modding

[halcyon portal]

germany has a specifc german nazism

[quaint sundial]

nazism i think

[halcyon portal]

yea

and other nations with nazism have a different definition

so the gen might stand for generic

i guess

who knows

[quaint sundial]

wats the file with the ideologies names?

[halcyon portal]

idk off the top of my head lemme check-

[quaint sundial]

in localisation*

[quaint sundial]

found, parties

[halcyon portal]

oh ok

[quaint sundial]

ye ure right

the name in loc is the same

the description is too

[slender brook]

Correct

[quaint sundial]

the only diference is dat the nazism_desc has the fuhrer at the end

for germany

[halcyon portal]

iM qUiTe tHe HoI eXpErT mYsElF

[halcyon portal]

yes

[quaint sundial]

hey a helper, can u help me?

[slender brook]

With what

[quaint sundial]

is there any trigger for guarantees?

i cant find

[slender brook]

is_guaranteed_by

What resource are you looking at?

[quaint sundial]

oh, theres not one without need for a scope?

[slender brook]

Well what exactly are you trying to do

[quaint sundial]

the wiki, i found dat one, but i wanted a general one, to check for any country guaranteing any country

[pale sparrow]

Scope

[slender brook]

Oh yeah just do some dynamic scoping

[quaint sundial]

idk if its even possible, but im doing a diplomatic action dat removes guarantees

from AI countries

like i ask france to rmeove checoslovakia guarantee

and they do

[pale sparrow]

any_country
is_ai = yes
any_other_country
is_guaranteed_by = PREV

You know

[quaint sundial]

those work as scopes? i thought they were weird triggers breh

[pale sparrow]

The wiki has a seperate page for scopes

[quaint sundial]

im not the master of modding, nor english lol

[slender brook]

Well any_country are triggers, but PREV is a valid scope yes

[quaint sundial]

hm

[pale sparrow]

You ask any AI countries that are guaranteeing to remove guarantee?

By event?

[quaint sundial]

diplo action

[pale sparrow]

Ah

[quaint sundial]

i made already one to make enemy surrender during war so

i have small experience, but have experience

[quaint sundial]

ohhh ye, talking about my previous diplo action, is there any way to make the modifiers go away when they are not needed? lemme gib example

u see the ones with a 0?

is there a way to make them go away when they are 0?

[pale sparrow]

Idk tbh I dont touch AI

If its a button, Ig you just need to check is_ai = yes and also within target country scope
any_other_country = { is_guaranteed_by = PREV }

[quaint sundial]

im also checking for it to not be ai, cuz i dont want myself in the list

[pale sparrow]

^^

[quaint sundial]

ah

[quaint sundial]

im a fan of horizontal code, surely not because of this

[pale sparrow]

😠

[slender brook]

Wow that looks awful

[quaint sundial]

i couldnt rly make it vertical...

[slender brook]

If I was caught dead writing that I would revive myself

[quaint sundial]

it would take hundreeds of lines

[pale sparrow]

Scroll wheel

[slender brook]

That looks like 150 tops

[pale sparrow]

Theres even a website to indent for you

[quaint sundial]

tbh, im only horizontal coding for extremely long code lines, i do normal verticality in smol code

ship oobs are horizontal

cuz they are FREKIN long

[slender brook]

That just makes it even harder to edit

[quaint sundial]

ik

dats why i do 3 spaces betwen each modifier

[quaint sundial]

i tested dis, no work, it checks if the country i click is guaranteed by itself

[blazing musk]

😍 😍

[quaint sundial]

oh wait a minute, i got it

[pale sparrow]

[quaint sundial]

just needed to add a NOT TAG = prev and it worked

and use any_country insted of any_other_country

idk why it didnt work before, cuz to me any other country would be every country except prev

[willow sluice]

Can you send me good video trutorial for creating countries

[quaint sundial]

i gess there isnt, iw tutorial is outdated

[willow sluice]

I'm new to modding

[quaint sundial]

but should work, i did 8 countries in my mod

in 1.11 tho, the only problem would be oobs, cuz now theres planes

[willow sluice]

I had tried to make country according to trutorial i sent before and all of the colours were mixed

[quaint sundial]

dats a common newby erorr, i had it alot

u just messed something in the color file

[willow sluice]

And my country didnt show up

[quaint sundial]

oh, dats new

[quaint sundial]

u sure u did every single step there is to be done?

[willow sluice]

I think so...

[quaint sundial]

except flags, u dont need to do country flag till the end, it doesnt affect the country

[willow sluice]

I'll try one mor try

Time*

The trutorial was for version 1.8, so I thought it was that problem

[quaint sundial]

u did it?

[willow sluice]

yes, now I'm trying again

[quaint sundial]

is var: needed?

ayo why cant i send my diplo action, all i did was use a variable t set the cost, it works if i put a specific value

@pale sparrow can u answer at least one of these 2 questions?

[lofty plaza]

Yes because it lets it know it's using a variable

[quaint sundial]

and about the other thing, why cant i use my diplo action when im using the variable?

[lofty plaza]

Not sure, send your code

[quaint sundial]

both the cost and the code dat sets the variables?

well cost is this

the variable set is in on_actions, this is inside on_actions = {}

if this helps my diplo action doesnt have any effect or ai desire yet

i tested with the other one i did and it looks like it is a var problem, i cant use the other one either, and that one is complete

[slender brook]

I dunno if this’ll fix it but on_startup would mean released nations and countries that become majors later on have weird pp values

[quaint sundial]

so should i check like daily?

[slender brook]

Nope, daily checks should only be used for highly important things

[quaint sundial]

so wat do i use?

I figured my mistake

[quaint sundial]

I figured it, it's quite embarrassing, I don't have the pp to send it

[brave glade]

Im new to modding, and i have a medium/big sized project in mind that i want to make but im not really sure where to start. anybody want to be my partner in crime on making it?

[quaint sundial]

If ure new to modding, u shouldn't start big projects, wat do u have in mind?

[brave glade]

i wanted to make a mod that was like a very british civil war but american civil war

ik kinda dumb and kasierreich already did it but

[quaint sundial]

Ah, it's doable I gess

Did u look in game files to see how usa civil war works?

[slender brook]

I’d keep that mod on the backfoot before diving deeper in

[brave glade]

yeah

[slender brook]

I’d suggest thinking of a smaller idea for your first mod

[lofty plaza]

Yes that would tend to do it

[brave glade]

after hearing that little advice from both of yas

yeah ill probably do that

still want help though

[slender brook]

My suggestion for a first mod that’s a bit complex but not too tough is a custom country with focuses

Well just drop a message if you need help

[brave glade]

yeah

[quaint sundial]

For starting, perhaps try to make a ez civil war, with the civil war effect, then go gradually up till ure redy to make a complex civil war

[brave glade]

k

[slender brook]

And remember; reading the basegame code is your best friend

[lofty plaza]

Ehhhh

It's a bit inconsistent

[quaint sundial]

And not being stupid like needing 50 pp to send a diplo action and not having it and pointing to the var as the guilty one

[slender brook]

True, it’s better in Stellaris but it’s still a good idea in most cases in HOI4

[quaint sundial]

The civil war effect?

