modding

[pale sparrow]

That doesnt work either

youre missing an effect block

The variable function has 2 forms it can be used in

[high silo]

yeah effect block works

also how do i trigger something at a specific date that is not an event

[pale sparrow]

make it a hidden event

[high silo]

and i trigger it using those days and years thing

[summer ocean]

hello so in my hearts of iron mod when germany goes to war the event that gives economy of conquest doesnt fire even though they have mefos, does anyone know why this could be happenign

[wind jungle]

why wont my Millennium dawn mod work

[stark plover]

hello i want to start making mods but i want to know if there is something i should learn before starting

[pale sparrow]

Its good to start by modifying existing mods

[true violet]

there doesnt exist a country.txt

[stark plover]

ok thank you

[north wave]

that may be too complicated

for beginners

[north wave]

I suggest u with modding the countries that has either no focus tree

or really small focus tree

example

luxembourg

or albania

[stark plover]

i will try it

thank you

[languid karma]

Do y’all know how to fix the issue “provide is setup as a costal but has no port building in the nudger”? I don’t really know how to

I think I have about 1700 errors on that alone

[pale sparrow]

Use nudger tool to auto-create the new port buildings

Verify all or smth

[languid karma]

Alr

[naive grove]

Is reverse engineering the hoi4 executable for personal use only (not editing) legal under eu law?

Because under paradox user agreement it is

[naive grove]

Includes disassembling and decompiling

[quick timber]

Does anyone know about Emblems and army insignias I have a submod for it but it’s not update and not working how can I make it work

[ancient vapor]

Yes? Per say: GER.txt

[true violet]

Oh you mean that

Yeah it’s already in there

[ancient vapor]

Also in GER - Germany.txt

Idk

I dont remember anymore

[tall oxide]

do you guys know why are there not many like fantasy mods?

[desert drum]

hey anyone know any coldwar/modern day mod that dont have awful uis?

[strange ore]

Hello, my friend and I are working on a mod for the game that adds content for North African countries, so we need programmers, artists and writers to work on the mod. Anyone with experience, please feel free to my DM .

[wintry tusk]

I need help with my ideology icon, the progressivist icon wont show up (and yes Ive tried naming it with group but it still wont work) is there anyway to fix this, prefferably I want the icon to be a sub ideology icon

[frail sapphire]

write it under interface/countrypoliticsview.gfx

does anybody know how to extract the Technology of CWIC to a seperate mod?

[wintry tusk]

oh yeah thanks so much

[daring root]

I need help adding a focus extension to germany

I have all the like code ready

but I don't know how to paste it in

this is the bottom of the germany tree but where do i put it

and after the first focus the rest of the tree jut goes to the side...

[shy gull]

hi guys i created an event mod and i want it to be iron man compatible. But even though a removed some folders that could intertact with it, its still not compatible. I know that in checksum its said that events are part of it, but somewhere i read that it shouldnt be that big of a problem. Can someone help?

[dull crystal]

my unfinished map concept for the “victors of romanov” mod idea i made where Russia won WW1. Set in 1933

[wide hollow]

give them that little part germany owns

atleast thats imo

idk i think its odd they'd just take all the land around it if they won the war

[dull crystal]

East Prussia?

Also Germany is Prussia

[wide hollow]

ohh

but yeah

east should go to russia

[dull crystal]

k will do

not too long ago i did make the logo

[wide hollow]

i like that

it looks great and fits in

if u finish the mod lmk and ill be the first to actually play it!

[dull crystal]

sure! also ty for the feedback

[wide hollow]

no problem brother!

or sister idk what u are!

[dull crystal]

im a guy but yeah!

[swift field]

im gonna add the mbt70 xm803 and PLO1 tanks to my hoi4 multi mod

[swift field]

and the t95 t14 armata t15 armata kurganets25 and bumerang

and LOTS LOADS of other tanks mbts afvs ifvs and apcs

[final tinsel]

im making namelist like:

default = {
    male = {
        names = { NAME_G1 }
        surnames = { SURNAME_G2 }
        callsigns = { }
    }
    female = {
        names = { NAME_G2 }
        surnames = { }
        callsigns = { }
    }
    surnames = { SURNAME_G1 }
    callsigns = { }
}

is there name rule to connect name_id into localization?

[north wave]

Turkish Straits would never be fully given to russia and greece btw

It would be under some kind of international zone

[frosty quiver]

<@&846894118219022336>

[naive grove]

what event is this:

"add political power to country scaled by the difference in IC between the receiver and another country"

😭

[slim hazel]

What is the force attack mod

[lofty plaza]

Elaborate?

[nimble solar]

He never did elaborate

[slim hazel]

Sorry yeah never got pinged

Like what does the mod do to the game

[nimble solar]

Ive never heard of it

[slim hazel]

I find the description not helpful at all

[nimble solar]

Force attack is a button generals have

[slim hazel]

Everyone in alt just is using it apparently

[nimble solar]

Idk any mod by that name

[brazen summit]

This is a scam ^

Do not interact with it

[boreal geyser]

Everyone knows

[brazen summit]

you'd be surprised

[arctic mural]

Ask them what it is then

[slim hazel]

Tried that

[normal kite]

I lowkey wanna try making my own mod focusing on giving paths and options for releasables, because I feel like vanilla hasn't really touched on those, except for a few like Kurdistan

[magic jungle]

How to mod a mod?

I want to remove a national spirit from a mod, how do I do that? @pale sparrow

[magic jungle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3557016740

Made this for shit and giggles

[stiff ruin]

is there any up to date mods wher the Soviet union can form custom SSRs over the world? the one i found was outdatet and buggy

[dim epoch]

Anyone played downfall? Do i make normal tank divisions that has very high soft attack but low hard attack?

[inner marsh]

hey guys how do i make to say the effects in the focus tree as it says nothing

[lofty plaza]

No brackets for add idea

Or the = yes thing

[pine nymph]

Anyone from here knows how to do GFX?

[pale sparrow]

No but if you can be more specific we can give a guide or a link maybe

[pine nymph]

I'm trying to recruit 🥀

[gloomy crescent]

does anyone possibly know why i get an error message when i change the state a lake province is in

[deep siren]

if i have a good idea for a mod. but can't mod the game. any ways i could find someone who can help me?

[inner marsh]

just learn modding it doesn't look that hard for hoi4 codr

[deep siren]

i would try that doing myself. but 1 i don't trust myself. 2 i didn't learned programming. or atleast not yet. planning in a few years

[inner marsh]

there's a tutorial in hoi4 official channel

[deep siren]

i could try. but i get stuck in 5 min in probably xD

[thin rune]

Hoi4 modding is so easy that a few iron workshop videos will be enough

And why not trust yourself lol

There is literally 0 things that could go wrong

[pale sparrow]

It isnt even programming

Its basically data files

[deep siren]

yes. and i already got lost

[gloomy crescent]

if you can do scratch you can prob mod hoi4

[deep siren]

ok maybe i should actually prepare before i start doing it should i? xD

[lapis flame]

graphics overhaul modpack ain't perfect, some of the in battle things are bugged out, like say, some planes

[deep siren]

and somehow i can't figure out why my event doesn't work which i litrealy made 1 to 1 folowing tutorial

[deep siren]

any idea why only the event id apers and not the text i gave it to in localisation file?

[thin rune]

show the loc file

[thin rune]

are you sure there are no errors in the log

[deep siren]

ingame log or vscode log?

nvm no vscode log as ik

or there is? idk first time trying modding

[thin rune]

ingame lg

log*

[deep siren]

I'm not at pc anymore (not like I know how to check it) but before I left I tested it again and it doesn't even give you the idea. I can check tmrw. Soo prob the issue is in the idea

[hidden plinth]

i was watching the official hoi4 tutorial thingy and i copied everything exact

anyone know why

[edgy hatch]

can any of you help me find the correct command that gives the name Byzantine Empire to Greece? I've been looking round the code and cant seem to find it

[hidden plinth]

can u help me?

