Guide to Battlefield Recorder

[DirtySock888]

After fighting with the Recorder for a few days, i finally managed to figure it out with the help of these and other forums. The Guide EA Games gave us is a piece of garbage. Its confusing to say the least. So i thought i would post my own guide. I'll make it as simple as possible. And on a side note: A demo or a demo file is another name for a BF2 Recorder file.

First of all you must know all off the keys necessary to use this Recorder.


Q – opens the Playback Rose. Move the mouse to highlight the desired playback option and press the Left Mouse Button to select. Options available here that are not bound to separate keys include "Restart" and "Quit".
T – opens the Camera Rose. Choose the camera option or cycle through the available players.
1 – Pause the playback (also available in the Playback Rose).
2 – Playback recorded session at normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
3 – Playback recorded session at 5% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
4 – Playback recorded session at 25% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
5 – Playback recorded session at 50% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
6 – Playback recorded session at normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
7 – Playback recorded session at 150% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
8 – Playback recorded session at 300% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
Spacebar – cycle between players.
Right Mouse Button – cycle between free camera and player camera.
Mouse wheel – zoom camera in and out when locked onto a player.
W, A, S, D, Ctrl and Shift – move free camera around map, forward, left, backwards, right, down and up.
Mouse look – aim free camera.

This step allows you to record your camera movements in the game.

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

2.Create a demos folder in the following location.
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2

3.Place all the demos that you wish to render into this folder. Your demos can be found in the following location.
C:\Documents and Settings\"yourname"\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
(I recommend rendering one demo file at a time so that its less confusing)

4. Open your command prompt. (This can be done by pressing start, run, and typing cmd. You may also be able to find your command prompt in your windows accessories folder.)

5.In your command prompt, type the directory to your BF2 Demo.
Example: cd c:\program files\EA Games\Battlefield 2 Demo

6.Now a line of text should appear that states yoru BF2 Directory.
Example: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo>
Type in the following command: demo.cmd +c "name of demo"
Example: demo.cmd +c demo8

Your game will start up and you should also recieve a message in your command prompt that states: Playing back demo and recording camera...
After you get past your game loading screen, you will enter a loading game screen. Once the game is done loading, click join game. You are now in your video. Any movements of the camera that you make now are being recorded.
It is STRONGLY recommended that you continure recording until the video ends. My video froze at the end and i pressed control+alt+delete and closed Battlefield out and my video works fine. Just be carefull on this step.

Playing back your video with the pre-recorded camera movements

1.In your C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\demos folder you will now find a BF2CAM file. This file is your video with the pre-recorded camera movements.

2.Now go back to your Command Prompt and type in the following:
demo.cmd "name of demo" "name of cam file" -def
Example: demo.cmd demo8 mydemocam -def

Your game will once again start up and bring you to a game loading screen. Click join game and you will begin watching your pre-recorded camera movements. Your command prompt should also read: Playing back demo with recorded camera...
I do not know how necessary this step is however it is helpfull in finding out how your camera movements look once they are all put together.

Converting to AVI

1. In your command prompt type the following command:
demo.cmd +r "name of demo" "name of cam file"
Example: demo.cmd +r demo8 mydemocam

Your game will once again open. Just do as you did in the previous steps. Your command prompt will also read: Rending AVI...

2.Once the game loading bar is complete press ALT+TAB to minimize the game. A small box will have appeared. This is your choice of encoders. It is recommended that you use the DivX encoder. Click your choice, than press ok.

3.Open the game window back up (it should be minimized at the bottom of your screen) and click join game.
NOTE: You MUST leave the game and the video running on your screen until the video is over. If you minimize your game and try to bring your window back up during this encoding process, your game will close out and your AVI file will be corrupt.

4.If you choose to stop rendering before the end of the demo, press R.

Adding Sound

Your AVI file will not have sound in it. This step will help you to create a sound file to add to your video.

1.Type in the following command in your command prompt
demo.cmd +s "name of demo file" "name of cam file"
Example: demo.cmd +s demo8 mydemocam

Your game will once again load. Just do as you did in the previous steps. However, once you click join game, no video will play. You will begin to hear sound from your video.

*I have yet to complete this step. What I have considered doing is recorind the sound with fraps, than using fraps to create sound file. I may then be able to combine the sound and the AVI file in a video editting program such as Video Edit Magic.

I hope this guide helps everyone. I tried to make it as simple as possible.

[Sir. Elxx]

Thanks for the guide. I'm going to try doing all the rendering to AVI, etc. now.

[Habloc]

Cool, thx!

[rebb]

Sticky Please.
Best would be a Sticky with a Collection of such Tutorials.

[reaver]

This just seems way too complicated and not worth the time. Hopefully someone can code a program later on that converts your demos into .avi. And EA said this would make recording videos simpler. :rolleyes:

[PhoenixDog]

where can i DL the server stuff?

[SaladFork]

A subforum for tutorials like this would be really cool. Give newbies a place to look when they need help with something, =)

Thanks a ton for this guide, I've been having lots of trouble with BFRecorder, and this helped a TON.

~Salad

[Uziyahu]

Yeah, I expected some kind of DVD-player type interface with BFRecorder, but overall this is the best thing since replays in Rogue Spear and IL-2. People will be able to get all of the shots they want and then encode them to whatever video format they prefer, including formats not yet created!

[littlejay]

tutorials will become plenty when the mod tools are out. trust me.
also gj on the demo tut ;)

[Bathazar]

Is it possible to DL battlerecorded matches from servers without actually playing in them?

[Battlefresh]

Actually this is quite simple if you really read it. It's a shame there is no easy way to have sound though.

My question is this: Can you change the location of where the file is written? I'm running short on room on my C drive.

[FrodoFraggins]

unstickied the old one, stickied this one.

Well written guide! =D

[Sir. Elxx]

Actually this is quite simple if you really read it. It's a shame there is no easy way to have sound though.

My question is this: Can you change the location of where the file is written? I'm running short on room on my C drive.

Just a theory, but line 178 of demo.cmd says this:

set _AVIFILE=%_DEMOROOT%\Demos\%_AVIBASE%_%_WIDTH%x%_H EIGHT%_fov%_FOVX%_fps%_RENDERFPS%.avi

I haven't tried it, but you sould possibly change that to be something like:

set _AVIFILE=Z:\BF2Demos\%_AVIBASE%_%_WIDTH%x%_HEIGHT% _fov%_FOVX%_fps%_RENDERFPS%.avi

If anyone tries this, tell me if it works. Could be a cool little hack.

[Pauly]

How do I start recording??? The post is just showing me the keys to playback the file and how to export to AVI. Well, how do I get it to start recording. Q and T are radio chats.

[DirtySock888]

This step allows you to record your camera movements in the game.

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

2.Create a demos folder in the following location.
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2

3.Place all the demos that you wish to render into this folder. Your demos can be found in the following location.
C:\Documents and Settings\"yourname"\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
(I recommend rendering one demo file at a time so that its less confusing)

4. Open your command prompt. (This can be done by pressing start, run, and typing cmd. You may also be able to find your command prompt in your windows accessories folder.)

5.In your command prompt, type the directory to your BF2 Demo.
Example: cd c:\program files\EA Games\Battlefield 2 Demo

6.Now a line of text should appear that states yoru BF2 Directory.
Example: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo>
Type in the following command: demo.cmd +c "name of demo"
Example: demo.cmd +c demo8

Your game will start up and you should also recieve a message in your command prompt that states: Playing back demo and recording camera...
After you get past your game loading screen, you will enter a loading game screen. Once the game is done loading, click join game. You are now in your video. Any movements of the camera that you make now are being recorded.
It is STRONGLY recommended that you continure recording until the video ends. My video froze at the end and i pressed control+alt+delete and closed Battlefield out and my video works fine. Just be carefull on this step.

Thats how to record. Once the video starts, it will automatically be recording your camera movements. Now if what you mean is "how do you get battlefield recorder video files", you can download these from servers that are running the battlefield recorder. To find these servers, click Battlefield Recorder in your Multiplayer filter.

[Ralfie_s]

Im having a problem..converting to AVI..It loads the game..and it just sits at Verifying data....I minimize to see if I that thing comes up to choose an encoder..and nothing...so uh..what the

[SaladFork]

Hm.. quick question.

