modding

[tall hare]

you think?

I am working on it alone 😭

[lapis flume]

me too

except this is a submod so its not that important

[tall hare]

full overhaul mod btw 😎

[lapis flume]

peak

well

if u receive enough attention

maybe u should make a server

give it time

[tall hare]

done only this for now no focuses no leaders only states and names

[rare grove]

Confederation of the rhine rework

[lapis flume]

do you get any errors cause there's no focuses

my game literally makes 25000 errors about those stuff

[tall hare]

nope

I still have vanilla

[tall hare]

Tuff

[lapis flume]

i did vanilla too

but when i remove focuses the errors just pop up on game start

im not talking about this submod rn btw

i did something else way before

[tall hare]

yeah I just change the focuses when Its time to do so

[tall hare]

show some of your works

[lapis flume]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3436994060

i gave up on it cuz its done on 1.14.5

the current game version is 1.16.10

aint no way im patching that

[tall hare]

cool

[tall hare]

you do alot of modding?

could need some devs in the future 👀

[lapis flume]

im already a dev in another upcoming mod

if i overstretch myself im cooked

but i'll see

[tall hare]

cool cool

[tall hare]

Give me feedback for my map if Germany and Russia won ww1

[cold fox]

Whats the lore behind that?

[pale sparrow]

I dont see many gains for Russia

Ig some of the Balkans are puppets of them

[ancient vapor]

agaisnt? I highly doubt Russia would leave Turkey with so much territory

[nimble solar]

I assume Russia and Germany teamed up?

And Austria still collapsed?

If the Ottomans fell, why dont the Russians take Constantinople and the Dardaneles

Or however it is spelt

[harsh dagger]

How do my new portraits look?

[nimble solar]

Rare torso portraits rather than shoulder up ones

[harsh dagger]

Is that a good thing?

Also, these are old, I zoomed them in a bit

[nimble solar]

It's different and that's fine

[harsh dagger]

I honestly think they look good

[nimble solar]

Yeah, they are alright

[rose dove]

Hello

I have a mod idea

Even made a full doc

However I lack the skills to mod

I am searching to assemble a team

Even willing to not be at it’s lead

Here is the doc

[tall hare]

Germany an Russia won ww1

[rose dove]

Here it is

[cold fox]

Yeah but why did they team up?

[rose dove]

So where can I assemble a team

[lapis flume]

are these game rules coded good

(it depends on the event options)

[tall hare]

Yeah might do some with turkey

[tall hare]

I am working on lore but maybe to preserve and keep the monarchies?

[rose dove]

Please

I really want my mod to come to life

[covert abyss]

germany doesnt get a single bit of territory in austria or sudetenland?

[tall hare]

True

[swift field]

hello

i have a big mod HOI4 mod idea called: HOI4 MULTI MOD

if anyone who knows how to mod and code in hoi4 let me know and dm me

i wanna get a dev team together

[tall hare]

Will make austria occupied but also a spirit called austrian resitance

[proven sage]

Russia Turkish border does not really make sence, russia owned a bit more territory into turkey pre ww1

[tall hare]

this look kinda similar to something

also map is WIP

[tall hare]

made some changes now boss

[tall hare]

Give me feedback and lmk if I should make a discord for the mod

[tall hare]

@proven sage Is this better?

[covert mirage]

guys

how do i make it so the dlc tree doesnt merge together with the country's tree i made in my mod?

(that being no step back dlc)

[proven sage]

Tbh, there are a lot of stuff pretty weird, such as syria being still french (most likely in this kind of scenario would be free or maybe german colony) dodecase would be greek, bulgaria is pretty weird in this, since I dont really get if they participated in ww1, And if there even was second Balkan war. And also croatia would probably be either hungarian puppet or a part of yugo. Ireland would Very likely also be independent, I do not believe it would stay with UK. Also I would imagine Sudeten bein part of Germany and the rest might be free or german puppet

[tall hare]

I only really did Europe tbh so thats why countries outside is a bit wierd but thanks I will take some feedback

[proven sage]

tbh i wouldnt mind joinin and maybe helpin a bit if you want to create an actual mod with this. sounds like an interesting idea to me with a lot of opportunities for lore

[tall hare]

You mod yourself?

[proven sage]

i do have my own mod for historical multiplayer

[tall hare]

Dm me

[night mirage]

@near valley

[livid locust]

Try my mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3591792881

[potent scroll]

Does anyone know how to stop the AI from producing self-propelled artillery? I want the AI to only build medium tanks, but it keeps producing medium SPGs (self-propelled guns) based on the medium tank chassis as well.

[opal holly]

Guys, is there any new colonial expansion mod for HOI4? The last colonial expansion mod I had is for HOI 1.13

[unreal sorrel]

that shouldn't happen unless you directly added all your code to the vanilla focus tree file

[covert mirage]

So i js have to do that and it will be replaced?

[unreal sorrel]

You have to make a new file, if you copied the vanilla focus tree file and started adding your own focuses it will overlap with the DLC tree

[winter yew]

Guys my mods aren't downloading

I wanna download great war redux

And millennium dawn extended

But it just said downloading for days now

They are only 750 mb

[winter yew]

Great war redux Rp

The great war redux says it's in 2 playsets

But millennium dawn extended

In 1

I need help 😭

[meager mortar]

are there any good mods that improve Turkey's focus tree? i'm really not a fan

[fossil fern]

any mods that improve a specific countries focus tree like that one greece mod or an area like union y libertidad

[worldly adder]

Thought of a new cursed ideology idea, Democratic Fascism.

[pliant stratus]

.

[elder pollen]

any mod to make minors not able to become majors?

[pulsar steppe]

Question im trying to find what mod was used in this vid expect i cant find it on the workshop nor any links in the video please help ;-;

[cold fox]

He tells us in the video

The beginning in fact

Extended tech tree

[pulsar steppe]

Oh that's the name of the mod I thought it was smth else lol

Yk thought it was bro js saying the tech tree was bigger

[cold fox]

Nope

Watched the video earlier myself and tested the mod

Designing stuff is def, more complicated XD

[pulsar steppe]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1778255798&searchtext=Extended+tech+tree Is it this one? @cold fox

[cold fox]

Yup

[pulsar steppe]

alr ty

hoi4 has melted my brain 😭

[harsh depot]

should i go spain or saudi arabia

[dusty linden]

plague inc in hoi4 is crazy work

[harsh depot]

yeah lol

found it in the workshop

cuz i was looking for a zombie mod to play with my brother lol

[dusty linden]

Go spain because of the airports and ports lmao

[harsh depot]

arl

i'll go spain to make the mess worse

still shocks me on how cool this is

hehehe

[dusty linden]

Dont miss out on greenland

[harsh depot]

i'd have to naval invade

can't paratroop cuz they dont have an airport :(

[opal holly]

Reminds me of my 1.14 colonialization playthrough, as Greece I colonized North eastern spain and make it as Greek colony. Here is the link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2777718835

[harsh depot]

dang

[autumn monolith]

is there good moods to make there like alot more focuses for europe

[dusty linden]

Idk like R56

[umbral vigil]

I have some scripted diplo actions. How can I make 1 day cooldown on it

[opal holly]

Also I have a funny story lmao, I played colonial expansion mod as Greece, I was about to colonize Northern Macedonia but Tsardom of Bulgaria did that first so I justified for it, the Tsar accepts but Bulgaria turns fascist lmao. Its just funny 😆. Also during this time, Bulgaria only has 2 cores which is Albania and Sofia.

