You'll notice that it takes a good while for SFM to update with newer TF2 content. This can be annoying if you want to use, say, a new map, or new cosmetic items, in your movies and posters. Luckily, it's fairly easy to update the content yourself with a little poking.

As you can imagine, this will have some effect on your TF2 content in SFM. Here's quick summary of known effects:

• Will update your TF2 content to have all the newest stuff. Obviously.
  
• May break the particle effect on Demoman grenades in Game Mode. If you want to avoid this, don't update the particles folder. (Though this will mean you don't get any new unusual effects. Decisions, decisions...)
  
• Will fix the weird visual artifacts on MvM maps. Yay!

You'll need the following to do this:

• Source Filmmaker. Obviously.
  
• Team Fortress 2. It's free nowadays, ya know.
  
• GCFScape[gamebanana.com].

Got all that up and ready? Good! Let's go.

Go to your Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf folder and scroll down. You'll find a bunch of .vpk files. Concern yourself with these ones:

• tf2_misc_dir.vpk
  
• tf2_textures_dir.vpk
  
• tf2_sound_misc_dir.vpk
  
• tf2_sound_vo_english_dir.vpk

Open them up in GCFScape, and you'll see a list of files and folders that looks similar to a TF2 install.

Highlight the following folders AND NOTHING ELSE in the GCFScape windows, and extract them to Steam\steamapps\common\SourceFilmmaker\game\tf:

• maps
  
• models
  
• materials
  
• particles
  
• sound

Simple, huh?