C&C 3: The Forgotten mod for C&C3: Tiberium Wars

As posted in the steam forums here: Steamcommunity.com

Anyways, for those of you who own the Origin version and are searching for a way to install mods for this "impossible to mod" version of the game, then you're in luck! Here is a guide to solve your issues; this may also work with the other versions of the game (CD and Steam).

As we all may know, Origin has disabled any and all command line arguments from their game executables for the Ultimate Collection, so trying to get to the games launcher using the -ui or using --modconfig parameters won't work; however, there is a work-around that enables mod functionality for the game.
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Here are the steps (courtesy of cncnz.com's technical support and help guides):

1) Download your mod of choice (most likely from ModDB or similar).

2) Unzip the downloaded mod wherever you find convenient.

3) Ensure that your mod has a .skudef or .SkuDef file along with however many .big files it comes with.

4) Go to the directory in which your game is installed (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Command and Conquer 3 TW and KW\Command Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars). Inside that folder should be a .SkuDef file, may be named something like "CNC3_english_1.9.SkuDef" or some equivalent (no quotes, of course).

5) Make a backup of that file, and place the copy somewhere safe. DO NOT keep the copy inside the root of the game files; the game will use it instead of the one you've edited (Credit to BlackAlpha for discovering the overwrite issue).

6) Right click the file, select "open with", then select a text editor (Notepad or something).

7) At the top of the file, add an empty line right above the line that says "set-exe".

8) Write this line WITHOUT THE QUOTES on that empty line you just made: "add-config path_to_mod_skudef_file" (if the path has white spaces in it, don't put quotes around the path.)

8.5) Example of the line: "add-config C:\Users\[USERNAME]\CNC3 Mods\Tiberium Essence\TiberiumEssence_2.0.skudef"

9) Save the edited .SkuDef file.

10) Go into the Origin app and right click on your installation of Tiberium Wars; then select Game Properties, then uncheck the box labeled: "Enable Origin in game". Enabling Origin in game may cause some issues (issues have been mentioned before while researching this, you may get lucky and not have to disable Origin).

11) Run the game's original launcher
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That's it! Your game should load up Tiberium Wars with your installed mod! Hope this helps you as it did for me :steamhappy:

Also, I will be posting this anywhere that needs this valuable information, as it took me nearly a month to figure this out myself; I just so happened to get lucky with my google search keywords.

One more thing: I have a repository on GitHub that automates this process for you if you are interested--not required, but is convenient:

Github.com

Got any tips on getting this to run on the Origin version?

I've followed the instructions on this thread on the steam forums: Steamcommunity.com

And I still get no joy.

I can't believe my long-forgotten account at Moddb actually works.

I've completed first three missions of the Forgotten campaign. I am a newcoming player who started immediately from 1.2.0, so I speak as a person not familiar with earlier versions.

For now the game looks solid, but it has certain issues. What I managed to see so far (I confirm what Destroyer5000 says below):

1.) The game immediately crashes with an error every time I try to save the game myself (autosave between campaign missions seems to be fine).

2.) The Fissure tank fires an odd red ball (larger than its own barrel) instead of a shell. The game apparently fails to see the shell model and replaces it with a placeholder.

3.) The third mission has a bizarre space where the land stretches a little bit, forming a small square outside the lower map border. This bugged space is located at the lower map border to the left of the player's base. If you place base defences nearby, enemy units will position themselves here and shoot your defences. It is really difficult to target units caught in this space, and base defences seem to be ignoring hostiles there. I have already see Nod laser artillery and recon bikes hiding there.

4.) The objectives screen is always empty but it seems to be a minor issue.

Hello ! I am a HUGE fan of the mod but it seems that there is a major major problem with the game.Nearly every time i try and save it crashes and some times even if i dont try and save at all and just play it still crashes.Ive been trying to finish the 3rd mission on Italy for the last 4 hours and it seems that i cant because the game crashes either when i save or after a certain amount and then i have to load saves made 1-2 hours prior.When it crashes i get a screen saying not enough memory or something like that.I dont know what type of memory it talks about but my computer costed nearly 2k euros so it certainly aint a hardware based problem.Please fix it because this aint fun at all not to mwntion its annoying as hell.I havent tried to play skrimish but i guess the problem may happen there too.As i cant think of any other sollution ill do a clean install of the game and the mod and see if anything changes.Thanks for reading

so i just dawnload this mod and i try the campain from the mod and it crashes at the first mission then i try ti fight the ai and plai as the forgoten and when i make infantri my game crashes i try agen vs ai and it crashes agen. i like the mod and the music in it so i hope this things can be fixt
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