I wanted to stage a certain battle. I started up a LAN game, and got my brother to join. I made sure to enable (auto) BattleRecorder in the server launcher. My brother and I did the fight, and we both left the game. In the dedicated server console I typed "exit" and quit out.

However, no demo was created.

Basically, how do you get the demo file to be created in the first place?

~Salad

[Raorior]

To make your own recording:

1. Create the following directories:
* <installdir>:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\demos
* <systemdir>:\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
2. In BF2 type:
* <apostrophe>demo.recorddemo 1<enter>
3. It should say "recording demo...", if so, hit <apostrophe> to close cmd mode
4. Do yo thang!
5. To stop recording, type:
* <apostrophe>demo.stopRecording<enter>
6. Disconnect and Quit game
7. Copy the <whatever>.bf2demo file from: <installdir>\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\demos to
<systemdir>\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
8. Restart the game and go to Community.

This process seems buggy. The game died on me 3 times when typing in the demo.<whatever> cmds. Also, it seems once you type "demo.recorddemo 1" it toggles the flag indefinitely. It will error out the next time you type it...even if you have quit previously...hmm. So when you go back in you have to play around with the command to get it to record again.

[DevilDog]

The problem I have when recording a round
on my dedicated server is that the demo file
is 0 bytes. I kno whwen I click the autorecord
in the serverlauncher I get a ! right before it.
But when the round begins it says 'recording'.

need help!

[flogger]

I’m having trouble getting the Recorder to work on our clans BF2 demo server. Its Windows 2003. I’m using firedaemon to launch as a service and have it configured to Auto record and FTP to our clans website.

Heres my config files….

rotate_demo.cfg

# set the number of demo files to keep in rotation
file_limit = 30

# for local web server; edit this path and make it match the one in serversettings.con
target_root = /

# set to 1 to enable ftp uploading
use_ftp = 1

# set to the target directory on the ftp server
ftp_target_dir = /

# login information for the ftp server goes here
ftp_server = ftp:\\####.com
ftp_user = bf2demos@####.com
ftp_password = #####


serversettings.con

sv.autoRecord 1
sv.demoIndexURL "http://####.com/bf2demos/"
sv.demoDownloadURL "http://####.com/bf2demos/"
sv.autoDemoHook "adminutils/demo/rotate_demo.exe"
sv.demoQuality 1


I have checked the ftp settings and permissions with WSFTP

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Flogger

EDIT Got it working. Installing the BF2CC, I must have removed the demo folder found in the adminutils.

[Landis]

when i type in the command to start recording i get the error
cant record demo as a client
que pasa?

[X-ander]

I don´t see it clear.

How do you make those demo archives??

I mean, in this thread they are telling us how to:

record a demo??

And how do you make THE DEMO ??

[wild egg tamer]

jeez, i thought this game recorder was gonna make life easier..........my head hurts just reading all that stuff !

Didn't they say initially that you would be able to play the file using the ingame previewer then convert it to an avi file from the game using an editing type suite built into the game ?

:confused:

[Raorior]

To make your own recording:

1. Create the following directories:
* <installdir>:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\demos
* <systemdir>:\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
2. In BF2 type:
* <apostrophe>demo.recorddemo 1<enter>
3. It should say "recording demo...", if so, hit <apostrophe> to close cmd mode
4. Do yo thang!
5. To stop recording, type:
* <apostrophe>demo.stopRecording<enter>
6. Disconnect and Quit game
7. Copy the <whatever>.bf2demo file from: <installdir>\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\demos to
<systemdir>\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
8. Restart the game and go to Community.

This process seems buggy. The game died on me 3 times when typing in the demo.<whatever> cmds. Also, it seems once you type "demo.recorddemo 1" it toggles the flag indefinitely. It will error out the next time you type it...even if you have quit previously...hmm. So when you go back in you have to play around with the command to get it to record again.

Oh! Duh...the command is demo.recordDemo <filename>. I thought the 1 and 0 parameters were boolean...they are not! I have used this in Singleplayer and when I "Create Local" server. I don't know if it works when you join someone else's server.

[Landis]

eh, now it says the mininmun number of arguments is 1 :confused:

[Ralfie_s]

eh, now it says the mininmun number of arguments is 1 :confused:

Because it's trying to argue with itself, but you keep interfereing!..Badoom PISH

[Elohim]

Are anyone elses demos playing back/exporting to AVI at 800x600 resolution? Any idea how to change this?

[Justified]

I’m having trouble getting the Recorder to work on our clans BF2 demo server. Its Windows 2003. I’m using firedaemon to launch as a service and have it configured to Auto record and FTP to our clans website.

Heres my config files….

rotate_demo.cfg

# set the number of demo files to keep in rotation
file_limit = 30

# for local web server; edit this path and make it match the one in serversettings.con
target_root = /

# set to 1 to enable ftp uploading
use_ftp = 1

# set to the target directory on the ftp server
ftp_target_dir = /

# login information for the ftp server goes here
ftp_server = ftp:\\####.com
ftp_user = bf2demos@####.com
ftp_password = #####


serversettings.con

sv.autoRecord 1
sv.demoIndexURL "http://####.com/bf2demos/"
sv.demoDownloadURL "http://####.com/bf2demos/"
sv.autoDemoHook "adminutils/demo/rotate_demo.exe"
sv.demoQuality 1


I have checked the ftp settings and permissions with WSFTP

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Flogger

We have the same problem. I'm trying all I can think of to get the ftp to work right. Could someone who has this working please post how they got the ftp option to work? Also, I assume error logging was turned off in the demo because it says look in some error file but that file doesn't exist. I've looked all over. If someone could please provide some insight on if they got the ftp recording option working on their server.

~wOw~Justified

[Deetox]

This step allows you to record your camera movements in the game.

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

2.Create a demos folder in the following location.
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2

3.Place all the demos that you wish to render into this folder. Your demos can be found in the following location.
C:\Documents and Settings\"yourname"\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
(I recommend rendering one demo file at a time so that its less confusing)

4. Open your command prompt. (This can be done by pressing start, run, and typing cmd. You may also be able to find your command prompt in your windows accessories folder.)

5.In your command prompt, type the directory to your BF2 Demo.
Example: cd c:\program files\EA Games\Battlefield 2 Demo

6.Now a line of text should appear that states yoru BF2 Directory.
Example: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo>
Type in the following command: demo.cmd +c "name of demo"
Example: demo.cmd +c demo8

Your game will start up and you should also recieve a message in your command prompt that states: Playing back demo and recording camera...
After you get past your game loading screen, you will enter a loading game screen. Once the game is done loading, click join game. You are now in your video. Any movements of the camera that you make now are being recorded.
It is STRONGLY recommended that you continure recording until the video ends. My video froze at the end and i pressed control+alt+delete and closed Battlefield out and my video works fine. Just be carefull on this step.


I'm having a problem with this step of the guide, after i type demo.cmd +c demo1 the game starts up and starts loading but after a few seconds i am thrown back into windows. After that my cmd prompt window says Done! and it does create the bf2cam file but the filesize is 0 kb. Now obviously its 0 kb because it never got the chance to record any camera movements. I've tried this 4 times with 2 different demo files that are confirmed to work for other people but it keeps doing the same thing, anyone know why?

Is recording these camera movements necessary to playback a demo file? i am assuming yes because i also get thrown back into windows when i try to play them from the community section in the game.

EDIT: I have successfully recorded a demo of my own using Raorior's method, it generated a bf2cam file as well but when i tried to load the demo in community it starts loading and again boots me to windows. So obviously my comp simply just doesn't like these files since the same thing keeps happening with either method, i'm stumped. :(

[RogueJedi]

Has anyone figured out how to make it so that the kill log (like RogueJedi [M1A2] Blah) doesnt show up on the exported AVI ?

[Raorior]

Deetox:
Do you have any mods applied? I applied the "31 bot, singleplayer" crack and even though it worked wonderfully for that task, trying anything else in the game would crash it to desktop. I had to reinstall the demo yesterday because I couldn't join internet games (even after I reversed the mod). Post your demo file and I will try to play it.

