b]

what if i want the npc to push on the keypad

[Internetianer]

type in the console "bind (button) (command)"

but so u can use ALL buttons!

[gordonfreemannr2]

haha XD I like the ending. Thank you for the tutorial.

[WestDrake]

lol :D give weapon_knife

[Headcrabman99]

Can i pose bodies in faceposer?

[BLooDyAc3KiLLA]

Can i do this with TF2 characters? and if so how do i load them in face poser cause all i can find is Hl2 characters

[Thaxos]

When you open up Source SDK, you go to the bottom section, choose The Orange Box for Engine Version, choose Team Fortress 2 as Current Game and then you have to go into the player folder and choose the model you want.

[MATTHEWGU4]

I lol'd when you h\gave a spoiler. In any case, these tutorials are really helpful. Thanks! As soon as I get all this down, I'm going to make some good stuff.

[WebAlettoStudio]

So, I have Windows Vista. I can't use this?

[ProductionSniper]

as far as I understood this you will have to make the lipsynching manually. Your computer won't be able to work out the lip movements automatically..

I have Vista, too :)

[gaz597]

hehe, you sound like James Stewart.. cool tutorial :)

[117halo117]

nice tutorials and the ending was really funny!!!!

I laughed so hard.

[bindingdeath]

how do u add an entity to the map?

[Wal3330]

the little light bulb icon

[shadowstudios9]

Huum what do you recomend to record with?

[sajten]

Source Recorder

[shadowstudios9]

umm Thanks is that in source its self I was looking for it...

[sajten]

Yes

[PancakeKick]

thanks iv been watching your tuts and they are so useful, and i now can actually make my own machinima now.

If you had breast and a reasonable well proportioned body i would kiss you know, (oh and if u didnt have a penis, thats a big nono in my books), lol

[jmm1233]

thankyou for this , i was really trying to get my head around the sequancing part but you described so even a dumb person like me can now do it

[Nasaratsu]

Okay, I know I posted this on the 1st part...

2 problems... I flag all that stuff, and he still running from me and talking the default citizen stuff. How to stop that?

AND, after the choreography ends it keeps playing the voice sound in loop, but the actor doesn`t really talk...

[TheKris555]

Thanks man! This helped a lot!

[Nexor123]

I get this problem in the console when I press the button.

"

SV_StartSound: imgonnakillyou.wav not precached (0)

"

[KJ47]

Helpful thanks.

[gmanmode]

never mind my last comment. =)

[gmanmode]

what do i need to do if i use a trigger insted of a button to start my scene?

[sajten]

ent_fire scene name :3

[No1hotdogguy]

Im having a problem; in game, the scene plays incorrectly. Like, the speech is fine (im just using one from HL2) but the flex animations dont play correctly. gestures are fine as far as i can tell. thats cool music btw, nice tutorials

[SuperXero258]

thank you sooo much!

[directedbydaniel]

Help, my citizen is not ignoring my player push. I managed to stop him following me but even though i have the box ticked, he still runs away from me if i go near him.

[TOCDigitalySane]

I just found out the command for gmod and hl2 without making maps i tell everyone so thay don't bother you it's ent_fire !picker overideexpression scenes/name.vcd hope that helps now stop asking katana how and find out yourself.

[Karlag10]

duuuuuude

your such an expert

[TOCDigitalySane]

I need help i do two things now i had it all done in hammer and then i test in hl2 it's perfect then i test in gmod and theres no lip synch or sound do i have to copy the sound and scene folders or soming into gmod for it to work or should i try making the map agein.

[Katana314]

The VCD and sound files are not compiled into the map, so yes, you need to copy them over.

[TOCDigitalySane]

Thanks i needed to know also does the tf2 method work like if i type say in gmod garrysmod_vcd.test i think thats how the command goes i better watch the tf2 tut agein.

[blehmanzach1]

how would you compile a vcd or sound into a map?

[ps3vswiivspspvsds]

hey is steams hammer the same thing as source sdk? if not were can i download this plz reply

[Katana314]

blehman: Same way as a sound or texture. There's a program called BSPzip that'll do it. (I'm not sure if scenes will work; I KNOW they won't in the 2007 engine)

ps3vsreallybadfanboyname: Hammer is a tool in the Source SDK, and so is Face Poser.