[gusty geyser]

Hi, does anyone know how to change the leader of a country in a mod?

[pale sparrow]

Character modding

[pale sparrow]

Maybe set a timed flag that blocks the action until it expires

[winter yew]

Guys what is the app or website used to do this?

I wanna like a mod

Make

Or change some settings

In game

Or edit mods from steam workshop

[limber torrent]

What mod

I want to play plague inc

[opal holly]

Greater Armenia formed, I am Greece btw so in this case Greater Armenia is my colony.

[pale sparrow]

Visual Studio Code

or for images, Paint.NET or GIMP

[harsh dagger]

What should I call my radio station for the Russian Empire?

[harsh dagger]

I use notepad ++ and it's really good

[pale sparrow]

it has better folders search than VSC but VSC has plugins and all other UI

[still lily]

what's like a good hoi4 that makes the AI actually competent but at the same time fun for an avarage player?

[pale sparrow]

Road to 56 buffs it ever so slightly

[harsh depot]

search up zombie in the steam workshop, then look for the unique icon

[harsh depot]

which looks like the thing on my leader

[wispy wolf]

Is there a mod about the civil war in japan of the Sengoku period

[lone ledge]

What is the best mod if I want a more flavorful WW2

(Germany)

[tranquil canopy]

Black ice

Or sheepsmod

[lone ledge]

Ty

[lone ledge]

Tried BICE, and it isn't really what I'm looking for.
The focus tree seems kinda vanilla and the focus descriptions are very basic.

[smoky bluff]

Hello. How can I script that a decision is only available if the country has a certain subideology? I've tried this:
has_country_leader = {
has_ideology = liberalism
}
and doesn't work

[pale sparrow]

Thats the right idea but the wrong syntax

Check the wiki

[smoky bluff]

alr

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Triggers#has_country_leader_ideology

[smoky bluff]

tysm!

btw. Can I use your ideology icons in my mod with the due credits?

[pale sparrow]

I dont get involved with licensing

[sleek plume]

tbh

imagine if there was an anarcho-pacifist nation in a mod

that would be so goated

[fossil fern]

give me your best mood

mod

[smoky bluff]

is there someone I can talk to about?

[pale sparrow]

Join Rt56 Discord through my clan tag and ask Abbus when he's online

[smoky bluff]

alr, tysm

[dark linden]

anyone got mods that help with performance

after like 1943 everything just starts to lag really bad

[smoky bluff]

Is there any console command I can use to get Roosevelt back in the office 😭?

[pale sparrow]

Maybe fire one of the election events manually

otherwise you could use toolpack to retire country leaders until he's back

[bleak lark]

hey i suck at modding, does anyone know how to play the fire rises with workshop, when i launch the game the mod aint opening.

[open drift]

anyone know any mods that make nukes actually make nuke strong?

[near valley]

wrong channel mb

[icy fable]

If you have Mac or Linux it won’t start

[bleak lark]

thanks, i got the mod working for some reason when i restarted my pc it worked just fine

[bright field]

Hey guys I have a question

I’m working on a mod with several new German states what gfx type do I use for Germany?All I’m getting is this

[bright field]

Make new playset in launcher

[drifting gulch]

would anyone be able to help me resolve my error log and help me figure out what is causing fatal errors in debug (CTD before loading to main menu) for my mod?

I know i'm getting a lot of errors about my map, the provinces and the weatherpositions.txt files, but idk what exactly to do to fix it, let alone what ones are actually problems

[drifting gulch]

for the units check hoi4/common/countries/Germany.txt for the file like that unless that was changed since 1.14

[bright field]

Ahh thanks man

Have a great one

[drifting gulch]

i'll try, mapping is torture and a half

but using the vanilla map is outa the question for my mod simply due to complexity

[bright field]

Ahhh

I’m working on a scenario we’re Germany collapses from civil war after a more extreme Great Depression

[drifting gulch]

so just the bavarian uprising if it actually worked (with even more flavour)?

well, a more violent 1918 german revolution, which is when that took place

[bright field]

No no no,basically it’s very different from how it would work,technically yes it is inspired by the Barbadian revolution,however it starts with a government coup,this although leads to the government fleeing,leads to uprisings to deal with the incompetence of the government,Barvaria becomes a commune inspired by the 1919 revolution,Hanover becomes a sepertist state,and Germany is collapsed into different factions,the player has mostly content into the wimer republic

Which they can choose to unit Germany under multiple ideologues

One being the NSDAP

There is also an event to kill iff Hitler and go a socalist round

[drifting gulch]

honestly, i'd love to play it when it's done

[bright field]

Yeah,it’s my first mod,but when it comes out I’ll release it hear,it won’t have much content at first since I’m a little be man project,with the help of my friend who mostly helps with lore but it will be mostly story based

Here is the map currently

Different game same map,still woo that’s why France has her colonies

The Rhine has some complex history that’s why it got independent I can explain a different time

[drifting gulch]

uhh, is there an easy way to put all provinces into 1 state to reduce my error.log size? i plan to put the provinces into their own states this is just for debugging resons

[calm wagon]

How to play in mods in the last 30 years like hamas or free army (last war) etc

[tall hare]

Give me some feedback 🙂

[swift field]

for my hoi4 multi mod ill add dreadnoughts and pre dreadnoughts
and new frigates and corvettes
and new SUPER dreadnoughts
ill also add to my hoi4 multi mod different vehicles like tanks mbts afvs ifvs and apcs
and helis
and different planes and aircraft
And different weapons guns and firearms

aswell as new submarines ships crafts vessels landing crafts and transport troop ships

and NEW fleet carriers

[indigo dagger]

can someone help with my mod i wanna know how to make a coutnry a puppet goverment

[uncut sluice]

Pax historia AND hoi, absolutely based

[bright field]

Fr,I do wish there were better AI options,sadly they can’t make there own as well as AI isn’t cheap

[uncut sluice]

Yeah

[drifting gulch]

well for the next 10 hours hoi4 gon be my lil mess

[unreal sorrel]

Maybe Egypt should be independent

[icy fable]

How about redrawing the borders for Italian Libya. If they lost the war their colony should maybe not be expanded?

[frosty gulch]

How about a polish autonomous puppet state of Russia

Poles like to resist

[tall hare]

It is WIP will do some changes

[drifting gulch]

iirc Poland was an autonomous vassal in russia during the victorian era for a tiny bit, and then russia integrated them fully into the empire, so it wouldn't make sense to do that process again

[tall hare]

Updates, also does anyone know how to make a French exiled goverment

[drifting gulch]

how does one make adjacency rules?

[tall hare]

What 😭

[tall hare]

any feedback?