@edgy hatch

[edgy hatch]

whats your problem

[hidden plinth]

look above ur message

this

[edgy hatch]

whats wrong with it

[hidden plinth]

dude look at the text

its not what i set it as

[edgy hatch]

huh

[hidden plinth]

do u know why

[edgy hatch]

cant help you, i dont do stuff with decisons

[hidden plinth]

its not a decision

its an event

[edgy hatch]

ive never made an event

[hidden plinth]

bruh

[edgy hatch]

i just mess around with some of the code for fun sometimes

i'd have to learn how its supposed to be

[hidden plinth]

ok

[glass acorn]

Is the localisation file in the right place and format?

It should end in _l_english (That's a lowercase L, not an I)

And should be in UTF-8

[inner marsh]

how do i make it to modify a national spirit i want it to give 10% division attack

[thin rune]

First you have to make a national spirit

[lofty plaza]

Make one in an idea file

Or modify the existing one

[inner marsh]

i already have the one i want to modify in that focus

[raw hamlet]

does anyone have good mod suggestions that arent eaw, tno or rt56?

[inner marsh]

the fire rises

[raw hamlet]

i have every dlc so i can play any mod

[raw hamlet]

ok

anything else

i want to never talk here again for like

another day

[thin rune]

You need to make a new spirit

I recommend reading Idea Modding page on paradox hoi4 wiki

[vague sand]

its :0 =, not : =

[hidden plinth]

thx

[vague sand]

Np

[hidden plinth]

is it ever like

:!

:1

instead

or always :0

[hidden plinth]

wdym

@glass acorn

[hidden plinth]

wait it still doesnt owrk

helppppp

[thin rune]

Its not

[hidden plinth]

i tried both

it doesnt work

can u help me out?

[thin rune]

Type error in the console

[hidden plinth]

ok

[thin rune]

And scroll to the bottom

[hidden plinth]

ill boot up hoi4

this is the bottom

wait

it says it has to be utf-8

what does that mean

[vague sand]

well thats how localisation works, whats the code for the event itself @hidden plinth

[thin rune]

Wrong encoding

[thin rune]

Its not

Iirc thats how it was in the past, but now the 0 isnt required

[vague sand]

huh? really? well i will still add the 0 cuz im used to it but tmx

tnx

[thin rune]

np

[deep siren]

why?

[austere wyvern]

Don't capitalize country

[deep siren]

thanks. idea works but not text in the event

[austere wyvern]

Might have incorrect formatting/file type

For the loc file

[deep siren]

idk bc i did everything like in the tutorial

[austere wyvern]

what file type do you have on the loc file?

[deep siren]

yml

[hidden plinth]

how do u make the name of a new country

[hidden plinth]

dude for me i had to change the bottom right from this to utf - 8 with bom

and it worked

[deep siren]

i'm not sure how to change it to utf-8 wih bom

with*

i tried every way

but i can't switch from utf-8 bc theree is no other utf-8. just utf-16

[hidden plinth]

are you on visual studio code or visual studio 2022?

[deep siren]

vscode

[hidden plinth]

so does it not show utf-8 with BOM

[deep siren]

ahh nvm as it turns out i'm stupid

yes i got it

xD

[hidden plinth]

nice

check if that fixes it

[deep siren]

Now it works

[hidden plinth]

nice

yeah that happened to me and no one in the channel acc helps with it

not even official hoi4 tutorials tell you to set it to that

[deep siren]

Thanks. now i just have to figure out more difficult stuff. bc i'm trying to make a big mod.

[hidden plinth]

whats the mod

[deep siren]

you know owb?

fallout mod

[hidden plinth]

are you perchance watching this

[deep siren]

fallout but not owb 2275. but 2050 soo pre war

[hidden plinth]

ok

[deep siren]

now i only have to find someone who can help me.

because no one with a working brain would help me bc in lore of fallout pre war era when there were wars actually and not just. commies bad. we don't care kind of stuff is 2050-2077

which is a lot of work

[austere wyvern]

I guess try copy pasting a different file and then edit it

Should include all the working stuff and just need to be tweaked for your new stuff

Oh, nvm you got it to work

[umbral karma]

copy the file from the vanilla hoi, the file has to use UTF-8 with BOM encoding, but sometimes hoi just shits itself and doesnt want to recognise that file as your localization file so just give it a moment or 2, and check again if your localization, txt. file has _l_english at the end, and the file nees to be in .yml file format

[umbral karma]

example at the left panell of one of my event files in PVW

PVW - Player VS World

oh never mind, i just figured out that you fixed it 🤣

[deep siren]

yees i did xD

[umbral karma]

when did you start hoi modding?

[deep siren]

yesterday

[umbral karma]

well, i will only tell you, "have fun", no but really i found it really fun just trying to figure stuff out by myself, i started making hoi mods like a year ago, and i really enjoy it, try not to push it on yourself, take small bites at the time, one day figure out how your focus tree is gonna look, what the paths are gonna be, and then slowly start working on it, and soo on. but yea as i said dont push it on yourself, and if you have any questions, feel free to ping me at any time, i personally found it easier talking with 1 person on how to fix something then talking to 10 other people at the same time, telling you different solutions

[deep siren]

thanks.

[umbral karma]

also i see you got "YUGO" tag, you from balkans?

[deep siren]

def not xD

[umbral karma]

haha, ok then

[deep siren]

actually

yugo is south in serbian

that's why yugoslavia mean south slav

but the server tag i got is from an american server. hes owner got a yugo (car) and that's why yugo

but i'm from hungary

soo borders of balkans

[umbral karma]

ahh close, i am from one of your older territorys, we are the ones with the coast 😉

[deep siren]

soo croatia?

[umbral karma]

yea

[deep siren]

i would say a joke about ww2 but i would get banned from existent not just this server xD

about croatia in ww2

[umbral karma]

🇭🇷 🧼

[deep siren]

YES XDD

[umbral karma]

🇭🇷 ➡️ ➡️ 🧼

this one better

[deep siren]

yes xd

i will go try to figure out how to replace a focus tree

[umbral karma]

you want to replace a alredy existing tree with your own custom one

[deep siren]

yes

[umbral karma]

sure goo on

[deep siren]

btw the issue with only do a few stuff a day. i can't control myself because of the love i have for the lore of fallout.

[deep siren]

actually should i make a small prototype focus tree now and wanna try it?

(if i figure out how)

[umbral karma]

yea sure, make a new focus tree file with one focus and try it out

[umbral karma]

if you want you can check out some of my mods code, to see how i did some stuff, and also i try and keep most of it noted in the mod files

[deep siren]

i could but only if i realy get stuck

[umbral karma]

you are free to use my mods for learning perpouses all you want, dont worry i wont be angry

[deep siren]

i mean not like you would know or anyone would know if i use their code for learning or not.

[umbral karma]

here is the link: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199050191751/myworkshopfiles/?appid=394360

[deep siren]

yees i found your account already xD

i looked up the player vs world mod

[umbral karma]

oh 🤣

[deep siren]

which i may or may not have insta downloaded bc i love the idea xd

it took me i counted. 0.5 sec after finding it to download

[umbral karma]

thanks, planning on making an update to it so mod makes a lots of formables to fix the performance problem with it

[umbral karma]

haha 🤣

[deep siren]

i have done similiar with a mod called.... idk some modern day mod. you could do free for all. well i can understand the performance problem... 1 fps on a rx 7700xt

not everyone vs you

it was built in

[umbral karma]

gpu isnt really the problem for the hoi4, it is CPU

[deep siren]

i7-11700 then

[umbral karma]

cause to my understanding hoi4 uses i think only 1 core (idk not sure) and soo that single core has to do all of the heavy lifting, and calculations

aka, no matter what sistem you have it will LAG

[deep siren]

oh yes the glorious usa focus tree

[umbral karma]

good enough for testing

[deep siren]

what extension you use for vscode?