[Deetox]

No need to, you hit the nail on the head. I reinstalled my game with no mods and the demos work fine now. Thanks a lot, this is a very cool feature. :D

[Bird Killer]

Sorry for my newbiness but how the hell do you make a .cmd format file? I'm imagining a new notepad with the codes listed and changed to: demo.cmd. But I know it can't be that easy.

[Elohim]

Any idea how to change the resolution the demo renders at? It's been rendering in 800x600 when I actually play at 1152x864.

[Zareh]

Couple of quick questions:

The choice of codecs that I'm presented, are these codecs built into bf2, or does it use the codecs that are installed on my system?

Did anyone change or configure any of the drivers to tweak them for better picture/sound quality?

Thanks in advance.

[Elohim]

Couple of quick questions:

The choice of codecs that I'm presented, are these codecs built into bf2, or does it use the codecs that are installed on my system?

Did anyone change or configure any of the drivers to tweak them for better picture/sound quality?

Thanks in advance.

The codecs are ones installed on your system.

[Brad>FLY<King]

Hi everyone,

been screwing around with the recorder a bit..

after copying the demo.cmd (ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/misc/demo.cmd) to my directories as stated in the original post I also put it in the directory with my BF2 demo standalone server map.

When being host in single player/create server (local tho, haven't tried online yet) I can just use the console (~ key for me) and type:

demo.recorddemo <demo name to be created> [<-- this starts recording a demo]
demo.stoprecording [<-- this stops it from recording]

I disconnect and copy the files to the my documents folder (for some reason you have to put them in the default profile, other profiles won't work.. does anyone remember seeing anything about that?)

now I go to community in game (just using alt tab ofcourse) and I run the demo (tho I usually also change profile to defaultplayer).


Q1: Can you also record the BF2CAM file from the console? I know it's possible when starting from the command line, but I'd really like to start and end it from inside the game...


Now, I'm also running a dedicated server.. with auto record on... Like others have said before this just creates empty files named for time of day and stuff like that.
You get a DOS window when running a dedicated server. When seeing the server using auto record, I can just type in

demo.stoprecording [<-- the recording stops]
demo.recorddemo <some file name I like> [<-- starts recording]

and when the round is over the recording is stopped automatically :) and it's working great... however :) I would like the dedicated server auto record correctly...


Q2: does anyone know what I should do to get this to work correctly?


So far this thread has been a great help, thanx for all involved people :)
Brad

[Landis]

wuts the console command to start recording?

[imported_Fusion]

wuts the console command to start recording?

How about you read about 6 lines up? Jesus christ, why are people so lazy? I hate to be harsh, but cmon.

[Brad>FLY<King]

agreed.. the questions remain tho (see two posts up)

Also have some extra questions:

I made a demo and with that I made a cam version
Now while doing this I used the variable speed settings a lot, to capture some nice actions ...
But then when I was rendering the file (and also when testing the cam file) the file was running at normal speed, inc the cam... so some bits had the cam going ballistic due to low speed cam setup.. I had to use the speed settings during the rendering aswell to get it to run smoothly (so I did find out the game speed can be changed even during rendering)..

Q: Anyone find a way to make the cam file render viable including speed (and sound pref ofcourse, that would be great ... render sound and video at the same)

Q: Also sound rendering doesn't seem to work for me.. any thoughts?

thnx in advance, Brad

[Zareh]

So how does everyone move their cameras around, when I pause the playback and move the camera to another position, on the playback you can see the camera move from point A to point B in ~.5 seconds or so. When watching the movies created by the other players it seems the camera changes are quick and clean.

Are people just editing out the camera movements in their movies?

[littlejay]

i think so. that i know of bf recorder will not save as a movie file so most the vids are made with fraps. they record what shots they want then set up the next part.

[Brad>FLY<King]

Nope like I said in my previous post this is what you can do:

When making a CAM file from a DEMO file you can use the speed buttons (see first post) and mouse + keyboard to move around and make a nice sequence.

When encoding the DEMO + CAM files to an AVI file you can try and recreate the speed settings manually (loads of work taking up a lot of time I know) and you'll get a pretty sweet looking video.

Sadly you miss sound this way. Even if I could encode the sound it would lack the speed settings and be totally out of sync with my video. I was hoping to maybe do a demo.cmd +rs <name demo> <name cam> but haven't tried it yet..

A prog like FRAPS will produce a video easily, just a button away from sound and video ... however you'll be stuck in your own player, with just the available camera positions.. I like fraps but the possibilities with the BF recorder seem to be pretty amazing...

[Mantis]

It's really to bad DICE made this overly complecated. They really lead us to believe it would be easy. While I have got it to record demos and I'm sure I'll get it to record cam movements but you can see this feature was not thought out at all. At least from a movie making standpoint. Sure it's good for analising game footage but for making movies it sucks.

Missing features.

-Ability to rewind!!!
-Ability to start and stop recording camera movements while watching file. When its stops recording a little popup comes up. "do you want to export this camera movement?" etc...
-Change the speed of the camera while in free cam mode or while locked on for that matter. Right now it's too slow while locked on and too fast when in free cam.
-A GUI interface
-Proper instructions
-Ability to clip sections of the demo
-I could go on and on

I'm not pissed at DICE for messing this up since they are game makers and not video/movie makers. But they did lead us on saying it would be so easy to use this feature. I hope a modder can come up with a external program with a movie makers mindset where we can really have control of the demo file.

[Elohim]

I apologize, but I can't seem to get an answer on this one:

What resolution does it render in for you guys? I do the whole demo +r blah blahcam and get the return line:

- Executing bf2.exe +wx 0 +szx 800 +szy 600 +demo demo.tmp

Now, I'm pretty sure the szy/x line is the resolution, I'm just curious if you guys are getting the same thing and if there is a way to change it.

[Fluffyjesus]

I apologize, but I can't seem to get an answer on this one:

What resolution does it render in for you guys? I do the whole demo +r blah blahcam and get the return line:

- Executing bf2.exe +wx 0 +szx 800 +szy 600 +demo demo.tmp

Now, I'm pretty sure the szy/x line is the resolution, I'm just curious if you guys are getting the same thing and if there is a way to change it.

I tried changing the res in the cmd file, but it just crashed so as it seems now, you either have to stick with 800x600 or find a way to render the two other options.


:size_default:
set _WIDTH=800
set _HEIGHT=600
set _FOVX=90
goto parse1


:size_wide:
set _WIDTH=1620
set _HEIGHT=405
set _FOVX=160
goto parse1


:size_mini:
set _WIDTH=400
set _HEIGHT=300
set _FOVX=90
goto parse1


Thats all i can figure, but there has to be a better way.. :/

Q:Can i see demos in first person camera?

[Landis]

have u guys been able to get demo recording to work in a pub and not single player or when hosting a server?

[Zareh]

Yea, I've downloaded at least 10+ demos from pub servers, havent had a problem.

[Landis]

the command demo.recordDemo <demoname> didnt work for me. i get an error.

[xbw_Shane]

hey guys, dumb question. how do you actually start recording what you are doing?

[Brad>FLY<King]

read up


also .. I guess it's not possible (yet?) to record as a client in the game. The server can record and then upload the demo for all to download .. since the demo is the same for everyone in the round the only thing you might miss is the ability to start and stop recording at your own time...

also I have to agree the ability to cut up demo files / rewind them is a serious hole in the recorder setup.. I can deal with it atm because making movies now is pretty much a full 2 hour deal for me so I only make movies of the best bits..


I do have a general question tho:

Q: Which settings do you people use when encoding into avi.. Which codec and which codec setting, how long does a 12 min demo + cam take to encode into avi? Do you use the speed settings during encoding aswell (I do .. takes up some time but makes the finished movie look pretty good)? How large do your movies become?


Ow and you can actually use the sprint/walk key (l shift) when moving the camera for pinpointing and smoother camera movement :)

I love this game already :)

BK

[Ezer]

First post!

