#battlefront 2 mod

[ahhrenata]

[devileaterjaek]

[lord-sutherland]

Star Wars Battlefront 2 Mods!

[just-a-randomperson]

I just want to say that the duel between Ahsoka and Vader in episode 5 looked like something straight out of a Battlefront 2 mod.

This? This was amazing.

[kaitaiga]

Decided to boot up Battlefront 2 again after so many years (I miss playing!) and remembered I had some Sev (+ the other Deltas) mods installed 🤤

He looks so damn good 😫

[caassette]

one interesting thing in programming is the prevalence of scripting languages, which refer to programming languages that are built around "scripts" which are interpreted at run-time rather than other types of programs which are compiled into machine code and then executed. The important distinction here is that with scripting languages, you write your code and run it, with no in-between compilation step (which often can take a while).

as the name implies, scripting languages are really good for "scripting" things! so if you have a certain set of steps you want to execute every time you log in to your computer (i.e. turn on my vpn, adjust my timezone, deactivate my webcam) you'll use something like Bash to write that script, rather than an ahead-of-time compiled language like C.

The most common (by far, like it's not even close) scripting language is javascript, which you may know from the internet. But another popular scripting language, especially for videogames, is Lua.

There's a few cool things about Lua, but one of my favorites is that it's Brazilian! Nearly every programming language in widespread use was developed in the USA, but Lua was developed at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, which is where it is still developed to this day!

While made famous by roblox, which uses Lua for scripting the games you can make within it, manh other games also use Lua, such as:

Garry's Mod

BeamNG.Drive

Civilization V & VI

Don't Starve

The Elder Scrolls Online

Factorio

Grim Fandango

Payday: The Heist & 2

Powder Toy

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Saints Row 2, The Third, and IV

SimCity 4

Star Wars: Battlefront I & II (the originals)

Tap Tap Revenge

The Witcher

World of Warcraft

and more!

[general-kalani]

New commission post, this time gifs! Prices can be negotiated but I'm thinking temporarily $5/two gifs.

Icon commission post here, Dinosaur gif commission post here, Writing commission post here, TWD commission post here

Can be in AUD or USD but if you want to negotiate with any of the options below, lmk! Paypal here and Ko-Fi here

This is an ever growing list and if you ask for a specific movie/show/game/etc I'll do my best to get my hands on it.

Options under cut for what can be chosen:

ANCIENT ANIMALS

Dinosaur (2000)

The Land Before Time (1988 movie)

Walking with Monsters

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Beasts

Walking with Cavemen

Walking with Dinosaurs special - Ballad of Big Al

Chased by Dinosaurs (episodes 1 & 2)

Sea Monsters (episodes 1, 2 & 3)

Prehistoric Planet

Planet Dinosaur

Dinosaur Planet

Primeval

Prehistoric Park

MOVIES

The Hunt for Red October

The Mist

Alien Planet

Dog Soldiers

Dragonlance Dragons of Autumn Twilight

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Wing Commander (1999 movie)

SHOWS

Babylon 5

Battletech Cartoon

Bitten

D&D Cartoon

Stargate SG-1

Transformers: Beast Machines

Transformers: Beast Wars

Transformers G1

Transformers the Movie

Transformers Prime

Voltron Vehicle Force

Vox Machina (season 1 only atm)

ANIME - LEIJIVERSE

Cosmo Warrior Zero

Galaxy Express

Gun Frontier

Harlock Saga - The Ring of the Nibelung

Interstellar 5555

Queen Emeraldas

Queen Millennia (might not be high quality)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey

SSX Endless Orbit

Arcadia of my Youth

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013 movie)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Riddle of the Arcadia

ANIME - IRRESPONSIBLE CAPTAIN TYLOR

Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV series

Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA series

ANIME - LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES (original series only)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes series

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Golden Wings

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Overture to a New War

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden

ANIME - MACROSS

Macross 7

Macross Delta

Macross Frontier

Macross Plus

Macross Zero

Robotech

SDF Macross

ANIME - REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA

Revolutionary Girl Utena tv series

Revolutionary Girl Utena movie

ANIME - SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO/STAR BLAZERS (original series and reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Odyssey of the Celestial Ark

Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato I (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato II (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato III (OS)

Arrivederci Yamato

Be Forever Yamato

Final Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato (2013 movie)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato (1977 recap movie)

Yamato - The New Voyage

Yamato: Resurrection

GAMES - FAR CRY (only games I own, sorry!)

