So I'm making a slight modification of a TF2 map, sd_doomsday to be precise. I decompiled the map with BSPsource and vbsp.exe crashed whenever I tried to compiled it. Moved every single object of the map onto a new Hammer project and it compiled just fine, minus the fact that HDR was disabled. Not only that but in SFM I couldn't do mat_fullbright 0 nor mat_hdr_enabled or anything to make it work.
I really need a solution and quickly. This is part of a video that I want to finish in time for this year's Saxxy Awards, if Valve announces it sometime soon.

Hello.
I'd like to help you out for your Saxxy entry. Feel free to add me on your friends list.

I've been thinking. Of all the female counterparts, TF comics characters and Gabe Newell himself, has anyone ever thought the idea of making character models based on the TF2 characters' early concept art? Per example, the early version of Demo, a generic redheaded scotsman with a cranky look, or the Medic as the typical evil surgeon, Sniper as a Crocodile Dundee look-alike and so on.
http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/Dm_concept2.jpg
Somewhere might be modeling the TFC models as seen in the latest TF Comic but with that idea to the test with success I think more TF2-themed videos would get nicer background people rather than recycling the same models wearing different cosmetics.
What do you guys think?

Stop motion in SFM is possible, though mildly frustrating. The Motion Editor is the better option out there, carefully editing the timeline for basic and specific movements for each character, like this test video here.
http://youtu.be/C3cTSByiJME

Once you find this phase good enough, then you can go to more detailed poses, like this video here.
http://youtu.be/4qK7MEnUFCc

Finally, the video's settings. My suggestion is to render the video at 15FPS rather than 25 or 30, for a more authentic look. You should also edit the motion blur settings so that everything doesn't look needlessly blurry, only in scenes where the camera is focusing on someone or scenes with rapid movements, like smears and chases.

So as it turns out SFM crashes whenever I shoot, punch or use any of the proprietes of both left and right mouses (mice?) whenever I want to record some "gameplay" as different classes. My laptop isn't the most stable to run SFM but everything but that doesn't crash the software.
My request is to get dmx files of people playing around like in the actual game, so that I can insert them in my project, which I want to keep it's theme as a secret until it's finished.

One important thing: the project is set on Hightower.

My requests
-a Soldier rocket jumping throughout the entire map, it doesn't need to be a professional-looking rocket jumping since a lot of edits will be made in order to look "professional"
-a Heavy punching a wall countless times
-two Spies trying to stab each other on the BLU team's ramp
-a Pyro flare jumping
-a Sniper running around with the SMG
-another Pyro airblasting a Medic to the canyon
-a more complex scene where an Engineer uses the Wrangle to kill a Spy that casually walks to the BLU team's ramp; instants later a Heavy, wearing the Fists of Steel, comes by and destroys the sentry with one punch. A second Engineer comes by and kills the Heavy with one Gunslinger punch.

I'm aware that some of these weapons might not work on game mode as of the latest patch, but one way or another I'll try to make it as accurate as possible to the context which I'm basing one. Some of my requests might give you hints.

In post-production the names of everyone who contributed will appear on the credits.

For shame, judging a fellow member by it's tastes at cartoons.

Nice description.
You have two ways to make all characters limbless: the hard but more reliable way, decompiling every model, modifying them and them recompiling, or the easier and lazy way, separating clips, using scale for a hand/leg/arm/foot, and adding a low-poly ingame gib on the second clip.

Any assets from every Source game works with SFM, but only TF2 can be "played" in it; I believe you can "play" on custom maps or maps from different games, though, however some early Source games might lack HDR therfore lighting and some camera features not being usable.

Recently I made a 3D model of a gadget called Sun Crinoid. You can see a render of it on this link below.
https://scontent-a-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10276984_10203164703853528_3032220862922825062_n.jpg
I built it for a college project and with the potential it has I decided to make a .mdl file out of it and create a demo video on SFM as part of the project's presentation. I built a QC file, I made the .TGA files, I exported .DMX projects and I compiled them with success. Sort of.
On HLMV the model is present but the textures are missing, with a message saying "ERROR: model attempted to load one or more VMTs it can't find". I reedited the VMTs of the models, compiled them again and still no results. Yesterday I thought the main reason why it wasn't compiling like it should be it's because of the lack of bump maps, but even that didn't make any difference after I created them. I shared all the source files to Chaofanatic and he also didn't find the solution. The better option was to make a thread, here on OSFM.
I built the model in Blender, the object consists of a simple armature, three meshes (lamp, puller and skin), the textures were made on Photoshop and the bump maps in GIMP, and everything was compiled using Blender's Source Engine export. Below I post the locations, the QC and the VMTs so that you guys can point out wether or not if there's a problem.

Source Engine Exporter

Export Path: C:/Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SourceFilmmaker\game\usermod\models\agsma\crinoid\
Export Format: DMX
Export Up Axis: Z
SDK Path: C:/Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SourceFilmmaker\game\bin\
Material Path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/SourceFilmmaker/game/usermod/materials/models/agsma/crinoid
Source Engine Exportables
-crinoid_lamp.dmx
-crinoid_physics.dmx
-crinoid_skin.dmx
-crinoid_skin.dmx
Game Path: C:/Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SourceFilmmaker\game\usermod\
QC: Path: //crinoid.qc (same as .blend file)

The QC

$modelname agsma\crinoid\crinoid.mdl
$cdmaterials models\agsma\crinoid

$scale 1

$body studio "crinoid_ref.dmx"

$surfaceprop "plastic"

$sequence idle "crinoid_idle" loop fps 1

$collisionmodel "crinoid_phys.dmx" {
$Mass 10
$concave
}

$bonemerge "bone"
$bonemerge "bone_press"
$bonemerge "neck_base"
$bonemerge "bip_collar_R"
$bonemerge "bip_upperArm_R"
$bonemerge "bip_lowerArm_R"
$bonemerge "bip_hand_R"
$bonemerge "head"

$keyvalues
{
"prop_data"
{
"base" "Type.Size"
}
}

The VMTs

crinoid_lamp
"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "models/agsma/crinoid/crinoid_lamp"
"$bumpmap" "models/agsma/crinoid/crinoid_lamp_normal"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1
"$envmapcontrast" 1
"$model" 1
"$selfillum" 1
}

crinoid_puller
"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "Models/agsma/crinoid/crinoid_puller"
"$bumpmap" "models/agsma/crinoid/crinoid_puller_normal"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1
"$envmapcontrast" 1
"$model" 1
"$selfillum" 1
}

crinoid_skin
"VertexLitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "Models/agsma/crinoid/crinoid_skin"
"$bumpmap" "models/agsma/crinoid/crinoid_normal"
"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1
"$envmapcontrast" 1
"$model" 1
"$selfillum" 1
}

I appreciate all the help.

30 FPS and motion blur are fine settings for rendering, since very few people can notice the difference between that and 60 FPS (I honestly can tell the difference) and it doesn't take longer to render.
24 FPS are okay, but I never liked seeing an SFM film with those settings.