[umbral karma]

only this 2

[deep siren]

ye i use them aswell but the top one doesn't work

[umbral karma]

it works alright for me, it colors all of the syntax so it is easier to read

and it does some other stuff

with it on

and off

[deep siren]

ok and i got stuck. that was fast. only 1 apears ingame

[umbral karma]

try removing relative position id, and see if that helps

[deep siren]

i forgot to put = at icon

that's the issue i have a felling..

[umbral karma]

could be, but most likely isnt, cause the game will just place a ? icon if the icon wasnt apointed to the focus, oh and also, you dont need to keep restarting the game to see the changes

[deep siren]

wait i did something

i don't know what

now the 2nd focus works

[umbral karma]

go to your hoi4 in your library on steam, open properties (aka. that cog on the right side), and in the bar of a "Launch options" type "-debug", the game will update itself whenever you save your mod files

[deep siren]

yes i did that alraedy

already*

[umbral karma]

ahh ok then, took me like 2 weeks to figure that stuff out 🤣

[deep siren]

it works. as it turns out i had to delete the other focus

[deep siren]

what's the reward id for war goal?

just a few errors xD

[deep siren]

"this" like i guess country id?

[umbral karma]

that is just a placeholder, just place any enemy country tag into it, aka if you want for usa to get a wargoal on canada, just place target = CAN

[deep siren]

how did you know i want canada?

xD

[umbral karma]

just pure guess

[deep siren]

and puppet goal?

for mexico due to it got invaded by usa

(in fallout)

[umbral karma]

just replace type = independece_wargoal to anything else

because you have the same extansions as i do, it should label out all of the possible types of wargoals to you, just pick one that you think is the best

[deep siren]

ok i actually have to think for focus tree it doesn't work like i thought it will i can't go in straight and hope it will work

[deep siren]

nope

it doesn't work

[umbral karma]

try turning on CWTools

[deep siren]

it is turned on

[umbral karma]

ok now at the type, just type one letter a for example or s

all of the types that have those letters "should" pop up

[deep siren]

yes they should

SHOULD. but not for me

[deep siren]

actually should we switch to pm? soo others can ask stuff here and it's not just us talking

[umbral karma]

you can switch to any chanell, i am going to sleep, i have to work tmrw

[deep siren]

alr

gn

[woven fossil]

I have a quesiton. Whats the benefits and cons with creating a new unique tag and using a pre-existing tag for a new unique country?

[mild siren]

bit confused why it isnt changing

[mild siren]

same thing, just the avaliability is different

obvioulsy the pre-exisiting tags are in use

[mild siren]

ok now like half of it works

still the name doesnt change for some reason 😭

[woven fossil]

Ahh, alright

[leaden goblet]

yo does anyone have anyway of making a mod on mac?

im trying to make a mod about papa louie

[swift field]

im gonna add the new PRC MBT TANK called ZTZ201 to PRC

[fervent summit]

every time i try to load up novum vexillum it doesn't seem to have all of the content its suppost to can any one help me? ( ps I also posted this same question on tech-support before I saw modding so thats why the same question is in both)

[quartz mortar]

bro, welcome to subscribe to my MOD

[autumn coyote]

anyone know in wich files these rules are set/stored?

[pale sparrow]

common/ideologies

[nova heron]

Is there a section of that code where the text is white? Because if it's red, that means it's having an error. Try finding where it transitions from white to red and figuring out what's blocking it (I've had comments (including those left by PDX) break my code before, especially in localization/other naming files)

[light blaze]

how do i stop the distortion of the icon(communist)

[upper schooner]

Are there any interwar period mods?

[thin rune]

Collapsing world ig

[woven agate]

YES I LOVE THAT MOD

[nimble solar]

Great War Redux has postwar content

[hazy lotus]

What mods do you guys recommend for a French mega campaign, or just any mods for a mega campaign?

idc if it's alt-historical or historical.

[warped owl]

Is Force Attack still a legit mod? I havent tried in in a few years

[tribal spear]

does anyone have experience modding with models, especially landmark models? I've triedas hard as I can but nothing has worked so far

[tribal spear]

is this Pandemonium?

[light blaze]

maybe

[vague sand]

hi, where can i post server invetations to mod servers?

[light blaze]

rule 6

[vague sand]

so no where?

[light blaze]

yeah

[vague sand]

oof

[rotund citrus]

Y'all know any good mods to pair with the Vanilla+++ Mod Collection that expands the models of infantry?

I was planning to use MI3 but the comments tell me its broken

[pastel fable]

If I was a much smarter man with much more time on my hands, I’d make a taiwan invasion/WW3 hoi 4 mod with like a 2027 or 2028 start date

I feel like it’s the perfect amount in the future where you could have fun with it and make predictions while not also just fully going into the realm of fiction

Though I don’t know if the actual war would make for a fun game 🤔🤔

(I don’t think this already exist, but I also haven’t been keeping up with hoi 4 mods for the past couple months, so let me know if something like this exists cause I would love to play it)

(and yes, I know the fire rises exist)

[thin rune]

You know the series of mods where you have an extremely zoomed in map of stalingrad, normandy and berlin? Maybe something similiar but with only Taiwan, China, Koreas and Japan being on the map?

[pastel fable]

Very true

The only thing I’d be worried about is if the war itself would be fun

Since I feel like it would just be a competition to see if China could get a naval invasion working

[thin rune]

It would be fun trust

[thin rune]

You just have to actually work on it or get a few devs to work with you

[pastel fable]

Maybe if there’s a way to expand on the naval/aviation aspect of things, but I don’t know if that would be pushing the limits of the game too much

I mean, I’ve definitely seen people push the limits of what the game can do so 🤷‍♂️

[nimble solar]

You know the mod I want.

I want a cold war mod that starts in 1942 where Germany went to war over sudetenland and lost anyways. So there would be the Allies, Comintern, Japan losing their war, and Italy having its small sphere of influence in the Balkans due to staying out of the larger war

[pastel fable]

That would definitely be interesting, but it would definitely need a very creative developer

[nimble solar]

Call it No-more-reich, Legacy of the Second World War lol

[pastel fable]

I think I’d honestly be pretty good at writing

I just don’t know about actually developing a mod

Especially something with such large scope

[nimble solar]

Who knows, I might sketch a map and some lore and focus tree paths, but I cant code

[pastel fable]

It might be a fun, creative experiment if anything

Like just because you’re probably not gonna make it into a full-fledged mod doesn’t mean it won’t be a fun thing to just do

If I were to make anything this would defnitley be my biggest crutch LOL

Obviously there also is a lot of Chinese reteric on the matter as well but it's harder to figure out the CCP's true intentions yk?

Honestly it's also just an incredibly interesting read

[swift field]

im gonna make and Add Tech trees for all MAJORS and MINORS in my HOI4 MULTI MOD

[pale sparrow]

The biggest alt hist part of this idea is Italy winning against the Balkans

[frail sapphire]

can someone please check my mod? It chrashes and i don´t know why

[late shadow]

Hi. Can someone help me? I want to create HOI4 mod but biology-version but... I dont know anything about modding or programming.. this is my idea for this

[tender rain]

What

[tender rain]

It's the Soviet industry

And the building speed

I got 50% growth in 2 years

[late shadow]

Hoi im biological version

You defend organism from pathogenes instead od country from others

[tender rain]

It's much larger than irl

[pale sparrow]

Those images are AI ?

[late shadow]

yup

[pale sparrow]

That map looks like itd be incredibly complex if not impossible to replicate

[late shadow]

really?

