[Help] How to transfer a faction from other BF2 mods to PR

[Viikkasota]

I would like to transfer Soviet Union faction from Battlegroup Frontlines mod to Project Reality. How is it done?

[AfterDune]

One does not simply... move a faction.

I take it you're not familiar with bf2 modding? If so, better start somewhere else I'm afraid.

[Viikkasota]

I take it you're not familiar with bf2 modding? If so, better start somewhere else I'm afraid.

I'm not unfamiliar with BF2 modding. I have made couple of BF2 and PR minimods for myself and uploaded one to the forums. I have also added co-op to PR Vietnam. I tried to replace PR's russian faction's skins with the soviet's skins from BGF mod before but the russian team didn't spawn. So I thought about adding the whole faction, but I haven't done that before and PR has a different file structure than the other mods, which makes it little more difficult.

[AnimalMother.]

If you have an old version of PR:F take a look at how to load a faction from a level leaving your core files alone.

Then from there you should get a grasp of what goes where.

Don't forget to add them to the faction_inits.con (or create a new one within your chosen levels folder)

[AfterDune]

You can also take a look at Normandy, works pretty much the same way.

From the top of my head, you need to transfer:
- Flags, take a look at the menu_client.zip (found im [bf2-dir]/mods/pr/levels/pn_base/menu/)
- Soldiers
- Kits
- Weapons
- Faction inits (Normandy uses faction_inits_ww2)

That's a good start. From there, work out the various bugs you'll encounter. Mostly things you missed. It'll happen, no big deal. Just run in windowed mode and take it all from there.

What's your plan though, adding the Russians to Normandy?

[AnimalMother.]

Missing flags I found caused the most crashes from my experience, double no triple check you have the right ones in the right place in the right format!

Also remember to have an updated client and serverarchives.con within the level to 'find' the new directories for your faction(s)

E: depending on how you tried to load the faction previously the archives might have been what caused you problems.

[Viikkasota]

What's your plan though, adding the Russians to Normandy?

I was thinking about making finnish wars in PR and making Nazi Germany faction a finnish faction by removing Nazi Germany signs from their uniforms and adding finnish sounds for them and changing their weapons and flags. Opposing them would be the Soviet Union faction.

[Arc_Shielder]

I was thinking about making finnish wars in PR and making Nazi Germany faction a finnish faction by removing Nazi Germany signs from their uniforms and adding finnish sounds for them and changing their weapons and flags. Opposing them would be the Soviet Union faction.

Are you thinking of doing a map though?

[Viikkasota]

Are you thinking of doing a map though?

No. I don't have map making skills but I was planning to use some maps like snowy park summer or other forest maps.