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Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:35 pm
by AnthonyBF2
The method is pretty hard to explain, I am trying to make the tutorial as simple as possible and will post it here later, (involves reading memory, etc and hex editing)
http://tinypic.com/r/70x2c7/8
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:30 pm
by commanderawesome
Is this an April Fool's joke?
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:39 pm
by THEWULFMAN
At the very least, the screenshot isn't recent, given that multiplayer died last year.
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:42 pm
by commanderawesome
There's always gamemaster.
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:02 pm
by THEWULFMAN
Well yes, but I know there's not that many servers left. I wish there were. :u
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:49 pm
by commanderawesome
Good point.
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:59 pm
by Anakin
commanderawesome wrote:Is this an April Fool's joke?
I think that very hard method can be found here:
http://www.adobe.com/de/products/photoshop.html 
I' m realy suprised that your desktop is that clean
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 5:21 pm
by commanderawesome
Here's a much easier
and free method:
http://www.gimp.org/
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:16 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
anthonybf2 wrote:(involves reading memory, etc and hex editing)
No need for all that. Convert a screenshot of your desktop into a bnk video. Munge the related mvs. Include a cGC script to load and set that video as a background video to whichever shell screens you want. There's already a tutorial on how to create the video and posts on how to load it into the shell. Playing videos within the shell is easy, trying to play them within an ingame map was the hard part.
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:39 am
by Anakin
I think i haven't found the tutorials when i looked for them. Is it in the FAQ??
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:23 am
by AnthonyBF2
Ah Yes This post was a joke
But then Zerted comes along with that and makes me thing it really is possible...
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:42 am
by [RDH]Zerted
It's something like:
1) Load your movie file
2) Switch SWBF2's movie stream to use your movie file (I don't remember if this is required or not)
3) Inject the following code into the shell:
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<IFScreen>.movieBackground = <movie name>
--where <IFScreen> is the table that defines the screen you want it to play on
--where <movie name> is the move you want to play
4) Uninstall the mod because reading your map lists is difficult with a video of scrolling map lists playing in the background.
4.1) But it might be an excellent way to show follow-along tutorials for how to change specific shell settings or something (if anyone really needed that. But then they'd need a video on how to install the video...).
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 4:47 am
by thelegend
And what if the background .tga file is 100% transparent? Would the background be black or could you be able to watch YT videos while scrolling trough the maps?
Re: Howto make transparent shell mod (exe editing)
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:13 am
by Marth8880
It doesn't actually make the game instance transparent m80