Don't think it's been mentioned but does anyone know how to remove the nametags above the players names when playing back the demo and/or rendering video? It can be done as they're removed in all the promo videos and I used to know how to do it in BF1942 but the old console commands don't work in BF2. :confused:

[Brad>FLY<King]

I'm kinda hoping there will be an extended set of cmds in the full version of the game... but for now... no I don't know how to do that.. Also .. is there a way to jump to a certain player in demo instantly? having to pause and 'space' through up to 64 people seems too annoying..


:) BK

[ScarySquirrel]

i would also like ot knwo the following things:

When rendering, it removes play names, but how do you remove them when watching the demo back anyway?

how do you change quality/resolution of the rendered demo?

thats all for now i think

[imported_angelofdeath]

hi, i've been messing about with it the past week aswell and came to this forum looking for answers on how to do some things that i couldn't figure out how to do, well it seems that the people here are in the same boat, didn't find anything that i hadn't already figured out, the main things for me that are annoying are the inability to start rendering from anywhere other than the beginning of a demo and the fact that you can't playback the demo in first person view with first person models, oh well guess i'll just keep working on it

heres something that might make the process a wee bit quicker though, in the directory you have demo.cmd in create a new text document and type "start demo.cmd" without the quotation marks and save the text document as demo.bat (all files)

then running this .bat file will elliminate the need to go start -> run -> cmd -> c:/program files/ea games/battlefield 2 demo etc

also you can as i do, make a shortcut to the demo.bat and place it on the desktop as BF2 DemoPlayback.lnk and you can add the battlefield2 icon to it then

one thing i will say for it, is that compared to other games, the battlerecorder provides a fantastic method of recamming, that added to the ability to set up one profile for gaming and one profile for your movie making config, makes it a very nice engine for movie making

[Zareh]

I've been running into this problem quite often, I start to render the movie, and step away from my pc, hours later when I come back to check movie, it ended without recording the whole thing.

Sometimes it records for 5 minutes, sometimes 2, of all the times that I've rendered a movie, its been able to finish the whole 10 minutes once... its very strange, anyone else ran across this problem?

[imported_NeoRicen]

This is a truly !!!PATHETIC ATTEMPT!!! by EA/DICE, it does virtually NOTHING that Fraps cant do, just spectate and have Fraps handy and you can do EXACTLY THE SAME THING!!! (hud of of course)
Soory I'm relaly annoyed, we were told we could set Camera TRACKS, not just record the bloody mouse movements!!!! Look at Rome:Total War movie editor NOW THAT IS A GOOD MOVE MAKER.
BFRecorder Movie making is a waste of F***ing Time! You can just load the recording and use fraps and get the same result!!!

[Ezer]

This is a truly !!!PATHETIC ATTEMPT!!! by EA/DICE, it does virtually NOTHING that Fraps cant do, just spectate and have Fraps handy and you can do EXACTLY THE SAME THING!!! (hud of of course)
Soory I'm relaly annoyed, we were told we could set Camera TRACKS, not just record the bloody mouse movements!!!! Look at Rome:Total War movie editor NOW THAT IS A GOOD MOVE MAKER.
BFRecorder Movie making is a waste of F***ing Time! You can just load the recording and use fraps and get the same result!!!

Got to admit it's a lot of effort to do something that Fraps seems to be able to do a whole lot easier..

Anyways, another question, is it normal for the video rendering to take an age? Left my machine rendering a video last night and after nearly 7 hours of recording it had managed to render 20 minutes of footage (it's recording at what looks like a rate of 2-3fps) which seems like pretty poor performance to me.. :hmm:

[imported_NeoRicen]

That's pretty normal, it has to render each fram at top quality while reading the camera 'tracks'. Rome Total War is similar but very rarely do you get a 20min video to render.
The ONLY advantage of this method is the is no framerate hits.

[Ezer]

That's pretty normal, it has to render each fram at top quality while reading the camera 'tracks'. Rome Total War is similar but very rarely do you get a 20min video to render.
The ONLY advantage of this method is the is no framerate hits.

Ah right, thought it was something I was doing wrong.. the other annoying thing is that out of those 20 minutes I'd probably end up using only 2-3 minutes of it in a video anyway but you can't choose the bits you want at the time of rendering.. :hmm:

[McPhenius]

Great guide, can you post one for the retail version too since there is folder changes?

[Brad>FLY<King]

I actually haven't tried to put a retail demo in the demo demo folder to check it out... I guess it would only work for gulf of oman 16 and 32 player maps..

I suppose it works just the same as the demo with slightly diff folders (it's in the same main folders tho, just replace Battlefield 2 demo with Battlefield 2 or summin)

[imported_NeoRicen]

DO NOT do that, It completely stuffed up my BF2, best we wait for official guides from EA/DICE

[imported_angelofdeath]

just rendered a movie last nite, heres my experience so far rendering avi's

first i rendered an avi with fullframes (uncompressed), and stopped the playback about 3 minutes into the demo, the resultant avi file gspot reported to be "not an avi file", the same thing with huffyuv and xvid @10,000 bitrate

next i created a 1minute demo and let it render the whole demo instead of stopping midway through, with fullframes (uncompressed) the resultant avi file gspot reported to have a corrupt header, huffyuv just crashed, xvid @10,000 bitrate worked but vegas reported the file to be "offline"

so, i took the xvid compressed avi and processed it RGB uncompressed with virtualdub and was then able to bring it into vegas

hope that might have helped someone, next, i find it usefull to be able to render, cam, capture sound etc with the game windowed, heres how

in the demo.cmd, replace this line "set _BF2EXE=bf2.exe" with "set _BF2EXE=bf2.exe +fullscreen 0", simple stuff

very usefull for sound cature, btw i recommend wholeheartedly audacity to anyone who is still using soundforge as a sound editor, audacity is free, open-source and a lot better than soundforge http://audacity.sourceforge.net

[Merlin]

Has anyone had problems downloading demo files from public servers? I have played on servers with the recorder enabled, and the on the community page files have been bookmarked but whenever I try to download the files it says something like error finding host name. What is going/am I doing wrong :confused:

Help on this most appreciated :)

[imported_NeoRicen]

Your not doing it wring, the server isn't uploading the demoes to the right directory, you'll just have to find a server that does it correctly.

[Brad>FLY<King]

I know for a fact that the EA German Official Ranked servers do have a working demo record and upload combo, very amusing to see yourself and your buds :)


so no you are doing nothing wrong, the server has some settings screwed up

and NeoRicen could you tell us exactly what you did ?

[imported_bl1nd]

FRAPS all the way ;)

[-moc-Landis]

i dont see where the auto_rotate.cfg is, its not there.

[imported_angelofdeath]

should be in the root of the bf2 installation afaik

[Mateus]

Cool, this is the most complciated guide ive ever seen

wheres the EA one?

[DMC]

Very nice guide.

[HammerFall_DK]

I downloaded a couple of the games I was in. I can playback the movie and cycle between the various soldiers. I just can not find myself - really weird.
Have any of you experienced this - that you can not find your own name and soldier in the playback ?!

I've taken some sweet *** screens - I would just like to see myself aswell.

Thanks.

HammerFall_DK
AA-Overview.com

[Johnboat]

How does this work for the full version of the game?

[Zareh]

I downloaded a couple of the games I was in. I can playback the movie and cycle between the various soldiers. I just can not find myself - really weird.
Have any of you experienced this - that you can not find your own name and soldier in the playback ?!

I've taken some sweet *** screens - I would just like to see myself aswell.

Thanks.

HammerFall_DK
AA-Overview.com

The only time I came across to something like this was when I had joined the server mid-game, but once I played the demo up to the point where I joined I could see myself.

[-moc-Landis]

will all this work for retail too?

[Brad>FLY<King]

with different path names obviously, but yes it works fine for retail

The not being able to see yourself... indeed you have to be sure you are actually playing at that time.. The demo is recorded for the full round.. when playing on servers without time limit it is pretty hard to see when in the game you actually came in

also it's not always possible to select a player... when they are dead, not spawned it's impossible and if you are constantly 'space-ing' through the players you might not find yourself for ages (being dead just at the time you would find yourself...

so you might wanna try just playing the demo and looking at the messages... if you see yourself getting killed, pause the demo and look for your killer... you might remember where you would spawn next, go there and see if you spawn, or unpause, wait for 16 secs (or a bit more) pause again and scroll through every player.. you'll see yourself if all goes well.. also try to remember which players were above you in the scroll list, makes it easier to find later on

:)

good luck

[RotJ]

Shift-Space takes you to the previous player, BTW.