[lofty plaza]

Hm?

[quaint sundial]

Wats inconsistent

[lofty plaza]

Base game code

[quaint sundial]

Oh

Eh, it's just complez

Idk how many times HoI4 used the civil war effect, I think for German vs kaizer civil war

[lofty plaza]

For that yes, but for most of the time for more in-depth ones like the British and Soviets there is far more going on

[brave glade]

i wanted to do that but im lacking on inspiration i just dont know what to do and the ideas i do have are already mods

[quaint sundial]

I didn't look at the usa civil war, but I can safely say Dat Spanish Civil War is the most complex one

Or was

[lofty plaza]

Not really that just has a lot of events, it's a predetermined location every time

[slender brook]

I wouldn’t let that stop you. Just because the idea has been made before doesn’t mean you can’t put your own spin on it

[lofty plaza]

It's the Soviet one by far

[quaint sundial]

Is there any new civil wars?

[brave glade]

good point

[quaint sundial]

Soviets have a civil war?

[lofty plaza]

They have like 4

[quaint sundial]

God I never played soviet without being commie

[lofty plaza]

It makes heavy use of dynamic modifiers, state flags, decisions and scripted effects

[quaint sundial]

Dynamic modifiers? Wots Dat? Never worked with those

Also never used state flags, but I do know to use them, kinda, the problem would be the condition to choose the states

[glacial quail]

i made a single scuffed mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875939154

[quaint sundial]

And scripted effects are just big effects compacted into a simple code line like effect_war

[lofty plaza]

It's basically like a national spirit but acts more like a variable that can be changed dynamically

[lofty plaza]

It's very handy to just have an effect on hand without having to copy and paste some large amount of code every time

[quaint sundial]

Ahh good, a sign to never usethen

[lofty plaza]

It's only really good if you have a large national spirit that can change a lot or needs to be robust

The Soviets make heavy of them since their modifiers change so much

[quaint sundial]

Makes sense

So dinamic modifiers are just variable modifiers?

[lofty plaza]

Pretty much

[quaint sundial]

Hm

I didn't play soviets yet in New update, last time I played them, nsb was out

[lofty plaza]

It's to prevent having like 50 if's to swap ideas

[quaint sundial]

Scripted triggers : D

[lofty plaza]

.

[quaint sundial]

Ye ik, was just pointing out scripted triggers are just scripted effects, but triggers

[lofty plaza]

Yeah ok

[quaint sundial]

Scripted localisation in the other hand...

And scripted gui 💀

[lofty plaza]

Scripted localisation is probably the easiest out of all of them

[quaint sundial]

Huh?

No?

Scripted Triggers and effects are the easiest, then diplomatic actions, then loc and then gui

[lofty plaza]

All you need for localisation is just a trigger and a loc key

[quaint sundial]

Tho if I knew to use scripted loc, loc and diplo actions would switch

[quaint sundial]

@lofty plaza is there a way to make these modifiers with value 0 vanish and apear when value changes to something different than 0?

[blissful pagoda]

I am making erich von manstein as germanys leader.
What should i do in localisation

[quaint sundial]

isnt manstein already in game?

[blissful pagoda]

Yes but as general

[quaint sundial]

so u could just edit him right?

[blissful pagoda]

I want make him country leader

[quaint sundial]

edit him in the character file?

[blissful pagoda]

Yes i did it

[quaint sundial]

and is localisation needed?

[blissful pagoda]

Yes

[quaint sundial]

for wat?

[blissful pagoda]

It is not working

[blissful pagoda]

I dont know

Thats why i am asking

[quaint sundial]

when u say its not working, wat do u mean, does he show up like SOMETHING_NOT_HIS_NAME or doesnt appear?

[blissful pagoda]

Yes nothing happens when i open the game

Its the vanila hitler portrait with name

I mean no change was seen

[quaint sundial]

im not 1000% sure, but i think generals can be leaders, maybe check game files form Mao, cuz hes a leader and general

field marshal actually

[blissful pagoda]

Yes

And antonescu

[quaint sundial]

who tf is dat

[blissful pagoda]

But its not for germany

[quaint sundial]

ik, just check if ur code looks like the mao code

[blissful pagoda]

Romania

[blissful pagoda]

Ok

[quaint sundial]

so, did the code match?

[outer blaze]

Is there a way to set default missions for each ship task force? For example set it to patrol an area, but from the get go

like:

task_force = {                
  name = "Aegean Patrol"                
  location = ID
  mission = "Patrol" AreaID
  **Ships**
}```

[lofty plaza]

I don't think so, I don't recall anything like that being used anywhere

[lofty plaza]

Visible

[quaint sundial]

wut

[lofty plaza]

var:whatever < 1

[quaint sundial]

but it doesnt accept triggers anywere

only to change the value

[lofty plaza]

Then probably not

[quaint sundial]

theres no way to make it go away? srsly pdx why do u have to hardcode everything dats pretty and us modders need to content with the modifier showing 0 :/

[lofty plaza]

This is for a diplomatic action right?

[quaint sundial]

ye

[south folio]

This is probably a dumb question but is 8.8.8.8 BGRA 32 bpp. The same format as 8.8.8.8 ARGB 32 bpp. I'm looking in NVIDIA Texture Tools and can't find the latter but I can find the former.

[quaint sundial]

im dumb so i cant answer for sure, but if it was the same, there wouldnt be different names imo

it looks like the inverse

is there any way to trigger a gui window in a diplomatic action

cuz i heard of send_scripted_gui or something similar

like when u click on guarantee or justify war, a window pops

[honest eagle]

Yeah probably

send_scripted_gui:

when:
justification = true

That’s not it but I assume it’ll be like that

[honest eagle]

You need to make the country files have Erich con manestein iirc

With his name and portrait name for the party (I assume fascist)

[obtuse condor]

Are there any (German) national focus mods out for the new version?

If so what is it called? I have veen looking for mods to try

[obtuse condor]

My brother in christ the vanilla focus tree is the best one. The other ones are just unbalanced wehraboo larp mods

[outer blaze]

Is there any parameter I can use to check if I own the state in order to apply army or air wings on this state (with a mod)?

or basically another question

if I use a file in 2 mods

does it merge?

or one takes priority over another?

[hexed plinth]

Ok i'm brand new to modding but when I add in a new leader for a party, it deletes all of the other leaders and advisors. Can anyone link me a thread where someone has had the same issue or explain what i'm doing wrong?

