modding

[peak swallow]

someone else reminded me to add recruit_character but now this happens

what am I doing wrong?

[pale sparrow]

Be aware the recruit cannot be the last line of the file

[peak swallow]

wait wha-

so do this?

[zenith jasper]

hey guys how to make own mods also the tool idk what ist the tool name

[peak swallow]

Good news, we have this guy now, bad news, my portrait isn;t working

[peak swallow]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EAZcF5cWbg57Srq6BTVvguMl6YfP9pG
There's a whole series, its really good

[peak swallow]

@pale sparrow pls continue aiding

[pale sparrow]

For code, visual studio code

[peak swallow]

I think this is the mistake

I GOT IT YESSSSS

YAAAAAA

[pale sparrow]

How did you fix it?

[peak swallow]

spriteTypes not spriteType for the first one

[pale sparrow]

Ah so you forgot to save it? it was right in the screenshot

[peak swallow]

Oh this was old, messed around a bit to try to fix it before coming back

[glacial heath]

are there any good mods that arent like "infinite resources" or like jokes

[pale sparrow]

Sort by most downloaded instead of recent popularity

[tough lotus]

Road to 56 (since @pale sparrow doesn't want to self promo), Rise of Nations (because I will self promo), Equestria at War, Thousand Week Reich, Millennium Dawn, Novum Vexillium, Magna Europa, World Ablaze, Darkest Hour, Black Ice, Old World Blues, Kaiserredux, Kaiserreich, The Great War Redux, Red Flood, The Fire Rises, The New Order, Ultimate Mod Collection, East Showdown, Führerreich, Führerredux, End of a New Beginning, Pax Britannica

[sleek plume]

hey

where's the like construction boost mod

also where's red world 😭

what

why is you

why are you showing this to us

what is the purpose

[tough lotus]

Scam message

<@&846894118219022336>

[sleek plume]

yeah that makes

makes sense

[tough lotus]

I only put big mods I remembered in there

[sleek plume]

no like

im asking

i want to install

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3279394255 don't think the original is still up

[sleek plume]

why?

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1690449406

[sleek plume]

wait

not what i meant

like

show construction boosting

like show the construction boosts and penalties

[tough lotus]

Someone sent it here a few days ago

Here

[sleek plume]

thanks

[nimble solar]

Where's Red Dusk, player led peace conferences, and toolpack?

Also Fuhrerredux is Fuhrerreich now and Fuherreich is Fuherreich Legacy i believe

[reef haven]

Just wandering something. Is there a mod with a map only focused on Australia.

[autumn coyote]

anyone know were the state of the med files are located in the TFB files

[trail yarrow]

Anyone being able to find the new japanese tech for artillery GFX?

Can't find it anywhere

[deft aurora]

Did you set the right color in colors.txt?

[peak swallow]

I kinda fixed it, not ideal solution but it works

[deft aurora]

Alr.

[teal stump]

Bruh, there's a mod called hearts of uno now

Modders be doing anything nowadays

[tough lotus]

There is an EU4 mod where all you can do is play chess

[sleek plume]

Shit as noam chomsky i ended the civil war too quickly

This is a suck

[toxic mason]

is there a way to access older versions of mods that are currently on the latest version

because i dont wanna play on 1.17 but everything is on that now

[tough lotus]

Some mods have older versions available on steam workshop or in their GitHub (or GitLab if they're weird) repositories

It's usually best to ask in the mod's discord servers, their devs are more likely to be able to guide you to the correct place than us in here (unless you want to play Rise of Nations or Road to 56)

[tough lotus]

If you hate coal that much it's also pretty easy to make a mod that makes factories cost no energy or gives each country almost infinite energy generation (or both)

I'm pretty sure multiple exist already

[hoary lagoon]

is there a way to check what is crashing my mod

i only change who owns what states since last time, and now it is crashing

[tough lotus]

-crash_data_log

It's by no means perfect but it does the job 90% of the time

[hoary lagoon]

oh thank you

it says i have like

15 or so errors

ugh

[tough lotus]

Thats because it also enables a weaker version of -debug (which you should always be running while modding)

-crash_data_log attempts to write the last read file and line at the end of meta.yml in case of a crash, but it does make the game a fair bit slower so you can't always have it active

[hoary lagoon]

okay

[tough lotus]

Rise of Nations has 5200

[hoary lagoon]

a few

i have over 760 in vscode

no reason to worry

[tough lotus]

That extension lives false positives to the point where I'm not even using it anymore

[hoary lagoon]

the like paradox syntax extension?

[tough lotus]

Yep

[hoary lagoon]

can i just ignore the 700 errors? do any of them really matter

[tough lotus]

If you only have 15 in error.log you should be fine (although 0 would be optimal)

[hoary lagoon]

i think its just

marking all the words wrong

like infantry

[tough lotus]

If you scroll up here to yesterday (I think) it was marking correct syntax as wrong and suggesting wrong one

[hoary lagoon]

it is suggesting i put communsim

i thinkk

[tough lotus]

I mean... Glory to the motherland then

[hoary lagoon]

WAIT

CUZ I PUT IT WRNG

[tough lotus]

That's also going to be in error.log

[hoary lagoon]

yeah

that was one of them

[tough lotus]

Should also tell you an approximate line for the other ones

[hoary lagoon]

i have 14 errors now

2 of them are flags

3*

i think some of them are just base game issues though

like stuff i wasnt messing around with so

i have like 6 errors

[tough lotus]

-crash_data_log results look somewhat like the last line here (although this is a catastrophic crash that is borderline impossible to fix if you don't know what you're doing)

[hoary lagoon]

oh

thats not what i was looking at

[tough lotus]

Meta.yml in the crash folder

It's only in the file if the crash happened with the laod option on

(also why devs like to ask for save files if their mod is crashing)

[hoary lagoon]

is that in the hoi4 files

[hoary lagoon]

oh

[tough lotus]

Documents/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron 4

You can find a lot of stuff in that folder

[hoary lagoon]

i see

it seriously crashing over a state in the congo

[tough lotus]

And if you haven't deleted saves from years ago you can do that there as well, they get pretty big sometimes

[tough lotus]

Changed one of Belgium's states?