[dommafia]

is there an EA site providing any updates on a battle recorder guide or something? it sucks that they are leaving this work to the community instead of being at the forefront of a massive educational campaign :(

[cloud999]

Edit: Nevermind, I figured out my problem. Mods can delete this post if they want.

[Agent86]

i dont see where the auto_rotate.cfg is, its not there.

It doesn't exist... it's rotate_demo.cfg

[Phsy]

How do I start recording??? The post is just showing me the keys to playback the file and how to export to AVI. Well, how do I get it to start recording. Q and T are radio chats.

OK do this, when in the game and at the kit selection screen just prior to actualy entering the map press the TILDE key, thats the one to the left of the # 1 and just below the escape key. That will open the cosole. Then enter this command

demo.recordDemo [demoname]

- Starts recording current gameplay and saves the file as demoname.bf2demo in your \Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2
Demo\mods\bf2\Demos directory

then to stop recording enter this command

demo.stopRecording - Stops current demo recording

you can do this for any game you are hosting, be it single player or creating a multiplayer. I use it for training purposes when I make a LOCAL (lan) game to practice different techniques, and to learn how to fly and bomb. It lets me see what the ground forces will see when I come in on a bombing run.


goto http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html

thats where I got my info from. Very consise instructions and commands list there.

also try this,

renderer.drawFps [0,1] - Displays the current and average frames per second (FPS) in the top left corner. 0 = OFF and 1 = ON

I hope that helps.

[Starfish.hu]

Hi!

I was trying to figure out how to render sound in addition to the movie I was rendering. Sadly no luck at all. Anyhone knows how to render a movie with sound? =)

Thx for your help =)

[satcomNL]

Has anyone figured out how to make it so that the kill log (like RogueJedi [M1A2] Blah) doesnt show up on the exported AVI ?


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

try demo.cmd -help
:)
or open the cmd file with notepad!

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



w00t! anybody tried demo +r +p 10 foo mycam already? im freaking curious!

[imported_angelofdeath]

yeah curious about that myself, must try it later, although i have to reinstall the demo because the single player hack to play bots on 32 player map, makes the demo.cmd not work for some reason, but yeah panorama? dying to find out what that is about

[Sjulimann]

Ok, i just got a problem here; I am on stage 6 on the first step, and typing this in command prompt: demo.cmd +c demo8 (yes, i called my file the same as it is in the guide)
And i get this message: Playing back demo and recording camera...
AND! At the same time i get that message, i also get this:

- executing: bf2.exe +wx 0 +szx 800 +szy 600 +noSound 1 +skipMips 10 +demo demo.tmp
Done!

And a second after this, the screen is being black a littlebit, -just like everytime i am starting the demo. But it jumps out to windows again, and does not enter the game! Help! Whats happening?

Edit:

Ok, i just got my problem fixed :)

I was writing demo.cmd +c "demo8" insead of demo.cmd +c demo8..... :p

Tnx for a helpfull guide!!!! :)

[Renoir]

How can I remove the name tags? I don't want them to be displayed when I'm recording with fraps

[Rahabib]

Anyone else having an issue with Recorder reading codecs? I have every codec known to man pretty much. I would like to render to a simple Microsoft DV AVI but I dont have it on the list. Also I dont have huffyYUV on the list and others do. Whats going on?

Also, has anyone had any sync issues with sound and video in an editing program. How do you get the video to render smoothly +fps 30 renders at 30fps but when the game drops below 30 it seems to make it render wierd. Whats your guys experience with this?

[HammerFall_DK]

with different path names obviously, but yes it works fine for retail

The not being able to see yourself... indeed you have to be sure you are actually playing at that time.. The demo is recorded for the full round.. when playing on servers without time limit it is pretty hard to see when in the game you actually came in

also it's not always possible to select a player... when they are dead, not spawned it's impossible and if you are constantly 'space-ing' through the players you might not find yourself for ages (being dead just at the time you would find yourself...

so you might wanna try just playing the demo and looking at the messages... if you see yourself getting killed, pause the demo and look for your killer... you might remember where you would spawn next, go there and see if you spawn, or unpause, wait for 16 secs (or a bit more) pause again and scroll through every player.. you'll see yourself if all goes well.. also try to remember which players were above you in the scroll list, makes it easier to find later on

:)

good luck

Hey guys,

Thanks for your comments ! I must have been unlucky in finding myself - I have several games recorded now where I can follow myself - pretty cool stuff - HOOAH ! :p

Now I just need to a precise description of how to erase those nametags and kill-log when I am in demo mode. :D


HammerFall_DK
AA-Overview.com
INS-Overview.com

[piroz]

hi all i've played nascar racing 2003 season by papyrus it has the best recording feature i've ever seen. its built into the game a couple of clicks and you recording while your playing after your done just open your replay folder and watch it i've recorded hour long races with no problem i do not know much about programs but if someone could check it out they may be able to make a recording file that does not require a rocket scientist to get it to work thanks piroz see ya

[Forest]

I have tried both the techniques and read most of the posts in this thread. However after I did the demo.recorddemo 1 and demo.stoprecording and pasted it in profiles and went to community, its not there. Am I missing something obvious here?

[[23rd]LtCol.Pisko]

this helps so much..i just got bf recorder and am makin clan videos soon

[imported_angelofdeath]

I have tried both the techniques and read most of the posts in this thread. However after I did the demo.recorddemo 1 and demo.stoprecording and pasted it in profiles and went to community, its not there. Am I missing something obvious here?

it's my documents/battlefield 2/profiles/default/demos that you paste it to, also battlelauncher will do it automatically for you

[BOBSONATOR025]

ok heres where i went

i went to the start>run>C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo

so now on cmd it says C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo>

and when i type in demo.cmd +c demo this error comes up am I doing the demo.cmd +c demo part wrong? some one please help me....


EA YOUR AN IDIOT FOR MAKING THIS SOO HARD!

ooh and how long will this record?

[BOBSONATOR025]

Hi everyone,


after copying the demo.cmd (&quot;ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/misc/demo.cmd&quot;) to my directories as stated in the original post I also put it in the directory with my BF2 demo standalone server map.

When being host in single player/create server (local tho, haven't tried online yet) I can just use the console (~ key for me) and type:

demo.recorddemo &lt;demo name to be created&gt; [&lt;-- this starts recording a demo]
demo.stoprecording [&lt;-- this stops it from recording]

I disconnect and copy the files to the my documents folder (for some reason you have to put them in the default profile, other profiles won't work.. does anyone remember seeing anything about that?)

now I go to community in game (just using alt tab ofcourse) and I run the demo (tho I usually also change profile to defaultplayer).


Q1: Can you also record the BF2CAM file from the console? I know it's possible when starting from the command line, but I'd really like to start and end it from inside the game...


Now, I'm also running a dedicated server.. with auto record on... Like others have said before this just creates empty files named for time of day and stuff like that.
You get a DOS window when running a dedicated server. When seeing the server using auto record, I can just type in

demo.stoprecording [&lt;-- the recording stops]
demo.recorddemo &lt;some file name I like&gt; [&lt;-- starts recording]




^^ I tried that too when you copy the cmd file are you supposed to save page as and then save it into your folders?

and as for the console commands like lets say i put demo.recorddemo <goat (or any thing else)> it says failed to recorddemo. maybe the demo <goat> already exists....


PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

[imported_angelofdeath]

grab battlelauncher from the media section, adds a graphical user interface to it, and makes it easier to use

[AngryCanuck]

So this wont work if your in a ranked server(that u didnt make), or will it? Does the server have to record or can u use this method to record your own movements, not needing to rely on the server needing to upload the file to the ftp and then downloading it?

[BOBSONATOR025]

ok this is what i have to say now...... i recorded a couple of stunts on bfrecorder on a localserver that i started......

then i downloaded the battlelauncher from woflgaming.net

then i went to play demo with user camera and opend up fraps 2.6.2.....

