Post yer screenshots here!
Anyone who's played with any kind of Demo recorder, mainly in the Unreal Engine games like America's Army, UT series, Ravenshield, Splinter Cell, etc, know about Demos and how fun they can be. Not all of them have any instructions or even mention of demo recording but you can still access the unremoved console commands to record and play demos.
Demos allow you to record (sadly only for LAN games in BF2) all player's movements and actions and re-render them at any speed, angle, perspective, etc afterwards. Sound shittishly boring? Is shittishly even a word? I don't know, but it's not boring. Awfully fun, you can spend hours on this without realizing it.
For BF2;
Create a LAN server on any map, preferably a nice big one.
Before you do anything that you wanna capture, press your tilde (~ becuase people still don't know what it is) and bring down the console. You can also press End or somethig but that's untraditional so stick to the squiggly wiggly line.
Type in
Where [demoname] is the name of the file. Name it whatever. "Demo1", "Gulf_Demo", or "Stewed_Rabbit". Whatever, it's your choice. No spaces though.
Now for the fun part. Do all those things you're too arsed to do in a real match. Blow shit up, kill yourself, bunny hop with your n00b t00b (although this gets tremendously boring).
When you're done, open your squiggly console again and type in
(PunBB's code boxes are so big >.<)
Note: Unlike the Unreal Engine demos, leaving a game in progress with a demo recording session will not save the demo, but instead leave the demo unplayable. Stop Recording first, before leaving the match.
Since these are console based recordings, you can't access them through the Community tab.
There are two ways to play your demo;
If you want to play them through your Community tab you have to move the demo files from
..\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Demos\
to
..\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\Default\demos\
and then you can play them in game.
It's a bit of a hassle to play them outside becuase you have to restart BF2 each time you play a different demo, but you needn't move any files.
First you have to make two batch files. I'd put the text here but it'll make this seem long and confusing (like it isn't already) so I'll put it up for download.
Download Here (3k). (Kudos for TweakGuides.com for these files)
Extract them to your raw BF2 directory and run either one, follow instructions (because I'm getting tired and wanna play some SF right now) and play your demos.
Argh I'm longing for some BF2 now lol, so I'll leave you to discover the Q button and T button and all your little hotkeys while playing the demo, have fun.
I'm too lazy to write captions for all my fun screenies, so here they are:
If you've been readnig then these should've loaded by now, if not shame on you. Shame. On. You.
Btw, if you see only cropped versions stop using crappy Internet Explorer and get Opera. Or Firefox, but preferably Opera because it's better
Anyone who's played with any kind of Demo recorder, mainly in the Unreal Engine games like America's Army, UT series, Ravenshield, Splinter Cell, etc, know about Demos and how fun they can be. Not all of them have any instructions or even mention of demo recording but you can still access the unremoved console commands to record and play demos.
Demos allow you to record (sadly only for LAN games in BF2) all player's movements and actions and re-render them at any speed, angle, perspective, etc afterwards. Sound shittishly boring? Is shittishly even a word? I don't know, but it's not boring. Awfully fun, you can spend hours on this without realizing it.
For BF2;
Create a LAN server on any map, preferably a nice big one.
Before you do anything that you wanna capture, press your tilde (~ becuase people still don't know what it is) and bring down the console. You can also press End or somethig but that's untraditional so stick to the squiggly wiggly line.
Type in
Code:
demo.recordDemo [demoname]
Now for the fun part. Do all those things you're too arsed to do in a real match. Blow shit up, kill yourself, bunny hop with your n00b t00b (although this gets tremendously boring).
When you're done, open your squiggly console again and type in
Code:
demo.stoprecording
Note: Unlike the Unreal Engine demos, leaving a game in progress with a demo recording session will not save the demo, but instead leave the demo unplayable. Stop Recording first, before leaving the match.
Since these are console based recordings, you can't access them through the Community tab.
There are two ways to play your demo;
If you want to play them through your Community tab you have to move the demo files from
..\EA Games\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Demos\
to
..\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\Default\demos\
and then you can play them in game.
It's a bit of a hassle to play them outside becuase you have to restart BF2 each time you play a different demo, but you needn't move any files.
First you have to make two batch files. I'd put the text here but it'll make this seem long and confusing (like it isn't already) so I'll put it up for download.
Download Here (3k). (Kudos for TweakGuides.com for these files)
Extract them to your raw BF2 directory and run either one, follow instructions (because I'm getting tired and wanna play some SF right now) and play your demos.
Argh I'm longing for some BF2 now lol, so I'll leave you to discover the Q button and T button and all your little hotkeys while playing the demo, have fun.
I'm too lazy to write captions for all my fun screenies, so here they are:
If you've been readnig then these should've loaded by now, if not shame on you. Shame. On. You.
Btw, if you see only cropped versions stop using crappy Internet Explorer and get Opera. Or Firefox, but preferably Opera because it's better
Last edited by Coolbeano (2005-12-06 05:49:40)