[hoary lagoon]

yes

state 295

[tough lotus]

1 sec, I have the fix somewhere in another discord server but it has to load first

[ancient vapor]

Guys

[hoary lagoon]

thanks

thats so random lmao

[ancient vapor]

Do you know if this is correct?

option = {
name = "To arms!"
declare_war_on = {
target = YEL
type = annex_everything
news_event = pur_declared
}

[tough lotus]

Hoi is spaghetti code all the way down so don't feel bad if your mod falls into that category as well

[hoary lagoon]

wait so i jsut

paste that into every congolese state

[tough lotus]

news_event =

[tough lotus]

It is in there already, comment it out

[hoary lagoon]

what does that mean

[tough lotus]

Never actually have had to apply this fix cause whenever I join a mod team it already has a map

[ancient vapor]

the = is sticked with the news_event?

[tough lotus]

Ad a # in front of each line in the block, turns them into comments so the game ignores them

[hoary lagoon]

ugh

im just gonna remove the congo

[tough lotus]

If you're in vscode you can hold down your scroll wheel and drag your mouse around, you're now typing on multiple lines at the same time

[tough lotus]

You're also missing a closing bracket for the declare_war_on effect

[ancient vapor]

oh yeah i know its not the whole part

[tough lotus]

The news event has to be outside of declare_war_on

Also if you ask for advice with code send the whole thing (or at least don't introduce mistakes by copying wrong)

[hoary lagoon]

like this?

ill find out how to make a puppet later

[tough lotus]

Commenting it out ensures that you still have that code to work with it later

Ane yes, like that

[hoary lagoon]

sweet

alr

i hope it works

i know there is still some glitches with the leader and flag

but oh well

[hoary lagoon]

sweet

still a bit broken lmao

[hoary lagoon]

ive fixed the borders but now the leader potrait wont load

[jade hazel]

democratic but no elections 😭

[summer tartan]

That's called "Democracy but I kept on winning because my enemy doesn't exist"

You know DPRK? Yeah, that too is democratic yk

[tribal spear]

anyone want to recruit for a mod?

[rose heath]

Does anyone know how to make a custom country not release puppets, or disable that option altogether

My country starts with a bunch of non-core terrain, and it just puppets all of it instantly

I'd like it to stay annexed

[rose heath]

that may be because I added it on top of sheep mod

btw

so that might complicate things

[rare grove]

You like the Napoleonic wars iyo?

[rose heath]

figured out how to do this through common/scripted_triggers/diplomacy_scripted_triggers
however despite a player not being able to release these nations, Ai somehow still does this

Im gonna have a stroke here

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336>

And while you get here: never enough doctrines

[tough lotus]

Rise of Nations always needs people so you can check it out here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2026448968 and join the discord to apply if you think it'd be something you'd like to help with

Little bit of advice though: I'd recommend joining a team for a mod you like playing

[tall hare]

Europe as of now

[tribal spear]

Unfortunately I meant that I was looking for people to work for the mod Im sponsoring

Mb

[hollow crystal]

does anyone have a list of mods that i should download to add balance/fixes/etc. and whatnot?

[meager mortar]

is there a mod that gives all MIOs for all countries?

[pale sparrow]

@meager mortar@hollow crystal Im slightly biased but Road to 56 (for the fixes and MIOs, balance isnt that different from vanilla)

[tall hare]

Marjin rate my new colors and map style

[pale sparrow]

Hm?

[tough lotus]

"slightly"

[pale sparrow]

Ever so slightly

:3

[meager mortar]

wait did you make the toolpack mod???

[pale sparrow]

the without the Errors one yes

[meager mortar]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2913150560
This one?

Mate

you mean more to me

than any other person

in the entire world

i love you

[pale sparrow]

❤️

[tall hare]

New map style

[pale sparrow]

👌

[meager mortar]

is this something like if germany and russia allied in ww1?

[warm gorge]

Would anyone happen to know which files NCNS changed significantly? I've got a mod from a few patches back that I'd like to update to the current patch. when I launch it I see the leader for Japan is broken, so I know leaders is included, but not which other files.

[hollow crystal]

Just saw this, and yeah road to 56 looks like the best one imo

[tall hare]

Yes

[rose pumice]

I'm considering creating a defensive focus tree branch for my country that should be available once a war is not going in your favour. How does the game calculate which side a war is going in favour of? Can it be used in modding?

[pale sparrow]

Capitulation progress for just your country is probably good enough

[rose pumice]

Ah, in that case, does capitulation progress happen when you start losing occupied territories?
As a thought experiment, one could say Germany in WW2 went on the defensive in 1943 while they were still on Soviet territory, right? But would that show on the capitulation progress?

[pale sparrow]

No, that is actually somewhat difficult to capture

If you wanted to check for that you could either see if Germany's controlled state count is reducing

Or maybe check either all, or a sample of Soviet states for German control

[rose pumice]

Alright, that should work nicely! Thanks

[rare grove]

The Treaty of Fontainbleau in 1807

[umbral canyon]

Does someone has good map style recommendations?

[rose pumice]

Is it possible to add forts in specific provinces through decisions/focuses instead of "x random provinces in a state"?

For example, are the provinces mentioned here definite? Is it possible to mod?

[blissful lion]

You could also, simply but quite inefficiently, create a simple check for available manpower. I think countries tend to be more defensive when they cannot plan any offensive operations. Though, there must be a better way of checking for manpower, I haven't tried that yet.

[blissful lion]

You can, check how it's done through French "france.2" event. You have to define the state and then within the state the "province = x".

[rose pumice]

Ah, interesting, I was hoping to just use that "War is going X% in favour of defenders/attackers" metric to see if a war is going well for the player's side or not, but I suppose that is not possible?

[blissful lion]

Actually, there is a trigger "any_war_score [< or >] x" which checks for the favour in the side of the war. You could test that out.

[rose pumice]

I see - so I can think of it like any_war_score < 0.4 is defensive and any_war_score > 0.6 is offensive?

[blissful lion]

I haven't paid much attention for how the war score bar changes, that could be the case.

[rose pumice]

Ah, alright - that is very helpful, thank you!

[red bay]

👋

[tall hare]

<@&846894118219022336> Spam

[tall hare]

Yes it is

exactly'

[rare grove]

Saxon-Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1812

[tall hare]

Holy tuff

[molten siren]

mod?

[rare grove]

Napoleonic Wars Redux (france prussia russia have focuses)

[molten siren]

thank

[tall hare]

You made them yourself btw?

[rare grove]

yes i did imo

except for gfx

[tall hare]

very tuff

I cant get ideas 😭

[tall hare]

I wanna try making one but its hard

[umbral canyon]

Really good mod really enjoyed it

Keep it up

[glass acorn]

Anyone know what files PDX changed/updated in Patch 1.17.3?

