modding

[tall hare]

the game crash after 1 day

I get it to like work

just that it crash

😭

because I removed the vanilla tree

so yeah

very hard to make it

How am I supposed to do it

[burnt vigil]

idk ngl

i haven't done focus tree's in a long time

[tall hare]

Its like 3700 errors

[burnt vigil]

shi

i think i got smth like 5k errors bc of tags

[proven sage]

i can help when i can mod 🙂

[tall hare]

Yeah I need it 😭

When can you

[tall hare]

Dont know how I am supposed to do with focus when the whole game break after I remove the vanilla focus

[twin anchor]

Is it possible for a country to exist (doing focuses, decisions etc.) without owning/controlling any states or being in a faction?

[burnt vigil]

government in exile

you'd have to check ethiopia in 1939 start date to see how to do it

[tall hare]

Anyone know how to solve to remove German focus tree without game crashing?

Can it be the innercircle

[burnt vigil]

Doubt it, just incase try replace path "common/national_focus"

See what that does

Make sure yo copy all other focus tree's too though

Ornyou'll break it more

[median hemlock]

why cant steam just round up a tiny bit

[burnt vigil]

a quarter done

i'm about 4 or 5 states before I get half done

[pale sparrow]

It only rounds up once you got lots of reviews

It seems you need like 200-300 reviews to be able to get the fifth star, based on my own mods

[tall hare]

Yo marijn do you know how I can replace the German focus tree because when I try to remove it the whole game just crash

I have removed the German ideas too

Could it be the innercircle mechanic?

[pale sparrow]

Try overriding the-

exactly what I was thinking

should be easy to override

[tall hare]

hmmm

which files are those mechanics though?

[pale sparrow]

interface folder and common/focus_inlay_windows folder

[tall hare]

should I just delete all text in the innercircle files inside of interface?

[pale sparrow]

Worth a try

[tall hare]

Yeah well that didn't work 😭

Why wont it work 😭

I removed like everything

[tall hare]

@pale sparrow You got any other suggestions?

[pale sparrow]

Not gonna check right now because I have to do lots of mod updating to do today

Might be better to just make a second file and load that instead

works fine for Road to 56's old Germany tree

[tall hare]

Wait you still have the tag GER?

But make another focus tree

[pale sparrow]

Yeh

Just make the prio higher than the normal Germany tree, and if necessary, throw in an on action for game start which sometimes doesnt listen to prio

[tall hare]

That might work

😎

Do you use this method for all focus trees in Road to 56

[pale sparrow]

Nah we usually override the file or offer a choice between the two trees

[lilac canyon]

When MTG integrates to vanilla, does that mean I can delete the x variants of hulls?

[tall hare]

Yeah but Germany have many complex systems

I will try when I get home

But how is it I overwrite it with the weight thingy

[pale sparrow]

Just dont override the original germany file, but have the add value be higher in your tree

it might not always work on game start, if so use an on_action

[ornate herald]

i have a localisation file that says: [ l_english:
CAL_frank_merriam: "frank_merriam" ] yet it doesnt add the right name. how do i fix this?

[burnt vigil]

Isnt loc supposed to use = not :

Also you can have a space in loc names

[wise rampart]

could someone help me, please?

a friend wants to install a mod called millenium dawn

however, he tried to install it and a virus almost destroyed his pc

could someone tell me how he can install it?

[burnt vigil]

Uhh, how did he install it?

[wise rampart]

idk

didn’t ask him

like i just want a web for mods

[burnt vigil]

Just use steam?

[wise rampart]

umm

let’s say he can’t

[burnt vigil]

Ah, then he's piss outa luck for mods like that afaik

[wise rampart]

and i also found this website but can’t find any download button

https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/39915/Any

[burnt vigil]

Its the add button

[wise rampart]

clicked it but got no download

it just says subscribed to a mod

[burnt vigil]

Thats how its done

Bc you cant really use mods unless you painstakingly add them to your instance when you 🏴‍☠️ the mod

[wise rampart]

then what should we do

[obtuse wolf]

he can download from the actual paradox site

he wont get a virus from downloading steam lmao

and the steam workshop scans for viruses

if i were to put a virus in one of my mods i would 100% get banned and the mod would be removed from workshop

idk if paradox site scans for viruses though

👀

[tall hare]

It worked 😭

marjin you're the best ♥️

Just had to create a new one and make the value 50

nice

[bitter breach]

What Are some good Mods?

[tall hare]

How do I send an event through a focus?

[slim nest]

anyone know how to make millenium dawn not run miserably slow

every other mod like TNO and iron curtain run perfectly fine

is there any sort of mod that can make the game run better in general

[tall hare]

@burnt vigil Do you know how I can send my event? Through focus

focus = {
id = GER_focus_status_of_nations
icon = x
cost = 0
x = 3
y = 0

        available = {
    tag = GER
}
completion_reward = {
    country_event = { id = GER_status.1 days = 1 }
}
}

country_event = {
id = GER_status.1
title = GER_status.1.t
desc = GER_status.1.d
picture = GFX_report_event_world_news

is_triggered_only = yes

option = {
    name = GER_status.1.a
    add_political_power = 50

}

}

My focus and my event 🙂

[burnt vigil]

Not really, I dont know how to do focuses that well

[tall hare]

Yeah no problem 🙂

I will hopefully solve it

I already dislike making focuses 😭

[burnt vigil]

Yh it sucks

Also you can learn the way pdx makes focuses by using the vanilla code as a reference

[tall hare]

pdx?

paradox?

I know

its just I cant think of any focus that trigger a event for the country itself 😭

[burnt vigil]

Germany sudeten land

It gives France an event

[tall hare]

I need like Germany to get the event though

[burnt vigil]

edit the code to be your event, and towards the tag you want

[tall hare]

ok

[burnt vigil]

state progress so far

it's looking a lot better as i fill it in

[tall hare]

Tuff

I am gonna crash out

why wont it work 😭

[obtuse wolf]

for italy i made all of the provinces as states then for the rest im making it all legitimate states

[tall hare]

Do you know how to make a event send after a focus is complete?

