BF Editing Guide

Edited by Dnamro

The BF Editing Guide is a collection of offline tutorials and reference material for Battlefield modding, with the focus on AI Modding. The tutorials are from the MDT website, the BF Wiki, and many contributers to the Battlefield Single Player Website and Legion of the Dragon website such as Cajun Wolf, 4CentsShy, Shadow Knight, Necronom, Carey Bear, CZI, HDN, Dweller, Camelnelle and others. Some of these are taken directly from the forums and I will be working on cleaning them up, adding, and updating.

Mapping

• Map coordinate system
• Mapping Tips
• Remove the out of Bounds
• Material mapping
• Dark water fix
• Bomb Craters
• Mapping Tutorial
• Map Making Tutorial
• BF42 Skies Reference
• Heightmaps
• Texture Editing with Photoshop
• Custom Skins for a map (By Greenbud)
• Using Photoshop to paint the map
• ED42 Keyboard Shortcuts
• Texturing with Editor 42
• Basic Texturing
• Fixing the Loading Bar
Fixing the Loading Bar

Coding

• Game structure layout (BF Wiki)
• How to add a Hand weapon (MDT website)
• How to add a Land Vehicle (MDT Website)
• How to add a Sea Vehicle (MDT Website)
• How to add Air Vehicle (MDT Website)
• Improving Chopper AI (Ghostwriter)
• Changing Vehicle Performance
• How to add a spawn for both sides
• How to add paradrops
• How to add repair points
• How to make a smoke screen
• How to code CTF game mode
• How to create a carbomb
• Change Textures in a map
• Spawn point tutorial
• Custom Objects (by Uncle Sam)
• Remove Chutes
• Remote Spawns
• Swap the main bases
• Add Weapon pickup kits
• Modify the point system
• Add vehicles from other mods
• Modify weapon attributes
• Add a Gunner position to a jeep
• Enable Artillery Spoting
• Deviation Coding

DICE AI Reference by Tobias Karlson

• DICE Basic AI reference PDF
• DICE Vehicle AI reference PDF

Arc D' Wraith Tutorials

• How the AI works part 1 - Excellent Step by Step tutorial
• How the AI works part 2
• How the AI works part 3
• Manual pathmaps with ED 42 - Good step by step tutorial. It will give a good understanding of how to use the manual tools and how to manually edit a pathmap, but the new BFSP program can help with all the conversions.
• Pathmapping part 2
• Pathmapping part 3

AI Basic

• DICE Basic AI reference PDF
• DICE Vehicle AI reference PDF
• Botinator Tutorial (Cajun Wolf)
• AI File Reference (from Wiki)
• BF42AI reference (Spreadsheet)
• Pathmap Editing Overview
• How to Add bots with BFSP - Battlefield Single Player Program (Dnamro)
• Convert pathmaps for use with ED42 using BFSP (Dnamro)
• Convert ED42 textures into pathmaps using BFSP (Dnamro)
• Using Ed42 to pathmap (Dnamro)
• Painting pathmap tips with Ed42
• Creating Pathmaps with the debugger
• Overcomming pathmap creation problems (dnamro)
• AI modding tips
• AI Tips
• Vehicle AI (Dnamro)
• Vehicle Weapon AI (Dnamro)
• Vehicle AI Continued (Dnamro)
• Useful debugging commands
• How Battle of Britian works (by FourCentsShy)
• Debugger Tips (by Mr. Loama)
• AI debugger Toolkit Tutorial (By FourCentsShy)

AI advanced

• AI Strategies (Carey bear)
• AI Meshes (Legion of the Dragon)
• AI Misc
• AI Skill Settings
• Create AI meshes Overview
• Create AI meshes with Gmax
• Using Genpathmaps (4CentsShy)
• Landing Craft AI (4CentsShy)
• Landing Zones (HDN)
• Small ones mystery (Aching Laser)
• How to add bot spawns to a vehicle (Dnamro)
• AIpathfinding.con structure
• Custom Map Aitweaks
• Getting bots to spawn in a class
• Getting bots to use stationary weapons
• restrict bot use of vehicles
• Create an Objective Style Coop map
• Strategy Modifiers
• AI Behaviors
• Weapon Changes for only Singleplayer
• Getting bots to use landmines

Sound/Music

• Sound Scripting (MDT Website)
• BF Music

Modeling

• How to edit 3d models (MDT Website)
• Hand weapons Animation (MDT Website)
• Anatomy of a Standardmesh file (MDT Website)
• Destroyable Buildings (MDT Website)
• Edit Textues (MDT Website)
• Edit Tank Treads (MDT Website)
• Edit Trees (MDT Website)
• How to Use the Object Generator (MDT Website)
• Aircraft Modeling
• 3dsmax Standardmesh import-export
• 3dsmax Lightmap Tutorial
• Adding Custom Models
• Custom Texture tutorial
• Cockpit Modeling
• Using Splines
• MatID Unwrapping - Example files

Misc

• FAQ on Modding
• Command line commands (4centsShy)
• Conditionals (4CentsShy and others)
• BF Constants
• Using your own music
• Compressing RFA (BF Wiki)
• How to Edit menus
• Understanding the Damage System (MDT Website)
• Understanding the HUD (MDT Website)
• How to remove chutes
• Using Winrfa (Cajun Wolf)
• Muliple Mod maps
• Packing Rfa
• Base Camping
• Capture Multiple Flags
• Create Quickstart shortcuts

Server

• Server Issues
• Server Issues - Continued
• Create ContentCRC
• Testing Server side mods
• Setting up a BF42 Server behind a router-firewall

Mod tools

• BFSPC - Battlefield Single Player Creater (by Hellisher) == Readme
• AISATool
• FlyRawGui - Converts between RAW and BMP format
• TGAMerge (By MadBull)-- Readme
• TGASplit
• GenPaths (by FourCentsShy)-- Readme
• Undxt = Readme
• BF42 Debugger
• BFVdebugger
• Makerfa
• DDS Viewer
• Precachegenerator -- Readme
• ED42 Configurator (By CZI) Readme
• Botinator
• Battlecraft lst file generator -- Readme
• Aimeshs for BF42, RTR, SW and BFVietnam
• BF42 Lightmap
• BFV Lightmap
• 3DS MAX DDS Plugin
• BF Armory
• BF Swiss Army Knife (by 4CentsShy)
• BFedit
• BFMDT2_75
• BotFactory -- PDF Tutorial in German
• Photoshop DDS plugin
• Rexman AI Path tools
• ThehedsBFAIHelp
• AI debug Toolkit (By 4CentsShy)
• Treemeshes for ED42

Useful Links