OP, go to the SFM workshop and look up "wheat."
A workshop submission by Rantis will be exactly what you're looking for, a plain old wheat field.
It's a bit intensive on the computer, but it should do just fine.

As for the shack, by working with a little bit of scenebuilding, it should be entirely possible.

Originally posted by DiskOperatingSystem:

Hello everybody! I'm very interested in getting into SFM. I think there is so much potential for storytelling, it's crazy! I'm a stop motion animator who is looking to get into sfm. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to stop the stop motion, heck, I'm doing a film fest in April! So is there a way for me to switch over to sfm and transfer my skills (specifically pose to pose animation). Any tips are welcome! Thanks! :p2chell::health::pleased:

The graph editor is extremely easy to use, and by completely eliminating motion-blur, you can achieve the "stop-motion" look that you'd like.

I've been led to believe that file conflicts simply mean that two files have the same name. In this case, I'd imagine you'd want to click "no to all" so it doesn't replace some textures and break whatever you're trying to get in your SFM.

For a first SFM, I'm very impressed. Welcome to the OSFM community. We're glad to have you here :). Feel free to stop by in the group chat whenever you wish.

I believe what you're referring to is rimlighting and/or bloom. It can be achieved by placing a light behind or around the back of the character to achieve that effect. When combined with a main light, focusing on the target, as well as a filler light to disperse unnecessary shadows, it can look really good.

Look up Three-Point lighting.

Depends on what you mean by "soft glow." The link is broken.

Highly doubtful Valve would turn it down. If anything, extra publicity may entice more people to want the item more, perhaps even increasing its chances of getting in the game because Valve loves its money. :D

Originally posted by Мышки: FruitBangSkoda:

Yeah, that's what I thought it might be.

Thanks very much for clearing that up, Slypear.
So I'd be right in thinking that Wheatley, Space Core, Craig and Rick share the same model, but use different skins for the eyes.

However, I still can't seem to find the skins for these cores, let alone make my own.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Like I said before, it's best for you to personally ask Harry101UK, as he has lots of experience in this field. He's usually always in the OSFM group chatroom. :)

Originally posted by that1dude56:

what the people do for cock-0-dooty is mocap their faces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BT8s1CI7Uc skip to 0:26 and look at what the guy has on his face
youll need those and you will need the power to make those things work with sfm

Those motion sensors are expensive, as well as the equipment required to make it work. Thousands of dollars can go into it, and I doubt Source models are fit to handle them.

While I don't know the answer to this and it's best if you asked a Portal 2 SFMer like Harry101UK, I can tell you an easy difference between a skin and a model:

Skin: A different texture FOR a model.

Model: A mesh that a TEXTURE is applied to.

Example: A demoman is a model. Red and Blu colors for the demoman are skins.