[burnt vigil]

i'm sorta doing that

each state is one of the spanish states

[obtuse wolf]

no idea

[tall hare]

😭

MARIJIN

[burnt vigil]

and ones like Cordoba or other large states/broken up states, i'm gonna split up

[obtuse wolf]

check the danzig focus thing

im pretty sure they have exactly that

or anschless focus

[obtuse wolf]

is what i mean

[tall hare]

what does

custom_effect_tooltip

mean

[obtuse wolf]

custom message

on tooltip

[tall hare]

I am about to lose it I cant get why my code wont work

[obtuse wolf]

so like:

basic_tooltip_label_tt:0 "My custom tooltip"
in the focus id have

custom_effect_tooltip = basic_tooltip_label_tt

[tall hare]

I see

[obtuse wolf]

you can also add colors

so like basic_tooltip_label_tt:0 "My §Rcustom tooltip§"

did u find the anschless thing

[tall hare]

Yeah but cant understand really

[burnt vigil]

man i'm getting really close to done now

2/3 done spain

[burnt vigil]

yh, mine is just one layer of detail lower than yours

my states are the real states, and the strat regions are the regions of spain, Andalusia and such

[ornate herald]

im really new to hoi4 modding and i just cant seem to get the name to work, does anyone know how to fix it?

[pale sparrow]

Theres an i in that filename instead of an l

[ornate herald]

oh my god...

how did i not see that...

all that suffering...

thx

[pale sparrow]

🫡

[burnt vigil]

man that is something

[burnt vigil]

nice

[tall hare]

Marjin why wont my event focus work 🙁

[burnt vigil]

all that's left

but it's the most complex piece ofc

[tall hare]

I fixed it 🙂

[tall hare]

More progress ♥️

@burnt vigil This is starting to become tuff

[burnt vigil]

Yea i feel that

[molten pike]

Anybody have a good Cold War mod where the UI isnt horrible

[burnt vigil]

no

those don't exist

@tall hare need an idea since my guy i run ideas through is sleeping

how does having the ability to have a modifier "Legacy of the Inquisition" for the bourbonists if they can beat the other monarchist rebels of the Carlists

[obtuse wolf]

honestly im working through my stuff now and

should i just make all states based on irl provinces instead of states

and i need ideas on how to redesign this screen if you have any lmk (i can redesign any uis, etc)

[burnt vigil]

have you played imperator: Rome

another great Paradox Interactive experience

[obtuse wolf]

nope im waiting until it goes on discount

ive played ck3 and victoria 3

[burnt vigil]

base it off the states from that

[obtuse wolf]

also do you know how to fix this?
theres like a tiny dot near the image above and i cant find out whats causing the line

i tried resizing the dds

[burnt vigil]

idk honestly

[obtuse wolf]

still didnt work and its not something from photoshop

[burnt vigil]

that's weird

[obtuse wolf]

i think im going to make the mod title brighter anyway since u can barely see it

made it blend in with the stone

nah looks too weird

[burnt vigil]

yh, but yea you should base the states off the states from rome

[obtuse wolf]

will check imperator rome out

im honestly surprised hoi4 doesnt have a rome mod

[burnt vigil]

i was gonna make one

but i ended up scrapping it as a waste of my time at the moment i was working on it

[obtuse wolf]

yea fr

i started working on this mod last week

and this is taking so much time to make

[burnt vigil]

yea

what does the full map look like

[obtuse wolf]

it goes all the way to asia

[burnt vigil]

from europe to china kinda thing?

[obtuse wolf]

yea

hold on

i am not making the provinces for the rest

i am just going to group it under unclaimed land

sort of like what old world blues does

[burnt vigil]

ah

[obtuse wolf]

because i am too lazy

[burnt vigil]

cause ik historically the romans had trade all the way to china

[obtuse wolf]

making state map for whole map would take

a while

[burnt vigil]

yea

[obtuse wolf]

keeps glitching too

whenever i try to validate state files it is buggy

and just crashes

crashlogs have nothing to do with map which is why im so confused

[burnt vigil]

my issue is i need to fix my buildings.txt but it takes a while (i also wanna get everything else done first)

[obtuse wolf]

i suspect its my buildings.txt file too

my 2nd issue is just exporting .mesh files to game

but thats as hard as it gets for now

[obtuse wolf]

then again the map is a free resource. tbh im just thinking of not using it at all and just making it from scratch

@burnt vigil what do you think?

mapgen would be painful especially since its now old

[burnt vigil]

yh, i might have a 1.10 map resource that just needs a few fixes

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2386178767

if you would prefer this one over what you've got done, which is actually tons

[obtuse wolf]

will check it out

Is it possible to remove the infinite map scrolling from left to right?

like does hoi4 allow us to edit lua defines

[limpid mica]

anyone else getting an crash upon boot with KX + KR Music

[pale sparrow]

Yes

Check how Road to 56 does it if the wiki doesnt explain it

[tall hare]

Cool

[tall hare]

All roads lead to road to 56

That sounded wierd

😭

I got the event to work though so thanks

[pale sparrow]

Epic

[dusty linden]

All roads lead to 56

[tall hare]

Yeah

[tall hare]

Give me some feedback 🙂

[viscid spire]

Hi, I'm having an issue with the division icons? I noticed it while playing a mod that the custom icons weren't showing up but then when I went completely vanilla hoi4, the same icons were present but the other vanilla icons weren't. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, verifiying the files and even adding new icons to the base hoi4 icon files but nothing changes.

[obtuse wolf]

i like it but if i were you id

upgrade the map

[tall hare]

Wdym

[obtuse wolf]

like change the colormap of it

reflective water, etc

[tall hare]

How?

[obtuse wolf]

change the font

[tall hare]

Because I am making like a world map

But europe is done tbh

[obtuse wolf]

what font do you like

choose a font you like

[tall hare]

Uh idk

What do you think would fit

Its if Russia and Germany won ww1 btw

[obtuse wolf]

Hmmm

do you like neon fonts that glow?

or bold fonts?