[frosty quiver]

<@&846894118219022336>

[echo kindle]

QUESTION:

AIR

PICK ONE (air):

THIS: (icons)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=947569629

or THIS: (Background)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=953203816

NAVY

PICK ONE (navy):

THIS: (icons)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1674336290

or THIS: (Background)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1677695896

[fair cloak]

no

[woeful fjord]

💀

[terse hatch]

the background

easier to see and differentiate

[fair cloak]

Both background

[shrewd hemlock]

Hello!
Recently decided to add achievements to my mod for the first time.
What do you guys think of them?
More details in the comment under the post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/1n50s51/my_mod_now_has_custom_achievements/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[pastel fable]

now this is the type of schizos hoi4 needs

[nimble solar]

What if you simply had the map be a human body and infections would start in the lungs or something like that

You already have all equipment at game start

[mild siren]

i made a modding tool to make state transfers easier for me ☺️

[mild siren]

ai 🥀

[foggy locust]

i am trying to create custom nations for my hoi mod, but for some reason the colors are completely different to what i define in the /common/countries files. Can anybody help? i have already checked for spelling errors or similar things

and even if i copy the RGB values from Vanilla Files, they dont match

[proven sage]

That thing would be sick, but I can't really imagine how it would work, since I feel like map would kinda have to work a bit differently. Since ig you would want the bacteria And visuses to move smoothly, And not the same as normal units in hoi4

Otherwise I feel like it is doable. But prob would take thousands of hours to even do somethin like that

[light blaze]

anyone that help me make it where there is only one bookmark

[late shadow]

if only i could programming...

[tardy tide]

What is franco British union was formed before ww2

Is there a mod about a Franco British union?

[odd haven]

Its in the game!!

[devout stone]

Which one should i do

this is from reichskommissariat plus

[nimble solar]

Himalayas

Trust

Go climb everest

[devout stone]

pretty meh ngl

this on the otherhand

should i take this or +75 research speed

[nimble solar]

Oh dang

It's modifiers

I thought it would be an event chain thing

Do that

[devout stone]

its an event chain

that gives modifier

[nimble solar]

Ah

[true violet]

hi guys does anyone know why this is happening?
I also cannot start any of them like i can click the start button but it doesnt start the focus. idk how to fix it tbh

[high root]

people please help me, i changed a few portraits, uploaded the mod, and its contents are not showing in game. here is the Descriptor.mod and ugc.xxxx file:
version="1.1"
tags={
"Graphics"
}
replace_path="assets/game-logo.png"
replace_path="common/characters"
replace_path="gfx/leaders"
name="me and my friends as leaders"
supported_version="1.16.*"
path="C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/394360/3560251279"
remote_file_id="3560251279"

im tired, i spent two hours trying to upload this correctly

[deep siren]

How can you add a national idea for xy time to a focus?

[leaden goblet]

can i mod on macos?

[soft gulch]

I am currently struggling because it appears that for some reason the states have been duplicated but i am not sure where?

[azure elk]

heya

i need some help in this stuff

so i made a national spirit giving a research boost but for some reason it doesnt work

can someone tell me why?

`ideas = {

country = {

    technology_future = {
        
        picture = research_future
        
        allowed = {
            tag = SKA
        }
        
        available = {
        }
        
        cancel = {
        }

        allowed_civil_war = {
            always = yes
        }

        removal_cost = -1
        
        modifier = {
            research_bonus = 0.20
        }
    }
        
}    

}`

this is the code btw

nvm i got it

[high silo]

@pale sparrow how do you do some sort of reichskommissariat thing when you fully capture the territory (e.g. ukraine reichskommissariat when germany attacks russia)

[pale sparrow]

Check your documents/paradox interactive/hearts of iron iv folder

[tight fog]

Hello (i hope i'm in the good place)
I'm actually planning to dev something a external tool that will "mod" the game or even "mod" some mod and i want it done right but i need to have some answer to my question. If you want me to explain it don't hesitate to say so and where, i don't want to place a brick of text here ^^.
In short it will modify game file (it will be done before launching the game) like some countries files and ideas file with a possibility to revert them to normal directly in the tool. It may be stupid but i want to know if it's okay for me to do that and that i will potentially share it to some of my friends ? since I plan to include a multiplayer style things like everyone in the same session in the tool will have the same modified files.

And my second question is: there is a way to forbid creating/editing or deleting division or units design but with the capabilites of training or producing them ? i searched on the wiki (i may be blind or have misread/misunderstood)

[frail sapphire]

Is there a way to completely delete the MIOs?

[glad dove]

Hello, I want to add new building - Field Airfield, which can be placed in any province of state, in 00_buildings.txt I add:

air_base_field = { show_on_map = 1 base_cost = 500 icon_frame = 5 air_base = yes value = 1 damage_factor = 0.5 allied_build = yes infrastructure_construction_effect = yes level_cap = { province_max = 2 } }

I can build it in game, but there is no airfield icon and I can't place planes here, how I can fix that?

[rose dove]

hi guys

i am doing a mod

but i am alone

and i kinda suck at modding

by the way

if anyone is curious here is a comprehensive doc

pelase

[sour hamlet]

is there a mod for the usa that makes every state its own country puppeted by washington DC with an unfathomably fast master impact that makes it impossible to work towards autonomy unless you repeal the U.S. constitution or did i just come up with a new mod idea

[clever hound]

Hello can anyone help me find a mod. I am looking for a mod that adds Yugoslavian voice lines for troops since Yugo has no troop voice lines

Is there a mod that adds Yugoslav voice lines?

[humble crystal]

as far as i know there is no such mod, it sounds quite interesting though

[patent idol]

What's the mod that makes most countries have a focus tree

is it road to 86 or something

[humble crystal]

road to 56

[patent idol]

Ty

my goat

I wanted to play mexico but I forgot it's hardstuck boring tree

[teal cobalt]

road to 56 :3

[sour hamlet]

dang alr

[raw hamlet]

get the dlc

[patent idol]

Which one has Mexico

[true violet]

can anyone help maybe??? i still didnt figure it out, if you want my focus tree .txt i can show it

[covert mirage]

guys will it work here if i use more than one letter or characther to define a colour?

@pale sparrow ?

[pale sparrow]

Even if, that seems a horrible idea

because the combi might already appear in vanilla localization

[covert mirage]

i mean would 2-3 characthers work?

aa

i mean what other working characthers

can i use for it

if all letters and numbers are already used

[pale sparrow]

Foreign language letters maybe?

its better than resorting to symbols which might already have a meaning for the game

[covert mirage]

i mean, do they work? for example cyrilic ig

[pale sparrow]

I have never checked, so Id just be reading the wiki or testing in-game just like you otherwise would

[covert mirage]

alright thanks

[sour hamlet]

anyone here know how or of a tutorial on how to make a small mod for fun

[pale sparrow]

See pins

[glass acorn]

No it won't work

[teal belfry]

is their a mod that takes place durring the cold war so i could play as either west or east germany

[wispy wolf]

is there any mods that are up to date for china or japan that has expanded focus tree

[swift field]

im gonna add this new PRC MBT tank called the TYPE 100 aka ZTZ201 to PRC

[covert mirage]

Alr thanks for telling me

[glass acorn]

Np

[high silo]

how do you make reichkommistrats?

in the country history file

[violet mesa]

i just read this and lol'd irl

[thin rune]

What do you mean

[high silo]

italian east africa is a reichkommistrat

of italy

[thin rune]

You mean that you want to make other countries have reichkommisariats instead of regular puppets?

[high silo]

yes

but i dont see reichkommistrats option in the country's history file.

[thin rune]

I never did anything like this but I think you have to edit the files in autonomies folder

[high silo]

maybe

[covert mirage]

guys why wont my localization work? the localization file btw is UTF-8 with BOM

[tardy tide]

I noticed the same thing with my mod

Just try reloading hoi4

[karmic basin]

Do any of the big mods work together? For example Kaiserriech and the road to 56?

[sullen badge]

HOI4 modding has gone too far
Twilight sparkles as an SS general

[arctic mural]

That has existed for over a year by now

[high hatch]

Hi. How I can made the AI attack the controller of a specific state? I try that but I has a error.