I followed the Iron workshop video and I'm not entirely sure what I did differently other than being on the newest version

[obtuse condor]

Did you delete the other recruit_character lines from the history file? Alternatively, does your character file hold the blocks for the other leaders?

[small badge]

<@&846894118219022336> another invite

[hexed plinth]

I deleted all the other recruit_character lines and my character file doesn't hold the blocks for the other leaders. But even if I add them back in I can't access the Advisors

I can send my files rq if it would help

[obtuse condor]

The leaders won’t show up ingame if they are not recruited in the history files. And yes, you can dm me the files

[hexed plinth]

ok

[quaint sundial]

how to do scripted localisation

[pale sparrow]

read wiki

[quaint sundial]

wiki has scripted loc? were?

[pale sparrow]

Localization page I think

[quaint sundial]

ye i read it there, didnt understand shet

[quaint sundial]

here i understand

but wats dis

[pale sparrow]

What about that

[quaint sundial]

some_loc?

[pale sparrow]

can be anything

[quaint sundial]

and dat some loc is wat needs to be written in ur code right?

like this green thing

this is my some_loc?

[pale sparrow]

yes

[quaint sundial]

ah oke

[quaint sundial]

do u have decent knowledge of diplomatic action coding?

[pale sparrow]

no

[quaint sundial]

cuz i was using the IW template, and i found this

reset_send_effect, wat would it affect? hmm

i found this in another mod

a mod dat uses scripted gui

these 2, idk to use them

[spark mural]

Spent 2 days trying to add a simple character to a country. Anyone have any suggestions?

I've

1. Added my character. A character with the same properties and a different name actually appears for Germany if I give it to them instead.
2. Used recruit_character in the history file.
3. Removed all countries from the /general/ advisor generation script, so now Serbia doesn't get any automatically generated advisors. But they still don't get my custom one.

When I added a leader for Serbia in their file, that seemed to work fine. No idea why this particular advisor isn't working.

[whole saffron]

uhh?

[outer blaze]

@spark mural Maybe you also need to add the name to the common/names/00_names.txt under the corresponding country?

[whole saffron]

guys, how do i create a mod file in the new hoi4 launcher?

oh nvm

i was in playsets and not All Installed Mods

[spark mural]

I'm not overriding the names.txt file so the standard one should already be working, and that version contains a 'SER'. In fact, names are generating for Serbia.

[ocean kettle]

how is the new order mod called?

i cant find it on workshop

nvm i found it

[hexed plinth]

Ok so I made 2 new advisors, but when I select one the other one dissapears

i'm not getting anything on the error log

heres a screenshot

[outer blaze]

Ok, just thought that maybe the names you chose for your new recruit must exist in that file too

so maybe you should override it and just add the name you want

[whole juniper]

what do the x and y stuff mean in units?

[hexed plinth]

figured it out, i didn't give totoro his own id

[spark mural]

new recruit? This is a political advisor

[versed vault]

i feel like it would be pretty cool if someone made a mod that added ammunition that you could produce

[whole juniper]

what's the difference between every localisation definition for each country?

[obtuse condor]

is there any general hoi4 modding server nearly every one i found had an invalid invite

[slender brook]

That was on the frontpage like a week ago

[versed vault]

oh

[slender brook]

Can you elaborate? Which definitions are talking about?

[empty sapphire]

So is it possible to create focus trees with the balance if power stuff?

[whole saffron]

guys

why is all of my countries now random colours

[07:27:54][countrytag.cpp:112]: PIR - is not in the tag list
[07:27:54][history.cpp:257]: Unknown history file in country database - history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt
[07:27:56][gamestate.cpp:2852]: Invalid Country Tag - PIR
[07:27:56][gamestate.cpp:2852]: Invalid Country Tag - color
[07:27:56][parser.cpp:932]: Error: unexpected token in file: "common/countries/colors.txt" near line: 3 ( { )
[07:27:56][gamestate.cpp:2852]: Invalid Country Tag - {
[07:27:56][parser.cpp:932]: Error: unexpected token in file: "common/countries/colors.txt" near line: 3 ( 38 )
[07:27:56][gamestate.cpp:2852]: Invalid Country Tag - 38

thats the error

anyone know what im doing wrong?

hoyl shit i fixed it

idk what i did but i fixd it

[dapper glen]

Hi

[brave glade]

you were missing an end bracket

[brave glade]

hello

[coral salmon]

Anyone know why

state_production_speed_infrastructure_factor = 0.25

doesnt work?

[whole juniper]

In the countries localisation file there are a lot of different things for each country and I'm not sure what each one is used for

[slender brook]

Like the TAG, TAG_adj, TAG_def?

[whole juniper]

yes

[vestal gorge]

So where would I Start in order to stop the AI from researching some techs?

[cerulean canyon]

Can i create a country with event?

[willow sluice]

I had same problem

[whole saffron]

not i wasbt, i just forgot to press tab before color = whatever

[pale sparrow]

Toolpack has generic presets

Specific template eeh

[last flame]

me and my friend are trying to make a mod together and publish it together but we don't know how if we even can.

[whole saffron]

guys

when im makign a national focus, how would increase the production speed, construction speed and stability?

[pale sparrow]

One uploads, then just adds the other as contributor on the Steam page

[whole saffron]

oh wait

i figured it out

add_stability = value

ok now im confused

ive made a second focus, but it isnt showing

the previous focus id was 'uprising_of_the_pirates'

@pale sparrow can you help?

[south folio]

Usually focuses not showing up are bracking issues

[whole saffron]

i dont think i have a bracking issue

i can send the script

    id = pirate_focus

    country = {
        factor = 0

        modifier = {
            add = 10
            tag = PIR
        }
    }

    default = no

    continuous_focus_position = { x = 50 y = 1000 }

    focus = {
        id = uprising_of_the_pirates
        icon = GFX_goal_generic_major_war
        x = -28
        y = -1
        relative_position_id = AST_empower_the_workers

        available = {
        }

        bypass = {
        }

        cost = 1

        cancel_if_invalid = yes
        continue_if_invalid = no
        available_if_capitulated = no

        completion_reward = {
                add_stability = 0.15
                add_war_support = 0.20
                add_political_power = 80
        }

                ai_will_do = {
            }
        }
    }
    focus = {
        id = go_with_germany
        icon = GFX_goal_generic_major_war
        x = 1
        y = 1
        relative_position_id = uprising_of_the_pirates

        available = {
        }

        bypass = {
        }

        cost = 1
        prerequisite = { focus = uprising_of_the_pirates }

        cancel_if_invalid = yes
        continue_if_invalid = no
        available_if_capitulated = no

        completion_reward = {
                add_political_power = 40
        }

        ai_will_do = {
        
        }
    }
}

[south folio]

you have three brackets after ai will do

[whole saffron]

the second one is to close of focus = {}

[south folio]

there should be only 2 since the thrid one closes the entire focus tree

[whole saffron]

and the 3rd one is for the first line

[south folio]

yeah so you closed the entire focus tree

[whole saffron]

after the focus

either way, i removed one and it still hasnt appeared

oh

my

bad

i thought you meant after the 2nd focus

thank you!