Far Cry 3 (Can be modded for Jason in Vaas' place)

Far Cry 4 (Can be modded for Sabal and Pagan to switch places)

Far Cry 5 (Can be heavily modded)

Far Cry: New Dawn

Far Cry 6

GAMES - STAR WARS

KOTOR (I and II)

SWTOR

Star Wars: The Force Unleased (I and II)

Star Wars: Rebellion

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Star Wars: Starfighter

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Classic)

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars: Jedi Knight series (Dark Forces I and II, Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast)

GAMES - BORDERLANDS

Borderlands (GOTY and GOTY Enhanced)

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 3

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

GAMES - MISCELLANEOUS

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

Dead Island (Definitive Edition, can be modded to get rid of lens flares and more)

Dead Island Riptide (Definitive Edition)

Generation Zero

Left 4 Dead 2

Iron Harvest

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion (Can be specific matches, races, etc)

State of Decay (I and II)

Strange Brigade

[irlactualhuman]

My heart aches for playing Battlefront 2 and Xmen age of apocalypse and tetris on my old modded Xbox with the bones of an eldrazi elves EDH deck with the new full art zendikar lands organized on the carpeted floor a few feet away.

It's a small trailer. Shared. Beer in the fridge. An ancient '92 jeep in the driveway. I can smell the dirt and freshly shorn hay fields down the road. The wood paneling is homely, but warm. There's a little lift trick you have to do to the door of my bedroom to get it to latch properly.

I just started a job making 13 bucks an hour. A kingly sum. We had just survived the recession. We thought it was so bad.

What foolishness to let these carefree moments pass from me without fanfare.

[lunaslogs]

Polyamory In The Sims 4?!

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I have been a Sims lover since I was a wee child but specifically, the Sims 4. I've been playing it for YEARS and just recently downloaded my first mod which just so happens to be a Sims 4 essential. If you play the Sims 4, you know I'm talking about the MC Command Center.

BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT TODAY!! About a month ago, I discovered a mod that would allow polyamorous relationships in the Sims since the base game (at least up until now) didn't allow that.

HOWEVER, with the announcement and NEW TRAILER of the newest pack, "Lovestruck" coming out on JULY 25TH, THAT SEEMS TO BE CHANGING! I even have a screenshot from the OFFICIAL ARTICLE!

"It's just a game, it's not even that serious" Yes. I am aware it is just a game. However, it's also a very popular game that many people (including myself) still play to this day despite it being almost 10 years old. It's a game made by a VERY BIG game company (Electronic Arts or EA for short) that knows what makes or breaks a game (as we've seen with EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2.)

Hopefully, this will start opening some eyes and get us all one step closer to normalizing and defeating the stigma against polyamory. Maybe I'm thinking too much about it. Maybe it will be different when the pack actually comes out.

But aside from that incredible step, there are definitely other things in this pack that I am looking forward to. WE HAVE A CANON DATING APP NOW!! SimDa, I love you and you've done your due diligence. BUT THE WAY THE SIMS 4 COMMUNITY HAS BEEN ASKING FOR A DATING APP FROM THIS DAMN COMPANY FOR SO LONG AND WE FINALLY GET IT?!

However, I am probably going to give it a while before I actually get the pack (after release of course) because there is this whole thing with bugs and patches that happens when the packs first come out and the game just doesn't run right. I want to give the pack a chance in its entirety so I'll probably let people complain first and wait for the bugs to fix to really give it a shot.

BUT AHHHHH, I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT THESE NEW POSSIBILITIES! Definitely going to be sending this short essay to my partners later so AD, if you've made it this far in my little yap session, I love you both so much and once I get this pack, I'm so making us in the Sims <3

This is Luna, logging off!

[dalekofchaos]

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[baby-prince-oppa]

PSA: You can now play as The Stranger from The Acolyte in the game Star Wars: Battlefront 2!

Link for the MOD, audio clips, and more in the video description. ⬇️

[Source]

Apparently this unofficial model was made to replace Kylo Ren in-game, so his set moves are the same (which unfortunately means no dual wielding action) but overall it still feels very in-character.

And before you ask, no there hasn't been an unmasked version of Qimir/The Stranger or if there ever will be. That's completely up to the modder.

But in any case, if you know your way around importing mods into the game, knock yourselves out! 😁

[skyboxeye]

Capturing the ambience of Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005)

This guide explains how to combine PC visuals and PS2 audio.