[drifting gulch]

for your map? it looks pretty good ngl

i'm not really the best to ask for smth like this, maybe taking that northern piece of angola from portugal since atp, germany would be easily able to force or buy it from the portguese for very little

[tall hare]

yeah maybe

[steady whale]

is there any Zeppelins mode? i want to create mode where player can construct Zeppelins

[cold fox]

Great war redux has zeppelins

[steady whale]

oh ok

[drifting gulch]

that's basically just a new airframe and components, that isn't the hardest thing to do

so i copied the adjacency_rules.txt from vanilla, only keeping the Gibraltar straight but i'm getting this as an error

here's the alleged issues

this game is ragebaiting so hard idek what to do anymore

[upbeat forum]

other then shitty syntax placement, it looks normal

[drifting gulch]

blame PDX for that, for once it ain't my fault

[drifting gulch]

now replace_path isn't working when i try do do smth

[drifting gulch]

y'all i figured it out

through trial and error, as well as lots of launches, i found the broken map that is breaking my game

so unless clauswitz lets 4 tiles touch now, this is my problem line and the rest has been just lag fix and load speed

[tall hare]

Anyone got any tips?

[drifting gulch]

why would Bulgaria get Eastern Thrace if the Greeks got it in 1922 after an armastice between turkey and greece?

unless Bulgaria got it, and Boris 3 remained loyal to the Kaiser

then Greece wouldn't have the ability to get it, since the threat of german intervention is a deterrant enough, even if the bulgarians never ask for aid

[tall hare]

Its if Germany and Russia won ww1

Bulgaria got territories from it

[drifting gulch]

yea, but Boris 3 (tsar after Ferdinand 1) was not really a fan of the violence the germans brought

bulgaria only joined ww1 because they were still pissy about losing the 2nd balkan war, and the war against serbia was their chance to get the stuff they fought for twice back

but i can see your plan

the bulgarians have a nuclear deterrant against greece in the form of a potential german invasion of greece, so they wouldn't take it

[tall hare]

And if you wonder why Greecd have a bit of turkey its because of when Ottoman empire fell

[drifting gulch]

i'd say make Bohemia a tributary state to the german empire, or a low-level vassal of some kind

[tall hare]

Should I make a discord server for the mod?

[drifting gulch]

same with Denmark, since they both play vital roles to the german eco in ww2, and were actually major pawns in ww1

[tall hare]

Yeah I am going to make it a puppet probably

[tall hare]

.

[austere wyvern]

Sudetenland should also be handed to Germany probably

[drifting gulch]

idk what I did

but now the map is stable enough to exist i tnik

it jsut has like, 13 million errors :>

[icy fable]

Redraw the borders for Libya in favor of France and Egypt

[icy fable]

If the Kaiser still rules Germany there is no reason for Denmark to be a puppet of Germany

[wild pawn]

Have a question for r56 mod, playing Poland.

Trying to go sanation right but I can't seem to avoid the civil war. Left unrest starts at 70% and i don't have enough time to push the meter towards 80% and still do triumph of ozn because the meter decays while I'm doing it

Mil factory takes 100 days, rush arms production is 50 days and military parade us 30 days. Everything else pushes left

[swift dove]

@pale sparrow this is for you

[pale sparrow]

Ill take a look ig

[swift dove]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-michael-scott-thank-you-bow-steve-carell-gif-5009516783019270794

[tribal spear]

how do you put a decision in the 'political actions' decision category

[tribal spear]

there's a mod already working on that called Fraternal Reich

try and help them if you want

[tall hare]

is there?

[noble tulip]

How to make the value of a variable change depending on the number of specific cities controlled. We have four cities (1,2,3,4), and I want to figure out how to make countries get their variable value depending on how many cities they control.
Let's say we have the cities of Nanjing, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Chongqing, and there are two countries (A, B). Country A controls only Chongqing, and its value should be 1, and country B controls Guangzhou and Nanjing, its variable should be 2.

[tribal spear]

Let me send my message wtf

Fraternal Reich isnt primarily English in case you may struggle with a language barrier

[tall hare]

is the mod big?

cuz I am making my mod english

[tribal spear]

They are on TikTok and TG

I think they have made a lot of work so far so its not too early to help

[tall hare]

might just do my own tbh

[tribal spear]

Alr

[tribal spear]

But why if I may ask? I mean it would suck having competition if you want your mod to be big

[tall hare]

Moslty because the other mod is russian and I have planned alot myself

[tribal spear]

Oh alr

[tall hare]

you got any questions about the mod?

[tribal spear]

Its alr I just wanted to advertise

I dont work with the mod though

[tall hare]

ok'

I see

[noble tulip]

@pale sparrow sorry for mentioning you. You once helped me, maybe u can give a hint what can i use, just an example

[pale sparrow]

Its much simpler to only check the state

and youd update the variable with a state_control on action, see the on actions page for more exact info

[noble tulip]

Okay, thanks 👍🏻

[wild pawn]

thanks. so i just wait?

[scarlet reef]

wazzup, i wanna make an economy mod but im feelin extremely unmotivated to actually start doing it, anybody have any tips or tricks to start makin it?

[drowsy oyster]

How to mod, like add ww1 mod?

[burnt vigil]

Have you tried "the Great War Redux"?

Its a rather decently historical ww1 mod

Not fun for alt-paths as they seem to be purging those

If you just didnt like how it played, its not that hard to make a ww1 mod, all the tags you need are already in the game you just need to change some things

[tall hare]

which continent should I do next?

[heady sapphire]

Interested that how would a martial arts focus work? Would it be a buff in certain terrains like jungle and urban or something else?

[tranquil canopy]

Context to the map?

[tall hare]

Russia and Germany won ww1

also isnt fully done btw

[tranquil canopy]

Are the French going to lose they're over sea land

[tall hare]

In Africa it will be a exiled france

[tranquil canopy]

Are you doing it by yourself or with others?

[tall hare]

mostly by myself

[tall hare]

so yeah, a lot of work

[burnt vigil]

gurrilla warfare

[mortal pilot]

can someone tell me how state modifiers work?

like are they ideas or dynamic ideas

[burnt vigil]

dynamic iirc

[mortal pilot]

because i just can't find any of them in files

[burnt vigil]

common/modifiers/00_static_modifiers.txt it looks like

[mortal pilot]

oh thanks

[burnt vigil]

np

[mortal pilot]

it was mostly weather modifiers

where can i find something more like

the german thing

[pale sparrow]

Banned (/s)

[mortal pilot]

what was it

reich service

[pale sparrow]

State modifiers are static and dynamic IIRC yeh

Ideas are exclusively country level

[tall hare]

anyone got a good idea on how can make a exiled france 🙂

[mortal pilot]

so where can i find something like this thing

[tall hare]

while also keeping french commune

[burnt vigil]

Like blitzkrieg?

Or the rebuilding Germany modifiers, i'd say dynamic

[mortal pilot]

where can i find the codes for it

because i'm struggling to give mine an icon that fits

and in the website i use to check the names for icons i just can't find that size

[burnt vigil]

found it

Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\common\dynamic_modifiers

that's the root of it in vanilla

[burnt vigil]

yea i'm back, it's so crazy right?

