modding

[slender brook]

tag

tag [COUNTRY TAG]

[halcyon portal]

yea it randomly said it was outdated for no apparent reason for me

who knows

[pallid lotus]

Hello people

I think I need your help

I did some stuff but it updates only in 20 days, but I need to update it everyday.

[twilit arch]

what dis mean

[obtuse condor]

It literally says it right there.

[twilit arch]

ok i figured it out now this

[obtuse condor]

how is the weatherpositions file built?

[astral lake]

Events only get checked every 20 days.

Use an on_daily

[alpine sleet]

Whats the best ww1 (balkan war included) mod?

[pale sparrow]

Launcher bug

Look under releases on that github I linked

[twilit arch]

i fixed it

[pale sparrow]

Yeh I saw

Still I wanted to bash the launcher!!!

"How do I download" "not how to download it"

It should be straightforward, cant get the installer rn

[pallid lotus]

Thank you but where exactly should I write this?

[south folio]

In common>on_actions

[pallid lotus]

Hmm I do not understand how it should help me.

I need a system that gives buffs depending on the surrender progress.

[south folio]

You mean like an idea that fluctuate depending on surrender progress or?

[pallid lotus]

yES

I did it as event and it works but it updates only every 20 days.

And it is bad

[south folio]

Yeah ideas update daily I think maybe even hourly

[pallid lotus]

So how should I do this system?

[south folio]

You'll probably still need an on action

for on_war

[south folio]

can we move to dm so this chat won't get cludderd with code?

[obtuse condor]

my mod keeps crashing due to a map error but there is nothing related to it in error text?

[tulip gazelle]

https://i.redd.it/nrynrhwzpgm91.jpg tier list of hoi4 mods

[ember sail]

is there a toll with which i can more easily modify the focus trees of countries?

[pallid lotus]

Hey guys! Do you know how to fix it? [provincegraphics.cpp:2220]: prov 31 stack 1 Moving 0 is too far away from center (dist 2783 25 prov 2)

[stuck mist]

Unit stacks in nudge, auto in all

[pallid lotus]

No it does not help. But deleting this unit_stack line helped.

[pale sparrow]

no

[obtuse condor]

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the syntax?

    id = newswarplans.1000
    title = fall.1.t
    desc = fall.1.d
    picture = GFX_news_event_soldiers_marching
    
    major = yes
    
    trigger = {    
        7 = { is_controlled_by = GER }
        7 = { is_owned_by = HOL }
        GER = { has_war_with = HOL }
        NOT = { has_global_flag = fall_of_amsterdam_ger }
    }
    
    immediate = {
        set_global_flag = fall_of_amsterdam_ger
    }
    
    mean_time_to_happen = {
        days = 2
    }
    
    option = {
        name = fall.1.a
        trigger = {
            NOT = {
                TAG = GER
                TAG = HOL
            }
        }
    }
    option = {
        name = fall.1.b
        trigger = { TAG = GER }
    }
    option = {
        name = fall.1.c
        trigger = { TAG = HOL }
    }
}```

[slender brook]

Hold on before talking about syntax, what is actually the problem you are having with it

[obtuse condor]

Event is not fired, not even by console commands

[slender brook]

And the error when fired by console command is event not found?

Well my number one for solving syntax errors is check error log

[obtuse condor]

[21:01:29][eventmanager.cpp:556]: events/WarplanEvents.txt:8: newswarplans.1000: Event is set to trigger every day.

[slender brook]

Set it to is_triggered_only and then use on_actions

[obtuse condor]

The error remains

[slender brook]

Did you set a namespace?

[obtuse condor]

[21:18:12][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Malformed token: warplans.1, near line: 9" in file: "events/WarplanEvents.txt" near line: 9

[slender brook]

Yeah sounds like a namespace issue

You need to add a namespace to event files at the beginning, which is what every event in that file has to be named using

[obtuse condor]

How?

[slender brook]

namespace =

[obtuse condor]

it was an error in the folder

[obtuse condor]

I don’t care about mod achievements

But watch there be more achievements

[obtuse condor]

All namespaces need to be the same

[nocturne imp]

The game crashes after these and other errors.
I would like to know the cause of the crash.
[session.cpp:354]:Dropped command: order_new_root_command, tick: 65535
[session.cpp:354]: Dropped command: add_advisor_command, tick: 65535
[session.cpp:354]: Dropped command: agency_set_random_historical_name_command, tick: 65535
[session.cpp:354]: Dropped command: agency_set_logo_command, tick: 65535

[tropic steppe]

does any1 here know how to use mods on without steam (via paradox launcher)?

[hushed zenith]

not really, but I know how to

they are all stored in Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod

[obtuse condor]

Rip queen

[hushed zenith]

please try to use the correct channels, in this case #off-topic

[obtuse condor]

How do I make every province in Ireland it’s own separate state?

[steady dove]

what happened to the wheel that used to be next ideology

[obtuse condor]

I’m having a problem loading mods for hoi4 I am doing it through steam every time I do it either it doesn’t work (the mod doesn’t load) or it will crash me

If anyone could help that would be great

[steady dove]

how would i go about adding a scroll wheel

to show my other ideologies

or is that not possible?

[steady dove]

😭

[slender brook]

Have you seen other mods use scrollbars to show the other ideologies?

If not, then almost certainly no

[prisma coral]

probably extract them into the mod folder in documents/paradox interactive/hoi4/mod

[mighty saffron]

soviet union pimples

[obtuse condor]

I believe you need to modify countrypoliticsview.gui

You should google it, because i remember finding a solution for the problem that way.

[winged heron]

doesn't look healthy

[supple shuttle]

Guys, who has huge mode with a lot of focuses for Ukraine?

about modern world

[keen pagoda]

@buoyant dove how is that focus creator coming along

[buoyant dove]

haven't worked on it for a few days but i will continue

[keen pagoda]

ah ok

[tropic steppe]

problem: there is no /mod folder in documents/paradox interactive/hoi4/ so i still dont know how to use mods without steam (via paradox launcher) :( can any1 help? :)

[chrome bison]

So make the folder

[steady dove]

what exactly would i search

[obtuse condor]

hoi4 modding how to add a scrollbar to my ideologies

do you understand how googling stuff works?

[steady dove]

🤪

[twilit arch]

where do i find the resources to make mods

[buoyant dove]

create the folder

[tropic steppe]

explain abit more please about just making a folder

[slender scroll]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+to+create+a+folder+windows

[tropic steppe]

bruh

[delicate elk]

Hey guys, just finished this mod, its my first ever mod... I would like to hear your opinion

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2844713198

[jade elm]

chad ukraine

[mighty saffron]

yes

[fleet fossil]

I will try it later man

and let you know what I think

[naive mantle]

Apparently HOI4 cant understand the Cyrillic Alphabet lol

scuffed

[tropic steppe]

YO i think i got hoi4 kaissereich on the xbox version thing working :) (i have now idea how nor do i know how to remove it but yay)

[naive mantle]

hoi4 is on xbox?

latin alphabet it is

very good

[slender brook]

Xbox gamepass presumably

[naive mantle]

oh yeah true

[tropic steppe]

its not working cause it cant load the map or something? (i tried disabling and re-enabling and i also tried clearing the user directory, does any1 know what to do?)

[obtuse condor]

do you guys know how i can download Millennium Dawn on my iMac?

[tropic steppe]

any1 know how to fix this: (yes i checked google and did what it said to do but idk)? ty

[raw rampart]

just download it from steamworkshop)

[obtuse condor]

how bc thats what everyone tells me

[tropic steppe]

i made a big oopsie and for some reason i can literally only play kaissereich but it wont even load properly so it just crashes so basically i cant play hoi4 (im planning on buying it on steam on the day that the By Blood Alone DLC is realised bc cheaper, but i'd still like to be able to play it b4 then on the xbox pc version).