[tall hare]

Bold tbh

[obtuse wolf]

what do you think about this font

ok my best suggestion is

find a font you like, use google docs or word or photoshop

[tall hare]

Yeah look cool

[obtuse wolf]

then you will create a bitmap of it

[tall hare]

I like that one

[obtuse wolf]

okay

i can send you the font files over dms

if you want

[tall hare]

I havent done this type of modding before

Yeah pls do 🙂

[obtuse wolf]

font modding is easy

[tall hare]

But is like map visuals so in general?

[tall hare]

@burnt vigil Is this better?

[obtuse wolf]

@tall hare does this look weird

[tall hare]

Nah not really

[obtuse wolf]

for the mod's logo when they boot up in the game

ok

[obtuse wolf]

does the logo on the left look low quality

[solemn pewter]

It looks

Too high quality

[obtuse wolf]

delete it?

[solemn pewter]

Eh

Nah

It's fine I guess

[swift dove]

i like this map

[swift dove]

what mod is this?

[tall hare]

My own mod, If Germany and Russia won ww1

[obtuse wolf]

Which image do you guys prefer?

[tall hare]

You made that image?

[obtuse wolf]

It's a loading screen for one of my mods

[tall hare]

Yeah

But did you make it

Like draw it

[obtuse wolf]

AI edited

No

[tall hare]

I see

[tall hare]

Use first in the winter second in summer

[obtuse wolf]

The intellectual property belongs to me according to the website's TOS though

[obtuse wolf]

Wdym

[tall hare]

use the first of them when its winter outside and second when its summer

🙂

[obtuse wolf]

I can't do that for loading screens I can only show a variety

Oh

Like irl?

[tall hare]

Yeah

😎

[obtuse wolf]

Oh, true

[tall hare]

How do I get ideas for focus trees 😯

I am so out of ideas for them

[obtuse wolf]

I just model them off of irl

For the mod I'm making there's going to be no focuses

It's going to be all event & decision ran

[swift dove]

ohhhh sounds nice

[tall hare]

I am having alt history though 😎

[obtuse wolf]

going to show you my loading screen backgrounds

can you tell me which ones to remove

idk which one looks weird i want them all to sort of be like hoi4 styled artwork

[livid locust]

What do you guys think of my mod? (Finland problem will be solved once the completely accurate pre–WW1 borders are finished) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3598499465

[tall hare]

Okay

also show me your ways with the loading screens 🙏

[tall hare]

Poland look wierd

[obtuse wolf]

process of elimination on which to remove

[tall hare]

How many?

[obtuse wolf]

in the 3rd image

it does look weird

[tall hare]

I mean

Tbh I think all of them are good

😭

[obtuse wolf]

but it needs to fit hoi4 style

[tall hare]

this tbh

I think it isnt very hoi4

Tbh

idk

[obtuse wolf]

Hmmm

Yeah

I removed that from the main menu

[tall hare]

Like it is cool and all

[tall hare]

But still

Holy tuff

teach me your ways 🙏

[obtuse wolf]

for the logos

i can teach you how i make them on photoshop

and the uis

[tall hare]

mostly loading screen

[obtuse wolf]

the backgrounds i only touch up if there are errors

[tall hare]

Logo I already kinda have an idea

[obtuse wolf]

ok

[tall hare]

But I am not that skilled in making them

so yeah

we will see

[obtuse wolf]

do you have clipstudio

[tall hare]

nope

also I got no idea what event images to have

So you make them with ai

[obtuse wolf]

didnt see it

[tall hare]

It made this

[obtuse wolf]

that looks cool

[tall hare]

Well I cant really do much with it

[obtuse wolf]

i mean maybe if you resize it

you can use it as an event image

[tall hare]

Nah probably wont use it

I mean

is it hard to make cool loadingscreens like yours

[obtuse wolf]

uh no

[tall hare]

Teach me in dms 🙏

[burnt vigil]

If possible, you could make it the main menu

Or a loading screen

[tall hare]

Idk man

[tall hare]

Anything I should change on the map?

[burnt vigil]

Nah it l9oks nice

[solemn pewter]

Google exists

[tall hare]

Yeah well

[solemn pewter]

Just ask ai to grab a image

Not to make one

[tall hare]

ok

[solemn pewter]

:P

[tall hare]

If I want it to be ww1 then?

or something alt history

[obtuse wolf]

What if its like the Roman Empire

[slender mason]

how do i make a GDP system like in TFR and TNO

[obtuse wolf]

well the first step to reverse engineering is to download the mod

lmao

[solemn pewter]

Ye I unno

Photoshop

Find like a photoshoped image of it

[obtuse wolf]

the second step is making variables

[tall hare]

If I cant do photoshop?

[obtuse wolf]

and assigning money to every country @slender mason

[solemn pewter]

Find a photoshoped image

Or partially use ai in it

Like select a region to be photographed

Photoshoped*

Or whatever

By the ai

[tall hare]

uh ok

[hearty sky]

can anyone help me figure out how to use hoi4 mod utilities extension in vs and cwtools

[burnt vigil]

Took today from modding

I feel horrible

I blame eu4

[obtuse wolf]

dont feel bad

i spent 1 hour making netanyhu the leader of poland

[burnt vigil]

so random

[burnt vigil]

na i feel like i got punched in the face

[obtuse wolf]

@burnt vigil

what is ur spain mod about again

[burnt vigil]

The unrest building up to and immediately after the Civil war

[obtuse wolf]

so a mega civil war map

reminds me of stalingrad map

the only issue is that i dont want to create a very big map & overhaul mod

then have no one play it because it is too big

[burnt vigil]

yea

i don't plan to make to too complex

just more detail

[wise reef]

stop ghost pinging me for the love of go

[hearty sky]

can anyone help me figure out how to use hoi4 mod utilities extension in vs and cwtools

[stable merlin]

i am willing to commission to have someone help make a mod

you will be paid well

[shut dawn]

What do you mean by help? You mean assisting with a certain aspect, or making the whole mod for you?