[south folio]

no problema

[whole saffron]

also

how do i change the name of the focus?

because its kinda just the id

[south folio]

you've gotta make localisation

[whole saffron]

with all the names?

in the .yml file?

[thin chasm]

localisation/focus_l_english.yml, yeah

[whole saffron]

thought so

so would i do the id = name or name = id

[south folio]

you'd do it like this uprising_of_the_pirates:0 "My super cool focus yay!"

[whole saffron]

ah ok

the the

so the*

"My Super cool focus yay"

would be the name?

[south folio]

Yes, needs to be in qoutes

[whole saffron]

alr

thanks

[south folio]

👍

[pale sparrow]

bracketing was indeed wrong

[whole saffron]

yeah i realise that now lol

also the name didnt change

still the id :(

[south folio]

You probably need to save the focus again

so it updates

[whole saffron]

what do you mean save?

because i saved the .yml file

and nothing changed?

[south folio]

yeah but gotta save the focus file so it realizes it has localisation

[whole saffron]

the .txt in national_focus?

[south folio]

yes just press space and save and it should update

[whole saffron]

nope

[south folio]

strange, anything in the error log?

[whole saffron]

how do i check the error log again?

[south folio]

In the game there's an doggo in the bottom right corner that you can click on

[whole saffron]

hes gone

i'll just send this

its from uh

me typing in error in the command console

[16:41:50][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:41:53][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:41:56][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:43:08][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:43:30][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:43:58][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:44:33][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:44:43][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:44:54][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 48" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 75
[16:45:05][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:45:32][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:47:32][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:47:54][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:49:12][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 72
[16:49:27][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 72
[16:49:31][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:53:46][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:54:10][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:54:27][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:55:23][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[16:55:33][persistent.cpp:48]: Error: "Unexpected token: focus, near line: 46" in file: "common/national_focus/pirate.txt" near line: 73
[17:05:01][ConsoleCmdImpl.cpp:5927]: ======== show errors from console ========





****```

[south folio]

This is before the bracketing issue was fixed yes?

[whole saffron]

uh

lemme check

yes

[south folio]

Then it cannot help us.

[whole saffron]

so what do i do

[south folio]

You can restart the game that forces the error log up again

[whole saffron]

alr

there is nothing but stuff about characters

[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:9: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:10: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:11: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:12: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:13: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:14: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:15: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:16: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:17: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:18: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:19: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:20: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:21: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:22: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:23: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:24: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:25: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:26: recruit_character: Unknown character 
[17:08:40][effectimplementation.cpp:5123]: history/countries/PIR - Pirate Federation.txt:27: recruit_character: Unknown character 

[pale sparrow]

that syntax looks correct

gotta make sure its the right encoding and location then

[south folio]

Did you make the yml. or copy it?

[whole saffron]

copied it from uh

one of the files

[south folio]

ah you forgot l_english at the end of pirate focus

[whole saffron]

ahh

[south folio]

it should be pirate_focus_l_english

[whole saffron]

ok that made sense lol

hmm

still hasnt changed..

[south folio]

You probably have to restart the game for it to regonize new files

[whole saffron]

kk

ah yes

i tworked

thanks so much

[south folio]

epic

[whole saffron]

how would i increase the divisions attack/defence in focuses?

[south folio]

You need to make an idea

for modifiers

[whole saffron]

ok

[vestal gorge]

just wondering, what number should i put, if i dont ever want the AI to research some thing?

[south folio]

would assume 0

[vestal gorge]

odd land_doctrine = 100.0 is at 100

[south folio]

Probably since land doctrine is researched via army experience now instead of research slots

[vestal gorge]

dang. theres no Modern tank, didnt want them the Ai to research modern tanks either

i guess generic is all the other nations?

[south folio]

then you'd guess correctly

[obtuse condor]

i've recently created a mod "fast war" and whenever i use it in multiplayer it says that my friend has another version of the game
which he dosent
we got same everything and im 100% its my mod because i've tried my mod only and other mods togheter

[south folio]

how did you give it to your friend?

[obtuse condor]

Its posted on the workshop

[south folio]

Are you both playing with the workshop version?

[obtuse condor]

yup

[south folio]

Is your mod still in the hoi4 mod folder, the one you program in that is

[obtuse condor]

yes

[south folio]

then move that and its descriptor file out of the mod folder it's making the game confused since they both have the same id

[obtuse condor]

alright let me see

[obtuse condor]

Nope did not work

[south folio]

Then, sorry I do not know. One of the epic helper folks gotta take over.

[obtuse condor]

damn alr thanks

<@&916727924093239336> ?

[south folio]

I have a question, does your mod things appear in the game when you start it? Like rn

[obtuse condor]

yup

[south folio]

very strange

[obtuse condor]

I fixed it, i just had to update the mod

thank you anyways

[south folio]

have an epic gamer time

[slender brook]

TAG and TAG_ideology are the country names, e.g “United Kingdom” and “Great Britain”
TAG_adj and TAG_ideology_adj are the adjective, e.g “British”
TAG_def and TAG_ideology_def are a bit hard to explain, but look like “the United States of America”. Basically they are both the full name and also put in the if needed

[whole juniper]

where are the defs used?

[south folio]

Doesn't Defs add the "The" Infront of a country if it needs to be or is that a different one?

[slender brook]

When referring to it in sentences, like “The United States of America has declared war on Germany”

[slender brook]

Yes, I tried to refer to that though I could probably have made it clearer

[south folio]

Maybe or I'm just bad at reading

[obtuse condor]

How many mods are there for increasing the number of support companies in a division?

The “12 support divisions mod” that was popular breaks the game with the latest dlc

Honestly don’t y’all feel 5 supports is way too low?

[obtuse condor]

hello

[brave glade]

i made a mod that changes france flag and it worked when I first tested it but it doesnt now

can anyone help me?

[sacred monolith]

What do you mean, if it worked it should still work

[brave glade]

I tested it now and it doesnt

[sacred monolith]

Did you change something?

[brave glade]

No

i made folder gfx>>flags>>medium, small, FRA_democratic

medium>>FRA_democratic

small>>FRA_democratic

and it doesnt work at all

[brave glade]

@sacred monolith ?

[mystic zodiac]

Can anyone help my with some modding?

I want a event to trigger day 1 (when the game starts) for only the 1939 start date, how do I do that?

