The goal of project is to utilize old UI mods and create new ones. New mods must be customizable in order for user to be able to enable/disable things user needs/doesn't need. Code base must be extendable for further development and be performant as well, so, user won't have issues with lagging game.

Here are already mods having more comfortable and customizable tools to work with.

TeamInfo Share

Provides with UI and communication with teammates about nukes, smds and experimentals.

Current functions:

• timer
• count of loaded missiles
• % of completion
• toggable UI of categories
• customizable positions of texts

Upcoming functions:

• color customization
• more types of categories

Idle Engineers Light

Provides with UI info about idle engineers, idle factories, upgrading mexes and loaded tmls/smls displayed as icons on worldview.

Current functions:

• toggable display of icons

Upcoming functions:

• various icons to choose (user's as well)
• square + text mode

ECO UI Tools

Provides with mexes panel with functional buttons and info about mexes. Displays upgrading mexes with icons on worldview.

Current functions:

• T1/T2 mexes
  • start upgrading and pause
  • start upgrading and pause for those on screen
  • select all
  • select all on screen
• T1/T2 upgrading mexes
  • pause all
  • pause one with lowest progress
  • select all
  • select all on screen
• T1/T2 upgrading paused mexes
  • unpause all
  • unpause one with highest progress
  • select all
  • select all on screen
• T3 mexes
  • select all
  • select all on screen

Upcoming functions:

• toggable icons
• customization
• resource usage panel
• various icons + square with text
• autopause

HotBuild Overhaul

Corresponding post.

Better chat

Corresponding post.

Specific Target Priorities

In Dev TBA

Selected Units Info

In Dev TBA

Smart Ring Display

In Dev TBA

4z0t's Score Board

TBA

Advanced Selection Tools

TBA

Additional Orders Extension

Adds new orders combining some functionality of others or quality of life ones.

• Select ACU/goto to it / OC mode
• Select all idle engineers on screen not ACU
• Select nearest idle t1 engineer / reclaim mode
• Remove last queued unit in factory
• to be added
  In Dev

EzReclaim

Displays reclaim labels in reclaim mode. Groups reclaim labels and colors text according to amount of mass in it.

In Dev

UI Mod Tools

The library of tools for UI modding. Docs are coming with 4th (mb 5th) version.

• Options for UI mods
• Query wrapper to work with tables
• Unit functions
• Layouter for UI

What's next?

As you can see there are a lot of mods being developed by me, but why?
Let's look through mod vault and select the most popular:

Supreme Score Board

Legendary mod, I appreciate work been done by HUSSAR. It is one of the mods I really like. However it has obsoleted. Code base is poor, so, you can't add, you can't remove. It takes a lot of space in UI making user with smaller screens struggle using it.
In addition, It doesn't match factions' skins and doesn't hide with whole UI (Ctrl+Shift+F1).

Idle Engineers 1/2/reloaded

Performance issues, poor code base. Uncustomizable.

Supreme economy

Takes a lot of space in UI. Bad UI design. Poor code base. Uncustomizable.

Advanced Selection Info + similar mods

Performance issues. Uncustomizable.

ECO Manager

Legendary UI mod. There were rumors that you could become 3k using it. No, but you would have performance issues, bugged funcions, broken hotkeys and vulnerability to icon spamming (aka smds everywhere). In addition poor code base and uncustomizable functions you might not needed.

Cool, hah? But who am I to decide? Well, you decide to believe me or not.
Since I am doing this alone I can't even think about revolution and that's why I want your help.
I need:

• Devs: Very specific, but if you really want, ask me
• Testers: I can't test all things I do
• Promoters: Spread our goal around others and blame listed mods

Keep in mind that I also participate in FAF development and this extends to FA UI as well, there are tons of issues to be fixed.

• Create your own build sets with HotBuild Overhaul!
  
• Edit existing ones!
  
• Bind and use!
  
  Requires UI mod tools

Quick guide how to use mod

Functions

Replay Scoreboard

• Variety of stats
• Sorting by specific stat with mouse wheel scrolling
• Hidable stat columns

In-game Scoreboard

• giving/requesting mass/energy/units
• display of mass/energy in storage while holding shift
• display of mass/energy max storage while holding ctrl

Layouts

Replay Scoreboard

• Default
  
• Glow border
  

In-game Scoreboard

• Default
  
• Semi glow border
  
• Glow border
  
• Window border
  

Co-op

• Default
  
• Semi glow border
  
• Glow border
  
• Window border
  

Options

General

• Selection of scoreboard style (layout)
• Option for sorting players in teams by score as default
• Backgroud color
• Display of team color as backgroud
• Team color bg alpha

Colors and Fonts

• Various options for colors and fonts

Tired of writing to the team chat?
Can't type that fast?
Here is the solution of your problems! (or not)
Better chat!

