Guide to Battlefield Recorder

[Anaraith]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

What gregori said. I understand making the movie and getting it into the community part. But not the part where you convert to AVI. If anyone has some spare time could you please help me.

Also the part about downloading ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/misc/demo.cmd confuses me. All that comes up is a whole lot of strange text.

Thanks

[Senap]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

What gregori said. I understand making the movie and getting it into the community part. But not the part where you convert to AVI. If anyone has some spare time could you please help me.

I'd scrap the demo.cmd file altogether and move on to BattleLauncher. Working with the demos is a bit complicated but with BattleLauncher you can at least skip the hassle of working with the cryptic demo.cmd file..

Here's my site: http://www.battlelauncher.com. Give it a spin, maybe you'll like it. You can even combine it with Fraps, as a lot of people do. :)

[Syrius187]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

Is there not anyway that you can make that more simple?....

Call me stupid but I didnt get any of what you said on how to make the BF2 Recorder work. Though I really would like to be able to record moment in BF2, I dont get how to make it work.

Can anyone help me with this¿

[gregorio007]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

Is there not anyway that you can make that more simple?....

Call me stupid but I didnt get any of what you said on how to make the BF2 Recorder work. Though I really would like to be able to record moment in BF2, I dont get how to make it work.

Can anyone help me with this¿

i agree what does that actually mean? What are the steps to take to get it to work?

[Senap]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

the steps, fire up a singleplayer game, open console, type

demo.recorddemo <name>

to record a game

(example: demo.recorddemo Senap)


demo.stoprecording

to stop recording. you will now have a bf2demo file with the recorded footage. use the steps on the first post to work with it.

[gregorio007]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

the steps, fire up a singleplayer game, open console, type

demo.recorddemo <name>

to record a game

(example: demo.recorddemo Senap)


demo.stoprecording

to stop recording. you will now have a bf2demo file with the recorded footage. use the steps on the first post to work with it.

now i get it. but where would u find the file with the recording?

[Robske007a]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

Cool, i created a cool movie with me flying :)-

[Senap]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

now i get it. but where would u find the file with the recording?

The file will be saved to <bf2folder>\mods\bf2\Demos. That usually defaults to C:\Program files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Demos.

BattleLauncher will pick up the files automatically from this folder, i.e. they will show up in the filelist automatically.

The file has a bf2demo extension, like Senap.bf2demo for instance.

[darkhand5]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

Would the above tip work for LAN games? Me and my friend want to mess about with stuff, but can't figure out how to record our antics.

[Deez]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

For the life of me i cant get this to work. Im dying to make a movie but i use Windows XP 64-bit. Will this not work on 64bit software? This directions are so simple and im just leaning towards its not supported!
Can anyone tell it that they got this to work with Windows 64bit OS

[Robske007a]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

going to try to make my first vid lol :p

[|AFF|Soupyblister]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

I cant get this to work I can record. I see my 2 files in my demo folder. But I can not get it to play. I type demo.cmd mydemo "name of demo" mydemo -def "name of cam file" . I get a error message every time. The step I didn't do was this one

1.Download ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/misc/demo.cmd and place this in both of these folders.
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2

The reason I skipped this is for one this is for the battlefield demo right? Second when I try to download, there is no file to download, just a long text page. Am suppose to copy and past that in the C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 \mods\bf2 folder? I know its probably something small I am over looking. Just can't see what it is.

[Primordial]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

I'm having problems with this. I keep getting an error message as follows:

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES>demo
- DEMO.CMD usage:
- Author: jonas.kjellstrom@dice.se, andreas.fredriksson@dice.se
-
- Play demo Demos\foo.bf2demo with user camera:
-
- demo foo
-
- Play demo Demos\foo.bf2demo with camera Demos\mycam.bf2cam:
-
- demo foo mycam
-
- Play demo Demos\foo.bf2demo with and record camera
- to Demos\mycam.bf2cam:
-
- demo +c foo mycam
-
- Render demo Demos\foo.bf2demo with camera Demos\mycam.bf2cam
- to Demos\foo_mycam.avi:
-
- demo +r foo mycam
-
- A custom avi-filename can be given as a final argument (saved
- as Demos\myavi.avi):
-
- demo +r foo mycam myavi
-
- Render sound of demo Demos\foo.bf2demo with camera Demos\mycam.bf2cam:
-
- demo +s foo mycam
-
- The format of the window can be changed to E3-wide with +w and to
- a mini-window with +m:
-
- demo +r +w foo mycam
-
- The render fps can be changed with +fps:
-
- demo +r +fps 24 foo mycam
-
- And the default fov can be overridden with +fov:
-
- demo +r +fov 120 foo mycam
-
- To render panoramic (360 degree) output to 10 separate AVIs:
-
- demo +r +p 10 foo mycam
- (where 10 is the number of slices in a 360 rotation)
-
- To render panoramic (360 degree) output to a single AVI:
- (Note: Not many codecs support this format.)
-
- demo +r +p 1 foo mycam
-
- A camera track that extends beyond the length of a demo is possible by
- adding +nosync to the command line.
-
- demo +nosync +c myShortDemo myLongCameraTrack
- demo +nosync myShortDemo myLongCameraTrack
-
- Running a demo in time demo mode (which reports stats to the log-file)
- is done with:
-
- demo +timedemo myDemo myCam
-
- Adding additional render information when running a time demo is done
- with: (0-4, 0 - no info, 4 - all info):
-
- demo +renderstats 3
-
- You can also enable the VTune profiler for a single frame. The engine
- will unpause the profiler around the mainloop for the frame you specify.
-
- demo +timedemo +vtune {frame number} myDemo myCam
-
- To VTune only the renderer, add +vrend 1.
- To render the profiled frames mutliple times, add +vrepeat {count}.
-
Done!
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES>cd battlefield 2 demo

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 demo>demo.cmd +c demo6
ERROR: mods\bf2\Demos\demo6.bf2demo does not exist
Done!


can anyone help on this??
great explanation though

[JoeBSash]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

kinda on the subject, when i download a battlerecorder match i seem to download the previous game or map to which i wanted to download.. is this the case with battlerecorder? i mean, if i have a good match, wanna watch back to see where i went wrong on some bits or whatever, will i have to play atleast one more game?

[jasondavidking1]

Re: Guide to Battlefield Recorder

i still dont get it can some tell me how to do it...so how do i start to record ingame? press what button??? do i need to download anything??? this guide doesnt help much as it doesnt specify anything like for example ... "Q – opens the Playback Rose" is this in game cus my q opens the coms options ... i dont get it do i have to download a recorder?