alpinestar
Member
+304|6566|New York City baby.
How to use your custom pictures in game as wallpaper

First of you will be dealing with 2 files the rest is bullshit
intros that take up ram space during load some of em as high as 100mb,
the following files are:
menu_loggedin.bik  (background when you are logged in)
menu.bik  (background where you choose account name Prefix etc..)
These two files can be found in "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies" (where I have it) you might of installed it in different directory narrow it down and open that folder.
Now remove all .bik files from that directory you won't need them or just move them to backup fiolder.
Download and install following tool http://www.radgametools.com/down/Bink/RADTools.exe
go to directory you installed it in and run radvideo.exe
you should get this interface :
https://img89.imageshack.us/img89/272/018cf1.jpg

Now go ahead and choose any picture format file in that interface like so

https://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5949/023ou1.jpg

Now click Bink it , make sure your files do not exceed 1900x1200 resolution as you might encounter some problems
https://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2183/030gf.jpg

That's it you've created your menu.bik do the same for menu_loggedin.bik with the same file or different one and place them in "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies"

Post Scriptum

You can use any video media to do this however it will eat up your ram Enjoy..
Aruba-Prime
[Expert Smoke Grenade]
+44|6745|Hamburg, Germany
Nice one +1
JaM3z
Banned
+311|6681
i used a video and it doesnt eat to much ram about 122MB max thanks for this guide +1
CanadianLoser
Meow :3 :3
+1,148|6478
nice1  thx
alpinestar
Member
+304|6566|New York City baby.
yah videos are cool but ram hogs

Last edited by alpinestar (2006-07-16 08:45:19)

vassili
Member
+66|6494
will this look like a modified game to ea and will it still allowe you to join ranked without getting kicked for a modified game
alpinestar
Member
+304|6566|New York City baby.

vassili wrote:

will this look like a modified game to ea and will it still allowe you to join ranked without getting kicked for a modified game
It is allowed no kicks for modified content
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|6677|67.222.138.85
What resolution should your pic be for best effect? Same as normal BF2?
alpinestar
Member
+304|6566|New York City baby.
you can try 1900x1600 for max but it will resize to your resolution also changing compression settings will improve the appearance
[FHF]MattyZ
What the Deuce?
+29|6632|Washington
How about an in game screen shot?
WilhelmSissener
Banned
+557|6703|Oslo, Norway
well, seeing that i am bored with just two files is there any possibility to make one for the loading screen background?
[RU]Grmbl
Member
+9|6464|Russia
This "RAM hog" thingie is probably just a rumor, IMHO. Any decent video player operates with data buffers / streams (read some data - play it, repeat).

Just my 2 cents.

Last edited by [RU]Grmbl (2006-07-28 04:51:16)

alpinestar
Member
+304|6566|New York City baby.

[RU]Grmbl wrote:

This "RAM hog" thingie is probably just a rumor, IMHO. Any decent video player operates with data buffers / streams (read some data - play it, repeat).

Just my 2 cents.
not a rumor it will preload partially the movie that plays in background in main menu. It's been proven you can do testing by your self coz im too lazy to look for the link.
!=PR=!julvaz1
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+0|6435|Florida
https://www.punbb.org/img/small_logo.png produces
!=PR=!julvaz1
Member
+0|6435|Florida
[img]http://www.punbb.org/img/new login[/img] produces
!=PR=!julvaz1
Member
+0|6435|Florida
Sorry don't know how to post an image but this was a great guide.  Once I lear how to post an image I'll show you the results.  Thanks allot
WilhelmSissener
Banned
+557|6703|Oslo, Norway

!=PR=!julvaz1 wrote:

Sorry don't know how to post an image but this was a great guide.  Once I lear how to post an image I'll show you the results.  Thanks allot
find the image adress, and put it between IMG tags

Code:

[img]www.i-don't-know-where-your-pic-is.com/picture.jpg[/img]
R3v4n
We shall beat to quarters!
+433|6457|Melbourne

Host the image on photbucket or somthing
then

Code:

[img]url goes here[/img]
thats how to show the image
Search is your friend to.
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MuseSeeker
2142 Soldier: Behenaut
+110|6745|EUR
This is an amazing tutorial. Thanks alot!
alpinestar
Member
+304|6566|New York City baby.
np
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6625

Yes this is old, *puts on flame suit*, but at least I searched

Anyways, I got the video and wallpaper to work fine, but how can you remove the music and put in your own (if possible)? That's what I really wanna do. I'd like to put in some crazy big beat stuff or like the Mortal Kombat theme song or something to get me pumped to pwn some noobs!
TravisC555
Member
+118|6189|Cox Convention Center, OK
I think punkbuster doesn't like that.
Luminatx
Member
+1|5930|Canada
Im going to give this a shot... tell ya if it works and what punkbuster thinks..

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