Create your own phrases to quickly send them to the chat with only a few clicks!

You can also make levels of tree to separate specific phases:

Every new game mod creates tree with player names:

Question mark will help you understand the functionality of mod

Attention:

• this mod does not replace your keybinds it uses its own ones
• however it blocks input so you wont be able to give orders to units based on keybinds, so, you will have to close window
• please report about any bugs, its important

In the end:
I hope community will help with promotion of the mod and its improvement, enjoy playing!

Also, here is the list of upcoming features:

• map ping with phrase - done
• better system of blocking input - done
• integrated emojis - ...

EzReclaim

Shows reclaim labels in reclaim mode.

Specific Target Priorities

Allows you to set target priority of any kind of unit. Bind
hotkey to target_specific located in Target priorities section. Hover over unit which type you want to target, and press key you binded to. (Doesn't override ACU targeting, due to snipe mode)

Engineer Alt Selection

Select only enginners with shift+alt

Smart Ring Display

Shows ranges on units when holding shift.

Beer

For aesthetes of beer. Plays beer open sound when mex starts upgrading and pour one when mex is completed.

This mod has existed for 2 years, but was made when I was not that skilled enough to make it properly. Now I've decided to complete it as Select Spawn Locations!
During the start of the game you can pick location where to spawn at (with right click).

Right now it is just reimplementation of an old mod.
But I'm going to do more QoL features such as:

• "ready" button
• more spawn area shapes and auto shape selector
• support for more teams?

To start playing with this mod you have select proper spawn area type depening on map (better to play on map generators with lots of mexes spread around!)

I'd like to hear your opinion and if bugs occur, reports!

This mod is superior version of old Selection Deprioritizer. ASE provides with more features and more stable and performant compared to predecessor.

Options

With options menu you can enable and disable certain functions in real time.

Lets go through each one of them to see what they do.

Domain filters

You can select what domain to prioritize during game. To do that you need to bind a key for Rotate Domain order. Rotating domain orders makes them be prioritized above others and the order is show with a message and with cursor label.

You can also use auto one, but it is an experimental feature and requires some time to get used to.

Unit lock

You can lock units from selecting with others. Only locked units can be selected together or with shift pressed. Bind Toggle units lock to use the feature.

Assister filter

Some units are crucial to be near others. Mobile shields, land scouts and stealth fields won't be selected if they are guarding any other unit.

Hovers and Naval

Hovers are helpful during naval combat, but they are considered as Land domain units. You can enable that hovers will be selected with naval units.

Exotics

Most units must stay behind others and should not be selected in first place. With that feature you can forget about long ranged units going in with rest of others during fights.

Compatibility

Mod may be incompatible with other mods that alter selection and somehow use it. Definitely incompatible Selection Deprioritizer.

Requires UI Mod Tools to function.

New assembly patch introduces one of the most demanded features: mass extractor template snapping.
It allows templates with mass extractors to snap to deposists.

Note: template must start with mex, otherwise it wont snap:

Available on FAF develop gamemode.

Is your keyboard full of binds? Are you struggling with remembering all of them? Well, the second problem would get worse, but the first one has a solution! Advanced Key Actions!
An upcoming integration for FAF, which allows you to setup key actions based on current selection.

PR
Code example:

CategoryMatcher("Enter OC mode / Transport / Toggle repeat build")
{
    CategoryAction(), -- do nothing if no selection
    CategoryAction(categories.TRANSPORTATION)
        :Action "StartCommandMode order RULEUCC_Transport",
    CategoryAction(categories.COMMAND + categories.SUBCOMMANDER)
        :Action(import('/lua/ui/game/orders.lua').EnterOverchargeMode),
    CategoryAction(categories.FACTORY * categories.STRUCTURE)
        :Action(import("/lua/keymap/misckeyactions.lua").ToggleRepeatBuild)
}

Explanation:
This key action does nothing with no selection, with transports selected - transport action (pick and drop), with acus or sacus - goes into OC mode and when factories are selected - toggles repeat build. These are working separately only, so, having acu and factory selected nothing will happen.

UI: coming

April Fool's Day is coming and i think it's great day for releasing UI mod for game chat "Emojis". Code is done (still looking for bugs) and i need to fill up mod with emojis, thats why help needed. Send me in Discord (4z0t) emojis you want to add and names for them.

INFO

Some functionality:

• type ":" to open searching window
• click on emoji in list to select it
  
• "tab" will paste the first match of searching
• scroll through emojis:
  
• enjoy!