Thanks if anyone can help

[south folio]

You need to make an on_action

[mystic zodiac]

How do I do that

The event fires right now but I only want it to fire in the 1939 start

[south folio]

ah you gotta put the trigger has_start_date > the date (I can't remmember)

[mystic zodiac]

I’ll try

[pale sparrow]

Yeh

Vanilla checks for 1936 by doing < 02.01.1936

Something like that

[mystic zodiac]

Also I don’t want it to trigger in the 1936 starts so if I set for example >1939.8.1 I don’t want it to fire for the 36 start when the game gets to that point

How do I do that

[pale sparrow]

The good way is to check in on_actions on game start for start date then fire the event if >1939

[south folio]

I'll let real helper man take over, I'mma go sleep good luck!

[pale sparrow]

Setting as trigger would mean it keeps checking throughout any 1936 game, so you should just check once then decide whether to fire in on_action

I also go sleep

[mystic zodiac]

It’s my first time using on action so can you tell me how exactly and where to use it

Plz

[south folio]

common/on_actions

[mystic zodiac]

Ok thanks I’ll keep trying#

[brave glade]

anybody can help?

[south folio]

Are you sure you didn't change anything?

[brave glade]

well i thought I fixed something

by replacing the FRA_democratic files because I thought that was the problem

i edited them in paint.net

and saved as

compression off

32 bit

[south folio]

So after you saved them it broke? What does it show now just the vanilla flag?

[brave glade]

yeah

for normal and small flag it shows default

but medium works

@south folio sory for late response

[halcyon portal]

how do i replace the main theme (loading song) with a different song?

[shut rock]

um im new to modding and im not sure why but like the colors for the world are all wonky

like the country i put there has the color i intended

but the normal vanilla countries just have random colors

[mystic zodiac]

Is there a way to reload files without restarting the game?

It’s really annoying and reload command doesn’t work for some files

[ebon kraken]

id 90164756043865091。 no mods password 123

Standard Rules

[shut rock]

i fixed it 🙂

not sure why my leader wont show up ingame tho

[whole saffron]

hello guys, does anybody know what the syntax is for a reasearch bonus for guns, ships and planes?

[shut rock]

can anyone help with me as to why my leader wont show up ingame? have i done something wrong here

[whole saffron]

did you save the leader file as a .png?

[shut rock]

i thought it was meant to be a .dds

[whole saffron]

wait

no

nvm me

but did you use

paint.net

[shut rock]

yeah

[whole saffron]

and you used the correct format thingy

[shut rock]

made sure it was the same frame and all that

yeah

i used uh

lemme double check

B8G8R8A8 (Linear, A8R8G8B8)

yeah

[whole saffron]

weird

it should all work then

copy this

[shut rock]

well it unfortunately doesnt

[whole saffron]

and change it to your file names and stuff

[shut rock]

ok

[whole saffron]

    name = "leader"
    desc = "description of leader"
    picture = "leader_portrait.dds"
    ideology = ideology_thing
    traits = {
        #
    }
}

[shut rock]

wait this might be a dumb question but

[mystic zodiac]

Can anyone help please

Thanks

[shut rock]

should the image NAME end with .dds

[whole saffron]

no

[shut rock]

ok good

[whole saffron]

the file extension

should be .dds

the name can be whatever

make sure that your leader portrait is in these files, obviously mine is different

[shut rock]

it is

[whole saffron]

is there any errors?

in the error log

you can check by relaunching the game

[shut rock]

one moment

how do i open the error log

[whole saffron]

it will open autmatically

when you laucnh the game

in debug mode

or in vanilla idk

[shut rock]

the leader isnt there 😦

[whole saffron]

send me the error log

[shut rock]

where is it

like

[whole saffron]

it should be a .txt

[shut rock]

in the files of the mod or the game files or what

i searched the word error and i only found the image for the error log button

[whole saffron]

when you launch the game

in debug mode

it will open automatically

[shut rock]

how do i launch it in debug

[whole saffron]

how have you not done this

ok um

go to steam

right click on Hearts of Iron IV

[shut rock]

eh whatever screw it

[whole saffron]

go to Manage, then do Browse Local Files

scroll down until you find hoi4.exe

then right click on it and create a shortcut

the shortcut should be on your desktop or in the folder

[shut rock]

ok

[whole saffron]

open the properties of the shortcut

and you should see something called

Target: directory of hoi4

go to the very end of it

and type

• debug

with a space after the "

[shut rock]

alright

[whole saffron]

if you have the game on your D:/ i can send you the full name

"D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\hoi4.exe" -debug

[shut rock]

got it

[whole saffron]

but you just type - debug

after wards, click apply and ok

then launch the game

you'll no if it worked if you can see the button called

Nudge!

[shut rock]

got it yeah it worked

[whole saffron]

ok nice

when you launched the game

did a error log open?

[shut rock]

yeah

[whole saffron]

send me it

[whole saffron]

if you closed it just relaunch the game

ah

did you create an image for democratic small?

[shut rock]

no

[whole saffron]

if not

just duplicate one of the other small images

change the ideology to democratic

and you can either leave the flag as it is or you can just make a new flag or democratic

[shut rock]

alright done

[whole saffron]

ok now try

if it doesnt work, im gonna be honest with you

i dont know whats wrong

[shut rock]

yeah

alright yeah it didnt work

[whole saffron]

yeah sorry

[shut rock]

its fine

probably me doing something dumb

[mystic zodiac]

How to reload events file in game? Plz help

I can reload focus

Reload localization etc

But not events why is that?

[pale sparrow]

Just cant

[south folio]

You can probably use portait_path or make the leader a character which is what most if not all of the in game leaders are.

[stark otter]

Is there a mod that would allow your puppet to become a new formable nation?

[south folio]

You can probably look the wiki on effect for the effect. For the categories look at common/technology_tags iirc

[mystic zodiac]

I found out that reload asset reloads the events but what about resources?

[south folio]

Doesn't events/national_focus/loc reload on save whilst in debug mode? State resources can probably be reloaded in nudger.

[lethal leaf]

.

[quaint sundial]

im using a scripted gui to send a diplo action, anyone know wat i need to add to it to cancel/sendthe diplo action in the gui window?

currently i juts have a background

[south folio]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2876839165 here's one

[copper loom]

How and where do i put the "replace_path"?

[south folio]

in the .mod file that corresponds to your mod.

[copper loom]

the descriptor?

[south folio]

The one outside of your mods folder if that makes sense

[copper loom]

ok wait...

and which program is suited to open it, a movie program cant open it of course

[south folio]

you can open it in notepad or probably the one you code in

[copper loom]

oh dear could have thought that, thank you 😄

[quaint sundial]

anyone knows how to add this part of scripted gui in our custom scripted gui in sending scripted diplomatic actions?

there should be a way to do it without creating it, this mod does it, and they dont mention the gui name of that window anywere

i dont wanna add it manually cuz i want those buttons to work normally

[jade mauve]

why is this setting the party back to democratic?

[brave dawn]

hey guys, i am looking for a napoleonic wars mod on the paradox website, but cant find any

does anyone have one or perhaps a zip file for it to manually install

my question is, is there even one?

