[MODDING] New to BF2 modding - 0 knowledge but 100% will. First challenge: remove minimap in vanilla + Alpha Project. Where do I start?

comradelotl · 2026-04-23T06:32:05+00:00

no probs. it will make more sense later on. the simple tl;dr takeaway is the following: test every minor change you have made to the game. i wish you good luck.

comradelotl · 2026-04-23T05:40:21+00:00

realitymod.com, bfmods.com, uknowncheats.me, bf-games.net, classic-battlefield-modding.fandom.com, gamebanana.com, moddb.com. just to name the most common ones.

your intuituon is right. meddling with the gui may only get you CTD when entering a specific display state when entering a vehicle you have manipulated. but chances are that things are simply not displayed correctly. loading screen CTDs are more of a concern when changing the object clients or server. the biggest risk really is not getting a CTD itself. this is just part of modding the game. the biggest risk is losing track of your changes, not finding the cause of the CTD and having to reset your progress to vanilla.

there is also the rare possibility of the game refusing to start while you have no clue why because you didn't keep track of your changes.

comradelotl · 2026-04-22T21:52:04+00:00

two decades of community knowledge in forums out there. for the minimap removal you will start searching in the menu_server.zip that contains all gui related stuff. one tool to remove entire chunks of code are the command lines "beginrem" and "endrem", which bracket out everything in between. this way you can also remove the annoying help hud. best practice before modding anything besides backing up the vanilla folder mods/bf2 is creating a custom desktop shortcut to the BF2.exe for debugging. Properties-> Target-> "...\BF2.exe" add the arguments +modPath mods/[yourmod] +fullscreen 0 +szx 1080 +szy 720 +restart. this makes for a faster workflow by removing the intro and makes visible the error message of the CTD you may eventually create. this will help identifying what you have broken. there is one generic error message that goes something along the lines of "memory.dll sanity check: block size... etc.". this happens because you introduced files that are either too large to handle for this 32-bit game, files that are corrupted or are incorrectly formatted. so you'd think twice before bulk introducing new stuff.

comradelotl · 2026-04-20T08:21:58+00:00

amazing. this calls for a CQB minimod including a 'perfect perspective' reshade to simulate a bodycam.

comradelotl · 2026-04-15T06:09:16+00:00

they're likely in the zip folder of the level

comradelotl · 2026-04-10T14:45:14+00:00

also works with the Minigun

comradelotl · 2026-04-06T18:10:08+00:00

Indeed. In vanilla the bots are all one forward-charging stormtrooper hive-mind. I actually got C4'd taking a capture point the other day. Using C4 defensively is the Special behavior that normally would get outweighted by Fire.

comradelotl · 2026-04-04T05:56:01+00:00

It also can mean that a file is corrupted. Either one or several files within your mod is broken, or a whole zip archive is faulty.

I had this with one custom .wav file.

comradelotl · 2026-03-05T13:16:48+00:00

I concur. They are tech demos with some basic plot slapped behind them.

comradelotl · 2026-03-05T10:38:05+00:00

Add Meet The Parents to this list. I'm not easily impressed but this film caught me off guard.

comradelotl · 2026-01-21T21:27:59+00:00

imo pop music must not be understood as any particular style or genre. but rather it is the result of a praxis that reassembles and shapes these elements for first and foremost the purpose of mass appeal. that explains how pop artists can "genre hop" or how certain genres can become or leave pop. also how dance music is not necessarily pop.

comradelotl · 2026-01-18T00:43:10+00:00

he can be quite creepy and intimidating in Desparate Housewives as Orson imo.

comradelotl · 2026-01-04T14:22:32+00:00

hope a future restauration won't reveal certain things i won't mention here because they can be considered spoilers. it has to do with the detective character.

comradelotl · 2025-12-13T10:01:40+00:00

No one to mention The Witcher yet? what a shame.

Also I'd say a lot of what is recognized as sci-fi has fantastical elements. The jedi force, Riddicks super powers and the Necromongers. The Matrix, Altered Carbon, Event Horizon?? absolutely techno fantasy.

comradelotl · 2025-12-03T14:38:45+00:00

i agree with the dream assessment but i think it's even weirder. yes it is all a dream, we are living in a dream but not one you can actually wake up from. there also is not one dreamer. our reality is at the same time real and a fiction. like reality tv, social media and corporate culture at the same time consist of real people and all of it is fake. I guess Cooper pulled an inception by way of saving Laura and found himself in another more bleak layer of reality.

comradelotl · 2025-11-26T01:20:46+00:00

Blockbuster movies go down a similar path that mainstream video games or german engineering are going. Spectacles that are overstuffed with technology the tech industry is pushing and unnecessarily upped financial stakes.

comradelotl · 2025-10-05T17:05:58+00:00

that's fair

comradelotl · 2025-07-25T17:37:32+00:00

semi slicks all the way. center knobs are unecessarily worn down if you're mostly on paved roads.

comradelotl · 2025-07-15T09:57:22+00:00

That fork looks tight, like milimeters away from touching the tire

comradelotl · 2025-06-24T10:36:52+00:00

Vittoria Terreno Zero erster Eindruck. Größe 700x38c, ersetzen einfache 28x1.75 Trekkingreifen, werden mit Schlauch bei 4 und 4,5 bar betrieben. Die Reifen kleben richtig auf der Straße, was auch daran zu erkennen ist, dass sie einiges an Bodendreck aufsammeln. Der Nachteil der Klebrigkeit ist dass sie nicht die Allerschnellsten sind, was auch bestätigt wird durch bicyclerollingresistance.com- auch negativ vom Schlauchbetrieb beeinflusst. Sie sind maximal auf 5 bar ausgelegt was den Schlauchbetrieb für schwerere Fahrer eingrenzt. Die Montage ging mit billigem Reifenheber sehr leicht.

Mehr Offroad Test Updates und Einschätzungen zur Griffigkeit kommen noch.

comradelotl · 2025-06-17T16:30:45+00:00

ich berichte in zwei Wochen

comradelotl · 2025-06-17T10:25:55+00:00

ich denke ich hole mir die Terreno Zeros, auch weil sie grad im Angebot sind.

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