[burnt vigil]

Depending on what it is, I could do it for ya

But depending kn the size, it might be easier to get 1-3 people for it

[pale sparrow]

theres probably better places for it but yeh thats 0 detail

[daring current]

I know how to add generals this way but how do I make a field marshal

[pale sparrow]

Thats the old system, try this
https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Character_modding

In the old system its also create_field_marshall or something IIRC

[daring current]

Thanks
I use the old system anyway since my submods are just for fun

[tall hare]

How would I make a focus tree Background for maybe

Germany

[arctic moss]

Help needed ; Any ideas why the pop up window still shows the generic icon and not the country specific one?

[pliant jasper]

Hummmm

Do you know how to use the GUI view?

[arctic moss]

yes

no help

[pliant jasper]

What does it say?

[pliant jasper]

It's a long shot, but try adding an sprite type entry with the country tag but without the _medium at the end

[arctic moss]

@pliant jasper No luck

[nimble jasper]

Dumb question, but can we overlay sea and land, or sea and land maps, to allow something vehicles like" land ship"?

[pale sparrow]

no

[nova night]

I have a concern. Someone was playing the PF campaign of the TFR mod, the game crashed, and they lost all their progress. What can I do to prevent that, and do all crashes while playing mods make me lose all progress within the mod?

[pale sparrow]

If you got autosaves set up there is no possibility to lose much progress

Unless the mod or game update and become incompatible with the old save, or you use ironman (absolutely shouldnt)

[nova night]

Hmm. One more thing, do I need to buy the entire game for the game to run the mods properly (for clarity's sake, I want to use the TFR and 1984 mods)?

[pale sparrow]

You mean the DLC?

[nova night]

I think so.

[pale sparrow]

Usually not, unless it specifies on the mod page

Thats usually only the case for mods specifically overhauling DLC features

or modding noobs that are too lazy to support two systems

[nova night]

Which the mods I mentioned are?

[pale sparrow]

Dont think so

[nova night]

So, I can just buy the base game and it will suffice?

[pale sparrow]

I dont play any of those mods, but you can check their page

[clever sparrow]

Bruh

[burnt vigil]

almost done the states for spain

i def gotta fix some of the borders but i cba rn

I have like 5 states left, and they are gonna take up all that

[woven fossil]

Hey friends. I need a flag to be made for a nation in my mod, please hit me up if you can make professional made flags

[tulip prairie]

👀

[snow token]

Ya

[lilac canyon]

I've lost my mind just to create futuristic tech, the image is me proposing futuristic radios

[thin rune]

Hey is anyone here experienced in modding the AI? If yes, could you tell me how to make it so Britain and France dont send half of their army to useless islands and small colonies at the start of the game?

[pale sparrow]

common/ai_strategy folder

[thin rune]

yes that's the folder where I'd put the code, however I dont really know how would the code for that look like..

[pale sparrow]

Im trying to find a nice example, hm...

their value for africa and suez is -50

[thin rune]

thats nice, thanks

[wild pawn]

@pale sparrow any update regarding Poland?

[pale sparrow]

Ill go check right now

[burnt vigil]

Radios cant change

The idea is that it uses radiowaves to transmit data

[pale sparrow]

Seemt to be working fine in my test game, unless you have additional info like a screenshot I cant help

[obtuse condor]

Qatar vro...

[tall hare]

I changed up some stuff

to make it so Italy stayed in central powers

[burnt vigil]

Ah

[tall hare]

You got any idea how I could make it so that Italy won

but didn't get algeria

[burnt vigil]

They didnt get any African lands because of the Civil war, meaning any African territories they did have declared independence from the illegal rule of italy among them

[lunar wedge]

IS THERE LIKE GIVE A WAYS FOR HOI4?

[tall hare]

One idea rn is that like

Italy nearly collapsed from like

a british invasion

and got a short cut of the peace deal

[burnt vigil]

No

There won't be giveaways officially sanctioned by PDX, anf this is not thr place for it

[lilac canyon]

This is why "realism" ruins fun in mods

[burnt vigil]

wdym

a radio is a set technology that hasn't changed since its discovery, only changes that has happened is reliability in getting a signal from point A to point B

now something like a focus tree that only focuses on say, the expansion is British Influence in India, with no way to break free as the indians, is bad realism

but radios can get upgrades, just not changing how they work

it's like RADAR and SONAR are set technologies that can't change since discovery, just methods of using it

[lilac canyon]

You think inside the box, be creative

[burnt vigil]

spain is finally done

the northern border gore makes me wanna kms but it slaps ngl

[chilly loom]

but why

[uncut mist]

Looks good 🔥

[deft aurora]

In the state’s script, it lists all the provinces that are supposed to be part of the state, but when I check in-game, only one of those provinces actually shows as part of that state, instead of all of them.

[burnt vigil]

Why what

[chilly loom]

Cause extra performance

• why would you need accurate spain

[burnt vigil]

No?

[burnt vigil]

My mod

Is that a problem

[burnt vigil]

That state only owns one province

[deft aurora]

But look at the script, it shows multiple

[burnt vigil]

10 is in europe

Iirc

[pale sparrow]

10 is Warsaw I think

The filename is "Poland"

[burnt vigil]

Province not state mari

Go back to lurking dw

[deft aurora]

What about the others?

[burnt vigil]

Idk, i'd have to actually open vanilla

[burnt vigil]

cries in what have i done

49 spanish states, 10 portuguese states, and then i can happily start working on france

[tall hare]

Any feedback?