[slender brook]

It’s on sale on HumbleBundle right now I think

[tropic steppe]

oh my goodness

isnt cadet edition essentially the main game?

[steel thorn]

With a free dlc that isn't quite worth it

[tropic steppe]

but do u get the base game from it?

[steel thorn]

But yes, it does include the base game

[tropic steppe]

ayyy

[slender brook]

Cadet is the basegame. You cannot but basegame standalone anymore

[tropic steppe]

ig imma get it now

i cannot believe how cheap it is rn

im fairly sure ik the answer, but if i get it on HumbleBundle, would i have it on steam? (bc steam workshop pog)

[steel thorn]

Depends which platform the key belongs to, but most likely it will be a key that only gets used in steam

[tropic steppe]

YOOO I GOT IT LETS GO

[obtuse condor]

Click ’Workshop’. Go to most popular mods. Click millenium dawn. In the mod page, click subscribe. This is another question that can be googled easily

[tulip gazelle]

Howdy
Is there a place where I can read or learn more about the math behind how Operative detection works? I wanted to mess with it a bit, but the wiki and multiple searches on YouTube and Google have been fruitless for me.

[robust nova]

does anyone know of any good tweak/qol mods?

There was one mod that fixed state boundaries and tweaked the sizes of stuff like the islands or gibraltar to reflect their real life distance, but apparently it hasn't been updated for NSB.

do you know any mods in that sort of vein?

[wet jay]

is there a mod where you can enable commands in multiplayer?

[true tundra]

hello

[true tundra]

nope

[true tundra]

the paradox thing

website

[true tundra]

enter hoi4 in debug mode

[tulip gazelle]

that's extremely helpful, do you have a link?

[true tundra]

yes

1 sec

[tropic steppe]

austrian modder its fine now but ty anyway :D

[true tundra]

alr <3

[true tundra]

i think its a static modifier

and that modifier gets modified by the different upgrades, agent traits, et

c

and occupation laws

[obtuse condor]

Also the head of the nkvd

[tulip gazelle]

This doesn't help me because I'm looking for documentation, or where the actual code for operative detection is located

[abstract bobcat]

i need agency portrait background

[sharp elk]

is there a mod that makes 1942-1945 not super slow

[pale sparrow]

Actual code is almost certainly hardcoded

[tulip gazelle]

I would still like to find it just so I know how it works

[slender brook]

Well no, it's hardcoded. We can't access it easily

Paradox games are sorted into two types of code

Hard code is stuff the developers use for new features and such and we cannot see
Soft code is stuff we can edit and can see

[tulip gazelle]

I know what it means when something is hard coded

I am trying to find out

[slender brook]

Yes but we aren't allowed to see the hardcode

[tulip gazelle]

how operative detection works

[zinc gulch]

are there any simple tutorials on making maps

[paper breach]

send help

this is the weirdest hoi4 game ive played,
china and russia are in a massive land war
germany has failed to blitzkrieg twice
and mexico is finishing its third civil war

and its only 1940, i guess thats what modding does

its glorious

[distant oracle]

Have you tried the Iron Workshop? Im sure they have made a tutorial on them

[paper breach]

alright seeing my ai allies fail to do everything as the game slows to a halt got boring real fast, wanted to share this beautiful japan tho

[queen mesa]

guys why won’t the chaos mod won’t do civil wars or change their ideology the chaos mod used to do that once i played it now it won’t

[twilit arch]

how do i get into modding the wiki didnt help

[slender brook]

Well for one, have an idea
Then find a tutorial on YouTube or something. Or read the basegame files. I dunno it depends on what idea you have

[fickle lichen]

Hey guys, do any of you have a good recommendation of a multiplayer mod? I want to play with my friends great detailed multiplayer mod.

[jolly pendant]

I am creating my own map on hoi4 and i am getting this as a error

what do i need to do to fix it?

[obtuse condor]

You need to make province 11685 to have at least 9 pixels and you need to define provinces 3241 and 3475 to be coastal or to be not

[jolly pendant]

And how do i define if provinces 3241 is coastal or not?

[obtuse condor]

You go to definition.csv search the province/provinces that you need to define and put true if it's coastal and false if it's not

If you need more help this should help https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Map_modding#Province_map

[jolly pendant]

thx

[obtuse condor]

No problem

[high solar]

i just wanna know why 😀

[chrome epoch]

This is less a mod and me just changing the name of Ceylon to Sri Linka

[slender brook]

It shows you exactly why you can’t

Just read it

[half heron]

I wanted to make a mod, and I have ideas for it but I wanted to know if there was somewhere I could try and recruit people to help with it because I lack the coding skills to fully create this mod tbh

I can write paragraphs on paragraphs of writing and whatnot, just cant rly code

and I know theres tools and whatnot, but this is a slightly larger scale project and tbh going through all of that alone would be tedious and too time consuming

[crimson wedge]

On a focus tree code, if you do a prereq of a previous focus AND an "available" (for a specific date) will they both be required to do that tree?

[slender scroll]

iirc yes

pre-reqs just say "In order for this focus to even be checked if its available, this must be done"

the available will just check if you can take the focus if the pre-reqs and the conditions are met

[crimson wedge]

Gotcha, so once the date (for example) has passed, it will then also require the focus prereq?

[quick orbit]

the perquisite part only applies for precious foci you need to complete

for other conditions use
available = {
}

[royal pelican]

Communist flag of Sweden, Opinions?

[pale sparrow]

only a hammer?

[slender brook]

Ultra-Industrialist Sweden

[tepid egret]

I hate communist flags so much

[obtuse condor]

I’m gonna make a mod that fixes the White Russian branch

Second Russian civil is going to start in late 1936 instead of late 37

What I’m going to add 5 white army paths. a economic, military, and political tree exclusive to the whites only

More advisors and generals

And even admirals

And I’m going to use the proper flags

[tropic steppe]

does any1 know any good utility mods that dont add ANY gameplay content and is compatible with most mods and the base game? (particularly looking for map-mode mods) :D

[latent night]

sweden shall remain democratic!!! jk

[jolly pendant]

Can some 1 help me i am making my own map but and i am getting this error

[21:48:17][map.cpp:1749]: Province 23332 has no pixels in provinces.bmp

[worthy flint]

Does anybody have any recommendations for mods? I'm currently using OWB and strategic view adjustments

[karmic mauve]

I started a mini mod so have it so economy laws have perks and tradeoffs so for example
Under civilian economy I have it set so civilian factories and infrastructure build faster but military factories and anti air build slower and on war ecomony war factories build much faster but civilian and infrastructure build much slower

[junior haven]

hey I got a question rq

so I have a problem that goes on whenever I become a different country besides russia (with the russia revamped mod) it always messes up and it screws the game almost entirely

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2092066524

this is the mod that I'm talking about

why is it that as soon as you become a different country russia turns into an absolute mess in mid-late game

because I'm doing historically accurate and the historically accurate ussr with joseph in charge combined

and that still doesn't work

[astral lake]

Have you asked on their discord?

[jolly pendant]

Can some 1 help me i am making my own map but and i am getting this error

[21:48:17][map.cpp:1749]: Province 23332 has no pixels in provinces.bmp

[summer notch]

Preety good

[pastel coyote]

wth

[pale sparrow]

Hwhehe

[still heron]

ill be making a HOI4 Mod called MULTI MOD

with new units templates

new conscription mobilization laws

etc

aswell as new extended land doctrine for mass assault

[rigid creek]

guys

I'm making a mod and I'm trying to figure out why the picture for country leader doesn't fit frame?