Extracting sounds

Existing community efforts

I was unable to find a perfect solution for extracting per-LVL streams (e.g. data_lvl_pc\sound\cor.lvl) on PC. There is a tool that endeavors to do so, but I found very mixed results with it. I found someone's in-game recordings of each ambient stream, but this didn't include all assets and I noticed some assets weren't recorded at their full length.

A modder going by "BAD-AL" is the most knowledgeable about this, still working periodically on stream extraction. You can run his fork of the tool yourself (tricky) or download the results of that work here. I found some of the streams had the wrong frequency compared to in-game, don't loop perfectly out of the box, and exhibit some noise. Nonetheless, these outputs will serve as a great reference point for validating our own rips.

There's a bunch of information about how sounds work in the game's primary modding community, including a guide to custom ambient sounds. There's a tool which decomplies ("unmunge"s) LVLs but this doesn't support audio.

My solution: vgmstream

I ended up giving up on decoding PC's streams, and running the PS2 version's LVLs through vgmstream instead. We'll tell vgmstream to interpret the entire LVL binary as an audio stream, and then select the actual audio data we want in an editor program e.g. Audacity.

This strategy is complicated by the fact that our TXTH file still needs an accurate interleave value, however. Some experimentation in MFAudio, In Cube and PSSound led to 16384, aka 0x4000 at the correct value. From here you can empirically guess-and-check num_sample values.

Set start_offset to 2048. I used ADPCM Ripper V1 and V2 as a starting point to help me determine this, and empirically tweaked it until the results sounded error-free.

Here's my Utapau TXTH for example:

codec = PSX interleave = 16384 channels = 2 sample_rate = 42500 start_offset = 2048 num_samples = 7931676

Stream sample rates

When using in-game recordings as reference I found, inexplicably, that each stream ran at a different speed rather than standard sample rates e.g. 44100 and 48000. I was therefore only able to determine these values empirically, i.e. by recording about ~3mins of audio from desired map areas.

Environmental sound effects

In addition to streams, each LVL contains the environmental sound effects for its map. For convenience I recommend just using one of the community downloads above for these, although I supposed they could be extracted one-by-one using the vgmstream method.

Appendix 1: Extracting individual MIB files

VGMToolbox, with it's brute force PS2 stream ripper tool, is capable of plucking individual MIB streams out of LVL archives. However, these are apparently headerless as they lack frequency and interleave information, so we still need to provide a TXTH to inform vgmstream's decoding.

Also, frustratingly, these MIBs always seem to lack the last sample in their right channel. I guessed that this was a symptom of an improper interleave_last value in my TXTH, but this setting didn't seem to make a difference.

Appendix 2: Dolby Pro Logic streams and front/back stereo pairs

My understanding of Pro Logic is limited - it seems to offer simulated or compact surround sound in an asset that's the size of a traditional stereo stream? Each PS2 LVL should contain one of these per stream.

Streams are quadrophonic on other platforms, i.e. they come in pairs of front/back stereo assets.

Capturing footage

Installing Mod Tools

The community has applied some fixes to BF2's official mod tools such that they work on newer operating systems. You can find those fixes yourself (vistamunge, "No DVD" EXE) or download an all-in-one package with these fixes pre-applied. Install its files into your GameData directory.

Hiding the HUD

By launching BF2_modtools_NoDVD.exe you'll have a version of the game with a developer console. Press ~ to activate. You'll find lots of commands and options here, but for the purposes of this guide we're interested in debugmenu.ToggleDisplay or Interface.Enable to disable the HUD. SetFov changes the field of vision.

(Not) entering cheats

Supposedly you can also disable the HUD via the "usetheforceluke" cheat during mission select. Before typing, park your cursor near the position below, and press Enter to submit. However, this didn't work for me - it may have been patched out at some point.

Free Camera mode

The developer version of the BF2 also has additional pause menu options. We can activate Free Camera mode, or bring up the "Fake Console" which is essentially a GUI for common commands. While in Free Camera, the game will pause by default, but you can toggle this with the M or Backspace key. Press WASD to directionally, and HOME and END to move vertically.

There are additional commands inside the console that you can choose to engage, depending on your preferences. For example Blur.Enable.

To disable AI spawning, set AI Units Per Team to 0. This setting is respected by most game modes.

Full-screen captures

You'll notice, however, that BF2_modtools launches itself into a small window and seemingly cannot toggle fullscreen. There are probably third-party programs to force the application into fullscreen; I didn't explore this. Luckily the community has made an EXE that launches to fullscreen.