[burnt vigil]

if UK lost africa, shouldn't they also lose arabia to a unified state or smth?

one that's then gotta chose 3 paths, loyalty to russia, loyalty to germany, or liberator of Islam (as an idea for content for it)

[tall hare]

True

[icy fable]

The Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders look a bit weird. I believe there is a state called southern Serbia which could be Bulgarian. The Yugoslav strip between Albania and Bulgarian Macedonia looks weird, you could maybe give it to Albania? The Åland Islands should not be demilitarized as they became demilitarized during Finlands independence as Sweden demanded the islands as they were 98% Swedish, and Finland refused as they were strategically important. An arrangement were Åland got home rule and became demilitarized was the agreed upon

[tall hare]

Yeah Åland is just I havent thought of

thanks for reminding me

♥️

[icy fable]

Svenska dagen (Swedish day) tomorrow, the Ålanders will be celebrating

[tall hare]

I am Swedish 🙂

where is the Åland demilitarized defined 😭

[icy fable]

Jag tror att det både är i Finlands fil och i Ålands fil

[tall hare]

Found it

Bara i history

[tepid notch]

little question: I have been modding the game for a while, but right now when I try to play a mod (from workshop) the mod doesnt load + the game seems to have changed some rules
the onliest thing I know so far is that the mods map dont seem to load and the game puts me on "recruit" mod every time I start a game any ideas what could be the problem?

[deft aurora]

Are you using that mod's playset?

The one you've downloaded from the workshop?

[tepid notch]

yes

[deft aurora]

Have you ever used the nudge tool before?

[tepid notch]

but like its not the mod that doesnt work

[tall hare]

Why wont syrias color work 😭

[tepid notch]

yes like the mod

I made the mod lol

[tall hare]

no matter what I change it stays

[deft aurora]

Oh so your struggling with loading your own mod, not a mod from the workshop?

[tepid notch]

but the problem is somewhere in the paradox files I think

[deft aurora]

I also think so

[tepid notch]

no like I made the mod, uploaded it to workshop and it works perfectly fine for anyone

but suddenly not a single mod I try to use works

[deft aurora]

Alright, so go to Documents/Paradox Interactive/ Hearts of Iron IV

I want to check something rq

[tepid notch]

if you wanted to check the map file for nudge tool

I alr checked it before and deleted it after I had changed some stuff to the map

but its not a problem with the map I think more like in general

playsets

[deft aurora]

Thats weird

Alr let me think of sum rq

[deft aurora]

Do you think maybe when creating the mods, you've changed some of the vanilla files by accident?

[tepid notch]

actually that might be the case

like the problem started yesterday when I created a new mod

I mean like if nothing works I should just reinstall the game and backup my mods

[deft aurora]

Ok, so what I would do is create a whole other file somewhere else on your computer, then I would copy and paste the mods files into that folder so I dont lose that mods that ive created. Then I would delete the game via steam, so go to the game settings on the right when your on the hoi4 page on steam, go to manage and then uninstall. But that doesnt delete every hoi4 file on your pc. So you will also have to go to documents/paradox interactive and also delete that Hearts of Iron IV folder, because that doesnt get deleted when uninstalling via steam.

[deft aurora]

So to make sure every single hoi4 file on your pc is completely deleted, then I would install it again

[tepid notch]

yes thats easiest solution I hope lol

[deft aurora]

I also hope so, let me know how that goes

[deft aurora]

So when its done installing again just copy your mods from the folder you created to Documents/Paradox Interactive/mod

[deft aurora]

Copy this before you delete, all your folders in here so you can be sure you wont lose your mods.

[deft aurora]

Also make sure you delete this folder also, it doesnt delete when deleting the game itself via steam.

[tepid notch]

yes I just did bc

thats probably where the problem is ig

[deft aurora]

Maybe, or maybe in the vanilla files itself

Thats why I would delete both, but just save my mods.

[tall hare]

Yo do you know how to make Egypt not get overlord color

I have it set as yes for all type of puppets

but I dont want it for egypt

[tall hare]

how can I do it?

do you know?

[deft aurora]

Do you want to change the color of egypt on the map?

[tall hare]

I mean look

I have a color for egypt

but

I want to make egypt a puppet of UK

And

I want to still use

use_overlord_color = yes

for the other countries

but for egypt

I want it to be base color

[deft aurora]

So you want all the other puppets of uk to be the same color as them but egypt, that is still a puppet of the uk, needs to be a other color?

[tall hare]

Yes

[deft aurora]

Let me check for you

[deft aurora]

Alr, I think I got it, go to common/countries/EGY.txt

[tall hare]

ok

[deft aurora]

Let me know when ur there

When your there click on EGY.txt

Copy it over first from the vanilla files

[tall hare]

yes

[deft aurora]

U there?

[tall hare]

mhm

[deft aurora]

Ok, so at color = {color}, did you change that color to the color you want egypt to be?

Do you know how to choose a color?

[tall hare]

Yeah

I know how to mod

just not how to do this

[deft aurora]

Ok, so did you choose a color for it yet?

[tall hare]

I did

[deft aurora]

Alr, try this script in Egypt.txt:

graphical_culture = middle_eastern_gfx
graphical_culture_2d = middle_eastern_2d

color = { Your color code }
use_overlord_color = no

[deft aurora]

common/countries/Egypt.txt

Open that script then type it in

[tall hare]

I think I already tried it

didn't work

Yeah

that doesn't work

[deft aurora]

Let me think rq

[tepid notch]

it worked

but I still dont know what might have caused the problem

[tall hare]

Got anything?

[deft aurora]

Try in history/countries/EGY - Egypt.txt

And add this line at the bottom:

effect = { set_country_color = { 230 230 70 } }

I am not sure if It will work, but worth a try

[tall hare]

I just go with another thing for now

[deft aurora]

Nice man, mightve just been changing the vanilla files by accident, cheers.

[deft aurora]

Alr, sorry I couldnt be that helpful man

[tall hare]

no problem

@burnt vigil New changes ♥️

[burnt vigil]

other than that, maybe DMZ the french communes border with the empire, only the states bordering

[tall hare]

DMZ?

[burnt vigil]

Demiliterized Zone

[tall hare]

Oh

true

[tall hare]

belgian border too?

[burnt vigil]

yea

[tall hare]

any other stuff?

[tall hare]

Feedback

[tall hare]

@burnt vigil

[ancient vapor]

Yo

Is anyone making a total conversion mod?

[burnt vigil]

vanilla loc goes so hard

even better loc

[deft aurora]

Can someone help please, I made a mod, I want to test it, I load the game, it shows this, game no work.

[deft aurora]

Could you help me @burnt vigil ?

[ancient vapor]

Whats the error log?