[still heron]

idk

[rigid creek]

how to fix this

[jolly pendant]

@rigid creek install gimp and grab 1 image of a leader already in the game and put it in gimp

then put your image on top of it then it will fit in the frame

[slender brook]

Yeah images must be manually cropped

[sharp valve]

what's a mod that expands the division designer (I wish to steal their code and create a 2x3 support company and 6x5 normal division brigades)

[static drum]

ehh its ok

[kind spindle]

Anyone know of a mod that starts in like 1918 or 19.

[tender mica]

endsieg?

[dusky valve]

I believe endsieg hasn't updated in a long while though

[tender mica]

yup

anyone have any suggestions for fun single player mods i could play?

[dusky valve]

end of a new beginning or cold war mod i would say

[tender mica]

played those both

[dusky valve]

hmmm i dont know then sorry

[pale sparrow]

Road to 56

[stiff widget]

i don't know how to fix the name but you should make portrait 156x210

[naive mantle]

i got a question

so im tryna make a decision, but i only want it to appear when germany is at war with poland

how would i go about writing that

it needs to go in the visible section, right?

[icy thunder]

hoi4 modders making the most detailed focus tree overhaul mod for some random country in south america

https://tenor.com/view/gunna-fire-writing-heat-gif-25524005

[winged heron]

We appreciate them!

[naive mantle]

this should work, right?

[naive mantle]

yes it does

woo

wip

[rain sigil]

How do i make endsieg work?

It somehow doesnt work for me

Same with end of a new beggining

[stiff widget]

what mod should i try making about

[pale sparrow]

I think it didnt get updated for 1.11

[icy thunder]

doesnt editing the descriptor file fix compatability issues or nah? I've tried it with other mods it was a 50/50 of crashes and it actually working and it just launching as vanilla

[modest grove]

genial

[keen pagoda]

@buoyant dove how is the tool going

[buoyant dove]

Started college a couple days ago so ive not worked on it much but as I get more used to it I will be able to work on it more

I’ll try to keep this channel updated

[keen pagoda]

alr gl

[obtuse condor]

is there a dedicated discord server for hoi4 modding guys?

[stiff widget]

definitely not stolen from video

[buoyant dove]

Yes

The largest is linked on every r/hoi4modding post

[obtuse condor]

thanks man

[wet sparrow]

does anyone here knows how to download mods outside of steam?

[royal pelican]

German Empire, constitutional monarchy. Opinions?

[thin oyster]

The emblem looks amazing but why the republic colours?

[royal pelican]

they forced the kaiser to become a figure

thats the story behind it

like basically kaiser has no real power hes just ceremonial

[thin oyster]

Ah ok

[rigid creek]

thx that fixed it

[shrewd halo]

So kind of like uk

Parliamentary Monarchy

[royal pelican]

ye

its coat of arms of german empire 1848

and the flag is from the same 1848 when the german revolution

so like the idea got revived of grossdeucheland and they did that

idk I just wanted to make a flag

[opaque glen]

Ehhhhh

Despotism

[royal pelican]

what

[opaque glen]

BRO FAC

[opaque glen]

i think it should be despotism

but flag looks dope

[royal pelican]

wdym it should be despotism

[opaque glen]

nvm

[opaque glen]

meh

it needs darker red

sligggghhtly darker red

[quartz reef]

does anyone have good tutotorial videos on how to start modding for hoi4

[royal pelican]

Communist Germany, Opinions?

[static drum]

its cool

[static drum]

whats that mod in s tier

[tulip gazelle]

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1826643372

[naive mantle]

im having a bit of an issue with events, i made an event that works perfectly fine when run through the console. I added a trigger and a mean time to happen but when the time comes you can hear the event sound and see the title in the decisions tab but it dosent appear on the screen

[bitter vigil]

it looks weird

the other one looked way better

[spark mural]

Hey, I'm trying to use localisation scopes in an idea's tooltip. Annoyingly, this works in the focus view of the effect, but not when hovering over the effect when it's actually been given to Austria.

Ignore the '?' in front of AUS, I was trying something but it doesn't work even if I remove that

[icy thunder]

I'm a bit disappointed that TWR doesn't have that much focus trees for some nations, but the dev's most likely put hard work into the mod so I won't complain about it that much
and from what I have read the mod is in very early beta or something

[rain sigil]

Whta mod

[icy thunder]

thousand week reich

https://tenor.com/view/skull-monkey-monkey-skull-hamlet-gif-20533161

[jolly pendant]

Can some 1 help me i am making this mod map and i am getting this is a error

[21:05:59][map.cpp:1749]: Province 23278 has no pixels in provinces.bmp
[21:05:59][map.cpp:1749]: Province 23279 has no pixels in provinces.bmp
[21:05:59][map.cpp:1749]: Province 23280 has no pixels in provinces.bmp
[21:05:59][map.cpp:1749]: Province 23281 has no pixels in provinces.bmp
[21:05:59][map.cpp:1749]: Province 23332 has no pixels in provinces.bmp

[sterile nymph]

Means u either put a new province over those ones or u removed them from the map

[autumn tusk]

Quick question about the combat system, I checked the attack/defense values, and I understand them, but how does damage and losses are calculated ? Each soft/hard attack not avoided inflicts 1HP damage ? Are the losses in Manpower and Equipment proportional to that damage ?

[mighty saffron]

troll momento

[oblique bobcat]

@hollow stirrup damnn....i want this level of expertise

[shy obsidian]

I don't understand why you are scoping this so weirdly

Why are you scoping in an idea?

Can you not say if Austria rather than getting it to find Austrias current name?

[slender brook]

Also why would you need to scope the states, just say the states. They aren’t changing

[small gazelle]

What are the best hoi4 mods?

[slender brook]

Kinda vague. Depends heavily on what you’re looking for

[scarlet ermine]

Is there a special serbia focus tree mod

[white granite]

1

[steady dove]

where is city name localization located?

I want to make Sparta (Sparti) a city in the Peloponnese

I am going insane

[icy thunder]

If you want an axis victory mod, Thousand Week Reich, or The New Order are your best picks:
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2204739234
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438003901

If you want a historical ww2 mod but is tired of the 1936/39 start
Calm before the Storm is your best friend:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2201809616

If you're tired of the same ww2 stuff The Great War Redux is good
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1946557392

If you want an alt history mod but don't want the wehraboo universes Kaiserredux/reich is a good pick
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1521695605
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2076426030

Apologies if I clogged up the chat

was just answering their question ish

but if you were just asking what the best hoi4 mods are, those are ( in my opinion ) the best ones

[steady dove]

EAW is brony mod but very fun too^, even if (like me) you're not into the mlp stuff

very well designed and enjoyable experience

[icy thunder]

I never got the hate over equestria at war

I've never played it but from what I've heard from actual people that played the mod and didn't go on reddit or whatever it's pretty good

[steady dove]

yeah i stay a few miles away from reddit so idk about that but whenever i say it's a good mod too my buddies they all talk trash 😭

It's just fun to play and the devs focus on that before anything else I feel

[icy thunder]

probably their personal biases or something

if it isn't slightly related to ww2 they probably hate it

that's what I'm assuming

[icy thunder]

I also forgot to mention: if you have A LOT of freetime and is interested in humanity's evolution on warfare or whatever The End of a New Beginning is great

and by a lot of freetime I do mean a lot

[steady dove]

yeye i agree

Also Der Bruderkreig is very fun, though difficult

[steady dove]

literally me

mashallah

[opaque glen]

Anyone looking to collaborate to make a mod?

[celest anchor]

is there a mod that will generate a random map (ie, not Earth)?

[steady dove]

no the map doesn't work like that I don't believe

I have a question tho, is it possible to set a specific tile or state to always have a certain weather condition? For the more fantastical element of one of my mods*

[opaque glen]

u have to look at its info file

[steady dove]

huh?

like the history file for the state?