TOCDigitalySane: No, TF2 has it because I specifically requested it. Gmod has another command, which seems to semi-work.

[ps3vswiivspspvsds]

lol im not a fanboy its just something that popped in my head at the time if you see any of my vids youll see there all for pc im relly not much into consoles

[ThePoliceComedyShow]

@Katana314 how do you make it when you click e on the character so he says the line.

[Miles003]

When I press New Choreography, then Face Poser becomes to [Read-Only] and I can't do anything more with that animation ^^ How to repair it? I don't have hl2, but I have orange box SDK cause i bought TF2..

[Mini0Inferno]

what program do you use to record?

[krnpimperX]

probably fraps

[runie360]

fraps doesn't record on the desktop. most likely hypercam or something like that

[krnpimperX]

oh i thought u were asking how to record it in the game? Srry.

[muncasterr]

From the looks of the flashing icon in the Taskbar, he used Camtasia Studio to record in the Windows environment.

[Katana314]

Yup, that's right. I use Camtasia Studio.

[TheKris555]

Cool! Awesome end XD! What weapon did you wrote in the console? It doesn't seemed like I've seen it before...

[Katana314]

weapon_knife. There's no knife in HL2 though; I was already planning that joke.

[thoy450]

Great video but you might wanna practice speaking because you keeped saying "um" i counted 30 times

[Skullhuntre]

LOL i know

[thoy450]

hey just telling the truth don't have to thumps down me lol

[xIAMDAVEx]

i dont get what hammer is for, cant you just import the scene and player into garrys mod?

[Johnhawkes]

hammer is what u make maps on know u cant do that in gmod :P

[dudee624]

But if you wanted too you could use gmod maps right?

[Katana314]

There would be quite a lot of errors inherent with that. Yes, there is a console command to run the scene, but it strips out 60% of Face Poser's features. None of the professional uses of Face Poser ever really use Garry's Mod; it's just too unstable.

[dudee624]

Ok.

Cuz im saving up to get a pc, and dont want to screw anything up within the first month of having it.

What kinda pc are you running this?

[NightkillerCRO]

so hl2 ftw? =)

anyway..love your tutorials..

Keep up the good work!

Respect Nightkiller

[Lozoot2]

when i click browse to find the scene file, a whole list of pre-loaded scenes from hl2 and ep. 1+2 are shown, and i can't find my scene. where should i have saved my scene?

[Donatzor]

The same way you load sounds, first you need a "scenes" folder in whatever game your hammering/faceposing for (hl2/hl2/scenes for example) save it there, then you simply type in the entry like you did for faceposer sound.

[xIAMDAVEx]

thats mean i gonna have to try this.

how u get it into gmod scenes?

[dannymyman]

you know that program do you buy it or download it :/

[Donatzor]

Its free if you have HL2 or any Half-life 2 sort of game. You go to your "Tools" tab in steam, and download the Source SDKs. Then you load up the source SDK and select engine version, then the game you want, then "face poser" Basicly, its free.

[saqune]

Man you rule

[Immersionist]

@ GLeNss

What have you done to fix the problem?

[GLeNss]

got it working thanks for the tutorial

[GLeNss]

yea me too and my character follows me.

[Immersionist]

I`m running the map within HL2 and the NPC finally appears. But here`s a new problem.

I did exactly (!) what you did in the tutorials 1, 2 Part 1 and 2, but the NPC does not stand still, he cries "Gordon Freeman" and such stuff, when I enter the map. Also, when I click on the Keypad it shows "Error" at the Keypad and nothing happens. Any suggestion?

[Donatzor]

"Error" is the default for the keypad as it is a prop. Onpress it changes it to that texture and beeps. Sounds like you need to gag your NPC_citizen and put "Ignore player" on in the flags, as shown in the tutorial :)

[Katana314]

There are no citizens in CS:S. What's happening makes sense. You NEED to run the map in a game that contains npc_citizens, such as Half-Life 2. They could show up in Hammer based on CS:S's fgd files containing that info, but it doesn't mean anything.

