Well, if you want a better way of rendering posters:

1. Right click on SFM in your steam library, go to properties, and in start-up options, type:
-sfm_resolution 1080 (or any resolution you wish to render at higher than 720p.

2.Restrict the rendered timeline to only the few frames you wish to be rendered. It has to be more than one otherwise you'll receive nothing.

*Raise DoF and Motion Blur samples to higher values if you'd like. It improves both AO and the aforementioned options.

3. Render it out as an image sequence. Depending on the resolution and number of assets in the shot, it may take longer.

That's the basic gist of getting a higher quality result.

>After I render a video...

Well, there's your problem. The highest quality result will usually come from a rendered image sequence. After that, open up a common video editing program and if you load up the first frame, it should splice together the rest of them, forming your video.

If you exported it with a separate .mp3 sound file, apply that to the spliced video in post.

Now's the time to officially "render."

Youtube's in love with the .h264 codec and .mp4 format, but there are other options you can choose from.

If you want to see what a final product would usually look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO_MbBNLTxQ

Good luck to ye.

Have you made sure that your workshop/usermod folder is mounted in your gameinfo.txt? A single misplaced quotation mark can ruin a lot of things.

This could also mean a bug with Steam.

^ That was cute :D

zoom in or out with the mouse wheel, I believe.

Back on the serious sides of things, to answer your questions:

1. Viewership is based on the demographic you're trying to reach. There's a reason why so many poorly-made Five Nights at Freddy's SFMs have millions of views despite being completely shite:

It has a large, young following.

Jumping on bandwagon is a completely viable option, but not the best. You may attract a fanbase so toxic, unforgiving, and immature to the point of no return.

2. Collaborations with other SFMers will surely boost your viewership, especially if they're well known. Videos by bigger names will bring in more views (EOTL, anyone? That was endorsed by Valve itself.)

3. The quality plays a significant role in maintaining popularity afterwards, as it will keep viewers coming back. I mean more than the animation quality, of course. Original ideas that test out new things will most likely attract more peeps.

After all, bandwagon can only work for so long, right?

4. Endorsements may as well fall under collaborations, but by making videos of audio clips originally made by famous youtubers is a great way to get noticed. Modestcube made a video not too long ago for ImmortalHD, to which he uploaded on the channel and received hundreds of thousands of views.

TL;DR - Work with youtubers.

5. Get your work out there. Spread links to your friends, and have them share it with their friends. Etc, etc.

Hope I could help in some way. Good luck c:

If you really wanna be popular:

♦Slypear [4 SFM Hire]: Vox
♦Slypear [4 SFM Hire]: Vox
♦Slypear [4 SFM Hire]: I have your best answer
♦Slypear [4 SFM Hire]: To jump on whatever bandwagon there is, make animation out to be an incredibly complex thing when in reality your style relies on nothing more but basic movement, and lash out at anyone who says otherwise.
♦Slypear [4 SFM Hire]: You'll quickly form a cult following discriminatory against anyone who does not follow your ways, and they will be vicious

A random person with no known history or affiliation straggles into OSFM to request for free handouts. This thread won't go anywhere, and dear OP, don't expect to find a quality SFMer to work for FREE of all things.

Offer payment, then perhaps this situation would sound more appealing to others.

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You're possibly missing a collection of props, materials, and models from your SFM directory. You'll have to port CS:GO to SFM manually to get it all to work. However, maps (by default) when ported into SFM rarely work, so rely on decompiled maps when you can.

Since that map works perfectly fine and all you're missing is a few props and textures, a quick port of CSGO should do the trick.