ZAI_focus_zarantian_storm = {
    allowed = {
        original_tag = ZAI
    }
    enable = {
        has_completed_focus = ZAI_zarantian_storm
        747 = {
            CONTROLLER = {
                NOT = {
                    tag = ROOT
                }
                ROOT = {
                    NOT = {
                        has_wargoal_against = PREV
                    }
                    NOT = {
                        has_war_with = PREV
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    abort = {
        owns_state = 747
    }
    ai_strategy = {
        type = antagonize
        id = 747.CONTROLLER # ZAR
        value = 10
    }
    ai_strategy = {
        type = conquer
        id = 747.CONTROLLER # ZAR
        value = 200
    }
}

I was sure by example, the Soviet justify against a country owns Bessarabia if isn't Romania, but I don't find in the file this example.

Because in a example, I made a observator game, and of course, the country owns the state was annex by another country after ZAI do the focus. So, I wanted, because the next focus need the specific state, ZAI attack the new owner of the country. I even give a claim for ZAI, but don't justify. Any ideas?

[swift field]

im gonna add Sturmzug Units like assault platoons squads groups fireateams and etc

like the grenadier company

and volksgrenadier units

for like ALL nations

[pale sparrow]

allowed = {
    NOT = { original_tag = ZAI }
}
reversed = yes
enable = { controls_state = 747 }
enable_reverse = { ZAI = { has_completed_focus = ZAI_zarantian_storm } }
abort_when_not_enabled = yes
ai_strategy = {
    type = antagonize
    id = ZAI
    value = 10
}
ai_strategy = {
    type = conquer
    id = ZAI
    value = 200
}

[high hatch]

I will try that, thanks you

[high hatch]

It's worked, thank you. I needed also to change the diplomacy trigger effect for war, because the dev decide to disable the IA can justify wargoal 😅.

[tranquil herald]

anyone play the MD mod? Melliunum dawn or however you spell it lol?

Im china and have like no fuel. Im trading some but everyone also has no fuel

[hushed moss]

Cold war iron curtain

[teal belfry]

👍

[upper schooner]

Are there any good state adding mods that won't crash my game before it starts

[high silo]

none

[primal charm]

best state mods?

[swift field]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_amphibious_warfare_ships
im gonna add these new ships crafts vessels landing ships and landing crafts to my hoi4 multi mod

[bold scroll]

We call this not good

[slow coral]

n

[cyan axle]

You probably know this already but that drive has one foot in the grave and you need to basically not use it except to get the data off if you want to have any hope of not losing everything.

[bold scroll]

Yeah, I formatted it already. It’s doing better now, lost about 1.5 TB of mods for other games, because I chose to save only what mattered most to me (my FIFA modding stuff, music, few tools)

The VS Code modder and source filmmaker seems to have corrupted it the worst

I likely will move on from that drive when I’m done with uni, but it’s 4 years have served me very well

[true violet]

Ok i have a rather weird problem. So basically i Created a country with the tag "WEF" and every time i enter the tag "WEF" in the modifier, in the Naitonal Focus .txt file, the Focuses inside the game do not connect and i cant start any, however, i can do changes with already existing countries like germany or france. Just created country. Weird thing is that the generic focus still gets loaded correctly

Basically for test reasons i only copied the german focus tree inside the WEF.txt file

[mild siren]

how to make a custom leader? i know its with the recruit character thingy but how to utilize

like how does the game know this is supposed to be the leader

and like how do i make these guys leaders of political parties

the iron workshop tutorial is quite outdated

please guys 😭 i tried looking trough this channel but i didnt find anything that would help me

only the create_country_leader which i dont want

i want them as political leaders and later for advisors and stuff

🥀

wait i think i got it

let me try

[thin rune]

common/characters TAG.txt

[brave tinsel]

Hey, im new to modding and I managed to add a new state but I get this error, and crash, when loading into a country.

[01:45:02][1936.01.01.12][strategicair.cpp:5524]: MAP_ERROR: no air base site defined for state 393
[01:45:02][1936.01.01.12][strategicair.cpp:5524]: MAP_ERROR: no air base site defined for state 1017
[01:45:02][1936.01.01.12][strategicair.cpp:5544]: MAP_ERROR: no rocket site defined for state 1017
[01:45:02][1936.01.01.12][strategicair.cpp:5564]: MAP_ERROR: no gun emplacement defined for state 1017

How do I fix it?

[pearl axle]

i... don't know the FIRST thing about modding, programming or coding :D

if anyone were to teach me that'd be great

but shortly

[lone hearth]

Is your End of Line CRLF? (It is next to the encoding) If not then change it to it

[lone hearth]

Learning HOI4 script language and shortly is literally an oxymoron

[pale sparrow]

Launch in debug mode and use nudger to verify

[pearl axle]

i'll just end it all instead

[pale sparrow]

You can copy the formatting from example files, its not that hard

[lone hearth]

Go to Nudger, Buildings, Click Valitate all, put the generated files from Documents/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron IV/map into your mod

[worthy elk]

whoever made this mod i would lick your feet

[sweet mason]

So,
I don’t really know how to code HOI4, but I can do writing, GFX making, lore creating, research, and pretty much everything else that is needed for the creation of a mod.
I already have ideas for a mod that really just adds Newfoundland as a dominion of the UK, but I would love if someone who knew how to code aided me, and did the actual coding.
If anyone is interested please dm me I beg 😭 I rlly wanna add Newfoundland

[fossil cradle]

Guys, does anyone know how to make this work? its supposed to remove the guarantee of a country (that u get by a focus)

[hazy ginkgo]

Is there any Chance for an API cut in Hoi4 for an external programm to use? With API key ofc, data such as casualties or equipment numers?

I wanted to start a "little" side project and wanted to use Hoi4 as strategic Overview, but for that I would need some way to read and change stuff, I realy hope I wont need to do it on the client Side with Bots, this would over complicate things real quick. Do you guys know if somesort of API is planed or possible now or in the future, i dont realy care if its in the near future or not bc I have enough time for the Project but it would be nice to have an solution now so I can plan around it. I thougt about recreating Hoi4 so I could build it in, but that would probably take years and tbh an API in HOI4 would make my life easy. Any
Suggestions?

[woven parrot]

Guys can someone pls help me out, ive been following the begineer modding tutorial and I cant seem to get the leader up. I copied everything exactly like in the video and all the locations are correct and yet I keep getting the error that its an unknown character

[pale sparrow]

Id suggest uploading your code

[deep siren]

why are there only 1 cold war mod? is it that hard to make? i mean it is probably hard and takes a lot of time. but i would love to play it. but as i get into and see the UI i just get soo confused and give up. why do every overhaul mod change the ui that much?

[woven parrot]

The error I get is in KDS - Kingdom Of Serbia line 35 it says unknown characterr

[feral dawn]

Does the kaiserreich mod have improved ai?

[pale sparrow]

WW2 spans a period of 6 years (excluding China), the cold war spans a period of more than 40

UI is fairly easy to overhaul if you have an artist, you could overhaul a lot of the UI in a day, while a focus tree can take weeks or months

[night imp]

I got TFR to run on linux

[night imp]

Now I gotta very slightly alter the mod files to remove the issue of some portraits missing

I think I need to change the folder name "Leaders" to "leaders"

[limber isle]

I am absolutely baby brand new to modding in all forms, for the country i want to give a political power loss to is there any specific thing to put in? im assuming, for example, if i wanted it to lose pp i would put "-0.5"

yes im basing this off the hoi4 official modding guide thingamajig

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modifiers

Theres three options in the list

-0.5 would work, though perhaps political_power_cost = 0.5 could have a better tooltip

[limber isle]

tank ya

[dull crystal]

im thinking about making a mod of the american countries in japan if the american continent never existed

[mild siren]

ty!

wait actually it didnt really hepl

😭

nvm it did ty

[mild siren]

ok but how do i now add them to the country

i have this now

MNT_blazo_jovanovic= { name = MNT_blazo_jovanovic portraits = { civilian = { large = GFX_portrait_MNT_blazo_jovanovi } } country_leader = { ideology = leninism traits = { veteran_communist commited_anti-fascist } expire = "1953.3.1" id = -1 } }

why is only one trait showing up and why is the image not showing up?

is this not how its supposed to be

bruh i forgot a C in the code for his name 🥀 🙏

:D

its done!