Ever since that update my mod just CTDs as soon as I click and start a country (Initializing game)

[rich quartz]

is there a mod that stops the ai from sending divisions onto the border of a country they're not at war with, I'm invading the soviets and my allies aren't helping me, they're sending all their divisions to neutrel lithuania and austria

[amber notch]

Making a Liberia focus tree mod

For a national spirit would the “Firestone Labour Scandal” work

And it would give like recruitable population and output debuffs and some unrest things

[mighty cargo]

The Fire Rises is a mod that sound cool, but then you play it, and it's like

😬

I mean, it's taken hours for anything to happen in a playthrough as Russia.

Looking at a million focus tree loading bars is not real gameplay.

And now I apparently have to start over to get a certain path I wanted, because I didn't tweak a setting in the prerequisites menu.

[wicked stirrup]

is there anyway for Wemod/Wand to work in multiplayer i want to do a run with my friend

[tough lotus]

Don't cheat in mp

And most cheat mods work if both players have them installed

[lilac canyon]

Does anyone know if the modifier tooltips are already in the game, I did it manually...

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336>

[tame wagon]

Hmn?

Oh I see

Ngl my friend told me to tell yall about my idea in here and I didn't know it was against the rules mb

(Also never seen the server rules channel until now???)

[tough lotus]

It was about a scam message

Nothing to do with you

[tame wagon]

lol

[tough lotus]

We get one or two a day here

[tame wagon]

I thought it was me talking about my mod mb

[tame wagon]

Fair

[tough lotus]

Anything mod related goes in here, really

[lone hearth]

Yes they are. Just remove the tag and that's it (although some are missing for some reason, don't ask me why)

[lilac canyon]

That's it...

;-;

[tame wagon]

Got it

[astral geyser]

Does putting a localisation file inside "mod\localisation\english\replace" not work anymore after NCNS Patch 1.17.1.1?
" • Localization uses 64 bit hash now to reduce collision chances and resolve random localization bugs."

After the update, it doesn't replace anymore and I get an error instead in text.log

[wicked stirrup]

Is it fine if I just use wemod in single player?

[tough lotus]

You can do whatever you want in single player, although I'd recommend you use cheat mods combined (not that hard to find in the workshop) since it's way more powerful

[wicked stirrup]

The most op mods I use for single player is instant research and instant movement

And construction and infinite resources

I just use it for when I goof around

[tough lotus]

All of that can be done through the console

[wicked stirrup]

And to help me learn

[wicked stirrup]

Wait really?

[tough lotus]

Yes

[wicked stirrup]

Ohhh cool

[tough lotus]

• roic (or researc_on_icon_click) for research (research_all also works if you want everything at once)
• ic (or instant_construction) for construction

Don't remember the other commands

[wicked stirrup]

Ok thank you

[tough lotus]

You don't learn by making yourself orders of magnitude stronger than your opponents btw

[wicked stirrup]

Nah I mean just what things do

Like learning how to use planes or the navy

[molten lily]

guys

do you know what is the code for a focus tree to add steel to state?

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Effect

[molten lily]

do you think is that what i need?
if yes could you tell which part?

[tough lotus]

That has every single effect in the gamr, ctrl+ f isn't hard to do

[molten lily]

okay

i ll save it

[radiant spruce]

As someone new to this game, it easily has one of the best modding scenes I’ve ever come across

[pale sparrow]

Its one of the easiest games to mod so makes sense

[radiant spruce]

Very true, workshop mods have been all I’ve been playing in this game, so good

[tall hare]

Not ideas 😭

[pale sparrow]

Skill issue

🏃‍♂️

[tall hare]

😠

I am trying to think of a focus tree for Germany

[tall hare]

you designed any focus trees for rt56?

[pale sparrow]

Not really entire ones from scratch

Im better at revising existing content

[tall hare]

What have you done on rt56 then 😎

[pale sparrow]

Overhauled alt-hist Germany before the DLC, overhauled DLC Turkey to be more fun (mostly by making it quicker), made Molotov-Ribbentrop and post-war content including polishing the Yalta conference, some other content and a LOT of bugfixes

[tall hare]

Cool cool

you made toolpack mod?

[pale sparrow]

The continuation thats now the most downloaded yeh

[tall hare]

so not alone

[pale sparrow]

I made around 4-6 new menus, 12 or so already existed but were heavily overhauled

[tall hare]

Oh I see

well

thats cool

I havent looked into menus at all

[pale sparrow]

Toolpack already had a thing where you can reorder the building options in the building spawner

Its AWFUL to maintain xD

[tall hare]

😎

tuff

I used both of the mods

at some point

uh

havent really

played hoi4 in a while

now I am trying to mod

but dont have anything to mod

😎

[pale sparrow]

Come join Road to 56

we're understaffed

[tall hare]

I mean

I want to work on my mod

but dont have any ideas

but uh

maybe

[pale sparrow]

shit mod, join Roa-

jk jk

😹

[tall hare]

😠

[pale sparrow]

Just kidding :3

[tall hare]

Holy tuff

[tall hare]

Also I hope you changed bosnia for RT56 👀

I mean

[tough lotus]

RON is bigger and has like 3 active devs 😭

[tall hare]

wait

is it like

you and two other people 😎

[tough lotus]

Almost

[tall hare]

damn

[tough lotus]

There have been others

[tall hare]

I see

well

ideas for me

for focus trees

super

annoying

[pale sparrow]

12 scenarios with 0 finished

[tough lotus]

ww2 runs well because xaelor

[pale sparrow]

xd

[tough lotus]

so 1 finished

[tall hare]

wait what years is RON?

[tough lotus]

(3 to together for victory standards)

[tough lotus]

1900-2060

[tall hare]

uh

how

long will that take

[tough lotus]

A lot of pain and suffering

[tough lotus]

Can't make historical focus trees go until 2060 until we're actually in 2060 so...

[tough lotus]

french revanchism under Petain

Could probably work

[pale sparrow]

In the past I saw the Germany tree was basically the same as Road from years ago

which was interesting to see

[tall hare]

you're gonna work on this mod for uh 35 years?

[tough lotus]

We have a lot of stuff from the road

And some other mods as well

We do have a new germany tree though

[tall hare]

I have found the nicest font for hoi4 🙂

maps

atleast

[pale sparrow]

Some HOI fonts dont work in other languages which enrages me

[tall hare]

what the

Do RT56 use custom?

I dont remember

[pale sparrow]

Nah

[tough lotus]

I need an empty font

[pale sparrow]

But Toolpack uses rarely used fonts which apparently dont work in Russian and Chinese

[tall hare]

Thats nice 🙂

[tough lotus]

This button always makes such a happy impression

With that exclamation point

[pale sparrow]

Nudge! 😃

[tough lotus]

Actually clicking it is hell though

[tough lotus]

Someone should mod it so the leave nudge button has a sad face

[pale sparrow]

Nudge...