[south folio]

Not an active one as far as I can find. There's an old one from 2017 but that one is very much dead

[south folio]

Also a newer one but none seems to support the current version you'll have to rollback most likely

[brave dawn]

damn

what version

[south folio]

1.10

[brave dawn]

could you send it

[south folio]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2228486829&searchtext=napoleonic

[brave dawn]

i dont have hoi4 on steam :)

[south folio]

R.I.P

[brave dawn]

oh wait

its on the paradox page

just gotta go back to 1.10

[south folio]

Is it that one or redux, redux is even older

[brave dawn]

its not redux dw

[quaint sundial]

There must be someone with this knowledge in this server, I rly need the answer, my mod depends on it
There must be a way, or the mod I downloaded wouldn't be possible

[south folio]

I don't know but I would assume those buttons are there automatically when you use a diplomatic action.

[quaint sundial]

The buttons do show up normally when u don't have a scripted gui, but when I use my scripted gui, there's no buttons

There should be a way to add them somehow

I looked almost everywere in the mod, I can't find anything

Also I comented out the whole gui in the gui file, so it should be activated somewhere outside the gui file

[south folio]

If you have the GFX of the file can't you just bulk search for that?

[quaint sundial]

I searched for the gfx Inn the whole mod, no results

Is it possible to hardcode something in game with a mod?

There's no extra files in mod Dat idk tho

[south folio]

Which mod is it?

[quaint sundial]

Umm I kinda forget the name, I think it's enhanced diplomatic actions

[south folio]

this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2809091764

[quaint sundial]

Ye

[quaint sundial]

From all of those, the one Dat I care about is the send peace deal one, u need to be in war with the country u want to send the diplo to see it

[jovial panther]

does anyone know how to fix this?
So basically in the picture with the code you can see greece, oman and tibet etc in the bookmarks as minor nations. But when i open the bookmark after saving and restarting it only shows greece, turkey, and hungary

[quaint sundial]

Every minor country needs a custom focus tree

[jovial panther]

ah

how can i make a custom focus tree?

[quaint sundial]

Umm...

U doing a bookmark but u don't know to make a focus tree? Bruh

[south folio]

https://youtu.be/svFVLXzU2MQ

[jovial panther]

thx

[jovial panther]

ye im kinda new to this

and stupid at the same time

[quaint sundial]

Also u removed the other countries thing at the end wich let's u choose other countries in the map

U can still choose one of the countries I have in ur bookmark and then change when u get into the map, ut

[quaint sundial]

U know everything and answer everyone lol, are u like monitoring this channel constantly?
Also did u find anything in the mod Dat could enable the bottom gui thing with the diplo action buttons?

[south folio]

I found the roots of the diplo_popup_bottom and that the scripted_gui interfece file has nothing to do with it at all

[south folio]

I removed all the code in it and was left with this

is your gui also triggerd via diplomatic action?

[quaint sundial]

Yes

It uses the send_scripted_gui code

[quaint sundial]

So is it supposed for it to apear by default when u trigger it Tru the scripted diplo actions? Maybe I'm triggering it wrong

I'm literally using the command in scripted diplo actions, so the problem probably would be in the scripted gui file I supose

[south folio]

I was thinking that but this mode also uses send_scripted_gui

[quaint sundial]

Dats the command u need to use

[south folio]

It also has receive_scripted_gui but Idk if that's relevant

[quaint sundial]

This mod also works for aí, so that one is if aí sends u the diplo action

It's something like dat

I think

[south folio]

What is your gui supposed to do?

[quaint sundial]

I just want the buttons to pop so I can close or send the window, cuz my current gui, wich is just a background, doesn't have anything, while Dat one has the buttons

But I wanna do a gui to select countries to remove guarantees from

Wiki doesn't talk about scripted diplo actions, let alone scripted guis in scripted diplo actions

[south folio]

Let's see if I got this right. You want a diplomatic action that asks for removal of guarantee akin to non-agression pact but the outcome will be removal of guarantee.

[quaint sundial]

Yes, I ask the country, I select the countries to remove guarantee Inn the gui im doing, hmthey accept and remove them

And also I was thinking of adding aí strategy to not have ai reguarantee them instantly after

[south folio]

The only mod I've seen do something simular is toolpack but it doesn't use diplomatic actions and dosen't ask consent.

[quaint sundial]

Ye, but my only problem is the buttons

I can do everything else

I JUST NEED THE DAMN BUTTONS

[south folio]

can you send me the gui, if you don't want it here you can send it in dm

[quaint sundial]

My gui?

[south folio]

yes if possible

[quaint sundial]

There's a problem, I'm off my PC rn, I'm asking this for quite a long time,l

And also as I said, it's just a background

It's the Iron Workshop template

I'll do mine after I figure how to get the buttons

[south folio]

can't you take the ones from the one that has buttons and try to remake it to fit your criteria?

[quaint sundial]

U mean copy the buttons gui from the game files?

[south folio]

no from the mod that shows the buttons

[quaint sundial]

U've seen the mod

There's no sign of the thing Dat pops the buttons

U mean grab the mod files and slap my gui there?

[south folio]

If possible

[quaint sundial]

I can try I gess

Tomorow when I get on my pc

I'll use the IW template still

If it doesn't apear, I gess I can conclude the problem is with the IW gui

[south folio]

I'll try it right now

[quaint sundial]

Rly?

[south folio]

Nvm idk how🤦

[quaint sundial]

Bruh

Wat hapened tho?

[south folio]

It just had the normal gui so I was like "idk what I'm doing so maybe I shouldn't"

I've only worked with scripted gui in the context of decisions

[quaint sundial]

Hm, I'll try tomorow, perhaps I can make it work somehow

And hopefully understand from were is the mod puling the gui of the buttons

[quaint sundial]

Bye and thx wise dude with Jorji pfp

[south folio]

Also regarding my activity, I've two screens so usually I this chat opened on my other monitor, so I can help when I can.

[quaint sundial]

Damn 2 monitors, my monitor is 2k lmao

[south folio]

You mean in money or in pixels?

[quaint sundial]

2K is half of 4K,i suppose pixels

"half"

[buoyant dove]

2k is a quarter im pretty sure

[ruby wadi]

Does anyone know of any good interwar mods?

[golden charm]

My cosmetic tag file isnt working, it is set to say Großgermanisches Reich in the cosmetic tag file but still says Greater German Reich ingame

[south folio]

Do you mean the localisation file or the one in common cause you need to do it in the localisation.

[golden charm]

Localisation

[south folio]

Probably a localisation issue. Does it have _l_english the yml localisation file.

[golden charm]

Yes

[south folio]

Did you copy paste it from previously existing localisation?

[golden charm]

Yes

[south folio]

Can I see the file?

