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Welcome to the Classic Battlefield Modding Wikia

This is a collection of tutorials collected from years of modding Classic Battlefield games. If you anything is missing and your can contribute feel free.

Classic Battlefield Modding tutorials - BF2, BF2142, BF1942, BF Vietnam

BF42 and BFV Modding Tutorial Index

BF2 FAQ

BF2 - BF2142 AI Tutorials

BF2 Wikia

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Export A Soldier BY Beex

Exporting a weapon with Gmax by Jimiz

BF2 Road making by Jones (No Link)

BF2 EA Mod Tutorials

General Modding

BF2 Editor

These tutorials are provided with the BF2 Editor in the Help folder. Some appear to be incomplete. The tutorial, Create a Destroyable Object, has been translated from Swedish to English.

Weapons

Weapon Settings

DISTANCE WEAPON SOUNDS
How to Clone a Weapon
Editing Existing 1p Animations
Standard Weapon Kit reference
How to create weapon icons for bf2
BF2 adding tracer to a weapon
How to make weapon animations play faster in BF2
Gmax - Exporting a weapon (Missing Images)
Modeling a Pistol (External Video Tutorial - Excellent tutorial, even if it is for another game)
Understanding Hierarchies
Porting P4F Weapons to BF2
Get that New Weapon in Game
Fixing 1P Camera-Clipping Weapon Problems

Hand Weapon Kits

Tutorial 9 - Create New kits (EA Mod Coordinator)
BF2 - BF2142 Kits Tutorial
Create custom pickup kits
Standard Weapon Kit reference

3d Modeling

Note: 3dsMax 9 was the last version with Battlefield 2 plugin support. 3dsMax 9 has known graphic issues with Windows 10.

Comparison of 3dmodeling tools for Battlefield Modding
Getting the latest 3ds Max BF2 Tools to work with newer versions of 3dx Max
Using the 3ds max BF2 Tools (images missing)
Tutorial 4 - Building the Bunker in 3dsmax
Tutorial 5 - Importing the Bunker
Tutorial 6 - Building the Car in 3dsMax
Tutorial 7 - Import / Export the Car
Tutorial 8 - Create New Team
BF2 Textures (Project Reality LInk)
Understanding Static Meshes
Creating a Simple Structure (Project Reality Link)
How to Create an Occlusion Mesh (Project Reality Link)
Create Static Mesh Overview (FH2 Forums Link)
Bf2 Tools Setup For 3ds Max
BF2 Cull and LOD explained
Understanding Hierarchies
3dsMax Navmesh Import
3dsMax Navmesh Export
BF2 3dsMax Unit Setup
Create Static Mesh Overview (WIP - Needs editing and images)
Editing the Soldiers Kit - SkinnedMesh (WIP - needs editing and images)
Creating a long multi part bridge
How to export a BF2 Soldier by Beex (missing images)
Understanding Meshes
Beginner Guide for Skinning Vehicles
How to export a plane to BF2
Modeling And Unwrapping A Tank Track
How to create Collision Meshes
Collison mesh Export Trick
Build a Long Wooden Bridge
The Problem of updating Battlefield modeling Plug-ins
Making and Exporting Overgrowth
Creating Your First BF2 Static
Working with Muli-Object Materials (by Rhino - PR external link)
Exporting a Tank (external link by mschoeldgen)
Export a Plane (external link by mschoeldgen)

Texturing

Texture Atlas for Beginners
Making an Alpha Channel
BF2 Texturing: Skinning the Daimler Dingo
BF2 Texture System Explained
How To Create Camos For Existing Bf2 Weapons
BF2 Texture Tutorial
BF2 Advanced Texture Tutorial
DDS BF2 Format explained (external Link)
Texturing a Pistol (Excellent video tutorial, even if it is for another game)
Texturing a Staticmesh (external link)

Mapping

Tutorial 1 - Creating a Basic Terrain
Tutorial 2 - Creating a Basic Level
Creating your First Map
Beginner Guide to Map Creation (WIP - adding missing images) BF2 Editor forum link
Making Terrain Slopes (external link)
Map Creation Checklist
BF2 Editor Tips
Mapping Tips and Tricks
Creating a Basic Terrain
Dark Water Fix
Understanding Heightmaps and how to paint them in Photoshop
Create bf2 heightmaps with Geocontrol
Create BF Heightmap with Bryce
Road making by Jones (missing Images)
Easy Under-Overgrowth
Recreating Map Editor Files
Map Layers
BF2 Triggers
How to manually fix Ambient Objects
Create a perfect sky
BF2HMT Tutorial
Alternate Gameplay Setup
Enable 3rd Person view in the Editor (external link)
Envmaps Tutorial (Missing Images)
How To Make Beautifull Maps With Geocontrol 2 And Microdem

Lightmapping

Lightmapping with 3ds Max
BF2 Advanced Lightmap Tutorial
Complete Lighmapping Guide by Rhino (external Link)
Lightmap Unwraping (For the Unreal engine, but has a lot of useful info)

Maya Modeling

Note: Maya 6 was the last version with Battlefield 2 plugin support built into the BF2 editor, which was only supported on Windows XP. All Maya tutorials were written for Maya 6. 3ds Max is much more popular and still works on Win 7/8.

Python

BF2 Python Overview
BF2 Python Event Reference
BF2 Object Reference
BF2 Python Debugging
BF2 Python Scripts (external Link)
Python: Plotting positions on a BF2 map (external Link)

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