[glass acorn]

Hey Marijn

Do you know if there's dev documentation anywhere that shows what files new patches change?

[pale sparrow]

I maintain a github that does that

[glass acorn]

Can you link it please?

[pale sparrow]

its private because allegedly Paradox might not like it

[glass acorn]

Damn

[pale sparrow]

though I could check maybe if thats the case

[glass acorn]

This new update broke my mod but I don't know what's causing it

[glass acorn]

^^^

[pale sparrow]

Im not putting the DLC folder or EXE on there so I might be able to make it public

[glass acorn]

Can you maybe read off what files got changed?

[tough lotus]

run the game with -crash_data_log, if the crash happens on start_game_command(1) this should be the fix

[pale sparrow]

1.17.3 right?

They definitely changed defines in case you override those improperly

I dont see much else changes

[tall hare]

anyone got tips to get ideas for focuses

I need a focus after germany demanded reparations

from French commune

[glass acorn]

Here I'll show my defines

[pale sparrow]

Looks cleanly done

[glass acorn]

Yeah after a bunch of headaches in the past, I've tried organizing better lol

[glass acorn]

What's the csv?

Just trial-errored, it doesn't seem to be defines

[pale sparrow]

the map folder files have a CSV

[glass acorn]

Which one might cause it

Doesn't seem to be buildings either

It crashes here as soon as you click play after selecting a country

The bar doesn't move, it just crashes after a sec

[glass acorn]

!FIXED!

It had to do with my map edge, they were previously 1 tile wide so ports couldn't properly generate

I enlarged them a bit and after validating, work now

So yeah the new update just made the map way more sensitive

[glass acorn]

Thanks Marijin and Viktoria for the advice <3

[scenic sparrow]

Can someone help

I started doing a mod following the hoi4 official youtube tutorial but when I write country it says its is unexpected in ideas

[glass acorn]

Can you send an image of the idea file's code

[scenic sparrow]

Huh

Like what I wrote?

[glass acorn]

To see if you wrote it correctly

Yes

[scenic sparrow]

Alr uno secondi

[glass acorn]

Think of the "country = { }" as a divider in a bookshelf

It gives a label to every idea in the brackets

[glass acorn]

Hmm

Does it give an error in the actual error log

Or is it simply false-flagging it in the editor

[pale sparrow]

Yeh that gives a false error

[scenic sparrow]

Lemme send a pic of the whole thingy

[glass acorn]

Well for one if it isn't appearing in game, that's cause it's not saved (The white dot near the name)

The code itself seems fine, I think you just have a false-flag on the error

Here's an example of an idea

[scenic sparrow]

oh no

[glass acorn]

NOTE: You can have MULTIPLE ideas in inside the country = { IDEAS } bracket

[scenic sparrow]

i deleted it and restarted the whole scrripy

[glass acorn]

🥀

[scenic sparrow]

what does this do

[glass acorn]

The keybind for saving is CTRL + S btw

[scenic sparrow]

ah

[glass acorn]

It's a national spirit

[scenic sparrow]

thank you

[glass acorn]

Np, ask if you need any more help

[scenic sparrow]

thanks

can you be like

yoda

[glass acorn]

🥀

*Assist you I must 🗿 *

[scenic sparrow]

So tiff

Tuff

Are u acc a naval expert?

[tough lotus]

The extension loves marking that as being incorrect, it is wrong

There isn't actually a bug there

[scenic sparrow]

thanks

[scenic sparrow]

can you see if eveything is alright?

[tough lotus]

namespace has 2 c, mean_time_to_happen is plural for some reason

[scenic sparrow]

that was quick

[tough lotus]

And the entire event code is inside of the trigger block

[tough lotus]

It's not a lot of code to look through, and I seem to be really good at catching typos

[scenic sparrow]

bravo

[scenic sparrow]

what does this mean?

[glass acorn]

You forgot a bracket {

So the trigger to actually start the event is actually checking for the entire event's code

Think of it like this

The trigger represents a car's ignition system

But you forgot to tell it to stop at the actual ignition key

[tough lotus]

trigger = { ... } marks the requirements for the event to fire. Putting things that aren't triggers (things that can be either true or false) in there results in it being ignored.

In your case you kept on writing the event inside of it

[glass acorn]

Now it's checking to see if your interior lights are on before turning on

Y'see how that can make it bad?

[scenic sparrow]

Ya

[tough lotus]

He didn't actually, if you look at the whitespace it's just in the wrong place.

[scenic sparrow]

Now I look like a idiot

Im following a tutorial

[glass acorn]

Nah it's fine

Everyone starts somewhere

[scenic sparrow]

Still doing it wrong

[tough lotus]

Happens to everyone

[glass acorn]

I remember when editing states was like rocket science to me

Now map editing's my best field 🥀

[scenic sparrow]

How long does it take to make a map

Cus Im trynna make a scenario

Where its like

These countries only

In a big map

[glass acorn]

If it's a custom map, it'll be way more complex

If you're just overwriting state owners, cores, etc on the base map, not that long

[scenic sparrow]

Custom

[glass acorn]

Then yeah it'd take much longer

[scenic sparrow]

Lord have merceh

[scenic sparrow]

Ill stick to scripting ts for now thwn

Ill ask more questions If Necessary

Probably will

[glass acorn]

The benefit of custom maps though is that they're much less fragile to updates

Because they get less things overrided

[tough lotus]

Devs for the biggest mods out there make dumber mistakes (and they sometimes go unnoticed for years)

[glass acorn]

Like for example

PDX is never gonna add a bunch of systems to a fictional nation called Linea

So I don't have to worry about it breaking

[glass acorn]

I once bricked my mod because I forgot to remove a singular tag

🥀

[scenic sparrow]

Really

Im out of words

Thank you both

[glass acorn]

np

[tough lotus]

Vichy France had no characters in Rise of Nations for the past year because the guy who added them spelled it characater every single time

[glass acorn]

🥀

[tough lotus]

Also our error log is like 5000 lines long

[glass acorn]

Amateur

[tough lotus]

Half of it is missing gfx

[glass acorn]

Beat that

[tough lotus]

I have a branch where it's at around 130000

[glass acorn]

I swear 90% of the errors are just the game refusing to acknowledge the replace_path files

[tough lotus]

That or it being very picky about some random audio file

[glass acorn]

