Supreme Commander Basic Modding Tutorial

A video on making a basic mod for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. I'll provide a short written rendition of what was presented in the video. The idea is that in writing a mod for this game in this way is that you are replacing code in the game with your own different code. In the video the Mech Marine's damage is increased. This is done by changing its blueprint file, which contains all of the stats that go along with the unit like health, movement speed, damage, etc. In order to tell the game what unit you are modifying, you emulate the directory to that file that you are changing in your mod starting at the gamedata folder in your supcom installation. For instance if I wanted to change UEL0106_unit.bp (Mech Marine stats) I would first find where it appears in the game installation. It is located at the following directory:
\wherever you installed supremecommander\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\gamedata\units\UEL0106\UEL0106_unit.bp
As such I create this directory in my mod:
\MechMarineDamageBooster\hook\units\UEL0106\UEL0106_unit.bp
Notice how all of the folders beyond the gamedata folder in the supreme commander installation are the same as the folders past the hook folder in the mod. This tells the computer exactly where the file being replaced is and what it is called and what to replace it with.

If you have any questions regarding modding in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, feel free to write a comment, send me a message through the FAF discord (username: Robotnik), send me a message through FAF client (username is usually DrIvoRobotnik), or send and email to [email protected]. Hope this helps you!