I MADE THE BEST videos you have ever seeen!!!!!!!and edited with sony vegas 6.0

then I render and look at the file sizes.....and pass out

1GB for a mOVIE!!!!!!!! it looks hella good though at 30 fps the whole time!!


any one have a suggestion for me...

[-[a2a]-longshot|CO]

hi guys...first of all great guide. im having an error when rendering my demo to .avi format. everything goes smoothly through the command prompt steps, and after it finishes loading i alt+tab out and i get the choice of compression. The problem hits when i maximize to join game and watch the demo render. the game never maximizes, just a large black box appears on the screen like its trying to maximize but can't. it stays that way forever, and i've been forced to ctrl+alt+del a few times and start over. When i do, it doesn't say Bf2 is not responding. I just don't understand. Thanks in advance for any help, and great guide.
-longshot

[GrimEvil]

i still cant figure it out

[-[a2a]-longshot|CO]

well i was able to get it to render. it maximized after i chose a divx codec and i joined game and it went through the demo very very sluggishly, not sure if that is right or not. i let it go all the way through without pushing anything just to be safe, and it quit automatically when it finished. but when i go to the folder, the avi is at 0 kb! doesnt play, of course. i dont understand, someone please help me. thanks in advance.
-longshot

[Starfish.hu]

I don't know if this question was already asked, but it is possible to make the playback to show a certain players FPS view instead ow fixed cameras or TPS camera views?

[BOBSONATOR025]

-longshot|CO']well i was able to get it to render. it maximized after i chose a divx codec and i joined game and it went through the demo very very sluggishly, not sure if that is right or not. i let it go all the way through without pushing anything just to be safe, and it quit automatically when it finished. but when i go to the folder, the avi is at 0 kb! doesnt play, of course. i dont understand, someone please help me. thanks in advance.
-longshot

sAME HERE!


HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Senap]

It's supposed to be "sluggish". Rendering video is a slow process and it renders frame for frame so obviously it won't be as smooth as when you're playing.

I have also had problems with my AVI being 0 kb and I have come to the conclusion that the DivX encoder is behind is. It seems like BF2 doesn't like it - even though I managed to render with DivX once.

[BOBSONATOR025]

wow senap youre a member here too?

[Senap]

Hehe yeah ^_^

[BOBSONATOR025]

i found out my problem the divx compresser wont work when i want to render cause it renders and gives me a filesize thats 0kb so i want to do Xvid and that wont work cause i have winxp 64....so everybody please help me out on this one and give me an alternative please :) :)

~BOBSONATOR025

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[stlava]

How can i remove the player tags from the demo. Or does it have to be disabled from the server? And whats the command for that too. I know it is possible just don't know how.

[Senap]

open the console and type renderer.drawHud 0. Write renderer.drawHud 1 to make them appear again..

[stlava]

In the the recorder it doesn't show the hud.. it only shows the names.. I need to get rid of the names.

[Mattc0m]

When recording single-player footage does anyone have any idea what level of "quality" it is, and how to increase the quality?

[BOBSONATOR025]

when in the compresser it will give you a slide bar to show what settings you want...

[BOBSONATOR025]

In the the recorder it doesn't show the hud.. it only shows the names.. I need to get rid of the names.

the names will disappear when you render. i think

[Mattc0m]

when in the compresser it will give you a slide bar to show what settings you want...

Compressor? Sorry? Doesn't that have to do with rendering the footage? I'm talking about the demo quality... the amount of engine events it as capturing.

[stlava]

the names will disappear when you render. i think
I want to use a kind of fraps program named gamecam.. it works well and doesn't kill fps.. I just need to get rid of the name tags.. I think i should email EA and ask.. any known working emails?

[Senap]

In the the recorder it doesn't show the hud.. it only shows the names.. I need to get rid of the names.

Sure it does, the "bob [knife] mary" messages are part of the hud.

But I guess you're refering to the nametags. Well, the only way is to NOT hit space to select any players. Just freecam and the nametags won't show up.

When recording single-player footage does anyone have any idea what level of "quality" it is, and how to increase the quality?

I think it's in a con file in your BF2 dir. I check the profile directory in my documents and I can't find anything about demo quality there.

[stlava]

The only thing is that like on buggies i need to be on a player otherwise its hard to keep up and keep it a smooth motion.

[Elohim]

If you don't hit space to focus on an individual player, it doesn't show the names. You'll have to use the directional keys to navigate to the action though.

[1Sgt.Kenny-R2K]

Ok?, is the Bf Recorder only for the BF2 Demo??

HELP!!!

[Senap]

The BattleRecorder is a BF2 feature even though it was in the demo as well . . .

[CommandoTX]

Hey is anyone here up to making a program to facilitate the use of BFrecorder?

EDIT: I am...

[imported_angelofdeath]

it's been done, search the forums for battlelauncher, actually it's been done twice now afaik, take a look through the media forum

[CommandoTX]

Oh.. Lol...

Well I will maybe do one myself, just to practice my coding :P

[Senap]

actually it's been done twice now afaik, take a look through the media forum

now thrice.. O_o :confused:

[King_Pin101]

Hi im new guys.
I am stuck with this battle recorder and i stumbled across this site with a great forum about it. I follow the toturial at the start but i hav no DEMO FILES! im lost and need help

King_Pin101

[The Medic]

I got a Q...I only play on a lan once every month or so and I can't afford to rent my own server. Is there any way to record a demo without having to host the server? Some people with thinner wallets would like to make some flicks too I'm sure.

[Tenshi]

I scanned through the post...its quite big so im sorry if i missed the info i need.

I see LOADS of stuff about how to use the recorder ..but i havent seen anything that explains where im supposed to get the recorded internet games from.

Supposedly i should go to community and a game recording should be ready to download, but theres never anything to download. Im sure ive played on servers with the feature turned on....but still theres nothing to download.

????????

[ttwkx]

hello, i have set up my own server and recorded video and also edit the video angles and have converted it to avi np,but when i try to convert it to divx 6.0 or the other 1 divxyk sumthin it just gives me a avi file with 0 kb and wont play,so i used the app gspot to identify what codecs i have installed i have divx installed it also says the avi is corrupt i can do other codecs np so if u have any ideas let me know thanks

maybe i should just use fraps :wall: get gspot at our website downloads ttwclan.net (http://www.ttwclan.net)
codecs i have installed---------------------------->



DMO WMVA WMVideo Advanced Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> wmvadvd.dll
DMO WMVideo 8 Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> wmv8dmod.dll
DMO MP4S Mpeg4s Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> mp4sdmod.dll
DMO WMV Screen decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> wmsdmod.dll
DMO WMVideo Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> wmvdmod.dll
DMO MP43 Mpeg43 Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> mp43dmod.dll
DMO MPG4 Mpeg4 Decoder DMO Microsoft Corporation qasf.dll --> mpg4dmod.dll
DSH DV Video Encoder qdv.dll
DSH HPOD RunTimeline Filter Hewlett-Packard Company HPODRunTimelineFilter.dll
DSH Indeo® video 5.10 Compression Filter Intel Corporation
DSH LEAD MCMP/MJPEG Codec LEAD Technologies, Inc. LCODCCMP.DLL
DSH MJPEG Compressor quartz.dll
DSH DIVX DivX Decoder Filter DivXNetworks, Inc. divxdec.ax
DSH MPEG1 MPEG Video Decoder quartz.dll
DSH MSS1 Microsoft Screen Video Decompressor Microsoft Corporation msscds32.ax
DSH WMV1 Windows Media Video Decoder Microsoft Corporation wmvds32.ax
DSH WMV2 Windows Media Video Decoder Microsoft Corporation wmv8ds32.ax
DSH LEAD MCMP/MJPEG Decoder LEAD Technologies, Inc. LCODCCMP.DLL
DSH MP43 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Decompressor Microsoft Corporation mpg4ds32.ax
DSH DVSD DV Video Decoder qdv.dll
DSH MPEG2 InterVideo Video Decoder InterVideo Inc. ivivideo.ax
DSH IV50 Indeo® video 5.10 Decompression Filter Intel Corporation
DSH MJPG AVI Draw quartz.dll
DSH Video Port Manager quartz.dll
DSH MJPG MJPEG Decompressor quartz.dll
DSH DXRE DivX Subtitle Decoder DivXNetworks DivXMedia.ax
DSH AVI Decompressor quartz.dll
DSH QTRpza QT Decompressor quartz.dll
VFW CVID Cinepak Codec by Radius Radius Inc. qcap.dll --> iccvid.dll
VFW DIVX DivX® 6.0 Codec DivXNetworks qcap.dll --> DivX.dll
VFW FPS1 Fraps Video Decompressor qcap.dll --> frapsvid.dll
VFW I420 Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50 Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msh263.drv
VFW IV32 Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2 qcap.dll --> ir32_32.dll
VFW IV41 Intel Indeo® Video 4.5 Intel Corporation qcap.dll --> ir41_32.ax
VFW IV50 Indeo® video 5.10 Intel Corporation qcap.dll --> ir50_32.dll
VFW IYUV Intel IYUV codec Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> iyuv_32.dll
VFW M261 Microsoft H.261 Video Codec Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msh261.drv
VFW M263 Microsoft H.263 Video Codec Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msh263.drv
VFW MRLE Microsoft RLE Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msrle32.dll
VFW MSVC Microsoft Video 1 Microsoft Corporation qcap.dll --> msvidc32.dll
VFW YV12 DivX® 6.0 YV12 Codec DivXNetworks qcap.dll --> DivX.dll