Additional mods and projects

The unofficial "1.3" patch is considered the definitive way to play the game on PC, especially for multiplayer. It introduces the Mod Tools' developer features to your installed game in addition to expanding BF2's base capabilities.

The PC conversion of BF2 has some issues not found on Xbox/PS2. There are community mods to address some of these issues.

The Xbox version of BF2 got some exclusive DLC; the community has worked to port this to PC.

BFBuilder, Pandemic Studio's map editor. There is also WorldEdit, a community-made BF2 map editor.

Phoenix, a re-implementation of SWBF2 in Unity3D.

[lord-sutherland]

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (SWTOR)

So many Swtor mods for BF2!!!

[ilovescifictionandfantasy]

Leia Skywalker Mod for Star Wars Battlefront 2

[servants-hall]

‘The Gilded Age’ Stars Reveal the Social Battlefronts of Season 2 (PHOTOS)

[These interviews were conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization.]

Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) finally has her foot in the door of 1883 Manhattan society in HBO‘s The Gilded Age Season 2, but the door to the coveted Academy of Music remains closed. No matter. She’ll make the fledgling Metropolitan Opera the place to be instead! And that’s just one intrigue for The Gilded Age’s second season.

TV Insider was on set of Julian Fellowes‘ glamorous period drama in September 2022. There, we spoke with Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson, Fellowes, and the team behind the camera as they filmed a pivotal garden party scene on the lush grounds of Long Island’s Old Westbury estate. The former home to an heir of the Phipps family fortune, this was a perfect locale to host the series’ fictional steel magnates and their families.

George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell are as hellbent to get to the top as ever in the new episodes, premiering October 29 on HBO and streaming on Max, and last season’s setbacks and victories will make them even more cutthroat. While George handles the money (and union troubles at his railroad), Bertha handles their social rise.

“George wants to be the richest and most powerful man in the country. That is his motivation,” Fellowes told journalists on set. “I personally don’t think he cares much about society, but he cares about his wife. And because she wants to be the dominating factor in New York society, he will support her in that and anything he can do to support her, he will do. That’s why I don’t think he cares if he knows a duchess or he’s having dinner with a princess. He could give a monkey’s toss about that. He just wants people to shake in the knee when he comes in the room, because he can break them just like that.”

“What I hope I’ve created in Bertha and George are one of those marriages where they both have quite separate fields of endeavor and each one of them is 100 percent supportive of the other one’s ambitions,” Fellowes continues, “so any way they can help, they will.”

The Russells aren’t the only well-off family with their eyes on the social prize. Below, the stars of The Gilded Age reveal the social battlefronts of Season 2.

The Gilded Age, Season 2 Premiere, Sunday, October 29, 9/8c, HBO

This is an expanded excerpt from TV Guide Magazine’s 2023 Returning Favorites issue. For more first looks at fall’s returning shows, pick up the issue, on newsstands now. {mod note: this was shared on Tumblr here}

Instead of Vying for a Seat, Bertha Makes Her Own Table

Bertha (Coon, above, with Nathan Lane) “thrives” on the bitterness her friendship with Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy) stirs up in town, Coon says, adding, “It’s not just the other ladies who get ruffled. Mrs. Astor herself is in for a few surprises if she thinks she’s pacified Bertha by allowing her to enter society.”

When it comes to her and George’s children, Larry (Harry Richardson) and Gladys (Taissa Farmiga), Bertha has her sights set on a noteworthy marriage for her newly out daughter.

“Gladys is developing a mind of her own, much to Bertha’s chagrin. [Gladys] doesn’t always go along with what Bertha wants for her, and so we’ll see a lot of butting heads between the two of them,” Coon explains. “Larry, she doesn’t worry about. The world’s set up for Larry, but he makes some bad decisions, and it wouldn’t be like Bertha to keep her nose out of that business. She’s going to insert herself wherever she can to make sure her kids are on the right track.”

George's Past May Come Back to Haunt Him

Bertha and railroad baron husband George “are very much working in concert,” Coon says, to secure their rise, but the firing of gold-digging lady’s maid Turner (Kelley Curran) is the “monkey wrench” in their best-laid plans.

“Turner’s been dismissed, but we’ll see,” Coon warns. “That may not be the last of that lie. Bertha and George are going to have to deal with some personal issues in their marriage while they’re trying to complete this rise in society.”