[dull crystal]

rate this alternative america for my bajillionith hoi4 mod concept

[devout stone]

shouldnt italy look different in TNO?

[dull crystal]

Madman’s Colonism

I am open for suggestions to change the map

[thin rune]

no

[brittle sage]

he looks odd

[mild siren]

he looks hot 🤤

[devout stone]

But in videos it has way more land

[limber isle]

bosnia...?

I was looking at this weird i thought bosnia was in north america oough

[thin rune]

If you mean Atlantropa, then it was removed a long time ago

[unkempt cedar]

Hearts of Football

[unkempt cedar]

I have started working on an ambitious Hearts of Football mod. I haven't done too much. Edited the whole map and added the new country leaders for each FIFA football association.
I am posting this to maybe get some ideas, suggestions or even help modding.

[brave whale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2985220962

People ask me to make this mod compatible with Road to 56.

Any guide or suggestions to do it? Thx

[brittle sage]

is that earl browder?!

[waxen monolith]

looking for mod creator dm me il pay for making mods

[night salmon]

Expert AI has a decision in it that lets you disable naval invasions for just AI countries in your own faction - how is this possible?

I would really much like to disable Allied naval invasions pre-1942 because of how stupid they are

[unkempt cedar]

What mod do you want to do?

[surreal pendant]

is shep's mod compatible with vanilla mp?

[dull crystal]

bosnia is seen in europe on the second map i posted

[waxen monolith]

a custom one

[pale sparrow]

Thats every mod

[inner marsh]

learn mod yourself dawg

[karmic bay]

surely this isnt how its supposed to be?

how do i change hungary, who is a puppet, into a personal union?

i didnt find anything in wiki

[brave whale]

Yes, is my USA commie mod

[pale sparrow]

set_autonomy

[karmic bay]

Thx a lot, just to clarify, should i do HUN = set_autonomy { autonomy_personal_union } or something else?

[pale sparrow]

see the wiki for examples

[devout stone]

Why it’s so iconic

[thin rune]

it was plain stupid tbh

[devout stone]

How

It was part of the lore

It looked so cool

[thin rune]

I think its pretty obvious that dropping the sea level of Mediterranean has no short or long term benefits and would cause a world-scale crisis

it had no sense in the lore

[devout stone]

Obviously

That’s the whole point

Nazis where incredibly egoistic

They thought they could do anything

[plucky saddle]

Why would they do something that has no benifit?

[devout stone]

Wonder weapons are useless but Nazis did them anyway

[plucky saddle]

Even if they thought they could?

[devout stone]

They thought it would give living space

[plucky saddle]

Fair enough

I haven’t really read that much in the lore

[devout stone]

IIRC it was a real project that was planned

The Nazis planned to make the volkshalle which was so big it would have clouds

[thin rune]

It was a fantasy of an architect

[devout stone]

And Hitler

Himmler literally believed in ancient magical artifacts

[thin rune]

And iirc he wasnt significant and it never was seriously considered

[devout stone]

It lowkey was

Hitler wasn’t sane

[thin rune]

Okay but do you want the game to end 5 years in because europe starved to death

Atlantropa would cause this

[devout stone]

It would cause a crisis but not all Europe would starve

The reason Italy and Germany split was because of alantropa

[thin rune]

Idk…

Tno is good in its current form

[random heron]

Y

[ancient vapor]

Bro there's a bit of map in your Britain

More seriously

How did Spain lose its empire here?

[dull crystal]

usually how they collapsed in the early 19th century but they also united with portugal, the spanish-american war never occurs due to american loss in the civil war

[ancient vapor]

So Napoleon?

He still exists?

[dull crystal]

ended up the same fate but the french empire still exists after 1870

[ancient vapor]

How does a country "lose" a civil war?

Why was Lousiana given back to France?

[dull crystal]

i didnt give the former colony back to them

[ancient vapor]

Oh ok

They look similar

What's that country between Hungary and Germany?

Oh let me guess

Prussia lost the Bruderkrieg and there's a southern German federation?

[ruby abyss]

Is there a mod that makes it so that any tactic you choose for your country makes it happen 100% of the time

[ancient vapor]

Wdym?

[ruby abyss]

preferred tactic

[pastel cradle]

Blitz

[warm cape]

just change this line in the defines to a big number

NMilitary.COUNTRY_PREFERRED_TACTIC_WEIGHT_FACTOR

[ruby abyss]

Thanks

[earnest stirrup]

does anyone know a hoi4 mod that changes the game to a time before ww1? like napoleonic war or smth like that

[ancient vapor]

There's like 3

[earnest stirrup]

tell me good ones

[ancient vapor]

But I think they are all outdated

[ancient vapor]

Can't tell you rn

[earnest stirrup]

ok

[ancient vapor]

Just search on steam

[earnest stirrup]

what shoudl i search there??

[pale sparrow]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888042563&searchtext=empire

[earnest stirrup]

thx

[pliant stratus]

Does anyone know about a Hoi4 mod, where there was a big nation called "Balkania" (but it's not about our earth it's a different world) it had Yellow and MAYBE black in it's flag. The Nation leader was a human. And there were countries that for some reason attacked it. Idk I remember it from a video 1 year ago, but idk the mod's name...

[high pelican]

Speaking of....

WTH is this?? I looked away for like 5 secs.

[pale sparrow]

No clue, I dont play that mod anymore

[high pelican]

Haha. It's funny, though.

Great Korea.

[hushed moss]

End of a new begining

[earnest stirrup]

foudn the mod in a video today, it is really cool but thanks

[hushed moss]

Np

[tropic plover]

I started playing TFR (The Fire Rises) and i got to the point where i got the mission "reclaim america" (playing as Patriot Front btw) and now idk how to progress or attack Union of America, can anyone tell me what to do next?

[inner marsh]

decisions

btw you should ask this on TFR server

[tropic plover]

Ik but I can't find it

[tropic plover]

Which decision, I have no decisions to invade anyone

[inner marsh]

can you show your focus tree

[tropic plover]

I cant show it today but I can tell you abt it

[reef haven]

As a person trying to get into map making. How did you guys create this map. By hand, a program, maybe both? Any tips?

[pastel cradle]

Many many guides and many many failures as success cannot come without failure

[wise phoenix]

why do some mods make the uk only control the labrador coast?

[waxen monolith]

teach me

[high silo]

how do you put an id to a character?

[kindred axle]

Because thats hist?

[wise phoenix]

is it?

[kindred axle]

Hist they had integrated Newfoundland so

The rest was dominion of canada

[kindred axle]

Marijn, sry to ping you but Is It possible to Copy and paste the map and states of another mod?

[pale sparrow]

Yeh

[reef haven]

I'm at the stage where my game crashes a launch. And I'm not sure why

[vague sand]

Yo what yall think *ima make Vienna in a bit

and this is it split up

[vague sand]

Vienna

[naive jetty]

please dont use the english name for vienna while using th egerman name for east 💔

[vague sand]

wdym ts OstVienna

[naive jetty]

Ost Wien

or

East Vienna

[vague sand]

ah

well the game itself crashes no matter what i do so lmao

[naive jetty]

just saying that its poking in the eye if u use east in german

[naive jetty]

hmm

show me the error list

[vague sand]

in a sec im with my family

[naive jetty]

alr

[vague sand]

i dont get one

[naive jetty]

launch the game with ur mod while on debug mode

[reef haven]

After 2 days of trial and error in hoi4 map making. I present Australia, New Zealand and the Islands of the south Pacific

[vague sand]

it crashes before i get a error

[vague sand]

why the heck would you do that

[reef haven]

I wanted to see if I could. I had an idea of a Old World Blues submod for the South Pacific.