[Senap]

BF2 doesn't seem to like DivX

[Mank]

I'm using Indeo codec, it is rendering, but taking ages!

[Mateus]

This has got to be the most complicated thing I've ever read.
I've just recorded a video in single player, can anyone tell me how to convert it into a playback form using windows media player?

[Merlin]

You cant convert all of it, you need to get something like fraps and record what you want to see.

[osiris213]

is there a way to view yourself from 1st person perspective in the demo?

[Senap]

I don't think so

[anonomoe]

Is there an update to this sticky for the retail version? I couldn;t find it, maybe I'm blind :(

[buglenutsman]

thanks for the help, i really needed it

[sportsaholic1000]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is my favorite type of ice cream!

[Hella_Bacon]

I have never played a game with a recorder. It would be nice to relive the greatest bf2 moments.

[Onrust]

When i try to delete the files from Communitie/ Battlerecorder, first they are erased but when i restart the game they are still there. Any idee how to get rid of them?

[Fluffyjesus]

I scanned through the post...its quite big so im sorry if i missed the info i need.

I see LOADS of stuff about how to use the recorder ..but i havent seen anything that explains where im supposed to get the recorded internet games from.

Supposedly i should go to community and a game recording should be ready to download, but theres never anything to download. Im sure ive played on servers with the feature turned on....but still theres nothing to download.

????????

One thing to note is that 64player serveres doesnt support the demo function, so if you want demo`s play on 32 servers or 16 server. Not all serveres have battlerecorder on, but most do. When you have played your round , go back to the meny and click the "Community" tab. Here you can view and download demo`s.

[Hella_Bacon]

So you have to join a server that has BFRecorder before you can even think of recording right? I have yet to even see one of those. My filter goes blank if i change anything on it hahahha.

[Senap]

So you have to join a server that has BFRecorder before you can even think of recording right? I have yet to even see one of those. My filter goes blank if i change anything on it hahahha.

No, that's not true. You can record demos in singleplayer for instance.

[MiNi Me]

Great guide thanks for that :D
Just having one small problem, I created the sound file, but after it finished rendering I have no idea where the sound file ended up??

Do you know where they go and what codec it will be rendered to?

Thanks guys.

Mini

[imported_Draven]

Great guide thanks for that :D
Just having one small problem, I created the sound file, but after it finished rendering I have no idea where the sound file ended up??

Do you know where they go and what codec it will be rendered to?i

I too followed this guide, which was VERY helpful in getting me started, and after 3 days, got my video redered, and like you, I also rendered the sound but have NO clue where it went, what it was saved to, etc.

Any help please.

/Draven

[Sheepah]

I've read this guide, but I'm having problems very early on. I can't seem to record the camera movements. I made a demo in singleplayer, and copied it to the right directories, but when i bring up the cmd and type in the bf2 dir nothing happens. When I watched the demo however, there was already a cam file there, so it may have recorded it then. However, when I try and play this back I can't get it to work. When i bring up the cmd and type cd d:\games\ea games\battlefield 2 nothing happens. If i then try and type demo.cmd demo1 demo1-def, it just says that demo.cmd is not recognized.

Any help would be appreciated. It may just be that I'm typing the wrong directory in, but I looked at a different guide to this one which said to do something else, so I'm a tad confused.

[imported_Draven]

Sheepah, and others,
After trying everything command line, I finally went and got Battlelauncher; http://www.battlelauncher.com/ ; No I am not affiliated with them. On the main page, there is a link to "20 steps to Make a Movie", which I will also link to here(hope they don't mind):
http://www.followme2.com/phpfusion/html/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=14&thread_id=54#165

Again, I am not affiliated, I was having all the same problems. However, after following the steps, and installing Battlelauncher, I am able to do everything that I was trying to do from the start. I am now underway in the production stages of my BF2 mini-series, which I hope I can pull off since the people who are going to take part in it all want creative control...Dang BF2 actors. :)

Hope this helps, and like I said, I am now underway, thanks to all for helping me. I know, I should have tried BL a week ago.

/Draven

[l=lCoBrAl=l]

I've scanned this entire thread and I can honestly say I've been more confused trying to figure this out than I was when I took my first algebra class.

Why the F**K can i just press a button to start recording whatever is on my screen and then press the same one (or different one) to stop recording what's there. I mean if these guys at dice graduate with masters degree's from MIT and sh*t except they don't have enough logical sense to just build something like that. I mean make a simplified version for idiots like me and then have a better utility or more advanced features for stuff like camera movements and slow motion crap. Seriously I can't even pi*s strait sometimes but atleast I could probably built something more simple than these A+ grads.

[DiPlomat]

I am just wondering:

So why should i do all this command prompts etc.. when i can use Fraps for video capturing and audio capturing ?

Has it something to do with the quality?

I just want to know the difference.

[DiPlomat]

i want to know the same thing, how to remove the nametags in the demo. please help

[Bravo721]

Great guide. Thanks.

[imported_Draven]

i want to know the same thing, how to remove the nametags in the demo. please help

Check out this link:
http://www.followme2.com/phpfusion/h...read_id=54#165
found on www.battlelauncher.com. I had great success after I used this link.

Battlerecorder allows you to record camera movements, which is something that I think Fraps doesn't allow you to do.

Think of Battle recorder as the camera crew on your movie. The demo you record is the set of your movie, and the demo is all the action happening on your set. With battlerecorder, you can place the camera anywhere and follow specific action.

Creating your movie is a involves 3 main things, recording your demo (in game), then recording your camera movements (from BFRecorder), then finally rendering the demo WITH your camera movies into the AVI file used for editing.

Once it's learned it's not bad, granted, It took me a couple/few days to get the hang of it, but once you do, it's not bad.

/Draven

[Silent_Ops]

thx for the help

[Silent_Ops]

ohh by the way can u rewind and if u can how?

[Raze31]

Does anyone know if there are keys for slow motion. ?????? like the 1-9 keys are for speeding up. What keys are for slowing it down?????

[Silent_Ops]

3 is the slowest 4 slower 5 slower some where around there it gets faster but try 3 its the ULTRA-SUPER-SLO-MO

[Raze31]

Thanks for the help, very much appreciated. :)

[Silent_Ops]

sure any time

[zacman13245]

when i go to the commmunity section and do to download the file i always ge an error message, is this the servers fault for setting up the bfrecorder wrong?

[simpayne]

what download? when i click the link it just shows a bunch of text.

[jnick]

I don't wanna sound like a newb, but I downloaded a CAL match demo, and have no idea how to play it back. I have 2 demo files, which instructions of the OP do I need to follow?

[Raze31]

Your going to lauch battlefield 2. Once your logged in, left click on community button (top of page) if you dowloaded the demos from a server that had battlerecorder on, then they will be listed on the right hand side. Left click on the one you would like to watch first, then left click on play file button (on bottom right). Unfortunatley BF2 dosent support playing two of them at the same time (right now). But Im sure there will be another patch out soon. Enjoy..............:D :laugh:

[guitarjunkie66]

nice one, cheers bud

[{9thInf}Scott121]

very helpful thanks

[Systems]

Hey Guys,

I started my BF2 movie adventure last night, and I have a few comments / questions.