[mortal pilot]

oh

i'll check

AFG_electrification_modifier = {
enable = { always = yes }
remove_trigger = {
ROOT = {
NOT = {
OWNER = {
original_tag = AFG
}
} # ROOT refers to the state on which the modifier is added
}
}
icon = GFX_modifiers_ETH_state_development
state_production_speed_buildings_factor = 0.2
state_resources_factor = 0.2
local_building_slots_factor = 0.2
state_production_speed_infrastructure_factor = 0.2
}

this is a good one

[burnt vigil]

man i think hoi4 hates me

[00:25:07][no_game_date][parser.cpp:949]: Error: unexpected token in file: "portraits/998_scientist_portraits.txt" near line: 68 ( } )

[mortal pilot]

ong

[mortal pilot]

this game 🥀

[burnt vigil]

each of those brackets are needed to close their respective open bracket for the continent

here's the full thing

so idk what this error log is smoking, but it should work

i feel like i'm still gonna have ot replace_path="common" for it to work

bc im removing every tag from base

[tall hare]

Yo @burnt vigil Give me a name for the exiled france

[burnt vigil]

what kinda of government are they?

like is this a kingdom, a republic

[tall hare]

Their non aligned

[burnt vigil]

are they gonna be some sort of proto-fascist in a world where fascism is kinda a dying ember

[burnt vigil]

who's the leader gonna be

[tall hare]

hmmm

there should be multiple paths

[burnt vigil]

well, for starters for exiled france

[tall hare]

hmmm

[burnt vigil]

either "Xth Republic of France" (like 3rd Republic, or smth similar), or "Kingdom of France"

[tall hare]

Yeah maybe

a republic in africa though

[burnt vigil]

well they're exiled

so it would make sense that they try keep their nation the same, for the sake of national stability

[tall hare]

hmm

I am thinking Maxime Weygand

maybe

[tall hare]

what do you think about him?

[burnt vigil]

He'd be pretty good, especially as a dictator

<@&846894118219022336> pls

[vocal geyser]

[burnt vigil]

Historically he was a higher up in Vichy, so it works amazingly for a desperate French state

[vocal geyser]

are you thinking of Gamelin?

[burnt vigil]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Weygand

[tall hare]

why did my puppets lose their overlord color?

[burnt vigil]

This chap

[tall hare]

😭

I just made lebanon and syria free

[burnt vigil]

They're unique colours for the tags

But the tag when a puppet of X country has a specific colour

Which is why germany is grey, but Allied puppetz of germany are the coliurs of the allied powers

[tall hare]

it worked before I made the new country and lebanon and syria free

now they have their base color

[burnt vigil]

Idk for that

[tall hare]

😭

Idk how to fix it

[burnt vigil]

your guess is as good as mine, comrade

i may be dead, as i got some resins and nasty water on my fiances sweater 💀

[tall hare]

😭

[burnt vigil]

😭 even stoned this code makes me wanna cry

[tall hare]

Yeah I am just dumb

I havent put the thing in the common file

and wondered why it didn't work

[burnt vigil]

i really hope that isn't my issue

this is correct, right?

to replace the path for anything inside the map, including adjacency_rules.txt

[tall hare]

And no syria is not a puppet @burnt vigil

[burnt vigil]

nice

[tall hare]

So tiring to make it alone 😔

[burnt vigil]

ikr!

[burnt vigil]

this might be it boys

[burnt vigil]

could someone rq check my code to make sure ts works?

bc istg there shouldn't be a single error

[drowsy oyster]

Yep

[burnt vigil]

Not your speed?

[pulsar steppe]

What happend to Project Ulysses? Like why doesn't any of the mod links work for it anymore is like the mod link down due to a outage or did they give up on the mod

[burnt vigil]

p sure they abandoned it, what was the mod about?

[pulsar steppe]

It was trying to bring ace combat into hoi4

[burnt vigil]

ah, yea i'd assume nobody was working on it

[pulsar steppe]

😭 Bruh

Sucked to i got all hyped since the hoi4 yt channel posted it on their shorts and i love ace combat...

[burnt vigil]

you play ac7 through steam by chance?

i hacve issues with it working for me

[pulsar steppe]

Yea

[pulsar steppe]

most problems in steam get fixed via verifying the fies so give that a try

[burnt vigil]

i have, idk it might work now been a couple weeks

but i wanna get my mod working first before i play any other games

[pulsar steppe]

fair

still sad i cannot nuke belka 60 times 😭

https://tenor.com/view/maçavras1-gif-16101498646883457546

[burnt vigil]

if I can get my mod working, i'll let you be the first one to nuke the Iberian Peninsula in its entirety

[pulsar steppe]

lol

[burnt vigil]

being so deadass

that's m whole mod, it's js the spanish civil war

[pulsar steppe]

I love messing around in single player vs the ai

[burnt vigil]

it's meant to be semi-short, just because why not, smth to get back into modding that isn't horribly overhaulish

[pulsar steppe]

crazy

[burnt vigil]

but ofc, nothing good can happen when you try do smth easier than making a whole custom map based off smth else like MLP or AC

i've had so many problems making this mod it might be easier to start from scratch, but genuinely that'd kill me

[pulsar steppe]

Anyways i must go now bye bye

[gleaming salmon]

actually! It’s still in development! I know a dude who’s a playtester for the mod and I’m also in the server.

[burnt vigil]

Really?

Nice!

[gleaming salmon]

Yeah!

oh while I’m here

playing TFR as the unionists

uhm

there’s more than 5 infantry there

let me check in the TFR server actually

[burnt vigil]

Put them all on one tile

Its prolly bc state name

[warm thicket]

Hi, John Blitzkrieg here. We're recruiting Developers and GFX Artists for our mod, Blitzkrieg (kind of a given). If you're interested in the mod but don't have the coding or graphic design skills, I still strongly encourage you to join us.

Mandatory Lore Section

As the Schlieffen-Moltke-Plan succeeded and the Russian Front collapsed, Germany's continental hegemony seems all but guaranteed, and the Prussian Eagle spreads its wings over Europe. However, a thorn hinders the Eagle's flight: Great Britain. By 1916, a new war had erupted - and this one won't be won with Iron or Blood. What will come of the clash between the two empires? That remains to be seen.

If anybody is interested, feel free to DM me.

[wild pawn]

hi, is there a solution to the problem?

[pale sparrow]

Havent had time to check but its on my TODO list

[wild pawn]

thanks

[drowsy oyster]

No... I forgot how to add it back

[rare grove]

omg why doesnt hoi4 just add something for getting back stranded divisions

or just remve all of them and give back the manpower and equipment to the player

need to add some shit for russian millitary acess in wallachia & moldavia now

[tall hare]

Would be usefull

[round basin]

if this is SP and you dont have IM on, you can cheat with tp and right-click your units to get them back to the closest tile to the border

[rare grove]

ill just make so russia has mil access in wallachia & moldavia

france pushed into belgium rhine too early tbh

[burnt vigil]

isn't this the Napoleonic era?

like 1793 was the 1st coalition

so that'd be the 1st republic, yea, then around 1796 iirc they crowned Napoleon the Imperator of the French Empire

why, oh why, do the Clausewitz gods hate me

how am I supposed to fix weather_rain_light if idk why it's bad

[tall hare]

Astram! Give me ideas for division templates for Mittel Afrika and French commune

[burnt vigil]

do you have any custom disivions like light infantry, or is it all vanilla?

if vanilla, do a 5 infantry battalion with engineers and support arty

then a 2 mot and 4 cav with the same support companies for a motorized division

[tall hare]

Atm vanilla

I need like 4

4 each

[burnt vigil]

i'm thinking hollon

2lt + 3 mot for a tank div, and use irregulars like the italians have

and for france, his their historical colonial, tank, motorized, and cav divisions

[raw delta]

If there is a mod that deletes unnecessary countries to increase FPS for vanilla, can you send the link?