[vague sand]

lmao good luck with that

[final hinge]

hey is there any mod where baisically germany wins ww2 or ww2 lasts longer till the 50s or sum besides TNO and TWR since TNO is broken for me and i already played TWR

[pastel coyote]

i hate this game
1349 states and i need to add a line of code to every single one i think

holy shit chatgpt the goat

[pale sparrow]

what are you doing

[pastel coyote]

no idea

[pastel coyote]

trying to make a custom map, in my infinite wisdom of a soggy pancake decided, why yes, 1349 states all with 1 province is a splendid idea

now the whole error log consists of malformed token [number above 1349] and the game calling for a non-existent state from vanilla hoi4

[vague sand]

not as far as i know. But thats a sick idea ngl

[final hinge]

ye i would like a mod where ww2 continues into the 50s and germans have like their prototype tanks actually being made

[vague sand]

i like to mod so maybe il make it in the future

[humble coyote]

I guess it might be a long shot, but are there any good modding tools for MacOS? 😅 🍎

[final hinge]

if do tell me pleasse and make sure you add the like prototype techs to germany

like the E50s

[vague sand]

if i do i will in like a few months cuz im working on another big mod rn

[final hinge]

whats da concept

[vague sand]

its a mod where in the mongolian empire, the succsesion crissis didnt happen and they stayed. But over time they got weaker and weaker, at the start of the game (1900) mongolia is just china, mongolia itself, a bit of the stan countries and south russia. And the major world powers are weaker.

[final hinge]

nice

[inner marsh]

how do i put GFX for icons? i can't seem to get them

[proper venture]

I need help with modding of controls
So I changed all hotkeys(shortcut) but a have problem.
Where is code of cam?
I want arrows change to WASD, in my mod.
Without a .apk file (.apk file doesn't always work for some reason)

[proper venture]

Just put a GFX file in mod
After put the way to gfx, where is needed?
Or you have a problem to normally convert PNG to GFX?

[tender pivot]

yo

guys

none of the color mods are working

wth

[versed mesa]

|

[covert mirage]

guys can someone help me pls

[covert mirage]

@pale sparrow any idea on how to fix this?

[pale sparrow]

Idk if its actually necessary but all decision category files Ive ever worked with ended on _decision_categories.txt

[worthy holly]

this disgusts me unimaginably

[vague sand]

why?

[worthy holly]

i hate seeing any nation carved up like a damn cake

especialy germany

[vague sand]

ah

alr

[worthy holly]

and then

france has the gaul to take the rhein

atrocious

[pastel coyote]

how small do oceans have to be to stop farting out the "too large box" error

it's been happening with oceans no matter what size i made them

[inner marsh]

uh my bad

i meant ideas

GFX for ideas

i already have for focus tree

[amber basalt]

any mods to boost performance? im using a fps map rn

[wind vessel]

a lot of overhaul mods I've played seem to work perfectly fine with and without dlc enabled. I've been doing some tech tree modding recently and was wondering if there was an easy way to get the game to default to the base game tech trees even if dlc is enabled.

[pale sparrow]

FPS map is the only one worth considering before you start worsening gameplay by doing things like removing continents

debug_smooth console command is also worth mentioning

together, those 2 could give a 50% performance increase, disabling continents might add another 10-20%, but on a bad PC that still wouldnt make it that good

[high silo]

how do i remove the first 2 scenarios

[covert mirage]

guys how do i fix this

[16:18:44][no_game_date][gameitemdatabasehelper.h:163]: Warning: Possible portability issue with key "SLR_tsar_diplomacy": "Found 3 extended ascii or partial UTF* character(s) ﬠ», ¿ found in key" in file: "common/decisions/SLR_tsar_diplomatic_decisions.txt" near line: 1

i dont have any of these anywhere btw

[pale sparrow]

At this point Id just upload the mod

thats such a confusing error @covert mirage

[peak python]

anyone know good hoi4 RPG map

??

[pearl axle]

i'm dreaming of making a mod at some point, but i'll never actually get to doing it bc idk the first thing about scripting or coding or programming or anything like that

it's literally just about the modern-day, starting in the year 2000

that's the entire point actually

and yes i'm very well aware of the existence of millennium dawn and novum vexillum

would anyone like to see some of the political focus trees i've sketched?

and critique them?

[deep siren]

any way i could remove the cold war ui textures? soo anoying i can't play the mod. i just don't know what i'm doing.

NVM I FOUND A MOD FOR IT. YES I CAN FINALY PLAY THE MOD WITH ACTUALLY KNOWING WHAT I DO XD

[rapid creek]

so, i wanna make a mod, what mod should i make for the very first time

[vague grail]

How can I rename a general?

[lofty plaza]

You need to change it in their character file

[bleak quarry]

How would I change a countries leader with modding, specifically Mussolini? I want to change the name, stats and portrait to someone different.

[swift field]

ill add this new BTR22 APC to my hoi4 multi mod for russia

[pearl axle]

pleeeeEEEEEEEASE MAKE IT A WOMAN LEADER

I JUST WANT A HOI4 MOD WITH WOMEN LEADERS

[bleak quarry]

Check my guns.lol and you'll see the mod.

[pearl axle]

what's guns.lol

[bleak quarry]

Link in my bio

It's like beacons

[pearl axle]

i'm paranoid lmao, not willing to get a malware

ah screw it

[bleak quarry]

bro i swear down it aint malware, im not on that opsec shit

[pearl axle]

yeah yeah it's fine lol

[pearl isle]

HOI4 real life

[graceful bolt]

been looking but cant seem to find anything. Is there a mod that allows me to sell ships on the international market?

[ancient vapor]

Make Ireland own Northen Ireland, very simple

[ancient vapor]

Ye sure

[tawny sigil]

What the heck

[pearl axle]

school just began for me again so gotta do that first :(

[pearl axle]

i have moved on from my lustful ways and i profusely apologise that you have had to deal with it

[pastel forge]

is there ww 1 mod which is not "the great war"

[pearl axle]

someone's actually making one rn

they've been posting about it on r/hoi4modding

https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4modding/comments/1ndeid0/the_war_to_end_all_a_upcoming_ww1_mod_in_the/

[candid badger]

what i need to create a mod with a custom country?

[tender badger]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3569155850

I make my first addon

add more city and city enviroment for whole world

[pearl axle]

usa political tree, 2000-2004

pr china focus tree, 2000-2002

[ancient vapor]

Looks good

Maybe a little too much development

But I guess later on is when [Country] invades [Country]

[ancient vapor]

The first Chinese focus should be called "A new dawn" or something like that

Since the 20th century was a dumpster fire for China

[pearl axle]

i'll read your feedback again later, since i gtg now

but thx anyway

[sacred rapids]

???.

[kindred axle]

What folders do i Need to Copy for that?

[pale sparrow]

/map and /history/states

[kindred axle]

Thx

[pearl axle]

smth wrong?

[pearl axle]

wdym

[pearl axle]

the 20th century up until mao's death i'd say

[ancient vapor]

its all "Lets make a better country!"

Instead of "Bring death to the french"

[kindred axle]

So, i tried to run It but It Always ended up in a crash, It says to check the integrity of files, clear user directory, and i did those, but It Always crashes on initializing game with the crash message being

"Some errors are present in the map definition ans have been logged to error.log

You might want to disable your mods and try again. If that fails, check integrity of game files inside steam. If that fails, try clearing your user directory from the Launcher"

Tho i Just copied the files as you said

[chilly loom]

How do I unlock Irregular infantry

via focus

set_technology = { militia_tech = 1 }

works

set_technology = { Irregular_infantry_tech = 1 }

doesn't work

I also tried just irregular_infantry

[pale sparrow]

If I see correctly, they force unlock it by giving you units that have it in their template

[chilly loom]

fair nuff but if I do that I still wont be able to like

use them

add more/less of them

will I?

