I’m looking to use the animated background used in the start menu as a animated desktop wallpaper using DreamScene 7. Ive looked at tutorials to do this in other source games but i cant seem to find them in the BMS/media folder.
are they stored in a different folder or am i doing something wrong?
I’m assuming you mean the animation that plays behind the menus, like this.
If so, these are actual maps, not media. I don’t know how to get these to display as an animated wallpaper for Windows, but you can find these maps in Steam/steamapps/sourcemods/BMS/maps, they’re the ones with “background” in the file name.
Yep, you’ll have to record it yourself. If you use the console to load the map that you want (eg. “map background05”), you’ll be able to see just the background and not the menu items.
If you need help, I can record it for you. Just let me know which background.
There is an official playlist of all background videos right here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH32izvaP-U8k0JswogQPRwQWHIHm2ZSk
You can download them off YouTube with an add-on like VideoHelper.