Or wherever weather is located?

[pale sparrow]

Top one 😋

[opaque glen]

use debug cheat in hoi4 and put your mouse over the state, then type in the state number you see in the file called states and then look at it

[steady dove]

-_-

i dont think that's quite how modifying weather works

[grizzled condor]

What do you guys think so far?

[slender brook]

Yeah seems like a pretty good average rate focus tree. Not exactly any thrills but would nonetheless make for a fun game

Once expanded a bit more, but I assume that’s what you mean by so far

[grizzled condor]

yeah. tbh what i might do is just make it so like the facist once you chose to either go alone or follow the germans a new political tree will load

[minor flare]

How long does it normally take a mod like kaiserreich to get updated after a major dlc drops like no step back?

[grizzled condor]

eh. im a part of the unification war so it can take up to a month or so. this mod is just a side project

then again we are smaller. so i would estimate up to 3 months or so

[minor flare]

Neat

[grizzled condor]

Okay the initial branch along with the document describing the paths https://docs.google.com/document/d/179nMrNGBEG6lOXQsOOtxZLA0V56cGzXfXHX625-tA6c/edit?usp=sharing

[whole saffron]

im not making a mod, but does anyone know why my Millenium Dawn mod is working? it basically modified 2% of the game, all i notice is that everyone has 0 divisions and the flags and name are different

[thorny niche]

Anyone have an example of what modding looks like?

Like a screenshot

[merry bison]

imagen playing in a world where the germans won

[hexed quartz]

TWR/TNO

[thorny niche]

Goofy

[hexed quartz]

true

[thorny niche]

Imagine not making the Germans win yourself

[hexed quartz]

thats boring

german industry and MP are overpowered

i like playing as china tbh

[thorny niche]

Less boring than TNO

[thorny niche]

Manchucko is lit

[stiff widget]

what mod should i make about

[hexed quartz]

fr

i got close to getting qing once

took beijing and half of ROC

until i realized i didnt have enough divisions

and my front basically collapsed from attrition

[honest eagle]

Uhh you can’t really explain modding in just a screenshot

The Iron workshop is a good tutorial guide tho, it’s been a bit outdated it seems with some videos

[thorny niche]

Alright

[gritty sleet]

are there any battle royale mods

[obtuse condor]

where is it reading this file from? None of my modded files from my knowledge have the same politcal chart

[thorny niche]

Yes

[worthy flint]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2862504485

everybody download this. may Pusha rest in peace

[rocky hull]

hey any of you know how I can fix this?

It will not let me use this mod no matter what I do

been like this for about 4 months

[obtuse condor]

uh

have you tried reinstalling it

[rocky hull]

Yes many times

Asked some of my friends no one has a clue

[buoyant dove]

send the full file

[feral goblet]

my first mod VERY EARLY

its post-apocolyps

[obtuse condor]

imo, i feel like the countries should be fractured a bit more, and u have to reunite them to form the shown countries (not a clue about the mod, so ignore this if u want)

[feral goblet]

oh yeah there will be more of that, don't worry

[opaque glen]

Anyone wanna collab on a mod?

[slender brook]

You’d have to clarify what that mod is if anyone is gonna get enticed to collav

[worthy flint]

Try clearing up space

[worthy flint]

Depends, what's the mod?

[rocky hull]

I have 43 gb free

[worthy flint]

Thw the comments, maybe someone else in going through the same thing

[rocky hull]

Alright

[worthy flint]

Does anyone have any beginner tips for modding?
I'm planning on making a total elder scrolls conversion.

[steady dove]

try making smaller mods before you go for total conversion

if you try and do a complete conversion mod like that alone as your first mod you're going to either burn yourself out from modding, or die

[upbeat wharf]

But if you do it, tell me

[steady dove]

true

[obtuse condor]

I'm stuck between a couple ideas, so I'd like to ask who would rather see what;

• What if France won the Franco-Prussian war?
• What if the Ruhr Crisis ended in WW2 (france lost, and the USSR won the polish-soviet war.)
• Mod from 1870-1901

[upbeat wharf]

1870- 1901`

[steady dove]

most difficult to make out of those tho^

Franco-Prussian War one is already kinda in existence when it comes to Der Bruderkreig

[obtuse condor]

so should I do 1st one or 2nd one?

i think 2nd one would be better but the lore would be hard to decifer

[steady dove]

2nd is most unique but I like the 1870-1901

[obtuse condor]

maybe more or less 1890, 1901 might be more difficult when it comes to the length of the focuses and shit.

IS there anyway to customize the end-game?

[worthy flint]

I've got no time to practice, with school I barely have time to play... I'm still gonna try

[opaque glen]

a mix of fallout lore, cod, and battlefield

[worthy flint]

I'm not following, is it a total conversion?

[opaque glen]

yes but no

map basically stays the same

but this

middle of cold war

USSR face off with US

WW3

[worthy flint]

So it would be a conversion

[opaque glen]

i can’t do this alone that’s why i need help

[opaque glen]

yeah

[worthy flint]

Okay, my phone's about to die. I'm gonna add you and we can talk later.... I'm down but I need to figure some stuff out first, that good?

[opaque glen]

sure

[opaque glen]

i’ll try and talk to millennium dawn team too

[worthy flint]

We also can't make this like OWB

[opaque glen]

yeah i have no intention to turn it into a wasteland

[worthy flint]

Cool, we can figure stuff out. I'll be back on in an hour if you're still on.

[opaque glen]

i’ll probably be sleeping

what timezone are you?

[worthy flint]

EST

You?

[opaque glen]

same EST

[worthy flint]

cool, that makes things easier

[winged heron]

Damn, get some help from other people, you can really make this a big thing.

[worthy flint]

that's what I'm hoping for... but i have no experience in modding and i don't really know where to start

[slender brook]

Have you read the wiki?

Also, I would pitch in a bit but I'm just not sure how effective Elder Scrolls could be, given that it is based on Mediaeval warfare which does not translate well to divisions

[winged heron]

do the document for the new countries and create the file structure, that is the easiest thing to begin with

[worthy flint]

i've seen it done (like the LOTR mod)

[winged heron]

and just learn step by step

[slender brook]

Yes, get started by doing some basic modifications to Earth, new maps are a difficult thing to make in HOI4

[winged heron]

yes, maps are harder

[slender brook]

I suppose. Maybe at some point I may offer some help if I have free time. I really love the Dwemer

[winged heron]

and you'll need the groundwork for later anyways, always good to have something to work on rather creating in the middle of the process.

[slender brook]

Yeah I would recommend just making a country with ideas and leaders and such

[worthy flint]

cool, is the wiki a good source to figure out how to do all this?

[winged heron]

And maybe check the Server list for dedicated HOI modding servers to get some help

[slender brook]

Yes. Perhaps check out the Iron Workshop as well on YouTube

You can also ask here or on the modding servers already mentioned for help

[worthy flint]

I tried Iron Workshop, but i'd rather not watch a two hour video on national focuses

[slender brook]

I see. I suppose the best option is to read the wiki and/or read gamefiles

Reading gamefiles is usually the best way to learn after you got over the initial learning hump

[worthy flint]

okay, cool, thanks for the help!

[slender brook]

And I know it's early to say this, but it's best to create a Discord server at some point
Although I have my apprehensions this seems like an interesting project. I ain't no good at graphic design but I can code and write, as well as design focus trees.

[worthy flint]

well, if you're ever available to help, i have no idea how to code and it would be awesome to have you

but, i also haven't tried any of this stuff yet

[slender brook]

Yes. I think you should do some independent learning for now, but still feel free to ask questions here or in the modding servers

[pale sparrow]

If you know the basics, base game/mod code and the wiki is enough

Unless he got a map video, but I havent messed with that

[steel ember]

anyone got a good graphical mod for gui?