The worst errors are the ones that crash the game before you even load it

So annoying to troubleshoot

[tough lotus]

We've had duplicate event ids for the past few months, no one cares because it doesn't actually CTD

[glass acorn]

That's my mindset too lol

If it ain't bricking the game then it's not important

Until it is

[tough lotus]

-crash_data_log and pray that it happens late enough where the launch option activated

[glass acorn]

And you spend 10 decades fixing it 🥀

[tough lotus]

"literally uploads a corrupted file"

(still hasn't been fully fixed)

[glass acorn]

The best mods are the ones held together by hopes and dreams

[tough lotus]

"removes a decision vital for the mod's functioning because it can be automated"
"Proceeds to never automate it"

[glass acorn]

Truly the power move of all time

[tough lotus]

We shipped that through 2 updates and it's still missing in the steam version

[glass acorn]

If the errors are visibly not present or noticeable in game, then they don't exist 🗿

[tough lotus]

Both files are identical

[glass acorn]

Eh PDX makes a loc collision error at the slightest hint of similarities

Might as well actually give it something to scream about

[tough lotus]

text.log is 40000 lines long

[glass acorn]

Seems about right

[tough lotus]

The entire Russian focus tree's localization existed twice in the same file

[glass acorn]

Okay how does that even happen at this point 🥀

[tough lotus]

I don't know

[glass acorn]

The wind can't be blamed for this time

[scenic sparrow]

how do I save

I think I finished

do i send it here

for u to check?

[glass acorn]

You can just press CTRL + S and it saves

If you want you can send it here for us to check

[tough lotus]

At some point Spain had 3 communist parties

That being communism, democratic and neutrality

[glass acorn]

I was joking about the hopes and dreams thing but now it's seeming kinda plausible 🥀

[tough lotus]

It is this mod is a buggy mess

[glass acorn]

Idk if that's just the tutorial template, but it seems like the first_idea thing will just get added to every country no matter what

[tough lotus]

if = { limit = { check for stuff here } effects go here }

[glass acorn]

Yeah that too

[scenic sparrow]

huh

[scenic sparrow]

i think its cus of the tut everything he names is like my first mod my first idea

[tough lotus]

No, the event fires only for the player, if the player is at war then every enemy gets the idea, else the player gets it

[scenic sparrow]

alr imma test

[tough lotus]

Inside of an if you have a limit. Inside of the limit you check for whatever you want to check for (in this case, if the country getting the event is at war). If the limit is true the effects get executed. The effects have to be inside of the if but outside of the limit.

[scenic sparrow]

I think i understand

[scenic sparrow]

I did smth wrong

It didnt work

[tough lotus]

Code?

[scenic sparrow]

I got like a crash thing

When I opened hoi4

[tough lotus]

(you have about 5 minutes until my phone dies)

[scenic sparrow]

From the mod thing

[tough lotus]

What

That mod is so simple it shouldn't even get close to crashing

[scenic sparrow]

Ye idk

Lemme retry

A day passed

Nothing is happening

A month passed

[tough lotus]

Worst thing your mod can do is not work

[scenic sparrow]

Here wait

Ill sent u the pic

[tough lotus]

That's some mods you have downloaded from the workshop having a typo

and the file is error.log

[scenic sparrow]

Yale but I didnt have any mods active

[tough lotus]

The game reads the entire mod folder on startup even if you have no mods on

[scenic sparrow]

Oh

Still it doesnt work

[tough lotus]

error.log serves for the game to tell you about any errors ot can tell exist

[tough lotus]

See that dog in the corner?

[scenic sparrow]

Huh

[tough lotus]

I'd assume you're on the map in debug mode

[scenic sparrow]

Oh

Im not

Oops

How do I go debug mode

[tough lotus]

Send the code here

[scenic sparrow]

i did

[tough lotus]

You got error.log to show up, you should be in debug mode

[scenic sparrow]

its tthe one from before

[tough lotus]

Then fix the if
Shouldn't prevent the event from happening though

[scenic sparrow]

Do I turn debug off?

[tough lotus]

Doesn't matter, I'd leave it on for modding

Try running the event from the console

[scenic sparrow]

Huh

[tough lotus]

event event_id

Replacing event_id with the id for your event

[scenic sparrow]

How do I get event id

[tough lotus]

There is an entry for it in the event itself, in your case it's mod_event.1

[scenic sparrow]

Alr

[deft aurora]

Is it required to have a democratic flag for a communist country?

[deft aurora]

[13:57:19][no_game_date][flagtextureatlas.cpp:524]: Error loading flag for country CBA : Ideology democratic : Path gfx/flags/ : File not found
[13:57:20][no_game_date][flagtextureatlas.cpp:524]: Error loading flag for country CBA : Ideology democratic : Path gfx/flags/medium/ : File not found
[13:57:20][no_game_date][flagtextureatlas.cpp:524]: Error loading flag for country CBA : Ideology democratic : Path gfx/flags/small/ : File not found

[tough lotus]

Well the country could change ideologies

[deft aurora]

But the other countries in my mod have only democratic flags and there is no error

[blissful lion]

If you don't plan on countries having other ideological flags, then remove the "_ideology", it works fine. The compiler isn't truthful.

[crystal narwhal]

👋

[autumn coyote]

Why doesnt my propaganda gfx work?

error log says this

but those gfx files are in the mod

[ember sapphire]

I was playing R56 for the first time, and took a carefull look at the Infantry tech tree. Its not hard to miss the loads and loads of buffs and new options available to you, which made me wonder if infantry is a solid option, that might even compete with tanks. Mainly asking because im playing as germany, and I am quite torn between the Prussian legacy and adopt new Panzer doctrine. (Doing communist alt history, so lots of manpower)

[tough lotus]

Are they defined in an interface/.gfx file?

[autumn coyote]

yes

[tough lotus]

That's a .gui file

Where is the .gfx file

[autumn coyote]

.gfx of what

[north wave]

Do you have

interface files and icon files in it

and GFX files

[autumn coyote]

this is the gfx files of the propaganda

[north wave]

Which folder is it at

[autumn coyote]

gfx > interface> propaganda

[tough lotus]

The game doesn't know they exist unless they're defined in a .gfx file

[north wave]

Do you have interface files too

to log them

[autumn coyote]

yes

[autumn coyote]

wdym?

[tough lotus]

For the game to recognize the files they have to be defined in a .gfx file in the interface folder

kinda like this

[autumn coyote]

ah yes

forgot that

thx

[tough lotus]

thought so

[tough lotus]

@pale sparrow your domain. Although I will say that even in vanilla a good infantry build can compete with tanks.

