Need help with BATTLERECORDER

[[FM]Master_Chief]

I have a bf2demo file. How can I record footage from that file into some king of movie file?

[WarGimp]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

Hey.. it's kinda a lengthy deal.
Lemme look for some links.
Be back with some info.

[[FM]Master_Chief]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

thanks a bunch

[« R²» HKS]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

You can use fraps (the easiest) but your machine may bog down. Or you can use Battle Launcher so you can have max detail, higher than you may be able to play the game in but its very time consuming to render it.

Then once you have it in avi format you can edit it with various editing packages like Windows Movie Maker (the easiest), Vegas 6, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 (the hardest) etc

[[FM]Master_Chief]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

thank you

[WarGimp]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

Well, I just lost a lenghty post due to a log out.
Grr.

Anyway, I'll reconstruct in smaller bite sized pieces.

Make sure you grab BattleLauncer: http://r2clan.com/modules.php?name=D...#searchresults

Here's the list of renderer commands:

renderer.drawHud [0,1] - Turns the Heads Up Display (HUD) on or off.
renderer.drawConsole [0,1] - Turns off access to the in-game console if set to 0.
renderer.drawFps [0,1] - Displays the current frames per second (FPS) and the time in milliseconds between frames.

[source: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_8.html ]



Pay attention to renderer.drawHud 0

It's your friend.


Like HKS said, use FRAPS or other vid capture application to output your vids. It's a fricken pain to do from within BR.

Here's the link I was looking for.
Not a bad walkthrough: http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=934

[« R²» HKS]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

I think we have an older version of Battle Launcher in our download section (makes personal note to update it)

http://www.battlelauncher.com/ that's their website.

Like I said though using Battle Launcher offers the best possible quality along with frame rates though its very time consuming to use and the rendering process can take forever. So way that decision up between using BL and Fraps to capture the footage.

[[FM]Master_Chief]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

Thanks for comments guys.

Is there a way to get rid of name tags? renderer.drawHud [0,1] only turns off HUD right? I would really like to be able to get rid of name tags.

[« R²» HKS]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

Use BL to get rid of the name tags, it edits the Gamelogicinit.con file I think there is a way to do this manually without using BL but not sure what the setting is, maybe ask in the media section.

[Blades]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

Go post this in the Media section. You will get a TON of help over there.

[[FM]Master_Chief]

Re: Need help with BATTLERECORDER

OK, thanks.

Here's the link if anybody wants to follow:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76798