[wet scarab]

Can I have a clarification of these modifiers? It's a bit confusing to understand the differences between them:
training_time_factor vs training_time_army_factor
army_leader_cost_factor vs military_leader_cost_factor (if you are thinking about hiring advisors, you are probably thinking of army_chief_cost_factor or high_command_cost_factor)

[slender brook]

For the second one, maybe military includes admiral?

And probably for the first as well, one affects all types of training and one only army. Unsure though

[wet scarab]

it would make sense. I should test it, but it's a bit of a pain

[slender brook]

Yeah that’s the only thing I think it could be

I might test it later and clarify it if it hasn’t been clarified on the wiki

[wet scarab]

hmm, actually training_time_factor could also be about training deployed division when you exercise them, while training_time_army_factor could be the deployment time itself. Or the other way around. This is why it's frustrating.

[slender brook]

Yeah I’ll try and get my testbed up when I get home

[wet scarab]

well thanks, but you don't have to bother, maybe someone does know the difference

[slender brook]

Perhaps. But if the difference isn’t on the wiki it doesn’t matter. I should fix it either way

[wet scarab]

the wiki literally gives the same definition for both "training times" which is "Division training time"

[slender brook]

I dunno what wiki you're looking at

[wet scarab]

where is that? I was looking at https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/List_of_modifiers

[slender brook]

That seems to a deprecated page or such, I was looking at the page just called modifiers

Yeah I dunno why that page exists

The modifiers already has a list of modifiers

[wet scarab]

well, I just searched for training_time_factor on the wiki and found that page... I feel dumb

anyway, that does make me think that training_time_factor is about the exercise and not deployment (since ships are not deployed, but produced)

[slender brook]

It's really not your fault that the wiki sucks

You aren't stupid, whoever designed the wiki is

[wet scarab]

but there are definitely modifiers that speed up the deployment training, so I believe that is training_time_army_factor

[wet scarab]

I contribute to other wikis, so I know that it's not such easy thing to keep it updated and maintained. It's wiki, by definition everyone is free to contribute and fix/improve the stuff they don't like

[slender brook]

Yes but the point here is that there are deprecated pages that cause needless confusion and is wholly unnecessary

[obtuse condor]

guys how do u get ideologies to scroll? cos i made 6 and it only showing 5

[wet sparrow]

whoever plays hoi4 end of a new beginning mod, can you tell me how did you get roon's reform bill focus as prussia? i couldnt find him and now im stuck

[modern cave]

how do you spown ships as a reword after compliting a focus?

[slim sapphire]

Does anyonone have a folder/link of Scuffed 56 V 7.0 so i can install it pls?

[rare idol]

Stupid idea I have for a mod I'm going to work on

Austria-Hungary and the German Empire still exist

[obtuse condor]

im goin for what if ww1 never happened

[winged heron]

Don't post Hitler related images here pleas.

Same goes here.

[royal pelican]

lmao what

this is a server about a ww2 game

also those are drawn figures

[winged heron]

If you have any grievance about our server rules, pleas open a ticket with the @timid bronze :D

[royal pelican]

yup alright

[buoyant dove]

Are we allowed to post H*tler portraits from hoi4

[hushed zenith]

you shouldn't do that

[hexed quartz]

lol

[obtuse condor]

H

[pale sparrow]

You get the standard frame and background and use a low quality or shrunk down portrait

[slender brook]

They mean the actual advisors I think

I'm assuming you already have basic modding experience.
You need to create the ideas folder and create a file in there
You then need to do something like this. Change the tag and the name to something you need

    political_advisor = {
        KFP_amelia = {            
            allowed = {
                original_tag = KFP
            }
            traits = { captain_of_industry }
        }
        }
}```

Captain of industry is the trait they have, defined at country_leader

Oh a new position. I see

Well you'd have to get some understanding of GUI and such. I would suggest looking at a few mods that add that to see how they do it

Well because it'd have to have multiple supports, you'd have to add GUI, GFX, as well as the actual code

But you'd have to do the GUI and GFX as well

Because this is a UI change as well

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2510466661
Use this mod as a base

It's decluttered

And only has the necessary stuff you want

[sharp valve]

how do I use the defines GAME_SPEED_SECONDS?

[worthy flint]

I'm making a mod, where the King of Denmark is replaced by King Diamond, but I don't know where to start, does anyone have any suggestions?

[slender brook]

A simple character replacement is fairly easy. You'd have to overwrite the Danish history file, as well as establish the character. I'll send a picture of all the folder and things you'll need

[slender brook]

I presume you know the bare basics already.

You can call the file in characters anything, but because you're replacing the leader of Denmark you'll want to overwrite the file by naming it the same thing

Or I guess you just copy and paste this file into the countries folder

From here, open up the character file

    KFP_takanashi_kiara ={
        name="Takanashi Kiara"
        portraits={
            civilian={
                large=GFX_kiara
            }
        }
        gender = female
        country_leader={
            ideology=fascism_ideology
            traits={ 
                a_chicken
                usual_room
                trait_unseiso 
            }
            expire="1965.1.1.1"
            id=-1
        }
    }
}```
This is an example of a character. Change the KFP_takanashi_kiara to something like DEN_king_diamond. The first three letters are the tag of the country, which is a three-string sequence that helps tell the game what the thing is intended for. The latter is just the name, but don't capitalise it.
Then change the name to King Diamond. Do capitalise this one because it shows in-game.
We'll deal with the portrait later
Obviously change the gender
And change the ideology to whatever you want. Just delete the traits for now and ignore the expiry and id

I'll await your response before adding any new info

[worthy flint]

would I set DEN_thorvald_stauning to DEN_King_Diamond since he's the current ruler?

[slender brook]

Yes

However you'd also have to change the ruling party to the ideology you want King Diamond to be

Is that non-aligned?

[worthy flint]

from the conversations i've had with him and his wife, they seem democratic

[slender brook]

Alright, then no need to change anything there

[worthy flint]

okay, so i changed the name, and i've scrolled through the rest of the file, what else would i need to change

[slender brook]

Not much for now. Load the mod up and see if it works.

[worthy flint]

😔

[slender brook]

Well first of all remove the 5 at the beginning. Ok, I'll try and diagnose this

Can you show me your mod folder structure>?

[worthy flint]

for the specific mod or all of them?

cause I set up another for the total conversion

[slender brook]

This specific mod

[worthy flint]

My PC isn't letting me take a screenshot

[slender brook]

Ah yes, the folder structure is incorrect

Look at the first two images I sent

[worthy flint]

I see what i screwed up

what would i put in Characters?

[slender brook]

You'd put the code I sent you but replace with things relevant to your character

[worthy flint]

ahh, okay. I'm dumb

[slender brook]

And change the fascism_ideology to socialism or whatever. The actual ideology doesn't matter for now

Just that it is democratic

[worthy flint]

do i change KFP?

[slender brook]

Yes

Change that to DEN

Basically just read through what I said

[worthy flint]

does that look about right?

[slender brook]

Well that is not an ideology. It would be socialism or such

There are the four ideologies

But within those there are branches

And there you need to specify the branch

[worthy flint]

my mind is all over the place tonight

[slender brook]

Don't worry, this is quite a confusing part

And yeah we'll deal with the portrait and traits later

[worthy flint]

i just filled them out because why not

okay, would it be socialism? I can't think for s*** tonight

[slender brook]

Yeah just put that down for now

[worthy flint]

done

cause google is not helpful at all

what would i put for large= cause i just noticed that

[slender brook]

Yeah nah just ignore that for now

That requires some other fairly complicated stuff

[worthy flint]

AKA stuff my brain can't handle right now lmfao

let's see if it worked

😔

actually, let me check something

would the fact that I have other custom mod files downloaded affect it?

