modding

[mortal pilot]

how do i change city names?

i can't find the localisation file for it

[pale sparrow]

victory_points

[mortal pilot]

thanks

[ashen radish]

why am i having this warning

[pale sparrow]

Localizing that token shows it at the top of the focus tree menu IIRCZ

[ashen radish]

for some reason it just doesnt work

pretty sure i did everything right

focus works tho, but name and description dont

[pale sparrow]

Could be a false positive

[ashen radish]

okay i got it to work, just deleted this .yml i had and copied the vanilla game one and added my country focus name

but still this 1 warning is getting on my nerves

[unreal sorrel]

I think the localisation for the focus tree name is only used in tooltips for loading the focus tree (load_focus_tree = aden_focus)

So it usually isn’t required

[ashen radish]

so i can just ignore the warning is that what you are saying?

[unreal sorrel]

Yes

[warped jewel]

i restarted making a focus tree

the old one was too direct

[lofty plaza]

Good start

[radiant sky]

Hi. I want to make a small change to LAR_Spain.txt file. In my mod, do I need to provide the full original file (plus my edit of course) or is there a way to merge original and my change?

[undone snow]

Dubss

[warped jewel]

britain this is literally against you

[warped jewel]

yes

copy it

or else everything else will be gone

[radiant sky]

got it thanks. So I will have to maintain the file up to date as new versions come. Fine. One more thing, how do I add a thumbnail to my mod?

[warped jewel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7zIU3L2eUs&list=PL6EAZcF5cWbg57Srq6BTVvguMl6YfP9pG

it has how to add a thumbnail

[mortal pilot]

ancient_light_infantry = {
abbreviation = "ALI"
sprite = infantry
map_icon_category = infantry

    priority = 600
    ai_priority = 200
    active = no

    type = {
        infantry
    }
    
    group = infantry
    
    categories = {
        category_front_line
        category_light_infantry
        category_all_infantry
        category_army
    }
    
    combat_width = 2
    
    #Size Definitions
    max_strength = 25
    max_organisation = 60
    default_morale = 0.3
    manpower = 1000

    #Misc Abilities
    training_time = 90
    suppression = 1.5
    weight = 0.5
    
    supply_consumption = 0.06

    need = {
        infantry_equipment = 100
    }

    enable_subunits = {
        infantry_equipment_0
    }
}

why is this not working

it worked fine for cavalry

[radiant sky]

I added the thumbnail file. And edited my mod file., descriptor file. I reuploaded the mod to Steam. But it shows no image

[pale sparrow]

Your PNG might be the wrong size?

[radiant sky]

ah that was it. Nice thx

[mortal pilot]

can someone tell me this?

[tough lotus]

Funnily enough when I was uploading the fixed version of player led it wouldn't accept player led's thumbnail

[pale sparrow]

Enable subunits is a technology argument, thats a unit definition

[mortal pilot]

the official guide did something like that

and like it's working for the other thing i made

ancient_light_cavalry = {
abbreviation = "ALC"
sprite = cavalry
map_icon_category = other
priority = 599
ai_priority = 200
active = yes
cavalry = yes

    type = { infantry }
    
    group = mobile
    
    categories = {
        category_front_line
        category_cavalry
        category_army
    }

    
    combat_width = 2
    
    #Size Definitions
    max_organisation = 70
    max_strength = 25
    default_morale = 0.3
    manpower = 1000

    #Misc Abilities
    maximum_speed = 0.6
    training_time = 120        
    weight = 0.5
    
    supply_consumption = 0.06

    #Offensive Abilities
    suppression = 2

    need = {
        infantry_equipment = 120
    }

    enable_subunits = {
        infantry_equipment_0
    }

    forest = {
        attack = -0.05
    }

    hills = {
        attack = -0.05
    }

    mountain = {
        attack = -0.1
        movement = -0.05
    }

    jungle = {
        attack = -0.1
    }

    urban = {
        attack = -0.05
    }

    amphibious = {
        attack = -0.4
    }
}

it works for this

the other doesn't even appear

[pale sparrow]

Because that has active = yes

The enable subunits is still wrong Im 99% certain

[mortal pilot]

oh

[pale sparrow]

active = yes means it needs no tech

thats the case for equipment and apparently also unit types

[mortal pilot]

how can i do it right then

connect it to a tech i mean

[pale sparrow]

  ancient_light_cavalry
}```

inside the tech IIRC

[mortal pilot]

oh

i have another problem actually

[mortal pilot]

this just shows random pics for the battalion

[pale sparrow]

Im guessing map_icon_category = other isnt a thing

[mortal pilot]

that's what it was using for normal cavalry

[pale sparrow]

Ah, youre right

[mortal pilot]

i tried replacing it with cavalry but it gave an error

where even is the map_icon_category list

[hasty wedge]

just created a teaser image for my overhaul mod

[warped jewel]

how do i start a civil war using the focus tree and make it so that the other side cant call other faction members

[undone snow]

Nice bro

[undone snow]

What are you overhauling?