[pale sparrow]

Meta is basically the same as vanilla but tanks are slightly weaker

[queen frost]

are there any focus tree mods that can be added to the vanilla game for australia, indonesia, or siam?

[upper schooner]

I am trying to make myself a mod, I have no experience. I am trying to change the provinces and states a bit. I have copied the Kaiserredux map file into my own mod. This produced many a errors. What should I do to get rid of them. Sorry if this is a silly question

[shut dawn]

My advice would be to try and find out if what you’re trying to achieve requires ripping a while other mod’s map and slapping it it in. ‘Cause that is bound to be a headache.

[rose pumice]

How can I change the stability political power modifier? Right now, its a percentage (like Stability gives -11% political power gain) but I want to make it something like -0.5 gain

[tough lotus]

If you have no experience I would avoid touching the map

[north wave]

Expect making a new state

Because its objectively easy

[lone hearth]

RT56 if you want that Ig

[dapper jolt]

hi, small issue right now
i added the states for the rheinekreis and saarland, however since then the game has been crashing upon unpausing with the lastread being "client_ping (1)"

from what i can tell, this is something related to ai_templates or buildings, but i'm unsure which and how i'd go about fixing it

thanks in advance

[dapper jolt]

i've tried quite a few of these however i'll try again, thanks

[deft aurora]

How do I make a other country a puppet of an other country?

[tough lotus]

puppet = TAG
or

    target = TAG
    autonomous_state = autonomy_you_want
}```

[deft aurora]

Where do I add this?

What script?

[tough lotus]

In the scope of whichever country is going to be the overlord, which script depends on when (and potentially how) you want the puppeting to happen

[dapper jolt]

disabled AI temporarily so i could atleast test other stuff, same sort of crash around 11 days in,

LastScript: common/decisions/CHI_decisions.txt:3944: any_country_with_original_tag_of```

[astral badger]

has anyone elses player led peace conferences been broken? i cant give myself more score

unless im missing something

[glass acorn]

How do you add buildings onto the bomber priority list?

[pale sparrow]

It doesnt automatically include new buildings like the building menu?

[pale sparrow]

I got no reason to believe its broken 🤔

[glass acorn]

No, I have a bunch of new buildings it doesn't show

I assume it's an Interface > GUI file but not sure which one

[pale sparrow]

You aware of gui console command?

[tough lotus]

I would assume airselectionview.gui

[sturdy galleon]

Q - do i need to have the DLC's to make a mod?

[tough lotus]

no, although having the ones that change technologies is very useful becuse it allows you to account for both players with and without them

[warped jewel]

is there a mod that gets rid of faction traitor slowly?

[mild coral]

Hello, new here. Is there a good mod that will make the AI smarter?

[tough lotus]

expert ai

[mild coral]

What is the best way to find that one? I've used paradox's in-game search and can't seem to identify which one it is

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=741805475

[mild coral]

Many thanks

[tough lotus]

From the mod page:

This is not a mod for those who want a slightly better AI, a couple of fixes or a straightforward experience to jump into. This is an AI overhaul; the AI design in this mod has completely different priorities from the vanilla AI, generally geared more towards min-max gameplay for very experienced players,

[mild coral]

Is it updated for the latest version of the game + all DLCs? (I have a subscription)

[tough lotus]

yes

[mild coral]

Thank you for your help!

[tough lotus]

Well it's up to date with 1.17.2 so the Ai might be a bit worse because it doesn't know about the 2 new buildings

[mild coral]

Well, I guess I'll worry about that if I even get to the later stages of the game where they matter. Usually it's too easy to win before I get there.

[tough lotus]

Fairly certain the AI will metaplay so have fun

[mild coral]

Then I'll probably get my butt kicked because I haven't played multiplayer. That's good! I shouldn't be able to conquer USA as Aregentina

[tough lotus]

You still have an edge over the AI because iirc it's impossible to make it micromanage divisions

[rare grove]

is this a reasonable layout?

(the top half of the focus tree)

[tough lotus]

Yes

Also what happened on the bottom

[rare grove]

havent started on the 1807-1813 france layout yet

[astral badger]

Well before i would be able to give myself score by doing a new turn or whatever but now that dont do anything

[tall hare]

Very nice

[rare grove]

Thanks

[obtuse roost]

small focus tree

needs to be bigger

[rare grove]

the entire focus tree is 350+ focuses

1789-1815

[tough lotus]

Before 1.12 the ai gave you their score, that's apparently not possible anymore

[obtuse roost]

damn thats way too small

needs to be atleast 5000+ focuses

[rare grove]

https://tenor.com/view/man-praying-black-man-praying-black-man-praying-and-crying-man-praying-and-crying-gif-23376408540985609

[tough lotus]

An entire rise of nations focus tree is probably not even that big

And we have 160 years

[obtuse roost]

legit

[astral badger]

That sucks cause i couldnt get the japanese navy even though i was the one to capitulate them and help push them out of china

[rare grove]

should i fix layout before adding focus effects?

[tall hare]