[burnt vigil]

most countries in hoi4 exist for a reason

[oak pivot]

Is this like regular code for a mod?

[raw delta]

like bhutan nepal oman

[burnt vigil]

if you really care about the lag, play TFB (Their Finest Bruh), it removes any nation that wasn't actually historically relevent to the sino-japanese and pacific, or the european theater(s)

[raw delta]

but i want play vanilla focus tree

[burnt vigil]

then remove the modded focus tree's? it's as easy as deleting the folder "National_focus" and removing the replace_path="common/national_focus" line from the descriptor.mod

[raw delta]

thanks

[burnt vigil]

you might need to change a few of the focus tree's

to get rid of the broken content from missing tags

[burnt vigil]

down to 313 lines in my error.log

i might be able to finish getting this mod in a playable state before xmas

[burnt vigil]

[16:22:28][no_game_date][map.cpp:1877]: Map invalid X crossing. Please fix pixels at coords: 3839,2269

is this like, a fatal error that could be the root of my problem?

bc the meta.yml says that achievement.txt at line 1 is the problem when it's got no content to it

[tall hare]

Astram! Give me a nice name for the German alliance

[burnt vigil]

Who's in it

Other than Germany

[tall hare]

Their puppets

MittelAfrika

Belgium

Bohemia

Maybe someone else

But yeah

Mostly Germany

Bulgaria

[burnt vigil]

Großbundsystem, or Kaiserbund

[tall hare]

Thank you astram ♥️

[burnt vigil]

Np

Gets me oita fixing my mod

[tall hare]

There will be a French commune faction, German faction, French exiled faction, Russian Faction, Uk faction

Many factions 😮

[tall hare]

Astram give me a nice name for the communes faction

[burnt vigil]

the Paris Accords?

[tall hare]

Hmm

Sure

Thank you Astram ♥️

Got any ideas on who can be in the french exiled faction, so far France and Papal states 🙂

[burnt vigil]

france, the papacy, what is going on with the UK?

[tall hare]

Uk is prob gonna have their own called imperial commonwealth

[burnt vigil]

alr so have france, the papal states, Egypt, and Portugal

i need map help 😭

[burnt vigil]

nevermind, i think it's just the code that's the problem now

[burnt vigil]

and just like that, i have hit 0 errors and still crashing, so i've now gotta fix the other error log

[rare grove]

that was 1804 yeah thats the napoleonic wars mod 1789-1836

[burnt vigil]

mb, i was off 8 years

[burnt vigil]

how does this have a problem?

from achievements.txt in my mod, compared to the meta.yml issue

[sweet trellis]

Gang ever since the Microsoft 10 back out, they forced me to restart my computer and all my files are gone bro. I was modding a “Romanticized History,” where it followed an alternative storyline with its own lore and I put in a lot of code already. I can’t download notepad or anything since I’m stuck on windows 10. Am I cooked?

I tried everything I could think of but I think it’s beyond salvageable.

It is my first ever coding project too

So it likely wouldn’t have functioned right, but I still want it back

[burnt vigil]

why would win10 give you errors?

i have win10p cause i can't upgrade to win11, but if you check your onedrive it might be in there

i have just wasted like, almost a week of work

when my issues were self-inflicted

[sweet trellis]

Mine is 2 months worth. But I had to delete and refresh everything because my computer insisted to the point where I couldn’t press later

This some bull

Can’t even try something new without a hater coming in.

[burnt vigil]

who's hating on ya?

[chilly gyro]

Does anyone know who made this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371629154 ?

[nimble solar]

Error

[chilly gyro]

I know the url doesn't work, but I used to know the mod as something like "OP modules"

It was made with No Step Back and Man the Guns in mind

[nimble solar]

No idea

Never heard of it

[chilly gyro]

Well, I've been trying to revive it. But using the tools the official Hoi youtube channel suggested, I've got it all squared away in the background however the modules won't show in-game.

Like I had errors of unexpected tokens or such and have squared that away, but like I said, they won't show in in-game designers.

[slender mason]

how do i place units around and delete units for my mod (make kazakhstan have units, remove russian units IN kazakhstan)

[icy fable]

https://youtu.be/yE8vlZCgQdo?si=zYkUb8RZMm5gvHug

[tall hare]

Thanks Astram ♥️

[uncut grove]

how do i change leader icons

[burnt vigil]

Like changing hitlers portrait to smth different (as for anyone else)

Thats in
root/gfx/leaders iirc

[void pivot]

Since it doesn't seem to exist i thought i would ask here, is there any way i could make a mod that puts any kind of tank (light/medium/heavy) in one battalion type or division? I just want to use whatever i am making as one generic tank template as opposeds to having to make different types and switch templates erc

[tall hare]

Maybe spain too

[burnt vigil]

yea, spain works with them too

shld have a spanish civil war between the Communists and the Democratic supporters of spin

anyways i got motivation to work on my mod again, so i hope i can figure it out

[tall hare]

Spanish civil war right?

Your mod

[burnt vigil]

Yea

I can give you tips/historical figures relevant if you want

[tall hare]

Yeah sure sure, everything helps

Hope you get your mod to work too 🙂

[burnt vigil]

I hope so too, because im gonna go straight for it and do almost everything in one go before I test it

[sleek plume]

hey any mods with good anarchist rep? other than like tno/kaiserredux/cwror/tfr and whatnot ig

[burnt vigil]

I'd reccomend uploading it to steam or PDX mods

Simply because in my experiences with people sending files/folders, it can often times have some form of malware, and if you dont and you post the mod somewhere we can download that isnt ine of those 2, means someone could just steal it and take all the credit

[jovial light]

Add this mod to Hoi4

[burnt vigil]

This doesnt help your case

[haughty onyx]

rhere too

thats a virus!

[burnt vigil]

Especially when you didnt describe the mod but you want us to play it, what if we dont actually like the kind of mod it is

[burnt vigil]

Oh for sure

[haughty onyx]

its a virus!

ping the mods

[burnt vigil]

<@&846894118219022336> could someone deal with this?

[burnt vigil]

Why wouldnt you have js done it instead of instantly going "its a virus"

I explained why he should, he didnt, thus it has to be one

[haughty onyx]

i already pinged the mods in #hoi4-general

and didn't want to wait for the mods to come in and delete it

because you looked like you were about to try the mod out

[jovial light]

Mod in hoi4 here

[haughty onyx]

this does NOT look fun

[feral bear]

Upload it yourself

[burnt vigil]

Honestly, no it doesnt, USSR is way too powerful

Now if it was 1984, that'd be fun because its more balanced towards all nations

[haughty onyx]

its not 1984 tho

[tall hare]

what year

[haughty onyx]

no clue

[tall hare]

cold war prob

[haughty onyx]

we figured out its just a really botched ethnic map

[tall hare]

west and east germany

[haughty onyx]

its just a botched ethnic map

[tall hare]

🤷‍♂️

[haughty onyx]

its just an excuse to make a virus and send it to people

[tall hare]

a virus?

[tall hare]

You got a mod?

