Battlefield Modding Tutorials BFMODS

moving textures. how to? I saw that that guy made the fake reflections underwater of the surface . I'm assuming that the custom object would require a .skn file and I'd have to animate that too? I'm going to look at Archi's animation tutorials to see if there's anything on skins.

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Archi mentions them, but doesn't really go into anything about them besides demonstrating on a bf2 soldier model.

ok yeah I see. still not sure where to go with this. anyone have ideas?

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what about the underwater effect someone made not to long ago?

that's what I was talking about. I don't know how he did it.

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..It uses bik video files..

I took the heightmap.. cut off everything above the waterline to leave me with a seabed mesh.. then textured it but used the bik video as texture. The video is just a 10 second capture of the seabed in crysis with fraps.. then cut down in virtualdub.

you need rad tools to create bik files.

yes the .bik texture is the correct way to do it. .Biks can be used to make Animated Huds, tv's and other things.

What you must understand is that just because BF1942 uses .dds files as its primary textures, it can use other things, .biks, .gifs, etc.

For instance if you really wanted to you could have the bf1942 intro movie playing on a Tv in game.