[slender brook]

Probably not. Can you show me your mod structure now?

[slender brook]

Oh yes, you need to put them inside other folders

[worthy flint]

I'm a moron

[slender brook]

As per my first two images, you need to put characters in common and countries in history

[worthy flint]

Do I make a new folder or copy and paste the history and common folders from the game files?

[slender brook]

No, just make those new folders and then put the folders you have already into them

[worthy flint]

Okay, done, I'm guessing I give it a shot now

[slender brook]

Yeah

[worthy flint]

I'm so confused, I think I've done everything right

[slender brook]

Hmm. Show the file structure again?

[slender brook]

Hmm. That looks correct. Can you send over the files to me?

[worthy flint]

It says "we don't support that type of file"

[slender brook]

Right, do you know how to zip a file?

[worthy flint]

now I do

[slender brook]

Alright, I determined the issue

The file in countries needs to be the exact same name as the basegame file

You cannot have DEN_-_Denmark, it must be DEN - Denmark

[worthy flint]

copy and paste

[slender brook]

Then I'm not sure why it would do that if you copy and pasted it

[worthy flint]

No, I copied and pasted DEN - Denmark to fix it

It worked, buttt, it says no commander

[slender brook]

Huh. What shows when you hover over the portrait

[worthy flint]

nothing

it's cause i last clicked on the UK

[slender brook]

Hmm. On my end it displays fine

Oh right

You also need to remove the _ideology after socialism

Only fascism is like that

[worthy flint]

ahhhh

[slender brook]

Because there's fascism as a party type but also fascism as an ideology

It's quite deceiving

If I ever make a proper tutorial I'll make sure not to use fascism because fo that

[worthy flint]

cool, it worked

[slender brook]

Alright. We could work on the portrait, but I think if you're not in your best mind right now it might be better to wait a bit

[worthy flint]

it's fine, I wanna get this done as soon as possible if it's okay with you.

[slender brook]

I see. Do you have gimp downloaded?

Or photoshop

Anything like that

[worthy flint]

yeah, I photoshop all the time

[slender brook]

Basically, paste this into Photoshop and then crop your image/resize to fit into it

Then you'll have to crush the image into one layer and then export it as a .dds

Then put that file into a new folder tree, called gfx/leaders

Then make a folder called interface inside the base folder, then call it something like kd_characters.gfx

Actually wait, you'll want to enable file extensions

[worthy flint]

the software I use doesn't let me export it as DDS

[slender brook]

Get GIMP then

Actually that might require an extension

Maybe your software has an extension for .dds?

[worthy flint]

nope, I'm downloading GIMP

[worthy flint]

This good ?

[slender brook]

Nah just call it the name of the leader

Also you did enable file extensions right?

[worthy flint]

yeah

[slender brook]

Yeah I'd just call it something like leader_king_diamond_portrait.dds

[worthy flint]

ugh

why does this have to be so complicated

[stuck mist]

Mans really out here with the 10px photo of a screen instead of using a screenshot

[mystic lance]

Am I allowed/supposed to post mod ideas here?

Because I've been thinking about something that I think would be interesting, though it's meant for another game it could become a HOI4 mod if it became serious

[slender brook]

Yeah sure

[obtuse condor]

Can anyone turn this into a hoi4 portrait ?

I want to see the results

[slender brook]

Just do it yourself dude

[obtuse condor]

I can’t

[slender brook]

Why

You need like, 3 things
Visual Studio Code
GIMP
File Explorer

And I guess a rudimentary understanding of how text works

[obtuse condor]

You really only need your phone and the base game if you want to create a simple portrait tbh. (Not recommending it tho)

[slender brook]

How are you gonna actually put it in-game

[obtuse condor]

Actually that’s a good question.

Oh yeah just realized i was wrong. Holy hell i need to stop giving advice when i have just woken up

[fading tulip]

For anyone that find it interesting / helpful: you can use AI image generation to generate a HOI4 style potrait for any picture. {upload original picture and then input "hearts of iron 4 portrait"}:
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/home

example, one of my friends:

this can save hours of work for artist and development

[spark mural]

Anyone know if it's possible to print log messages from script? Would be very handy for testing events

[worthy flint]

My PC was refusing to let me take screenshots

[spark mural]

Is there a condition for checking if a country neighbors a given state?

[stuck mist]

Check the wiki?

[patent dock]

why to attached entity animations match up in the attacking, but not defending state of the unit?

@ paradox pls help and fix your game

[worthy flint]

No, it won't show you

[spark mural]

I've checked.

The docs aren't always self-explanatory so i thought i'd ask here

[steady dove]

i think it is possible for checking if a unit borders a state and if a country borders a country, i would assume if you were to replace some code that could be possible

not sure tho

[proper igloo]

Any good 1776 mods ?

[proven bolt]

Yea, its called playing EU4

[proper igloo]

Ouch you got me there

[slender brook]

There’s so much obsession with playing older eras in HOI4 even though they don’t make sense with the divisions system

Like armies covering entire fronts was pretty much a WW1 and beyond thing

[pallid temple]

hey guys why is my custom flags upside down?

[slender brook]

I mean the only reason that could be is if you made them upside down

[pallid temple]

i didnt make them upside down

i launched the game with them and theyre upside down

[slender brook]

And the files look correct?

Try reexporting them. Remember to turn off compression

[pallid temple]

okie

ill re-export them

[rapid rose]

Is it possible to extract the focustree aspect of hoi? So you dont have the game, just the focustreewindow and than fiddle around with just that

[obtuse condor]

Sup anyone who is able to do custom generals or field marshalls, could you please make a custom one with info id send you? Thank you

[chilly field]

can someone please give link for millennium dawn

[stuck mist]

It's not that hard to just learn to do yourself

[stuck mist]

There's these things called the internet and steam workshop, try looking it up?

[spark mural]

I need to check the strength ratio of whoever owns a particular state. Does anyone know if it's possible to write '[state_number].owner' outside the context of localisation? I see this sort of thing done with country tags, but for states I'm getting errors.

AND = {
strength_ratio = { tag = 171.OWNER ratio > 0.4 }
strength_ratio = { tag = 232.OWNER ratio > 0.4 }
}

[obtuse condor]

Starting a mod where the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838 succeeded.

[slender brook]

Cool, what significant changes to the world does it bring?

[gritty sleet]

Does somebody know if there’s a file with the hoi4 portraits?

[slender brook]

It's many files if you're just talking about the portrait images themselves

They're located gfx/leaders

interface/_leader_portraits.gfx is where they're classified

[gritty sleet]

Oh ok

Thanks

[honest eagle]

You know the usual

UK completely collapsed then reformed into a monarcho fascist regime, Germany immigrated to France lost all its German territory, Belgium conquered all of Africa, and Byzantium is back

[obtuse condor]

Can't reveal that yet

The year it is set in is 1937

The 100-year anniversary of the rebellion.

Is this a good flag?

I also plan a Canadian take-over of New England in the lore

but idk

too risky

Better colours

Anyone have a portrait for Tim Buck?

I can't really

find it

nvm

Made a custom one.

[steady dove]

someone should make a software to generate hoi4 portraits

it is hard

and i am bad at art

[silver veldt]

I like the less vibrant one

Seems more natural

[dreamy raven]

what is the localisation file for countries downhere?

[pale sparrow]

common/bookmarks

[obtuse condor]

Mkay.

[obtuse condor]

Where can I change leader portraits ?

For generic leaders ?