[haughty onyx]

nope

basically

someone made a virus

disguised it as a mod

and sent it here

[tall hare]

I see

[haughty onyx]

along with that map

and we were all laughing at how bad that map would be

[tall hare]

Well I see

rn I am working on something annoying

Mittel Afrikas divisions

[tall hare]

How do template modding work?

[gentle stag]

does anyone have any experience with USA modding? I made two events in hoi4 after making a focus tree and ideas and all of a sudden it won't do elections.
[no_game_date][onaction.cpp:58]: Random Event 30100012 in on_action on_new_term_election is not a valid event.

Really lost as to why this problem started occuring

[open birch]

can i somehow change my countries color with a national focus somehow?

i wanna add it to base game but idk where to look for the code

[dense talon]

anyone know how to add custom music to the game?

[unreal sorrel]

Cosmetic tag

[open birch]

yeah but how can i do it without console

i wanna have it linked directly to a national focus in tree

[tall hare]

@burnt vigil Do you know why my mittel europa cant use military factories?

Ay nvm I fixed it

new problem though

why my template wont show

[burnt vigil]

don't know for that

[tall hare]

Also

boss

your mod

have you remade the map

to only be spain

[burnt vigil]

yea

with parts of france and africa

[tall hare]

Holy tuff

[burnt vigil]

not really

this has been hell

last night i barely slept bc i was paranoid about what could be wrong, but i'm getting fartehr in fixing it

[tall hare]

Nice

I like it more to keep base game map

and just change provinces and states

[burnt vigil]

valid

the base map is good, but can be limiting

[tall hare]

Yeah for sure

My germany look like Nazi germany 😭

[burnt vigil]

it's hard not to do it

nazi germany is just a blob after all

[tall hare]

yeah

• its like

old claims too

[burnt vigil]

for the most part, yea

even if they are illegitimate too

[tall hare]

Why wouldnt they take Austria 😭

[burnt vigil]

they could, germany has held claim to invade and annex austria for a long time

[tall hare]

and then its just molotov Ribbentrop

lmao

bohemia is also being a puppet

Right and I also made Mittel Afrika core everything

My bad

[burnt vigil]

back during the 1800's germany (then known as the German Confederation) was made of germany, plus austria and bohemia

[tall hare]

mhm

[burnt vigil]

as well as luxembourg, so it is totally fair that the germans could claim that austria is rightfully allowed to join them willingly on the basis of uniting the old german confederation, ofc that's illegal in both nations and the process to change and preform such an act would be more than it's worth

[tall hare]

I have to uncore mittelafrika

but which countries do you think they should core

[burnt vigil]

gfermany or africa?

[tall hare]

Africa

[burnt vigil]

idk ngl

[tall hare]

I am thinking

[burnt vigil]

also for mittelafrika, make some city ports that germany owns

[tall hare]

Yeah I will

When I removed soviet tag thats just 4500 errors

😭

[burnt vigil]

claim south africa and parts of italian-east africa lands

[tall hare]

I SOLVED IT

The division template stuff

[burnt vigil]

and most of them are because SOV is used in some code or another

[tall hare]

Yess

[burnt vigil]

i might need your help making the code for my div templates

[tall hare]

it was very simple 😭

A small small line

I can help

[burnt vigil]

yh, i'll lyk when i get to it, cause eventually i have to run out of causes for the mod to stop working as i fix more things

[tall hare]

yeah just dm or ping me 🙂

[tall hare]

I split up Mittel Afrika

made them core barley nothing

[burnt vigil]

give them the old german colonies as cores

and the rest of it they have to core

[sleek plume]

is there any good anarchist mods :3

[burnt vigil]

doubt it

[sleek plume]

sad

i try tno

sba is fine ig

but it's t*o

tfr?

it's tfr

idk I wish i could just have a vanilla-esque mod that has an actual good anarchist nation and not spain and ethiopia

cause the issue with spain is

civil war sucks

after civil war

sucks

cause they had to make the country somewhat historically accurate and make it so your country is shattered by it

and big ass debuff

take portugal

and after all that you're a minor nation and you don't even have any weak neighbors to take anymore

[burnt vigil]

well you'd hate and love my mod

[sleek plume]

ethiopia sucks because it starts as a weak nation

italy is hard to beat as ethiopia

and after?

uk and france own most of africa

and they had your whole war to build up industry and they're both majors

so vanilla anarchist rep kinda sucks

the only thing wrong with sba is that first of all, manpower, second of all, it's economy sucks early, third of all, it's tno, and like

i don't think they like anarchy by the way it's written 😔

tfr is somewhat decent but it's mainly limited by the fact that there's only a few major wars cause it's railroaded mod and i don't know how to play hoi4 well in general anyways

[burnt vigil]

@sleek plume you'd love my anarchist nations, but you'd also HATE it

[sleek plume]

cwror is bad because it's cwror (grr why did you mess with the infantry base now there's no heavy machine guns)

[sleek plume]

wat is this

[burnt vigil]

spain

that's my whole map too

[sleek plume]

soo like

anything different about it?

[burnt vigil]

well, it's gonna be a more indepth focus on history but also alt-paths

[sleek plume]

I kind of want a mod with an anarchist nation that's good but I don't want it to be set in the regular timeline for hoi4, like somewhere past that tbh

[rare grove]

Im startingeventmaxxing

[sleek plume]

and tbh it would be peak if there were like events or whatever where the anarchists interact with statists or representatives of said nation-state and just like. interacted

[burnt vigil]

@rare grove could I bother you to rq go over my mods error.log to help me figure out what's going on with it and possibly where to fix?

[sleek plume]

like diplomacy and shit

[rare grove]

sure

[rare grove]

type the errors list

[sleek plume]

based

heyy :3

[rare grove]

yo

[sleek plume]

do you guys ever like go over the national assembly

[sleek plume]

like pierre-joseph proudhon and all them mfs

[burnt vigil]

it's way shorter than it was yesterday, that's fs

[rare grove]

partly

[burnt vigil]

this also goes for anyone who might know

[tall hare]

I am gonna make it so they can core more and more through out the game

[burnt vigil]

here's an updated one for testing, just now idk what it could be, and idk how to fix the building templates

only 84 lines this time

[tall hare]

Tuff

[slender mason]

how do i create a civil war based on an event?

[burnt vigil]

use the dynamic tags from common/country_tags

only time you wouldn't, is if it's a unique tag

like POL civil war against GER, you'd use poland tag or wtvr, instead of DXX

[tall hare]

thomorrow I start doing focus trees 🙂

[burnt vigil]

good luck

you'll need it

Name your focus GFX while you do iy too

So that you have them taken care of for when you make the icons

[eternal crater]

Hey is there any mod that records the gameplay with just the divisions simbols, like in those timelapses yt shorts?

[rare grove]

did you do replace path?