Get these errors what's wrong about Dalmatia

[18:23:38][no_game_date][gameitemdatabasehelper.h:149]: Error: "Unexpected token: a, near line: 26" in file: "history/states/1055 - Dalmatia.txt" near line: 26
[18:23:39][no_game_date][persistent.cpp:66]: Error: "Invalid date 7329: {, near line: 33```


```state={
    id=103
    name="STATE_103" # Dalmatia
    manpower = 1431700

    state_category = large_town


    history={
        owner = ITA
        victory_points = { #Dubrovnik
            6889 3 
        }
        victory_points = { #Split
            3924 3
        }
        buildings = {
            infrastructure = 3
            dockyard = 1
            industrial_complex = 3
            3924 = {
                naval_base = 3
            }
            6889 = {
                naval_base = 1
            }
        }
        add_core_of = YUG
        add_core_of = CRO
    }

    provinces={
     984 3868 3924 3974 6889 11901
    }

    local_supplies=4.0 
}

[glass acorn]

Yes, but it had a different name than its actual file

[pale sparrow]

You can do folder search though

[sturdy galleon]

So what would you recommend to get perhaps? I have man the guns and no step back

[tall hare]

Marjin could my game break because I have a state which have some provinces in one place and then its a small province inbetween and some others

[pale sparrow]

Should work I think

[tall hare]

get this error

but don't really understand why

wait my bad

got it prob

[covert mirage]

guys what does this mean

Error: "Non assign effect is not enclosed in {}: set_capital, near line: 450" in file: "events/panslavia_pan_slavia_events.txt" near line: 460

[tough lotus]

Will probably work, might be a bit annoying to work with for players (and potentially when making content there too)

[tall hare]

yeah

mod started breaking

but tbh

might have done it for long

so yeah

just to remove and see what the error is

[tall hare]

hmmm it only crash when I start

so it cant be the map

[tough lotus]

-crash_data_log

[tall hare]

right

forgot about that

[tough lotus]

That set_capital is formatted wrongly https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Effect#set_capital

[tall hare]

which file is it I am supposed to look in again?

also it only happens when I press start as a country

[pale sparrow]

(FYI set_capital didnt use brackets in a past version)

I feel old for knowing that

[tough lotus]

meta.yml

[tough lotus]

I know (because of fixing bugs related to whoever updated that version being lazy af)

[tall hare]

ok

[covert mirage]

thanks

also

how do i fix this

20:35:05][no_game_date][database_scoped_variables.cpp:266]: invalid database object for effect/trigger: artillery. use var:var_name to explicitly use variables in effects/triggers
[20:35:05][no_game_date][database_scoped_variables.cpp:266]: invalid database object for effect/trigger: cat_mechanized_equipment. use var:var_name to explicitly use variables in effects/triggers

theres many more of these

and for some context my mod IS UNPLAYABLE in 1.17

[tough lotus]

-crash_data_log? If it crashes that is

[covert mirage]

where is that

ive been sending stuff from errors file

[tough lotus]

launch option

If you have it on then you'll find the last line and file in meta.yml

[covert mirage]

how do i turn it on

[tough lotus]

It's a launch option

You turn it on the same way as -debug

[covert mirage]

i just type -crash_data_log in here?

[tough lotus]

yes

also put in -debug cause it's just very usefull when modding

Separate lauch options with a space

[covert mirage]

aha alr and where should the meta.yml appear

or the file

[tough lotus]

In the crash folder

[covert mirage]

in here?

[covert mirage]

alr also

i found something odd

i js assign this province to Manchuckuo and it should fix the thing?

[tough lotus]

province without a state, put it in that manchu state it's next to and you should be fine

[covert mirage]

okay so

i got

the crash thing

which one

nvm found the error file inside the logs folder

and holy shit

[tough lotus]

meta.yml

Show file extensions ffs

[covert mirage]

alr second

[tough lotus]

the lauch option wasn't on when that particular crash happened so it's not there

Should be something like this

[covert mirage]

alr wait let me delete

these folders

[swift fjord]

Anyone know of any good and up to date generic portrait (generals and leaders) mods?

[jade hazel]

Russian Empire vs Russian Empire vs Russian Empire

because yes

[outer widget]

has anyone else had any issues with reassigning ownership of some of the chinese states when modding

i get a dlc checksum error when trying to boot the game

well

i got

i just gave up on those provinces lol

[north wave]

What are you actually trying to do

Like

[outer widget]

i was just changing the state owner to a different country

and adding core

[north wave]

Changing the ownership of the chinese states?

Oh thats easy

You have to like enter the states folder

And then inside there's going to be like

[outer widget]

ive done it with some states

[north wave]

Oh

[outer widget]

just not a couple ones that have dlcs attached

they break my game lol

im not worried about it at the moment i like how the country i made looks

[north wave]

Yeah because of the state numbers

If your state ids and paradox' state ids is same on different state that might be the reason

[outer widget]

wdym?

[north wave]

Like if you made new states with new Ids

[outer widget]

nonono

[north wave]

And if those id numbers are also used by the paradox

[outer widget]

not new states

[north wave]

Ah ok

I see I see

[north wave]

What kind of mod are u working on

Focused on map?

[outer widget]

rn im just editing map

then ill do focuses and whatever

[north wave]

South asian countries?

[outer widget]

all over the place

what i was doing was replacing mongolia and giving it extra states

[north wave]

Wait

Like a total overhaul (?

[outer widget]

kinda

mainly just a shitpost mod

[north wave]

Lol

Are u like new to the modding or somewhat experienced

[outer widget]

new

this will be my first

[obtuse condor]

Not over

[north wave]

Ohh good luck then

[tall hare]

why does it become that little island

[sturdy galleon]

How do you make custom maps in modding? Like i've seen some mods confine the the map to specific areas or add new places/provinces that dont exist??

[rocky isle]

anyone know best fps mods for 1.17+

[rare grove]

Thoughts?

(1800-1815 French Focus Tree)

[outer widget]

cant rlly read its blurry

but looks swag

[shadow fog]

hello

[lament pine]

hey guys, I am working on a mod and was wondering if someone could help me figure out this weird bug(I am new to modding): I was editing the country leader for belgium and luxembourg and the portraits for some reason don't work. They work for all the other countries like France and czechoslovakia, but not belgium and luxembourg for some reason! Can someone help please!

[shut dawn]

There are a few focuses that unnecessarily drop 2 spaces for no apparent reason. Also that staircase at the bottom is a bit strange but not particularly bad, just something that stands out.

Also, for the future if you want to show a whole tree without it being blurry, you could try treesnap. It makes a clear image of the tree you ask it to look through. https://github.com/malashin/hoi4treesnap

[foggy glacier]

i just installed RT56 and this goofy cat appears in the doctrine menu now

[rare grove]

that staircase is for the 1814-1815 part of the focus tree idk what else to add to that

[shut dawn]

I can't really give a suggestion of what to add there without seeing the tree more clearly and knowing some backstory. My suggestion was more about structure. People like choice, and sometimes going down a long string bums people out. I'd suggest that if there are any focuses in that chain that don't necessarily require the prior focus to be done, maybe put them next to each other first. That way the player gets a little more agency and it makes things look nicer.

[rare grove]

This imo

[near glacier]