Marian Searches for a Husband on Her Own Terms

Despite her money problems, Marian Brook (Jacobson) was the bright-eyed lovebird of Season 1. But being jilted by would-be husband Tom Raikes (Thomas Cocquerel) may have cast a love match out of her mind in Season 2. Nevertheless, Jacobson told us on set that Marian’s “shining this season.”

“I think she’s really stepping into herself. Having a bit of heartbreak has made her not necessarily cynical, but have a little bit of spice and edge. She’s not so timid,” she says. Timid, she’s not, but blind she may be.

Dashing neighbor Larry (Richardson) showed romantic interest in the Season 1 ender, and Jacobson says they will “continue to deepen their friendship” in Season 2 as Marian “feels relief when she’s around him.” But this former romantic may be shirking love for pragmatism like her Aunt Agnes (Baranski), much to Aunt Ada’s (Nixon) displeasure.

Agnes van Rhijn Wants Marian Married

Agnes van Rhijn experiences a tectonic shift in her relationship with sister Ada Brook.

“You’ll see a level of depth and feeling there that’s going to be quite rich,” Baranski tells TV Insider. Adds Nixon: “The power skirmishes that have been subtextual come out.”

As Marian searches for her life partner, Agnes will continue to urge her to be pragmatic, as her pragmatism saved their family from destitution after Marian’s late father squandered their family fortune.

Ada Brook Asserts Her Independence

While Nixon says that “Ada is not a rule-breaker,” the spinster will be outspoken about niece Marian not following in Agnes’ strategic footsteps when choosing a husband. Still, Ada fears Marian becoming the next Mrs. Chamberlain should she only follow her heart.

“I think [Ada’s] a person who likes to push it and try to push the envelope and sort of see what she can get,” Nixon says, “but for herself and also for her niece, she doesn’t want her to speak to Mrs. Chamberlain because there’s such a price to pay.”

As for her personal life, Ada won’t be as meek and meager this season. Her newfound independence and insistence that she can live a life separate from her sister may be what brings on that tectonic shift. Or could it be political differences as social issues, especially women’s right to vote, start to come to the surface?

[infinityactual]

Man I should play morrowwind but like

The graphics are physically painful to look at. I think they suck. And I play halo 2, sw battlefront 2 and republic commando, call of duty 2, aka games that came out around the same time. Yet morrowwind (and oblivion) are just.....eugh

Y'know, I've tried to figure out a good reply to this for a long time, and I keep coming back to 'What was the point of this ask, anyway?'

You sent it shortly after I reblogged stuff about a game I love, regardless of how crappy it really, actually is, so it came off like you just wanted me to know how much you hate the graphics.

Newsflash: Most TES players aren't fond of the graphics either, for Morrowind or Oblivion, and that's why there's like a zillion PC mods to improve on what we were given (If you have either game for Xbox, you're SOL). Morrowind is a fucking hinky mess of code that had to have a (rather ingenious, actually) built-in auto reboot because it crashes so often. Oblivion is slightly better in that regard, but also has graphics that have serious issues with lighting bloom and the NPC AI is hilariously bad.

If you can't stand the graphics and think they look like shit, fine. That's a fair lament. But comparing an open world RPG game with *hundreds* of totally unique NPCs, dynamic lighting, unique quests and dialogue for said quests, thousands of items and the ability for the player to modify those items built into the game, to an FPS shooter with less than a quarter of the explorable game world, NPCs, dialogue, and in-game items is not a fair or even a good comparison. They're both GAMES, but they're completely different styles of game run on completely different engines with completely different areas of focus during development. Morrowind vs Halo 2 is like my Chevy Cobalt vs an F-1 racer; they're both cars, but one is so generalized it's not superb at any one thing, and I can drive it wherever I want on city streets. The other is highly specialized for speed and can only drive specific race circuits.

There are also a lot of variables that can affect game graphic quality, from the game engine itself, complexity and overall size of the game's code, to constraints of the hardware running the game. Playing a game powered by the Unreal engine (one of the fancy older engines that was a Big Deal there for awhile in the early aughts) doesn't mean shit if you're trying to run it on a '98 Gateway PC with a stock graphics card. And console games didn't even have the luxury of being moddable until the last 5 or 6 years iirc.

If you want to play Morrowind for the story, but want better graphics, look into getting it for PC and getting the Open MW mod, and some compatible graphics overhauls. That's what I did, and it vastly improves the game experience.