[burnt vigil]

Yes, but now that you mention it i should double check to make sure they all are valid and all that i need are there

[burnt vigil]

I jut dony wanna get up, this couch is feeling real couchy rn

[rare grove]

i dont know enough about replace path i tried doing it myself and there was 585375 erorrs

only thing i replaced was the events files

[burnt vigil]

Ouch

I have 84 probably fatal errors

Most of them are bc tags dont exist but they should

The rest are bc stuff is missing

[tall hare]

Wdym

Also is focus trees hard or annoying to make

[burnt vigil]

just annoying

[burnt vigil]

like, focus icons, if you plan to make new ones give them names before you make them

so that you can go back and look at the ones without icons and just do those

LETS GOOO

i am the best

i really am the best, just gotta fix the map itself, but that can be done pretty easy by making a land state across the edge of the map

[burnt vigil]

@tall hare the mod is gonna happen, how's your going

[sour hamlet]

is there a mod that renames each of the countries to their official name? like "german reich" -> "third reich" and etc. or do i have to learn to make one

[burnt vigil]

you would probably need to make one, but they aren't hard to make for smth like that

it's just changing names in root/localisation/countries_l_english.yml

[sour hamlet]

yeah i assumed so and I got decent progress (aka just germany) already but idk if its working yet and idk how to make it work

[burnt vigil]

for that, idk exactly how to do

[sour hamlet]

got notepad++ and everything

[burnt vigil]

i'm slowly owning my way through making my mod work like such as

[sour hamlet]

whats the goal, is it just iberia?

[burnt vigil]

yea

it's just a super detailed spanish civil war

[sour hamlet]

id like to make a bigger mod that models borders based on ethno-nationalities but idk how id do that yet, ive made a map of europe on a primitive editing website and europe and most of asia on ibispaint but thats about all i can do

[burnt vigil]

well if you would be interested, i could always use help making my mod when you have time

[sour hamlet]

idk what i could do to help, my screenshot from above was just about the only mod i ever sat down to try to make progress on and it doesnt seem to be working yet

but if i could learn while helping thatd be a win-win

[burnt vigil]

the offer is open, and i could teach you stuff about making focus tree's and such if you would like

[sour hamlet]

i gotcha, i should have time tomorrow thru tuesday

[burnt vigil]

that works, i should have most the basic outline for my mod done by then

[somber swan]

Is there a mod that allows for the sale of ships on the international market?

[burnt vigil]

no, but you can't really do that alr

you can't sell deployed units/wings/vessels, though i wish there was

portgual rough shape

[sour hamlet]

what are the states gonna be based on, do you know

[burnt vigil]

irl regions inside of the states for that era

so like, Aragon will be a strategic region, and the states inside will be the territories of it

[sour hamlet]

so basically the subdivisions?
and will you be including andorra and breakaway countries like galicia and catalonia as well?

[burnt vigil]

yea

[sour hamlet]

id also recommend for catalonia to breakaway and be able to gain cores in castellon, alicante, and valencia due to catalan majority, if that isnt already your plan

[burnt vigil]

im prolly gonna make the mod happen just before the Rif War, so that the player has time to get used to the huge map and able to make sense of the divisions

plus to make the content last longer than 3 years

[sour hamlet]

so '27?

wait thats the end date

'20

[burnt vigil]

i'm thinking 1920 yea

1920 - 1939

[sour hamlet]

understandable

[burnt vigil]

19 years, but i'll prolly have the first release be the civil war only, just to make life easier to start

[sour hamlet]

will you have two start dates? might be simple

[burnt vigil]

yea, like TGWR

[sour hamlet]

gotcha

[burnt vigil]

one to build up, and one for right before the main point of the mod

[sour hamlet]

makes sense

[burnt vigil]

ofc, unlike TGWR it's not the most valuable to do stuff even though it's gonna be important

[sour hamlet]

yeah

[burnt vigil]

and to prevent people not doing stuff, ima bring US content in

by the mechanic of X happens if you do/don't build in Y province before a timer ends

[sour hamlet]

that could work

[burnt vigil]

it is just to force the player to develop all of spain, not the specific region they're playing as

[sour hamlet]

and i assume youll include france and morroco

[burnt vigil]

yea

France and French Africa will be the "League of Nations"

[sour hamlet]

what do you mean

[burnt vigil]

since that's what it is in the end, so it makes complete sense to have them

[burnt vigil]

that's what the country will be called

since this is all gonna happen before 1940 i can avoid making Germany, Italy, or France, especially since it's just France on the map itself

[sour hamlet]

will you add foreign events that affect spain? and, how will you manage the colonies outside of the map?

[burnt vigil]

colonies outside were historically determined to be controlled by the nationalist armies of the African Army, so it'll be mostly untouched content wise, but for the international events, it'll be just normal events and decisions that control things like germany and italy sending volunteers, and the IVF appearing in the Republican Spain, as well as the soviet backed communists

[sour hamlet]

how will you manage the ai of countries that don't technically exist on the map?

[burnt vigil]

if they are not in this list, they will not have mention or a reference to them in the code unless it's still like the 1936 olympics talking about Japan and whatnot, as for these nations, their significance will be portrayed as locked divisions and/or manpower/equipment depending on their historical contributions

as for people who didn't exist in spain, like Napoleon Bonapart the 6th, they will have the chance to request equipment and manpower from the League of Nations, and also have a passive manpower buff of 800 a week to represent people signing up to join their cause from other spanish civil war members

[obtuse wolf]

hey i need help with a loading screen. what can i do to improve this so this screen in general doesnt look out of place (ignore quotes)

any advice is helpful

[burnt vigil]

ngl, it looks great

keep it as it is, it fits the newer hoi4 art style that we are getting with these new DLC's

[obtuse wolf]

okay thanks

[obtuse wolf]

states are going to be hell

good luck 🫡

[sour hamlet]

fr

[obtuse wolf]

me 0.0001% of map

[sour hamlet]

what are you making?

[obtuse wolf]

punic wars

[sour hamlet]

which ones

[obtuse wolf]

2nd

[sour hamlet]

sounds interesting

[burnt vigil]

It won't be that bad

Im just doing strategic regions for the time being

[sour hamlet]

well ill think up some ideas that might be useful, one last thing though would be to maybe make it possible to fragment iberia into various kingdoms

[burnt vigil]

Thats the plan

[obtuse wolf]

maybe yeah

are you doing a specific time period

[burnt vigil]

1920 - 1939

[obtuse wolf]

oh cool

[burnt vigil]

Rif war to the end of the Spanish Civil war

[obtuse wolf]

super big map

cant wait to play it

[burnt vigil]

Im excited to get it kicked into gear

[obtuse wolf]

hardest part for me when state and region making is debugging

and time consuming part of copying and pasting text files 24/7

[burnt vigil]

Im using nudge

Iys not yhat hard ngl

[obtuse wolf]

my nudge is glitching 24/7

[burnt vigil]

A bag of weed helps tons

[burnt vigil]

Check in documents/pdx/hoi4

[obtuse wolf]

my hoi4 files literally broke too for some reason and i had to reinstall hoi4 delete everything in my steam files

[sour hamlet]

do you have a taglist for the nations, or just a nation list?

[obtuse wolf]

never mod on a macbook

[burnt vigil]

had one, i've gotta rewrite a bunch of it bc of how the mod is gonna be compared to what i planned

it's gonna be a lot more

[obtuse wolf]

for my loading screens should i just use ai or grab loading screens from imperator or something else

[burnt vigil]

potentially both?

[obtuse wolf]

ai is hit or miss

[sour hamlet]

are you using ai as a base and then touching up from there?