[deft aurora]

Hold up, I think I can fix it, i'll let you know if I still have the problem, thanks

[ancient vapor]

ok

[deft aurora]

Alr imma need your help

[ancient vapor]

What is it?

[deft aurora]

So I believe the problem is, I replaced state_681 with like a few other different states, so state_681 should not exist at all anymore because it is replaced.

Error log:

I am not sure I deleted state_681 completely, Im not sure how to

[deft aurora]

This is his script in history/states:

state = {
id = 681
name = "STATE_681" # Cape
state_category = town

history = {
    owner = SAF
    add_core_of = SAF
    buildings = { }
    victory_points = { }
}

provinces = { }

manpower = 0
local_supplies = 0.0

}

Idk if I should change something in a other file

Is there something else you need @ancient vapor ?

[ancient vapor]

hm

[ancient vapor]

What kind of mod are you making?

[deft aurora]

Its like a modern day mod

Kinda like Mellenium Dawn, but just simpler and with my taste

[deft aurora]

Do you know whats the problem yet?

[ancient vapor]

And you are modifying all states?

[deft aurora]

Ye

[ancient vapor]

Ok

[deft aurora]

Well most of them, some of the modern new states are the same as the old ones

[ancient vapor]

Look

When you are done modifying states

Put
replace_path = "history/states"

In your descriptor

or whatever the name was

And then copy the ones you didnt modify into history/states

[ancient vapor]

Also

It doesnt even have provinces

[deft aurora]

Yeah, because it shouldnt exist

I replaced it completely with new states

Like it should be deleted somehow, but idk how

[ancient vapor]

Then just delete the file from your mod?

[deft aurora]

I did, didnt work

[ancient vapor]

Do what i said then

[deft aurora]

I cant edit the descriptor

Its like a video file

[ancient vapor]

look

Press the file

Right click

Go down to "Open with"

And select your editor

[deft aurora]

My bad, I thought it can only be a video file

Ok im doing it rn

[deft aurora]

Like this?

Should I add something?

@ancient vapor

[ancient vapor]

Yeah that looks fine

Though i think its replace_path="history/states", without spaces

[deft aurora]

Alr lets try

[deft aurora]

My whole dang game just crashed, the error log just got packed

[deft aurora]

Oh, that code, removes all the states, I think we have to use that code but like for specific states maybe

You think @ancient vapor ?

[lone hearth]

This makes the game taking files only from the mod in that directory so it essentially only takes the states in the mod and nothing from the base game

So make sure you have all the states in the mod folder

[near valley]

yo uh

is there a mod about

age of imperialism

i just wanna play as transvaal

[tall hare]

Give feedback 🙏

[silent zephyr]

Is road to 64 any good

[tall hare]

64?

you mean 56?

is there a 64?

[delicate dagger]

YO

[tall hare]

Yo

[delicate dagger]

QUESTION

how do you download steam mods have you ever done that

[tall hare]

So you go to the mod you want

And press something like subscribe

or smth

[delicate dagger]

no

i mean take it

like download

[tall hare]

huh

[delicate dagger]

from website

[tall hare]

Yeah thats how you download

in the steam app or steam website

[obtuse merlin]

what is this supposed to be, if Germany won ww1?

[tall hare]

Germany and Russia

[obtuse merlin]

you need to give italy the yugoslavian coast because i believe they had claims on that land during that war

[obtuse merlin]

also be a bit more specific because russia and germany fought AGAINST each other in ww1

[tall hare]

Yeah

In the mod

they had a alliance

before ww1

[lone hearth]

You can't

[tall hare]

mod is WIP though

[obtuse merlin]

and the civil war never happened why

ur doing good so far just tryna make sure you dont have any plot holes

[tall hare]

Yeah thanks

I appreciate it

[obtuse merlin]

np

im interested in it so far i might would even play it

im no modder tho sadly lol

[delicate dagger]

this help

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3553239027

[tall hare]

We will see how long it take me to finish it ♥️ Designing focus trees is hard

[obtuse merlin]

im more than down to provide any help i can

if you ever want you can dm me

[tall hare]

Yeah I do need alot of ideas for the focus trees

I been thinking of making a server for the mod

[delicate dagger]

help

[obtuse merlin]

id def join if you sent me an invite

[tall hare]

I might do tbh

[lone hearth]

Where do you even have the game if not on steam?

[obtuse merlin]

jus lmk if it ever happens

[delicate dagger]

i do have it but i am looking to edit stuff

[lone hearth]

But like where

[tall hare]

I will

[lone hearth]

Cause Steam is the automatic default especially for PDX games

[delicate dagger]

question

lets take it to private

[lone hearth]

I won't in this case

[delicate dagger]

why

):

[lone hearth]

I'm not sailing the seas with this one

[tall hare]

wasn't a big reason to why russian revolution happend that they did bad in ww1?

[obtuse merlin]

well kinda

[tall hare]

Don't think it would be at the same scale atleast

[obtuse merlin]

not exactly that they did bad, but that they withdrew from the war with the treaty of brest-litovsk

so if that never happens, it would definitetly slow down the revolution, MAYBE enough to justify saying it never happened at all, but that kinda sounds like a strech

but it is an alt historical mod at the end of the day so it doesnt matter too too much

[tall hare]

Yeah

[tall hare]

No but you know, they got very much pushed by Germany

[autumn coyote]

Does anyone know how to make automated peacedeals? and give colabs before the war starts?

[tall hare]

Also why Italy wont get their claims might be because russia want ports

[obtuse merlin]

fair

[deft aurora]

How do I delete a state compeletely from my mod?

My mod is crashing because of map errors, because I deleted the state file in history/states because I replaced it with other states, so I dont want this one to exist anymore, but because I deleted the states file, its crashing the game. So how can I delete the state without it crashing my game? Like removing it? I replaced it with other states.

[autumn coyote]

?