[south folio]

Even if you do set_cosmetic_tag GER_greater_german_reich in the console?

[golden charm]

Yes

[south folio]

This is probably the first you tried but just in case have you just tried to restart the game to reload the files and is the error log to any help?

[slender brook]

I’ve has issues with localisation overwrites before

[golden charm]

I have restarted the game and the error log doesnt help

[slender brook]

I’ll check whether load order might change it

[south folio]

Real helper man, you take over I need sleep. Have a good day!

[slender brook]

I don’t see anything on the wiki talking about load orders. It is possible you might need to overwrite the whole file but I deem that unlikely. Is this the only part that doesn’t work?

[golden charm]

Yeah, other cosmetic tags work like reichskommissariat britannien

[slender brook]

Is this the only one where you overwrite a localisation?

[golden charm]

What do you mean by that

The greater german reich is the only one that overwrites

This is happening to my custom USA_CSA cosmetic tags too

[slender brook]

And those aren’t overwrites?

Sorry, in class now

Might try and help after

[slender brook]

From what I can tell localisation requires a full overwrite of the file judging by what I just tested, unless some other modder can refute that

[broken plaza]

Do you take a decision to change the cosmetic tag?

If you want the name to set like that in the beginning of the game you can use on_startup action

[snow bay]

how long does it take to make a mod with a new country, focus tree, generals and ideologies?

[obtuse anvil]

For modding should I use gimp or paint.net

[hazy vault]

i swear

this game makes me want to pull my hair out

trying to mod it is frustrating for a dumbass like me

i wanna make a small custom country for my own use, i managed to do that but i cant get the flags into it and i cannot set a leader picture, two of allegedly easiest things to mod

[quaint sundial]

i wanna comit ded, no one knows the answer to my frekin problem im trying to solve for 3 days now

[broken plaza]

Yeah I have seen that and I have no experience in scripted gui unfortunately

[quaint sundial]

noooooooo

[buoyant star]

what is the working road to 56 mod?

[buoyant star]

whenever i run it i get a crash report

[south folio]

If you rollback your version too 1.11 it should work since it hasn't updated to work with current patch.

[glacial quail]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877088750

[fossil drift]

Moo

[glacial quail]

anyone got the peacedeal freeze?

[slender brook]

Depends on scope. Could be a week. Could be months. Focus trees are massive things if you make them massive and is the main determiner of length, alongside the effort you put

[slender brook]

Not sure about leader picture but flags night have issues with compression. When exporting flags, make sure to untick anything that mentions compression

[bitter vigil]

does anybody play twr?

if yes how do i gain scientists?

[brave glade]

anybody know how to add the new balance of power thing to other nations?

[south folio]

I don't but you can probably look at the game files common/bop and see how they did it and learn.

[brave glade]

alr ill do that

thanks it makes sense now

i can mod it :D

[stuck zinc]

Anyone know a fix for factories acting like they dont exist?

whenever I try to add factories in thru a focus tree, they show up in the state but they dont show up anywhere else

[livid lynx]

I love just straight-up lying to my playerbase :)

[livid lynx]

...what do you mean?

[mortal epoch]

hey guys, I'm trying to add a country leader for Kalmykia, but it doesn't show. I tried everything (And looked it up on the internet!) but still nothing. Do you know how to help me? Sending pic's for you

here localisation

[honest eagle]

Is the portrait in .dds

[slender brook]

Well BOP files are just defining the ranges and the actual things are decisions iirc

[slender brook]

^ Most (Not all though) dds files don’t have previews in file explorer

[slender brook]

Anyways you should just use Spain’s definition for the leader portrait, it should work due to how they overhauled the system

[glacial quail]

when you break the modpack

🙂

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2877088750&searchtext=broken+world

[mortal epoch]

yes

[mortal epoch]

Like I have it like that

[slender brook]

I mean I don’t see why this shouldn’t work but really it’s just a waste of space

[mortal epoch]

I can send you my mod, it's a mess cuz I'm replacing a lot of things in game

[slender brook]

Yeah I might check out what’s happening in a but

[mortal epoch]

here you go

[distant saddle]

Why would anyone take a focus that gives negative effects? Even if it actually gives good one, if the players don't know they'll never takes it

[mortal epoch]

also this is my error log

yeah

kinda big

[smoky quest]

I'm currently trying to change the starting chinese leaders portrait, this is the CHI.txt in /common/characters/ in my mod. pooh is located in /gfx/leaders/CHI/pooh.dds
From all i've seen online this is all you need but every time I load it up it just defaults to a generic asia portrait.

[mortal epoch]

its funny cuz same is happening to me, idk try straight recruiting him in history/country file

[smoky quest]

like recruit create a leader like them in the history file? since they are already recruited there immediately

[mortal epoch]

nono, I mean like create country leader

create_country_leader = {
name = name
desc = desc
picture = pic.dds
expire = "1965.1.1"
ideology = despotism
traits = { }
}

[smoky quest]

that does work ig, feels real jank tho lol

[mortal epoch]

create_country_leader = {
name = "NRS_YEVGENY_KHALDEI"
desc = "NRS_YEVGENY_KHALDEI_DESC"
picture = "gfx/leaders/NRS/yevgeny_khaldei.dds"
ideology = stalinism
expire = 1997.10.6.12
}

it works for me fine tho

but characters are wack

idk

it pisses me off

[smoky quest]

idk if their portrait file locations are hardcoded or somethin

[mortal epoch]

idk, like if I do it this way, everything is fine, when I try to add it through characters it's just not showing anything

[smoky quest]

problem is if i wanted to edit the portraits of other characters like generals or admirals then it would be pretty fked/jank to just create them all

[mortal epoch]

When I created my CW mod, it worked just fine

Just not the country leader

[smoky quest]

it didn't work for any of the chinese field marshalls either

[mortal epoch]

country leaders are f up

hm

you have it defined in interface aight?

[smoky quest]

no i did not...

[mortal epoch]

oh okay

do it like this

then it should work

[smoky quest]

question

[mortal epoch]

yea?