[obtuse wolf]

yeah

[burnt vigil]

i hate to say this, but i think the clanker cooked

[sour hamlet]

fair enough

[sour hamlet]

agreed

[obtuse wolf]

clanker did not cook on 1st image

meh

ai going to take up digital artist jobs

[sour hamlet]

i could prolly compile a list based on those plans

[tall hare]

Its going okay tbh

[stable merlin]

hey is there anyone online. i need help with my mod. i am trying to follow the video but to edit the mod it only opens a word doc. is there something else i need to use or will typing a word dock work. i feel like i am mission somethin

[shut dawn]

You should get notepad++ and use that to open the file

[tall hare]

VSC better

[stable merlin]

so which one then

vsc or notpad

[shut dawn]

VSC’s definitely better, but it can be a bit much for beginners.

[stable merlin]

i just want to make this mod but i got stuck.

[shut dawn]

Yeah, maybe start with notepad++

[stable merlin]

i am watching the beginners guide and got stuck on opening mod

[shut dawn]

There wasn’t anything in the guide or description saying what tools you’d need?

[stable merlin]

so if i write in the notebook it will transfer over to the mod

[shut dawn]

Notepad is a program used for editing text files. You can use it to edit .mod files. So long as you save the file, the changes you make should be there

[stable merlin]

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxOK-ir23HzwxJv6QfnZXbmRPeyBhuMDDz?si=1tUoyJgtaMdINx7a

[stable merlin]

oh ok

[stable merlin]

I cant do this and work. Maybe I should pay someone 100 usd to build most of it

[stable merlin]

Ya no my brains fried and i work another 10 hour shift. Who wants to be commissioned. Price can be negotiated

[haughty onyx]

miss

but only because it gets some things wrong

i would blur the Spartans a little and also I would touch up the thing on top of the elephant

[tall hare]

What mod are you making?

[haughty onyx]

i would love to have a mod filled will all my good ideas

I suck at coding tho...

[tall hare]

I see

What ideas you got?

[haughty onyx]

im not @stable merlin tho...

but i do got a bunch of cool game ideas

@tall hare dm me!

[tall hare]

Yeah I know

Atm I am working on my own mod though

[shut dawn]

Sucking at something is the first step to being good at something. My first focus tree was straight up dookie. I’d suggest giving the modding wiki a try sometime and starting small.

[tall hare]

I am gonna start my first focus tree 👍

[shut dawn]

Good luck

[stable merlin]

I was making a alternative world with completely new countries

I have flags being made by a friend and some focus tree outlines

[tall hare]

Thats not really my strong point tbh

[stable merlin]

Would love to hear your ideas

[shut dawn]

Yeah, that’s the kind of thing a lot of fellas try to do in their first go and get burnt out. Maybe doing it one step at a time might help. Like start by just trying to get the countries on the map, then the other tweaks you need to do to the world, then the trees

[tall hare]

Is this tuff?

[stable merlin]

I cant past setting it up. And I got work. Thats why I am just gonna see if I can commission someone to set it up for me and show me how to finish it. Just need the general stuff pre-made.

[shut dawn]

Reading the wiki might help. You don’t gotta make a mod overnight after all. Plus, sometimes taking a break and coming back to something helps you figure out what you’re missing

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding

[sleek plume]

Tbh Idkk If I wanna mod, I feel like coding and shit is smth that It would need an essay to learn with and I'd get bored and just forget about it in a week 😭 but like I want content and no one else is making the content I want so I wanna make it myself frfr (I wish there was like ww1 mod with the black army and the red/white army fighting while the germans invade from the west and it would be peak just trying to win as your favored faction or just playing germany and being an opportunist and seizing as much land as you can from the crumbling russian empire while you try to fight off britian and france while the usa is debating on whether or not they should join the war)

[tall hare]

The mod I am making is if Germany and Russia won ww1

@burnt vigil I am gonna try the focus trees, give me some tips

[shut dawn]

One piece of advice I could give is to plot out the tree using something like draw.io or even just MS paint. Saves a ton of time later on and helps prevent you making half a tree, realizing you don’t like some of these ideas as much as you thought, and having a bunch of wasted work

[tall hare]

I see

well

ty

[burnt vigil]

Either that, or PLAN (and I cannot stress enough the importance of only planning) out the focus tree using hoi4modding.com, its a shit website for actually making stuff but it can help you with getting the rough structure of the focus tree for you to then code in

[shut dawn]

Oh for sure. I use that to generate skeletons all the time. Never anything more than the skeleton though ‘cause like you said it’s trash for making a functioning tree

[burnt vigil]

Yea

Its also good for getting an idea for what focuses you want to have using vanilla and what ones you wanna use custom focus icons for

[shut dawn]

Never thought of using it that way since I just do stuff with Old World Blues, but that makes sense.

[austere wyvern]

On God, it's easier and faster and less buggy to do it directly in game

Just copy pasting focuses and changing the id and prerequisites is very chill

[burnt vigil]

Yea, but for the planning stage where you might wanna have a visual idea of what youre going to be doing, it makes total sense to use wtvr resource you find works best

I cant say im using it or anything, since rn my whole mod is having the time of its life taking up my hard drive space for today without any use

[tall hare]

Astram which focus tree should I start with do you think

[burnt vigil]

Germany

I would always start with your largest, most important nation

That way you can lock say, a focus behind a date or event

Then tie other focus trees into that

[tall hare]

How can I fix the background of focus tree to a country specific

[tall hare]

Why wont this focus work?

focus_tree = {
id = german_focus
country = {
base = 0
modifier = {
add = 10
tag = GER
}
}

focus = {
    id = GER_focus_status_of_nations
    icon = x
    cost = 10
    x = 1
    y = 0
    completion_reward = { 
        add_political_power = 50
        
    }
}

}

@burnt vigil do you know?

Astram 😭

[haughty onyx]

he be playin vic3

i think it might be because country might need to equal ger

although i have no coding experience

[tall hare]

it is Germany

[haughty onyx]

but common sense says

[haughty onyx]

ye but look

it says country = {

idk if it should or shouldn't be country = { GER

[tall hare]

I think its right

[haughty onyx]

idk but theres no point in not trying

[burnt vigil]

do you plan to have content locked behind DLC

or no

[tall hare]

I mean

maybe some?

you know

havent really thought of it

[burnt vigil]

focus_tree = {
id = german_focus

country = {
    factor = 0
    
    modifier = {
        add = 10
        tag = GER
    }
}

initial_show_position = {
    x = 76
    y = 0
}

here's vanilla

the initial show position doesn't need to exist

but the rest use to start your tree so it's confirmed to work for tag GER

[burnt vigil]

this is only used to show where you start in the focus tree, like where you are when you open it

without it will bring you to your last opened position iirc

[tall hare]

but I mean

one thing is that

focus = { the focus becomes red

[tall hare]

Game have started to crash now 😭

[burnt vigil]

make sure to have that extra } where it's needed to close it

[tall hare]

I have all of them

[tall hare]

Game crash now when I removed the German focus tree, any tips it crash after a day

Tell me how am I supposed to mod the German tree if the game crash when I remove it

😭

[burnt vigil]

what's your thing look like rn

[tall hare]

wdym

[burnt vigil]

your focus tree

[tall hare]

atm I am trying a bit of base game code

its just that

when I remove the full vanilla one