[tall hare]

Its because you have unassigned provinces

[deft aurora]

No no, theyre assigned to the new states Ive created, basically the original state I made into 3 different states now, like the provinces are assigned to them and none are assigned to the old state. But the game still crashed, so I deleted the file completely but it still crashed

[burnt vigil]

I shouldn't have to say this, but please do not dm me over modding issues, not only is it against server rule 7, but also because most of the time I personally do not know what issues there are and I have a life myself, thank you ♡

[tall hare]

♥️

[tall hare]

How's spain going?

[delicate dagger]

@tall hare

[tall hare]

What

[delicate dagger]

hi

i love you

[tall hare]

Huh

[pale sparrow]

lol

[delicate dagger]

its code for i sent you something

[tall hare]

Marjin you got any tips for designing focus trees

[pale sparrow]

I like to draft in the game

I also find making a focus idea into a draft focus no matter how vague helps in progressing it into an actual focus

[tall hare]

wdym

[pale sparrow]

Some people draw out trees on paper but I do it in-game right away

[delicate dagger]

hi friend

i need help

[burnt vigil]

Hell

Borders are evil but im also getting to a playable state

[delicate dagger]

hi

[tall hare]

I see well I have problem with ideas

[pale sparrow]

You still havent placed the question

[burnt vigil]

I assume it may be a bot

[tall hare]

Sent me the same

[rare grove]

The Partion of Portugal

[deft aurora]

Why is this state's name still STATE_1017 when Im not in debug mode, I did change his name in localization, but its not wroking

[waxen monolith]

whats the best battle royal mod for hoi4?

[deft aurora]

Error code:

[16:12:49][no_game_date][statetemplate.cpp:675]: State ID conflict: Both "Gauteng" ( history/states/275-South Africa.txt) and "Gauteng" ( C:\Users\GamerMSI\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\moderndaymod\history\states\275-Gauteng.txthistory/states/275-Gauteng.txt).
[16:12:49][no_game_date][statetemplate.cpp:675]: State ID conflict: Both "Northern Cape" ( history/states/681-Soviet Lakes.txt) and "Northern Cape" ( C:\Users\GamerMSI\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\moderndaymod\history\states\681-Northern Cape.txthistory/states/681-Northern Cape.txt).
[16:12:49][no_game_date][statetemplate.cpp:675]: State ID conflict: Both "Kwazulu Natal" ( history/states/719-Natal.txt) and "Kwazulu Natal" ( C:\Users\GamerMSI\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\moderndaymod\history\states\719-Kwazulu Natal.txthistory/states/719-Kwazulu Natal.txt).

[tall hare]

you got two Gauteng?

[obtuse condor]

holy shit homestuck

[deft aurora]

I dont

[tall hare]

in loc

[deft aurora]

But it still shows up

STATE_1017's name doesn't show up

When not playing in -debug mode

It comes up as STATE_1017

In game

Idk why

[icy fable]

Sometimes this problem is solved by just restarting the game, for me at least

[deft aurora]

I did many timese

[icy fable]

Is it only 1017?

[deft aurora]

and 1020

[icy fable]

Try removing the localization row, save and add it back

[surreal minnow]

why is porto portugal's capital

💀

[rare grove]

that historically happened

1807 treaty of fontainbleau

[surreal minnow]

oh

[rare grove]

tbh

[tall hare]

Look very nice 🙂

[rare grove]

Agree tbh

[lone hearth]

She simply 🏴‍☠️ the game and want to download mods. Ignore it.

[tall hare]

Working on Asia and Oceania rn give me some feedback

if russia and Germany won ww1 btw

[tall hare]

Yes

exactly

[wide halo]

please make more chinas

[tall hare]

More?

Give me some examples

[brittle garden]

Porto is wayyy too inland, its a coastal city pretty much

[wide halo]

tfr chinese civil war

[tall hare]

Maybe

[tall hare]

@obtuse merlin anything I should change?

[obtuse merlin]

what is the year this map start on

[tall hare]

36

[icy fable]

If Germany won, should they not keep their colonies like Qingdao?

And northern Papua and so on

What is going on with Musandam?

[obtuse merlin]

basically what i was gonna say was their colonies

[icy fable]

Is it still Omani?

[tall hare]

Yeah true

Imma change that

[icy fable]

Did Japan fight with the Entente?

Or did they join the Central Powers or did they sit the war out?

[icy fable]

If Sinkiang is a Russian puppet, you could extend the Afghan panhandle so that the British Raj and Sinkiang does not touch as the reason for the panhandle was that those empires agreed that their borders should not touch

[obtuse merlin]

looks like they were uninvolved or lost

[icy fable]

If they lost the Kuril Islands should be Russian

[tall hare]

I guess they kinda lost tbh

I havent done much lore

Let me do some changes

[icy fable]

Maybe Korea should be Russian as well

Since Japan and Russia already fought one war over it

[tall hare]

True

Some changes

[tall hare]

Drop more ideas 😎

[icy fable]

I believe most of the Japanese islands over Papua was German before the war

[tall hare]

Gosh

this will be annoying

[tall hare]

Changed islands

I think

😎

[tall hare]

any other changes in asia?

[icy fable]

Since Japan lost Korea, Manchuria should not be their puppet as the Kwantung army had no ability to take it

[tall hare]

Right

what do I do with them

[icy fable]

Maybe independent warlord?

Since Japan has lost all other land in China Dalian could be given to China, Russia, Germany or another ally of theirs

Have you seen the China dev diary map?

[icy fable]

I would like to think that Siam took the opportunity to retake some of their lost lands from France and Britain seeing as they were losing the war

[tall hare]

Manchucko independent

[icy fable]

Only French

Germany did not want Britain to lose any colonies

[tall hare]

nope

or like a little

[tall hare]

I see

[icy fable]

On November 20th this will be what China looks like

Maybe this could be inspiration?

[tall hare]

mhm

[icy fable]

Also, give all Romanian coastline to Bulgaria

If Bulgaria fought with Germany and Russia

[tall hare]

ok

[burnt vigil]

Did bro mod in new China?

[tall hare]

Astram give suggestions 🙏

[burnt vigil]

Ngl, idk

[rare grove]

Great wall of china?