[small badge]

can give #modding message a spin

[hushed yarrow]

Hello, equipment icon is not shown, but technology icons are working

how to fix it?

[primal lance]

Can someone who knows something about modding tell me how to change how the Trade Law Closed Economy works? I am frustrated that it completely cuts off all trade and I want to change it to something more realistic.

Please tell me what I need to do to change it. I have no modding experience so please explain it as you would to a geriatric and dim witted monkey.

[steady dove]

idk if im gonna use it for portraits but this is definitely the best ai art i've seen oml

[grim sundial]

https://youtu.be/DF1FoSRn9Mk how do i set something like this up i just got this game so i can do this

i try to start a new game but i just have this

also is there a mod to get modern day countrys

[slender brook]

Yes

Millenium Dawn

[grim sundial]

ty

time to play as chad

[prisma wolf]

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[grim sundial]

this one?

[slender brook]

Yes

[grim sundial]

does it have every country in the world? including like island nations? (im waiting for it to finish downloading)

[steady dove]

yes, and unrecognized nations too

[grim sundial]

nice

like abkhazia?

[steady dove]

Maybe, haven't played in awhile

but i think so

[grim sundial]

its taking a while to download the mod so i bet its good

its at 80% now tho

[steady dove]

It's not my kinda thing but maybe you'll like it

[grim sundial]

(im used to playing eu4 where i make a bunch of nations and observe and watch them be played by computers til last survivor)

but i heard hoi4 has some other features

[slender brook]

Well the modern day one probably won't have that

[steady dove]

So you might like it

[slender brook]

Because wars are few and far between

[steady dove]

Does the crazy ai mod affect MD?

[worthy flint]

Hit "select scenario" then pick a country. You can go with the major countries or go to the map and pick a smaller one

[grim sundial]

is there a way to make it so i can just observe like in eu4

[slender brook]

Press start, hit tilde, type observe

[grim sundial]

ty

its still has me as usa

[slender brook]

Huh. Odd

I'll do some investigating

[grim sundial]

sry im nub

[slender brook]

Ok so the way it works is that you are viewing the game as if you were the USA, but you aren't actually the USA

[grim sundial]

wierd so the computer will control it?

[slender brook]

Yes

USA is controlled by AI, and you are just viewing it from their perspective

[grim sundial]

ok is there a way to open and close the economic preview i tried pressing the x button on it but it wont

[slender brook]

I dunno I don't use Millenium Dawn. I assume the fact you're in observer mode breaks it. Leave observer mode by taking over USA, try pressing X again, and then go back into observe mode

[grim sundial]

ok

[grim sundial]

YO

[obtuse condor]

I have to ask, i tried setting up the Ai for my hoi4 mod, but it seems to crash whenever I unpause the game. I deleted every Ai file that isnt the generics and removed basic restrictions on generics, why is it still crashing?

[static drum]

I dont think thats the original

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2777392649

its this one

@grim sundial

[worthy narwhal]

We do a little trolling

[stiff widget]

Are you so good at blender or what?

[worthy narwhal]

Im not amazing

Just know the rough basics

[stiff widget]

Ok

[slender brook]

Next project: Individually created chains

[stiff widget]

guys help i need to type "non-aligned" or "neutrality"

[slender brook]

Well I mean it’s just called neutrality

[stiff widget]

ok thx

[dreamy crag]

Sufficiently bored

Time to make an actual economic system in HOI4

[pale sparrow]

Dont

I dont know of any mod that does it well lol, game just too simple

[slender brook]

Millenium Dawn has it as one of the main focuses and it’s still crap

HOI4 is not an economic simulator. It is a war simulator

[pale sparrow]

[slender brook]

Very literal usage of that

[dreamy crag]

Okay

Still doing it

[grim sundial]

also ty guys

for the help

[warped current]

yeah theres a mod called novum exillum i think

its basically a vanilla just in modern day

or idk how would i describe it

[sharp elk]

Millennium dawn classic on top

[magic shoal]

Both kinda suck, both Novum Exillium and Millennium Dawn

[pale sparrow]

Novum Vexillum?

[royal pelican]

Basically I was bored so decided to do a theocracy byzantine

[proud tangle]

What’s the code like for increasing a specific party popularity, like unaligned?

[slender brook]

    ideology = neutrality
    popularity = -0.5
}```

[proud tangle]

Thank you

[small gazelle]

Any good Prussia mods?

[slender brook]

Gonna have to be a bit more specific with what you're asking

I know Empires has a good Prussia, but that's a different time era

[small gazelle]

Like for forming Germany

Before ww1

[slender brook]

Yeah Empires has that, though a bit earlier than historical

[slender brook]

Oh, End of a New Beginning

[warped hare]

Hey is there any way I can change my game version with the Xbox game pass version?
I wanna get the millennium Dawn mod and I gotta change version

[cinder wasp]

console hoi4?

[slender brook]

No, Xbox Gamepass

[warped hare]

Any ideas?

[hybrid sleet]

any good yugoslav moods?

[warped hare]

Ok since I’m guessing I can’t change my version, what are some good mods like millennium dawn that works with the latest version

[pale sparrow]

None

[pale sparrow]

🙂 I might make a Yugoslav tree, just not excited about the research

[hybrid sleet]

noioce

[warped hare]

Ok then what are any good mods that use the latest version

[pale sparrow]

😳

Uhm

Road to 56

Old World Blues

[faint hazel]

it's only been a year. is this normal in md?

[stiff widget]

i bet you turned off historical ai

[faint hazel]

i thought you were supposed to turn it off

[stiff widget]

no

[faint hazel]

didn't even knew luxembourg could form the eu so dam quickly

[stiff widget]

WaT

[faint hazel]

i watted pretty hard when i saw it

[stiff widget]

bruh

lux is too op when historical ai is off

[remote tulip]

So my Hoi4 keeps crashing when I use Road to 56 I have no idea why please help I have a multiplayer game in 40 minutes

[stiff widget]

go to #tech-support

if hoi4 crashes

why am i don't have any emotions when i see this

[eternal jewel]

cuz

[fallow granite]

someone wants to play hoi4 with mods?

[pale sparrow]

Try switching to DirectX11

in launcher

[proud tangle]

I have 2 questions: 1: I have a zipped mod, how do I install it? I can’t get it off the steam workshop because it’s a custom one. 2: How do i delete a mod that I “uploaded” to my Paradox interactive launcher? There is not mod attached because I failed to add my own and I can’t delete it

[warped hare]

is there a version of millennium dawn that uses the latest version of the launcher

[stuck mist]

1. Unzip in user directory, create a .mod file linking to it, and run
2. Elaborate?

[stuck mist]

The workshop version?

[gentle lake]

After working on my mod today I found the water reflection very scuffed. I still have a safe of my mod from before I started working on it today where it is normal, so i guess it is with what I did today. The only things I did today where: focus icons, focus trees and where the problems lies i think; the nudge tool. I used it to make Northern Schleswig and it went fine and everything is ok but now this is here. Anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

[proud tangle]

In the paradox launcher for Hoi, I pressed “upload a mod” and I named it and now it sits there, and I am unable to delete the name of it

[pale sparrow]

Your wording is a bit confusing

[dense vigil]

For some reason, when I tried to add civilian factories to a few states, the new factories did not count towards the free civilian factories - all of them were being used for consumer goods.

For example, say a country had 10 civs, and 50% were used for consumer goods. I then add 10 more in history/states. However, instead of 10 factories being used for consumer goods and 10 being used for construction, 15 of the factories were used for consumer goods even though the consumer goods percentage is only 50%. how do i fix this
it is 10:30 pm right now please help

[gentle lake]

can anyone help me with my issue. I have narrowed it down to focus icons??? it appears that the icons I made for anschluss, danzig or war and revive the kaisserreich are making it so this happens the only thing they have in common is that they are all on the beggining screen when selecting germany as nation

[bronze moon]

anyone know what these are in millennium dawn?

