how do I make it so that you can have the officer and special troops at the beginning of the level? (no points needed to unlock them)

Yes, just add

PointsToUnlock = -1 (I think that's the right command)

to their odfs.

Or just set it to "0" or delete the line.

I'm gonna get technical on you for a sec, NullCommando.

Typically you want to use -1. -1 means it will accept any value as the unlock value. So if you had 0 points or 100 points it would still unlock. That being said, 0 should work, but crazy things happen. I've jumped on a laggy MP server and somehow got 4 points before I even spawned. Since the game already gave me four, those units might not unlock for me since it requires 0 to unlock.

Anyways, it usually doesn't happen. In fact it very rarely does. It's just better to use -1 in cases like that (not just in SWBF, but in most games) to let it accept any value.

and you have first to make a new side (with the files of the special trooper in it and change the lua to), cause u dont may change things in the assets

I just delete the line. Whatever works.

You can just SetClassProperty() in the lua to skip the side mod.