Getting the Most From The Battle Recorder

You can use the Battlefield Demo Recorder in Single Player mode and it works much like it does downloading from multi-player servers. The exception is the file is stored on your system, but not in it's normal location. You'll have to manually move it to the normal location to view. It's in your PROGRAM FILES==>EA GAMES==>BATTLEFIELD 2==>MODS/BF2/DEMOS.

Move the file to My Documents==> Battlefield 2==>Profiles==>Default*==>demos

* or whatever profile you use.

In the game console, type demo.recorddemo insert your filename here

And to stop, demo.stoprecording

This also works if you create a local server and load any map or size. Of course you'll be playing with yourself.

EA did a decent job with the bots this time around. They lay mines, C4, sneak up from behind and nail you with the paddles!

Some useful keys:

1 = Pause playback
2 = Playback at normal speed
3 = Playback at 5% speed

4 = Playback at 25% speed
5 = Playback at 50% speed

6 = Playback at normal speed

7 = Playback at 150% speed
8 = Playback at 300% speed

The SPACE bar toggles between players.
Q Opens the playback rose.
Mouse wheel zooms
Right Mouse Button toggles between freecam and player
W=forward, A=left, S=back, and D=right.

The best way to make any captures on the recorder playback is through the use of Fraps. Forget screwing around with anything else, unless of course you have 12 hours to screw around with a 20 meg recorder file. Even then, nothing is guaranteed.

Quality Captures With Battlelauncher

I have found that using the utility Battlelauncher provides you with the easiest and most professional way to make movies using your demo files.

Features as listed on the website:

Launch bf2demo/demo files and do additional things with them like recording camera tracks, rendering the demo to video and capturing sound off it.

Change any Battlefield 2 profile's video settings.

Launch Battlefield 2 in a variety of ways. You can launch it in window mode, with special resolutions and even set FPS and the field of view when working with demos.

It uses the newly discovered method to remove nametags by using the GameLogicInit.con file. It makes a backup of the file upon install so you and the program can alter the file without problems and then restore the backup either manually or automatically. Using this method it can also remove HUD (kill messages) when rendering demos to video.

Choose which profile you want to launch Battlefield 2 with.

BattleLauncher uses XML files for translations, it can easily be converted to your native language with basic XML knowledge. Its interface is in English by default.

Capture sound off your demos with BattleLauncher. It will record sound while it detects that Battlefield 2 is running.

There is mod support, so you can launch demos using any functional Battlefield 2 modification including the expansion pack Special Forces.

Add Us To Your Favorites!

Copyright © 2002-2006 TWEAK.US All rights reserved.
All trademarks and logos are © of their respective owners. Any duplication of this site, its contents, and the graphics contained within is strictly prohibited.

The information provided on this site is for reference only. Use it at your own risk.

Icons throughout this site are used with permission from:

Navigation

MySQL: 0.0000 s, 0 request(s), PHP: 0.0155 s, total: 0.0155 s, document retrie sved from cache.