Also, come here for lobby emojis! https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1460/emojis-in-lobby

Bug fixes:

• UserUnit:GetCustomName asks for 2 arguments, but actually needs 1
• ForkThread crashes with cfunction, so we forbid this
• Unit:SetStat no longer crashes the game. Returns true if stat wasn’t set. Must be set with Unit:GetStat
• CMauiControl:SetAlpha tweaks: dont change whole mask, only alpha part and check for 3rd argument as boolean

New Features bugs eventually :

• 5th argument for IssueBuildMobile as flag for picking all units
• introduced table.clone (which is partially safe tbh). Clones given table (game freezes in attempt to clone recursive table, eventually leading to stack overflow. So, suitable for non recursive table only.)
• new category OBSTRUCTSBUILDING for props. Props with this category obstruct building on them
• new category CANLANDONWATER for air units. Units with this category can chill on water (like transports do)
• units won’t reclaim being paused anymore
• Unit:GetCommandQueue returns a list of commands of a given unit
• During init stage for certain hardware game will pick different cpu cores to run faster
• New method to WorldView:
  • ProjectMultiple projects multiple vectors at once
• New methods for UserUnit:
  • GetInterpolatedPosition returns position of a unit interpolated by current frame
  • GetFractionComplete returns float from 0 to 1
• New method to MauiBitmap:
  • SetColorMask sets color mask of bitmap
    
• Console command ui_StrategicIconScale. Sets icons' scale. Useful for high res screens.
• Custom World Rendering: adds 2 functions for drawing circle and rect in world.
  • UI_DrawRect
  • UI_DrawCircle
    
    both functions must be called within OnRenderWorld of gamemain.lua.
• new UI function CopyToClipboard(string) copies string to clipboard

An upcoming extendable UI mod providing actions grid panel. Panel is used to provide actions that can be performed with current selection.

Sample exenstions are:

• Enhancements extension:
  
• Factory templates extension:
  

Panel supports various settings and can be adjusted if needed:

Extensions can be enabled/disabled via dedicated selector:

Stay tuned!

Ctrl

Mod extends applications of Ctrl button for certain situations.

• Ctrl-move : holding Ctrl allows you to order persistent move command;
  
• Ctrl-right : holding Ctrl and pressing with RMB on building you can copy it then to order construction.
  

You can enable/disable features any time in UI mods options menu.

Requires UI mod tools!

Version 1 released!!! Finally!

@Sheikah can you make it optional?

Lobby snowflakes video
Snowfall mod
How to install:

• unpack into mods folder
• copy texturepack.nxt into gamedata folder (yeah strange name, but this how it works in current patch)
• enjoy!

Here I'm going to post guides about making UI mods. Actually, its not gonna be like "how to make simple mod that does specifically that thing". Mostly I will post documentation with example of using:

• function
• class
• and some information that would be useful

There also will be some patterns, that you can use too.
If you have something to add, you are welcome, I will add it to main post.
Below you can post your suggestions and wishes and simply discuss information here

Main part

Intro

Creation of Coop mission is a complex procedure with 3 main stages each taking huge amount of time and requiring specific skills and knowledge:

1. Map design
2. Scripting
3. Testing and Balancing

Of course don't forget about whole Idea of the mission with its own plot and structure of objectives.

Map design

Maps in Coop are not the same as in competitive games. Those are lacking symmetry to be realistic and entertaining. Map structure is usually made so each new expansion during the mission reveals new areas. This is why world border sometimes breaks this mystery of next map expansion. Map should be simple but at the same time providing different ways of completing an objective.

I'm not a designer and have made few maps to be that experienced in this craft. But I'm still gonna use map editor to combine all of things I'll get with Gaea.

Basically it is a lego for creating natural and realistic terrains for games. It is a long talk about this tool so I'll keep it for next time. Main idea I'll make map for mission with this one not touching map editor at all, but for base design and setting up some stuff for scripting...

Scripting

I'll tell you a secret: everything is trying to kill you is scripted to kill you on missions. There is no AI that thinks what to do actually. Script is a determined sequence of actions to keep track of all things players do and good scripts mean good flow of the mission.

However, I find it a problem. Current state of Coop missions scripts is very disappointing. Imagine good looking house from outside but having inside a total mess upside down furniture. Well, you still can live there except having issues with finding things and having troubles walking around the house. If you will get used to it, it doesn't mean others can.

Studying for Software Engineer made me hate bad code, so, I decided to create better foundation for scripting of coop missions at this point. An another long talk for demo of Oxygen framework.

Testing and Balancing

Testing and Balancing is very important. Mission must entertain casual players at lower difficulties but give a challenge for experienced players on higher difficulties. Mission mustn't be a hellhole where you suffer (ofc If player wants, he finds the way).

Scripts are allowing everything to tune according to difficulty: amount of units, amount of resources, amount of time for objectives, conditions based on players' progress, and so on. Map is about base positions, their setup depending on difficulty, terrain, resources distribution and paths for "AI".

What do I want?

To share my experience! I'm doing that for fun and to challenge myself. Ofc if you are interested, you can always help me or suggest things

I'll keep this thread updated throughout of mission dev sharing stuff I do.

@archsimkat