[stiff widget]

i bet you downloaded some another alternative history mods and you forgot to shut all of them down except millenium dawn

[bronze moon]

its the only thing in my playset

[stiff widget]

weird

well i see colonial expanasion thingy

[stiff widget]

can you show the whole playset window (not just the playset of millenium dawn)

[stiff widget]

ok

weird

very

[jolly flare]

There is mod for the coalition wars(france revolution)? Because I cant find it

[stiff widget]

did you make a new game?

[bronze moon]

tbf i think it's probably to do with the hideous amount of cheat codes i use

[pale sparrow]

mustve gotten updated

[bronze moon]

if i delete then re download will it mess with my saved games for it?

[pale sparrow]

no but its pointless

that wont fix itself

just ignore it if you can

[bronze moon]

ok

[dense vigil]

1938

goofy ahh germany

if carrier naval bombers go on carriers

and carriers are part of the navy

and naval bombers bomb navies

does that mean a carrier naval bomber is just a

naval naval bomber

[spiral tartan]

Excuse, What is this?

[steady dove]

when do I use :0 and when do I use :1?

[dense vigil]

you dont

[steady dove]

?

when do I use 0 and when do I use 1

This is base game and I've only been using 0 for my ideologies

[quick orbit]

you don’t need to

it’s just a pdx thing for organization

[steady dove]

oh thanks

[dense vigil]

ohhh

i thought you meant like

the faces

I THOUGHT THIS WAS GENERAL

SHOOT

uh

[steady dove]

lol

[lavish basin]

in state_event is ROOT the country or the state? The wiki says state, but from what I see in examples and code it seems to be country?

same question for operative_event

[amber oar]

how do you download an update for a mod you already have?

[pale sparrow]

should be automatic, can try restarting steam

[pale sparrow]

In each event type, the ROOT scope refers to the country getting the event, however, the default assumed scope, also known as THIS, is not always the country: In state events, the default scope is the state, while in operative events, the default scope is the operative. It is to be noted that in unit leader events, the default scope is still the country that received the event. Other than the appearance and the default scope, there is nearly no difference between event types.

[lavish basin]

aah, misread it

[pale sparrow]

the game loads certain file extensions while not impacting the checksum

[magic shoal]

Ask the people in the Millennium Dawn Server

[bronze moon]

cba

[magic shoal]

What?

The Millennium Dawn discord server has like 40,000 people in it, I’m sure you’ll find someone.

[jagged lagoon]

Modding too complicated But i will act like i know it in and out

[slender brook]

Really only scoping is the complicated part of modding. Simple modding is really easy and requires no prior knowledge

[pale sparrow]

Scoping complicated?

[slender brook]

It's relative

[pale sparrow]

I think its a very logical concept 😋

I havent done maps, all easy, just gotta get used to much syntax

[twilit arch]

is there in the goals file a blank focus background like the plate in the back

[silk agate]

they made an even stronger one??

[restive grove]

is there any Modern Mod other than Millennium Dawn?

[silk agate]

Noxum Vexillum

or whatever its called

[restive grove]

it was laggy as hell

Novum

[stiff widget]

Can someone give me an idea for mod to make about

[obtuse condor]

logo i made for my first mod hows it look

[obtuse condor]

lore-based mod about china invades bhutan over them refusing to recognize the prc and the joins nato while hundreds of thousands of troops and equipment are dedicated to the defense of bhutan

in the end bhutan becomes the hegemon of eastern asia and the mod now takes place in a world where bhutan reigns dominant over china and there’s a major pro chinese revolt mid game

[stiff widget]

i am making my first mod..

[cobalt escarp]

Any good modern days mod that is not cpu killer like millenium dawn ?

[snow helm]

Millenium Dawn

[buoyant dove]

The Information Age

[cobalt escarp]

Thx

[twilit arch]

how do i make stability_weekly end?

like for example i want it to end after 10 weeks

[obtuse condor]

Timed idea?

[twilit arch]

oh

i forgor about that

[pale sparrow]

Hey does anyone know if any documentation on the upcoming new commands is publicly available?

whether the syntax for the new division_has_majority_template for example has been posted anywhere

[gentle lake]

im kinda new to modding and i wondered what a line would be for being at war with a major power, i was thinking maybe

available = {
has_war_with = major
}
or smn idk can anyone help

[pale sparrow]

That doesnt exist, but you can easily form a check with other conditions/scopes

[gentle lake]

im sorry if i sound dumb but how would u do that?

[pale sparrow]

any_enemy_country = { is_major = yes } might work

a more common one is

any_country = { has_war_with = ROOT is_major = yes }

[gentle lake]

ah ok

thx it worked

[mental rampart]

Why is there a bunch of Napoleonic mods for HOI4 but none of them are updated?

[obtuse condor]

I don know💀

[mental rampart]

It's weird. It's like someone downloads a copy, then updates it to a different version, then somehow forgets and just drops it when they stop playing it.

Game of Thrones mod is... I don't know what to say. I feel like it's kinda meh because it is not complete yet.

[mental rampart]

I subscribed to Old World Blues: Tandi Legacy, then loaded the HOI4 launcher, selected it as the playset, and launched the game.

Now, I see the screen being normal and the country selection was not in Old World Blues fashion. It was the regular game.

Am I missing something here? The developers of OWB did not mention which DLC was dependent on this mod.

i picked a country and it is still the same regular game....

[gentle lake]

hey does anyone know whats wrong with this focus. the requirements are fine but it doesnt show any completion rewards/effects in the game?

i was trying to get it so that when u own at least one of three states u can take a focus that gives max radar and airfields in the states u control

[twilit arch]

i just got into modding
im following the iron workshops playlist are there any other sources you know off that i can continue wqtching

[slender brook]

Nah. I’d say the best things you can do is go out and make a simple mod, and inspect the basegame code for how to do things

[jade mauve]

how do i add a state modifier through an event?, i tried it and while it works on focuses, it does not work with events and i dont know why

[crimson wedge]

I'm really confused about events and how they're triggered. I get that the hours/days trigger will help but does that mean the event will trigger on that time, or just that that's the minimum time it can?

[pale sparrow]

Triggering by command uses set times

The mean_time_to_happen if you use a trigger inside the event goes through some math and is fairly random, 50% its earlier, 50% its later

[crimson wedge]

Okay, so for example if I did:

trigger = {
    tag = USA
}

then it would be random or it would start right when the game starts?

[jade mauve]

in that case i recommend using the 'on_actions' file

just be careful with them

they can crash the game very easly

[crimson wedge]

Hmm I don't know what that means. I think I'm probably just a little in over my head with events lol

[jade mauve]

nah, its quite easy, let me find you an example

on_startup = {
effect = {
USA = {
country_event = { id = USA.24 }
}
}
}

thats one for example

just create a file called 'on_actions' in the 'common' file

[crimson wedge]

And where would that go? in the USA's event file?

Oh

[jade mauve]

create a text file for on_actions and thats it

[crimson wedge]

Hmm okay

[jade mauve]

if you want to trigger an event lets say 1 year after the game starts you can change ti to be something like:
on_startup = {
effect = {
USA = {
country_event = { id = USA.24 days = 365 }
}
}
}

[crimson wedge]

I'm actually trying to make a submod for Millennium Dawn and I'm just trying to look into how they've done some events to replicate it and it's quite confusing

[crimson wedge]

And that would make it fire right at one year, or just at least one year?

[jade mauve]

oh yeah, development of md is quite confusing

[jade mauve]

no, after a year exactly

the 'days' part tells the game after what ammount of time the event will fire