is there a mod that adds diplomatic options like white peace and land trading?

or like earlier surrendering for rp?

[tough lotus]

conditional surrender is a thing in vanilla

[near glacier]

i know

but its finnicy

[north wave]

Do you personally think that scripted peace deals are better?

For the AI at least

[placid basin]

is this where i can advertize a mod im making?

cuz i need coders

[shut dawn]

Are you coding too, or are you planning on dictating everything to a bunch of coders?

[placid basin]

i dont know how to code

[shut dawn]

You should probably learn if you want to make a mod.

[placid basin]

i was told that most modders do it for free

[shut dawn]

They do, but they don't typically volunteer to do the bidding of some random ideas guy

I don't know of many modding teams that are led by someone who can't code at least a little.

[placid basin]

i've tried to learn and it didn't help at all

[shut dawn]

What kind of mod are you trying to make anyway? Is it some kind of total conversion that takes place in a completely different world/time than the base game?

[placid basin]

it takes place in 2028

do you want to know the lore

[tough lotus]

When that happens it's usually that the lead stepped down and handed their role to a gfx artist

Doesn't know how to code but is still important

[placid basin]

yeah for my mod i think of like path ideas

and the major lore

[shut dawn]

I mean this in the most constructive way possible. There are countless total conversion mods for plenty of games started by a person who just wants to be an ideas guy and delegate all the game work to other people. Very few ever get anywhere, for good reason. People who can't code don't usually understand the scope or feasibility of their ideas. Even if you don't want to code for the mod, you should do a bit of reading on it to learn how it works.

[placid basin]

i realize that it will take a while

[shut dawn]

I'm not saying it'll take a while

[placid basin]

and i already said i tried to learn how to code and it just didn't click

[shut dawn]

You should probably try again

[tough lotus]

Unless you somehow get a really big team, having people entirely dedicated to design is a massive waste of resources

[shut dawn]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding - I'd suggest reading the wiki. Plenty of people watch a single tutorial, don't figure out how to make a .mod file and then give up.

[placid basin]

that's what i'm trying to do, get a big team

[placid basin]

i already have some work done on the mod but the guy who was doing the coding decided to quit

[shut dawn]

And I'm telling you that you won't get a bunch of people volunteering to commit hundreds of hours into just making your ideas while you dictate it to them

[shut dawn]

That tends to happen a lot with idea-guy led mods.

[tough lotus]

You get a big team by having a functional mod, mostly

Devs don't volunteer for random projects in early stages of development

[undone snow]

Yo, quick question, any way i can search for pictures for National spirits fast?

Wiki doesnt seem to show me em

In modding

[placid basin]

am i allowedto advertize here at least

[shut dawn]

Don't think any of us are server staff. #server-rules would be the place to look for that kind of thing

[shut dawn]

They should be in gfx\interface\goals. You'd need to find the national focuses file in the interface folder though to have the proper name to reference

[undone snow]

I think i already found the Ideas Picture files

Just that it‘s a bit of a drag looking through everything when i dont rlly know how it looks like

[tough lotus]

Some dds viewer will allow you to open them

[shut dawn]

Oh you're looking for ideas, not national focus icons. Yeah, you'd want to use paint.net or some other photo editing app that's not MS Paint

[tough lotus]

And their name is usually the same as the idea they're for

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Category:National_spirit_icons

Should also work for vanilla icons

[undone snow]

Genuinely thank you so much

[tough lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/yippee-yippee-gif-yippee-cat-gif-12933084691297211872

[undone snow]

ideas = {
country = {
VEN_Scars_of_Mr.Juan = {
picture = POL_sanation_right_opposition_4
allowed = {
original_tag = VEN
modifier = {
political_power_gain = -0.25
stability = -0.10
war_support = -0.25
monthly_stability_gain = -0.005
}
}
}
}
}

Why is VS code underlining country

Like its a problem

Anyone know why?

[tough lotus]

The extension marks it but it's one of the many false positives it gives

[undone snow]

So my National Spirit will work?

[tough lotus]

Yes

[undone snow]

K

The Idea isn‘t showing up, is it cause the game thinks its a hidden idea or sum cuz i dont know-

[undone snow]

It‘s not showing up when i make a new game

[glass acorn]

My extension doesn't seem to highlight country

Interesting

[ancient vapor]

Yo

Is my cosmetic tag good?

YERRIKAN_neutrality: "Jag'rain of Yerrikan"

or something else is needed?

[north wave]

So

To make that work

You have to put the idea at countries file, which is at the history folder

[undone snow]

Soooo, do i switch country and ideas?

Like in my code that i wrote

[tough lotus]

no

[undone snow]

What do i do then

[tough lotus]

For the idea to show up you have to give it to a country, either in a history/countries file if you want it to be added on startup or in a national focus, an event, a decision or a balance of power if you want it to show up at some point during gameplay

[undone snow]

ah

[tough lotus]

on_actions also work for both cases

[undone snow]

So i make an history/countries file and my code there?

Like how it says in the 3rd tutorial vid of hoi4

[tough lotus]

You're gonna have to copy a basegame one, the code for the idea has to stay in common/ideas.

You just add add_ideas = { }

[undone snow]

Ah

[tough lotus]

With the name of the idea inside the brackets

[undone snow]

It‘s still not showing up 😭

[undone snow]

I copy n pasted the country files of Venezuela

And added in the add_ideas = {
Scars_of_Mr.Juan
}

[undone snow]

WHY ISNT IT SHOWING UP FAHHHHHHHH

[north wave]

Uhh

It doesnt have country ID

Maybe thats why

[undone snow]

Like the tag?

OH

You mean the hashtag

After VEN

Also uh

I added localisation too

And uh for country files

I delete the country file from Venezuela that i pasted and just added add_ideas = {
Scars_of_Mr.Juan
}

Would that also work?

Cuz chatgpt said that i should do that so the national spirit can popup

Btw uh

Shouldnt i do tag instead of original_tag

?

[tough lotus]

That's just standardized naming scheme, it doesn't have to be there but everyone puts it there for organizational purposes

[tough lotus]

Venezuela will have no characters

Or army

Or navy

or airforce if they start with one

[undone snow]

Ok well still nothing happened when i started the game with it

[tough lotus]

Every country needs a history file and there can only be one per county

[undone snow]

I genuinely have no idea what im doing wrong

I can send pictures of my code

[tough lotus]

Is the file in the correct place?

The idea has to be in any common/ideas .txt file

[undone snow]

Wait hol on

[tough lotus]

Venezuela's history file has to be history/countries/VEN - Venezuela.txt

[undone snow]

Do i also send localisation?

[tough lotus]

The . might be causing an issue, replace it with an _

[undone snow]

Ok

I replaced all of em

[tough lotus]

Also delete that random txt in the first line of the file

[undone snow]

K did that too

[tough lotus]

add_ideas has to be it's own block, move it outside of set_polpularities

[undone snow]

Like this?

[tough lotus]

Now set_popularities has a closing bracket too many

But yes

Like that

[undone snow]

I fixed that but

Now theres like 50 Problems-

[tough lotus]

Ignore that extension, it's awful most of the time

[undone snow]

Alright

Also uh maybe it‘s important to note that im kinda working on the mod in GitHub, but in GitHub i open VS code

[undone snow]

Which should also be ok right?