[burnt vigil]

The past few days have been horrific for me and ive barely gotten any modding done myself

Brain juices arent there

[thin rune]

whats the lore for that

[tall hare]

Germany and Russia won ww1

[thin rune]

b-but how

and how does this make russia get sinkiang

[tall hare]

As a puppet

It happend because they made an alliance before ww1

[tall hare]

What the how do the Chinese color thing work 😭

@burnt vigil I cant change it

it only becomes weird colors

[tall hare]

Yeah now all colors lagged out

[fossil fern]

im making a romania mod i wanna make a historical tree (alongside my other alt paths) but idrk how it'll work like romanian politics back then were kinda confusing can somrvody explain

[icy fable]

Yes

[tall hare]

Give feedback 🙏

[fringe bobcat]

Tuff lad 🔥

[icy fable]

I like it

[olive sinew]

i want to try sheep mods what are the changes from vanilla?

[tall hare]

Nice

Then I might do like south america and north america

And maps done

[cinder kettle]

is there any mod that allows mass assigning medals?

[kindred axle]

Competent AI

[olive sinew]

is there more?

[kindred axle]

Not that i am aware of

[olive sinew]

oh ok,also what does competent here mean? like they will actually helpfull and more aggresive ?

[kindred axle]

They are...smart.

[olive sinew]

damn

[silent zephyr]

Why is historical road to 64 not historical whatsoever

Communist Netherlands joined East Asian sphere and Germany is democratic

It’s historical I’m 100% Suee

Sure

[rare grove]

is there a way to make so the ai defends certain provinces more heavily?

i want to make so it defends the daugava river

[tall hare]

Full map ♥️

[weak token]

How do I fix this?

[thin rune]

Why is bolivia bigger

[tall hare]

Chaco war

[thin rune]

Paraguay won it in our time, so why did Bolivia win in your world

[tall hare]

Support from italy and Germany

[austere wyvern]

considering Manchu is not invaded by Japan, it should probably still be the Fengtian Clique/Northeastern Army depending on how things play out ther in this timeline

[tall hare]

Yes thanks

I will rename it

[crystal lotus]

Hi

[tall hare]

Hey

[burnt vigil]

Yoo

Almost done making my states, then I gotta lock in and get the mod playable without content, so I can add content

[vital ice]

guys how do i add host tool to my mod

[tall hare]

@burnt vigil you got any name suggestions?

[pale sparrow]

Go to host tool page, ask permission to copy it over

[burnt vigil]

Not really nah

Still recovering mentally from how bad wed-fri was

[celest viper]

Guys

What path Sweden have in Kaiserredux

[nimble solar]

Probably pro Germany and pro internationale

Probably some wack path as well

[celest viper]

I wanna go for Swedish empire route

Under Gustavus adophus

Does joining the Reichpakt make it true?

[nimble solar]

Idk

[stoic garnet]

guys help,im a new modder im trying to create a country but the portrait,name that i assign didnt appear only ideologies did

i change it to facist in debug mode cus why not

[unreal sorrel]

the leader is only for the specific ideology so it doesn't show up if you changed it to fascist

[olive sinew]

how do i know if sheep mods is already running?

[stoic garnet]

i change it to communist like script above but didnt work

[pale sparrow]

marxism_leninism isnt an ideology in vanilla if you havent made any new ones

[stoic garnet]

oh what should i choose

[pale sparrow]

one of these 3

[stoic garnet]

thanks m8

[unreal sorrel]

How do I make a state targeted decision have a cost that varies based on a variable of the targeted state? The problem clearly isn't in the variable definition because it shows just fine in the decision name localisation but for the cost, it doesn't work. This is my code in the decision file currently:

icd_demand_claims = {
icd_targeted_demand = {
available = {
is_subject = no
}
state_target = yes
target_trigger = {
FROM = {
OR = {
is_claimed_by = ROOT
is_core_of = ROOT
}
NOT = { is_owned_by = ROOT }
owner = {
NOT = {
is_in_faction_with = ROOT
has_war_with = ROOT
}
}
}
}
icon = generic_political_discourse
cost = var:FROM.state_demand_value # Here's the problem but I can't figure out what it is
}
}

[pale sparrow]

There might not be support for that

[unreal sorrel]

i guess i have to use the same cost for all decisions then

[pale sparrow]

You could in theory deduct the cost in remove effect

And require it in the availability block

I think custom cost tooltip doesnt support FROM, but you could put the cost in the decision name with some spaces

[unreal sorrel]

Thanks i’ll try it

[vital ice]

guys is it possible to make a script that limits special forces in game and if you go over the limit u get a huge debuff

[pale sparrow]

Wdym, theres already a special force limit

[vital ice]

oh yeeee ops

[high hatch]

Hi.
I would like to know if it is possible to get the actual capital state of the country linked to owned state instead controlled state.
By example, if Germany controls Ile de France (Paris), the capital of the France but France owns Paris, the variable should return Paris instead the exile capital. Because FRA.capital doesn’t return Ile de France but the exile capital state.

I test also FRA = { capital_scope = { set_variable = { actual_capital = THIS } } }, same thing.

[unreal sorrel]

Maybe using on action on_weekly for example to set the variable to the current capital but add a limit so it doesn’t update if the country is capitulated

[high hatch]

I will try that then. Thank you.

[pale sparrow]

You are aware that will set the variable in the scope of that state and not FRA?

If I read that correctly

FRA.actual_capital = THIS is probably what you want if I understand correctly

[high hatch]

actual_capital is my new variable to store the "actual capital" of the country. But don’t worries, I usr the method of Bataattipro2, and is the best for now 😉

[pale sparrow]

His idea does sound solid yeee

[crystal stag]

Are there any cool Rhodesia mods?

[quasi hollow]

Hi modders I have a question

How do you plan alt his focuse tree?

[shut dawn]

I generally use draw.io to sketch things out

But just about any flowchart program would work for it well

Planning things out ahead of time really cuts down on work later on, but it’s important to realize you aren’t locked in to your plans. You can make adjustments when you’re doing the work if you don’t vibe with the planned focus or path anymore.

[quasi hollow]

Okey but from where you have idea 4 exaple for communist way