[smoky quest]

the field marshall swapped from a generic portrait in base interface to an actual one in waking the tiger

so it's defined in two different places interface wise

would it just work with the mods interface

or do i need to name it something like tiger_leaders.gfx

[mortal epoch]

try the second one

At this point im not sure, but I would rather make it like you said

Also, if anyone know how to get rid of this :D
Unknown countrytag for FRA owner-change in TODO

[smoky quest]

didn't work rip

[mortal epoch]

oh

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/hoi4-dev-diary-modding-changes.1495215/
https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Character_modding

try these

[smoky quest]

ok i got the field marshall portrait to work

i got the leader portrait

working as well

changing to the full path makes it work

[mortal epoch]

can you send it to me as text? I'll try if it will work for me

[smoky quest]

"gfx/leaders/<TAG>/<filename.dds>"

[mortal epoch]

i mean character file

[smoky quest]

literally only thing i changed in this file

was making large="gfx/leaders/CHI/pooh.dds"

a.k.a

"gfx/leaders/<TAG>/<filename.dds>"

[mortal epoch]

hmmm

okey

[hollow bear]

one question, is there anywhere in the logs where i can see why my country leader isnt showing?

the name shows just not the leader's photo

[mortal epoch]

easy

[hollow bear]

thanks ❤️

[stuck mist]

Remove all references to the FRA tag in every file, or just keep the tag in the tag list

[mortal epoch]

Oh okay

[mortal epoch]

[15:30:06][virtualfilesystem.cpp:252]: Could not open file: common/countries/Novorossiya, error: not found

hmmmm

[livid lynx]

That focus branch is about attempting to kneecap a major political rival and removing him from the center of power by assigning him as Viceroy of Civil War Torn Land, Bumf- Nowhere. It's intentionally trying to screw ovee a destabilizing influence on your government

[hollow bear]

how do i know if the image is fine since i dont see any errors about it in my errors log

[mortal epoch]

is it in .dds?

[hollow bear]

it is yes and the filename is the same as i put in the text file

[mortal epoch]

then it should work

[quaint sundial]

is NOT = { <scripted_trigger> = yes } the same as <scripted_trigger> = no ?

@pale sparrow

[hollow bear]

thats why im rn confused

[rose sun]

Someone drop me that Millennium dawn 1.7 file

[hollow bear]

i got few photos i have been trying tons of things

btw sorry for lightmode

[mortal epoch]

legacy lazy load mby

[hollow bear]

ok thanks, ill try that

[mortal epoch]

try removing it

also, have you recruited it?

recruit_character = SKA_Harpa

[hollow bear]

i did and i tried to removing it and nothing changed

[quaint sundial]

Are u trying to make her a leader?

[hollow bear]

yes i am the name does though appear just not the picture

[quaint sundial]

Oh I had an idea about the problem, but it's not wat I was thinking...

[quaint sundial]

Do u have an error log?

[hollow bear]

no i just get a generic picture

[quaint sundial]

No error? Hm

[hollow bear]

the only error i have is not related to it which is [17:54:07][pdx_entity.cpp:323]: Failed to find entity "ITA_mechanized_vehicle_1_entity" for attachment in vehicle

[quaint sundial]

Does the pic have all the right parameters? Like any vanilla portrait?

[hollow bear]

yeah and i made sure even using the vanilla pictures being the backround and making my photo way smaller

[quaint sundial]

Lukly for me I never found a generic portrait problem, bad for u tho, as idk wat to do

Did u define her pic in a gfx and all?

[hollow bear]

what do you mean by define?

[quaint sundial]

Just add her into a gfx file, like GFX_hername and the path

[hollow bear]

yes i have

[quaint sundial]

The path is correct?

No _ missing?

[hollow bear]

path should be correct and the name was copy pasted

[quaint sundial]

There's. dds at the end?

[hollow bear]

omg i forgot about that

thank you so much me11111

imma try it

[quaint sundial]

Gut

[hollow bear]

rip it didnt work

should i add next to this also .dss?

[quaint sundial]

Bruh

[quaint sundial]

Nah

Is Dat Gfx the exact gfx entry in gfx file?

Also show me the whole character in a pic

[hollow bear]

sure

[hollow bear]

and yes

[quaint sundial]

Ska? Is Dat one tag idk or u made a country?

[hollow bear]

SKA is a country i made

[obtuse condor]

The name needs to be GFX_portrait_SKA_harpa, like the rest

[quaint sundial]

Needs GFX

[hollow bear]

the name of the photo?

[quaint sundial]

needs GFX in the gfx file

Before portrait

Dats why game doesn't recognize ur pic

Probably

[obtuse condor]

The leader portraits gfx file, not the dds file

[hollow bear]

is it missing in a document that has posted?

[quaint sundial]

GFX_ misisng

[hollow bear]

in the name?

[obtuse condor]

Yes, do it like the rest of them are done. It’s not a difficult concept

[quaint sundial]

GFX_portrait...

[hollow bear]

ok thanks

like this right?

[quaint sundial]

And the portrait part idk if it's even needed, the only important part s GFX_

Nono, capital

And with _

[obtuse condor]

GFX_

Just Do It like the others are done in the vanilla file

[quaint sundial]

Look at one gfx before Urs, or after, u need to use same struxture

[obtuse condor]

Do it like this

[hollow bear]

oh oops i feel so stupid rn

im confused its still this photo

@obtuse condor @quaint sundial

[quaint sundial]

Umm

ARE U SURE U DON'T HAVE ERRORS?

ups capital

[hollow bear]

there are some duplicated focus names but i keep forgetting deleting htem

and errors from the country flag

and the italy thingy

[quaint sundial]

Country flag literally or country_flags?

[obtuse condor]

Try using a direct path to the photo in the character file.

[quaint sundial]

Ye u could try

[hollow bear]

[18:19:27][flagtextureatlas.cpp:524]: Error loading flag for country SKA : Ideology democratic : Path gfx/flags/ : File not found
[18:19:28][flagtextureatlas.cpp:203]: Error loading country flag overlay: gfx/flags/medium/SKA_democratic.tga : Unsupported format. Expected 32bpp, uncompressed, no color palette
[18:19:28][flagtextureatlas.cpp:203]: Error loading country flag overlay: gfx/flags/medium/SKA.tga : Unsupported format. Expected 32bpp, uncompressed, no color palette
[18:19:28][flagtextureatlas.cpp:524]: Error loading flag for country SKA : Ideology democratic : Path gfx/flags/medium/ : Unsupported format. Expected 32bpp, uncompressed, no color palette
[18:19:28][flagtextureatlas.cpp:203]: Error loading country flag overlay: gfx/flags/small/SKA_democratic.tga : Unsupported format. Expected 32bpp, uncompressed, no color palette
[18:19:28][flagtextureatlas.cpp:203]: Error loading country flag overlay: gfx/flags/small/SKA_democratic.tga : Unsupported format. Expected 32bpp, uncompressed, no color palette
its this

[obtuse condor]

If that does not work then the issue is with your picture

[quaint sundial]

I think I did dat

[hollow bear]

yeah ill try that

[hollow bear]

like this?

[quaint sundial]

Ur flags are totally wrong, copy vanilla flags and paste Urs above and save in ur mod, u need a large, medium and small one

[quaint sundial]

With paths u need "

Add ""

[obtuse condor]

Yes

[hollow bear]

yeah those are super wrong they even are in png

[quaint sundial]

Breh, u need tga lol

[hollow bear]

yeah i forgot about the small and medium flags

[quaint sundial]

Add the "" and try

[hollow bear]

yeps i did that

[obtuse condor]

I don’t think you absolutely need that, i don’t think i have it in my mods