[pale sparrow]

I think you can, or at least within the same template, cant remember exactly

you might have to make a new tech which includes

  irregular_infantry
}```

[pearl axle]

they didn't have anything against france though...? (until 2003)

[chilly loom]

I tried

nope

[ancient vapor]

It was an example

[pearl axle]

lol ik

but the usa will get a foreign policy tree (probably) so dw

plus there are some foreign policy focuses in both the democrat and republican side already so

oh wait not in the republican side, but still

[coral fulcrum]

bro i have such a cool hoi4 mod idea

[slender mason]

how do i make nations start off with states? (prc owning all of china or soviet union being collapsed)

[blazing kayak]

anyone ever figure this out?

[vague grail]

Where do I find that file? It's a generic General.

[kindred axle]

Change owners in state files

[pale sparrow]

@autumn coyote wrong channel, please move it to one of the MP ones

[covert mirage]

what software are u using?

[high silo]

what font sizes do I need for my custom font to fit

[pale sparrow]

I dont know

[lofty plaza]

Then you can't

[stuck island]

hello, can someone help me up?

whenever i try to play with my own mod, game says the location can't found and my mod doesn't works

btw it happens all the time when i use debug mode.

[teal belfry]

what mods take place before germany formed, e.g. you can play as prussia and form germany type of thing

[pearl axle]

oh it's just an app called "sketch"

you just draw stuff on it

idk if the app can be installed anymore

it's actually a mobile app

[autumn coyote]

yea i had the wrong channel open, sorry

[next schooner]

Is there any way I can mod on Mac since every tutorial I see is on Windows and they want me to like run CMS or something like that, but I can't, Mac can't open ".exe" stuff, so does anyone here know a tutorial which maybe shows how to mod on Mac? 🙏 (Y'all can tag me I dont have a problem with that it'll help even more)

[ancient vapor]

Yo

[11:48:52][no_game_date][persistent.cpp:68]: Error: "Error reading division names group - NAME_THEME_HISTORICAL_CL. There is unknown tag in for_countries scope: ARG: }, near line: 25" in file: "common/units/names_ships/ARG_ship_names.txt" near line: 25
[11:48:52][no_game_date][persistent.cpp:68]: Error: "Error reading division names group - NAME_THEME_HISTORICAL_CA. There is unknown tag in for_countries scope: ARG: }, near line: 42" in file: "common/units/names_ships/ARG_ship_names.txt" near line: 42
[11:48:52][no_game_date][persistent.cpp:68]: Error: "Error reading division names group - NAME_THEME_HISTORICAL_BB. There is unknown tag in for_countries scope: ARG: }, near line: 61" in file: "common/units/names_ships/ARG_ship_names.txt" near line: 61
[11:48:52][no_game_date][persistent.cpp:68]: Error: "Error reading division names group - NAME_THEME_HISTORICAL_BC. There is unknown tag in for_countries scope: ARG: }, near line: 78" in file: "common/units/names_ships/ARG_ship_names.txt" near line: 78
[11:48:52][no_game_date][persistent.cpp:68]: Error: "Error reading division names group - NAME_THEME_HISTORICAL_CARRIERS. There is unknown tag in for_countries scope: ARG: }, near line: 95" in file: "common/units/names_ships/ARG_ship_names.txt" near line: 95
[11:48:52][no_game_date][persistent.cpp:68]: Error: "Error reading division names group - NAME_THEME_HISTORICAL_SUBMARINES. There is unknown tag in for_countries scope: ARG: }, near line: 112" in file: "common/units/names_ships/ARG_ship_names.txt" near line: 112

How do i fix this?

I already tried this:

NAME_THEME_HISTORICAL_DESTROYERS = {
for_countries = { BLN }
name = "ARA San Luis"
}

Its a place holder

but it doenst seem to work

[stuck island]

hello, can someone help me up?
whenever i try to play with my own mod, game says the location can't found and my mod doesn't works
btw it happens all the time when i use debug mode.

<@&846894118219022336>

[sick torrent]

do not ping moderation over a non-server issue please thank you :)

[stuck island]

what is this non server thing?

i go to dm support and they say there is server issue go modding

i came to modding and still samte

same

is it that hard to give me an answer?

[sick torrent]

?

you are pinging the discord moderation, not the modders

[stuck island]

what is the diffirence? kinda new

[sick torrent]

i dont take issue with you asking the modders, just be patient and do not ping moderation.

[sick torrent]

modders are anyone who makes a mod for hoi4

[stuck island]

i already asked morning

there is no return

its not a fatal error

[sick torrent]

i dont know how to help you.

[stuck island]

understood

imma wait someone who can help

[dry patrol]

hello can someone help me to find the mod which adds more economy to the game? like its victoria 3 sadly my pc cant run that game and im sticking with hoi4

[teal belfry]

are there any mods that let me play as prussia, or before germany was united

[nimble solar]

So you have Gotterdammerung DLC?

If so, go to custom game rules and fragment Germany

Or there is that end of a new beginning mod

Or Victoria 3

[teal belfry]

thanks, yeah my main idea was a what if for a different kingdom to have unified germany

[vale torrent]

yes if ur willing to learn 20 new mechanics

[stiff ruin]

are there any mods which gives a focus tree to minor nations (read as Albania) but doesnt add states?

[swift field]

is there ANY way to add REAL LIFE units and templates

[stiff ruin]

first know how to add custom units and templates. then do a lot of research into real life military structures, then do your best to mimic that in your mod

[swift field]

alr thx m8

i do wanna add different Real life units and templates for infantry tanks armor marines etc

[stiff ruin]

do you mean division templates, or new technology?

[swift field]

yes division templates

[stiff ruin]

do you mean like the starting ones? or ones you get from decisions or focus? because if you mean a new custom unit type that falls under technology i think

[swift field]

yes the starting ones

i also do mean yes new custom unit types

since i like doing RP stuff in SP

[stiff ruin]

the starting ones should be fairly easy. just copy from base game, and study how its done. custom units i have no idea

[stiff ruin]

i see that

[swift field]

alr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_organization#Army
this is what i wanna add to my hoi4 mod

basically army units and templates

@stiff ruin

[stiff ruin]

isnt each of those in theory one division (not in size, but in use)

[swift field]

well yes

its my mod i add what i wanna add

[stiff ruin]

of course, i just got confused. do you intent to make one division with all of them, or just make every single one of those into a custom unit?

[swift field]

yes every single one into a custom unit

[stiff ruin]

lets say this one. it just seems to me you could have 4 infantry battalions, one cavalry, two artillery, and one of the shovel support units

every symbol a custom unit seems like the best way to go... but i do think the blue ones could just remain infantry, the red with black dots can just be artillery

than you just need two custom units

[swift field]

i do also wanna make custom templates

[stiff ruin]

i see that competely, but i am just saying that many of these are just repeating. this division is just 3 infantry, 2 artillery, and 3 custom units.

[swift field]

alr

[stiff ruin]

this of course is just from what i see... i think what should be the main decision is how many people are in each of them, and what you think wil work best.

well all that being said, are there any mods which gives a focus tree to minor nations (read as Albania) but doesnt add states?

[swift field]

@cunning jackal hello

[mighty quartz]

Any mod that lets your germany transition into the TNO one

[mint oar]

any modder i could chat and/or talk to that might help with why my game crashes as soon as i enter the research tab, after creating a new special project category, ive been trying to figure this out for a while but cant

[feral sentinel]

its called engineers 🙏

[chilly loom]

I have a question

I made a mod (bottom)

and uploaded it to the steam work shop (top)

the top one doesn't load

I reckon it clashes (somehow?) with the local orgiinal