[Immersionist]

Me again. I analysed the console log after loading the map. I found this:

Attempted to create unknown entity type npc_citizen!

Can't init npc_citizen

I try to figure out now, how to solve this problem.

[Immersionist]

Well I think now CS:S is NOT the problem, because the npc_citizen is appearing in hammer. Any suggestion?

[Immersionist]

Maybe you misunderstood me. I bought Half-Life 2 as a retail box (CS:S was implemented in there), as it was released in 2004. What I meant with "I`m modding with CS:S" is, that I chose the CS:S setting in the Source SDK (you know at the bottom of the window, which appears when you load the SDK, it says "Current Game:" there).

But I will try to choose "Half-Life 2" there and see if it works.

[Immersionist]

Hi. In advance thank you very much for this tutorial.

I did everything exactly like in the tutorial, but I have a problem: the npc does not spawn in the map after compiling. I used a npc_citizen, like in your tutorial.

Btw. I`m modding with CS:S and not HL2. Is that a problem. And I'm using -ep1 as far as I now. I do not own Episode 1 or 2.

[Katana314]

There's really not much you can facepose with if you don't own HL2 or one of its sequels. Sorry.

[Cardcapture1]

Ok Like said below how would i get this to play in garry's mod? Console command and if I use play scene tool where do I put the scene and the sound file?

[zero36946]

uh, I have a problem and you might be able to help. I make a face poser .vcd and I dont know where to put it. and in-game it says the .vcd file is missing. so where do i put the .vcd file, oh and im using the EP2 engine.

[ToxicsMedia]

wait i want to do the movie in gmod so do i use the play scene tool and look for my scene?

[Katana314]

You don't. HL2's scenes are far more scripted out to work with that tool. Most STOOLs in Gmod are ill-suited to work with custom VCDs.

[Vllusion]

I'm confused. I used Breen as the model in my choreography. How do I import the choreography into Hammer?

[firemonkey0]

So is there a way to make your own gesture? Like, let's say, someone elbow nudging you?

[liquidgordon]

I'm confused about the logic choreographed scene. you say not to use the "target" things. So you don't put the guy's name anywhere in the scene's dialogue box? how does it know who to make speak the scene?

[Katana314]

If the Actor name in the choreography is the same as the NPC's name in its own properties, it'll use that one. You can also make it slightly dynamic by setting !target1 etc in the logic choreographed scene to be the character; as well as changing the actor name in the choreoraphy file to be !target1.

[TroyAndBob]

haven't beaten it, but i don't really care, all i care is how alyx becomes unconcious in the first place, so "so-and-so iswhatever" spoilers don't bother me SNAPE KIKLLED DUMBLEDORE WHO IS A HOMO!

[masyoyo]

what dose he say ??

[DrDrick]

Do you need half-life 2 for those npc_citizen and scenes?

[Katana314]

yup. Not sure how much you can do with just other Source games.

[DrDrick]

I'm just gonna buy half-life 2...

[DrDrick]

Damn.. I don't know how to put a npc_citizen in hammer... and I can't find tutorials

[CpmStudios]

When you have a scene all choreographed, how do you put it into Gmod? Or can you only use Hammer?

[Katana314]

You can put it in gmod, but a number of its features will be broken. Use hammer; it's not as daunting as it seems.

[CpmStudios]

Hmm okay, is there any way to import maps into Hammer?

[Katana314]

Yup! Look for a program called vmex. It lets you "decompile" a BSP, and turn it into a Hammer-ready VMF.

[Evan2142]

i lol'd when you gave away the spoiler

:D

[kraigster89]

youre my hero!!! Great tutorials. Thanks for the help.

[pipinki]

you're a good dude. thanks.

[Chaosblade777]

OMGZ ALYX GETS UNCONSIOUS!!

Nah, i know, it happens fairly early in the game, not a big spoiler.

Nice vid, i need you to make machinma with me.

[ericcarlsson]

NIce, Can you use this kind of stuff in a multiplayer game like HL2 DM, DOD or Css?

[Chaosblade777]

Maybe, it's uploading the player model..