First off, I have successfully made a demo and democam file. No problem. My problem came when it was time to render. I tried the default arguements "+r demoname democamname" and it ran ok, but I was a little worried about the slow frame rate.

So I ran it again with the arguements "+r +m (m makes the resolution 400x300)+fps 20" (fps 20 makes the frames render at 20 per second)

After running it that way, I was able to render with realistic frames (no 2-3 fps crap). The thing is, about 13 minutes into the video, the rendering stopped and I was back at my desktop. I thought this was odd, so I checked the AVI that it made, and it was a FOUR GIG file. I'm guessing that I got kicked to desktop because the max file size in windows is 4g (just guessing)

The thing is, the quality at 400x300 ain't so great. I was wondering how others are rendering at 800x600 and not getting 10g+ filesizes? I'm sure it has to do w/ compression, but the weird thing is, I'm not getting the little popup that asks what codec to use.

Anyone have any pearls of wisdom? 400x300 is do-able, I've already begun editing that little 4g cut and started laying some music over it, (BF2 music video) but I'd like the quality to be better.

Just in case the problem is my system, my specs are:

3.2Ghz P4 w/ HT
1g PC3200 Geil RAM
ATI 9600 Radeon
Windows XP Pro

Thanks for the help (if any)!

Great guide BTW ^__^

[gregorio007]

After fighting with the Recorder for a few days, i finally managed to figure it out with the help of these and other forums. The Guide EA Games gave us is a piece of garbage. Its confusing to say the least. So i thought i would post my own guide. I'll make it as simple as possible. And on a side note: A demo or a demo file is another name for a BF2 Recorder file.

First of all you must know all off the keys necessary to use this Recorder.


Q – opens the Playback Rose. Move the mouse to highlight the desired playback option and press the Left Mouse Button to select. Options available here that are not bound to separate keys include "Restart" and "Quit".
T – opens the Camera Rose. Choose the camera option or cycle through the available players.
1 – Pause the playback (also available in the Playback Rose).
2 – Playback recorded session at normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
3 – Playback recorded session at 5% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
4 – Playback recorded session at 25% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
5 – Playback recorded session at 50% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
6 – Playback recorded session at normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
7 – Playback recorded session at 150% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
8 – Playback recorded session at 300% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
Spacebar – cycle between players.
Right Mouse Button – cycle between free camera and player camera.
Mouse wheel – zoom camera in and out when locked onto a player.
W, A, S, D, Ctrl and Shift – move free camera around map, forward, left, backwards, right, down and up.
Mouse look – aim free camera.

This step allows you to record your camera movements in the game.

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

2.Create a demos folder in the following location.
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2

3.Place all the demos that you wish to render into this folder. Your demos can be found in the following location.
C:\Documents and Settings\"yourname"\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
(I recommend rendering one demo file at a time so that its less confusing)

4. Open your command prompt. (This can be done by pressing start, run, and typing cmd. You may also be able to find your command prompt in your windows accessories folder.)

5.In your command prompt, type the directory to your BF2 Demo.
Example: cd c:\program files\EA Games\Battlefield 2 Demo

6.Now a line of text should appear that states yoru BF2 Directory.
Example: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo>
Type in the following command: demo.cmd +c "name of demo"
Example: demo.cmd +c demo8

Your game will start up and you should also recieve a message in your command prompt that states: Playing back demo and recording camera...
After you get past your game loading screen, you will enter a loading game screen. Once the game is done loading, click join game. You are now in your video. Any movements of the camera that you make now are being recorded.
It is STRONGLY recommended that you continure recording until the video ends. My video froze at the end and i pressed control+alt+delete and closed Battlefield out and my video works fine. Just be carefull on this step.

Playing back your video with the pre-recorded camera movements

1.In your C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\demos folder you will now find a BF2CAM file. This file is your video with the pre-recorded camera movements.

2.Now go back to your Command Prompt and type in the following:
demo.cmd "name of demo" "name of cam file" -def
Example: demo.cmd demo8 mydemocam -def

Your game will once again start up and bring you to a game loading screen. Click join game and you will begin watching your pre-recorded camera movements. Your command prompt should also read: Playing back demo with recorded camera...
I do not know how necessary this step is however it is helpfull in finding out how your camera movements look once they are all put together.

Converting to AVI

1. In your command prompt type the following command:
demo.cmd +r "name of demo" "name of cam file"
Example: demo.cmd +r demo8 mydemocam

Your game will once again open. Just do as you did in the previous steps. Your command prompt will also read: Rending AVI...

2.Once the game loading bar is complete press ALT+TAB to minimize the game. A small box will have appeared. This is your choice of encoders. It is recommended that you use the DivX encoder. Click your choice, than press ok.

3.Open the game window back up (it should be minimized at the bottom of your screen) and click join game.
NOTE: You MUST leave the game and the video running on your screen until the video is over. If you minimize your game and try to bring your window back up during this encoding process, your game will close out and your AVI file will be corrupt.

4.If you choose to stop rendering before the end of the demo, press R.

Adding Sound

Your AVI file will not have sound in it. This step will help you to create a sound file to add to your video.

1.Type in the following command in your command prompt
demo.cmd +s "name of demo file" "name of cam file"
Example: demo.cmd +s demo8 mydemocam

Your game will once again load. Just do as you did in the previous steps. However, once you click join game, no video will play. You will begin to hear sound from your video.

*I have yet to complete this step. What I have considered doing is recorind the sound with fraps, than using fraps to create sound file. I may then be able to combine the sound and the AVI file in a video editting program such as Video Edit Magic.

I hope this guide helps everyone. I tried to make it as simple as possible.

I dont know that much about computers, can u explain that in simpler terms.

[Anaraith]

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]

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]

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]

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?:confused:

[Senap]

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]

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]

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

[Senap]

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]

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]

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]

going to try to make my first vid lol :p

[|AFF|Soupyblister]

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]

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]

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]

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?

[|AFF|Soupyblister]

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?

I don't think anyone that knows how to use battlefield recorder is monitoring this thread, I asked my question long ago as others after and no one has offered any help or suggestions.

[zacman13245]

i love using the battlerecorder. but can you rewind?

[|AFF|Soupyblister]

i love using the battlerecorder. but can you rewind?

Do you know how to fix some of the problems we are having or now anyone that might so we too can start to enjoy the battlefield recorder. And no you can not rewind. I read this in another post someone suggested to EA to put this in the new patch, and EA reply and said there is no way to rewind.

[Senap]

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???

Here is a guide that I wrote myself, this should work nicely

http://www.battlelauncher.com/index.php?pg=post&id=26

[[o]LEGION[o]]

Thanks for the help champ

[Dman~WCG~]

Ok, what file do I need to put demos on my webserver. I go to Ea large downloads and theres 3 demo files in it.

[medic667]

Seems a lil difficult but il get hang of it thank u.

[dcbatlle]

Way too complicated. I'll pass. Thanks.

[Braheem]

can you use a battle recorder if you dont have a server? like your just going and palying on servers?

[r-type]

help

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


C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Demos\zafer-def.bf2cam
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Demos\zafer.bf2demo
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C:\Documents and Settings\varkan\Belgelerim\Battlefield 2\Profiles\Default\demos\zafer.bf2demo
C:\Documents and Settings\varkan\Belgelerim\Battlefield 2\Profiles\Default\demos\zafer-def.bf2cam

[Darcshadow2]

ok, fill me in, what the hell is battlerecorder in the first place and how do u use it?!?!

[flying-assasin]

Actually this is quite simple if you really read it. It's a shame there is no easy way to have sound though.

My question is this: Can you change the location of where the file is written? I'm running short on room on my C drive.


just take the file from the c drive ( i have a D dive too ) and put it there?

[1st_todie_LOL]

I cant even find the 2 folders to insert the download in ,
God im such a muppet LOL

[magdelen11235]

thanks! now i can make some movies