[hasty wedge]

it's a total overhaul

it's a fantasy/historical-allegory mod

it's based off of a DnD campaign i once did

but it doesnt have magic or anything like that

so in that way it's realistic

[undone snow]

Ah kk

[obsidian dune]

guys do you think this looks alright?

[shut dawn]

Looks pretty neat. The text of the book being in English is a bit odd, but if you’re scaling this down to an event pic hardly anybody will notice

That for a pre-war fallout mod or something?

[sick torrent]

6 7

[echo sphinx]

Would it be possible to make a new puppet type that can’t deploy or form division’s?

[ancient vapor]

Yo

Anyone know if it's possible to do something like

A leader retires and another one gets put?

Like i know its possible but i can't find the way

[pale sparrow]

promote_character is the easiest way to switch leader

[ancient vapor]

ok thanks

[ancient vapor]

Ok and what if the character already has the country_leader role?

[sleek plume]

hey uhh

i kind of want reccomendations for a mod

is there any mods where like

how do i explain this

idk i wanna play a country surrounded by neighbors at my level as a minor nation and just annex them to prepare for other countries 😭

kind of like hoi4 agar.io

[ancient vapor]

then play agar.io?

[sleek plume]

i thought of tno (Russian reunification) and eaw (griffonia for example, all the majors are on equestria imo aside from republic empire etc)

[sleek plume]

does agar.io have tanks and cas?

what i meant was I like

wanna play as a minor nation and gobble up my neighbors without having to worry about the uk

or smth like that

[ancient vapor]

ok then play tno

and form the holy russian empire or something

[sleek plume]

last time i played tno the meta was like

iirc elite infantry spam in russian reunification?

plus last tiem i checked tno sucks and is getting worse

cause they keep on removing stuff

and i'd be fine with it if they replaced it

specifically with something better

or at least dated

i mean like

whats the opposite of "Outdated"

[ancient vapor]

ok then

Kaiserreich Italy or something

[sleek plume]

this was before ncns btw

could try my next sba run

do they have subdoctrines yet?

[ancient vapor]

in tno?

[sleek plume]

yeah

i know kaissereich has it

[ancient vapor]

i dont have it

[sleek plume]

they're vanilla+ imo

idk

i like vanilla+ mods

because i feel like the vanilla tech tree system is good

the problem is

that if you got oo far

and you didn't get your army or air focuses in 1939 or smth

or like

1938 or 1937 methinks

its just like

the research bonuses become outdated if it's not something like air or tanks

so i do like mods like rt56

or mods that have alternative tech trees to offset that to where you can play for longer

like owb

for example

along with uhh

tfr to an extent i guess?

their tech tree is mid

but it's large enough to where i like

sorry i yap a lot

[sleek plume]

expanding on that, i think the tank chassis should be more relevant

[ancient vapor]

idk i dont have No step back

[sleek plume]

yeah

imo i feel like i'd have to brainstorm based on actual history

[ancient vapor]

Why don't you make your own mod then?

[sleek plume]

because i'm not a coder

and i need antidepressants to be healthy but ofc i don't have any

doesn't help that i haven't taken adhd meds in weeks

i have mental health issues and i do not think i have the motivation to play with hoi4's spaghetti code untill i can actually make something i am proud of, let alone the willpower to keep going when it's inconvenient, especially when i can't or don't even read theory when i do want to read theory

the speed, reliability, and armor buffs of the vanilla chassis seem to be historically accurate

too bad none of these stats matter enough :(

hear me out

hear me out

what if

there was a mod that integrated the armor and speed ticks into the chassis rather than having them as seperate upgrades

im just brainstorming ideas here

[lofty plaza]

You could really try to condense those messages a tad

[heady glade]

guys do you think it would be a good idea to create a mod about the book Project Hail Mary?

[timid moss]

are there any american prohibition related mods?

[nimble solar]

Kaiserredux allows you to do prohibition as the Progressive Party

But no mobsters or anything

That just doesn't translate well into hoi4

[timid moss]

yeah i was mostly looking for al capone prohibition thanks anyway though

[pale sparrow]

Then promote_character, if they dont its add_country_leader_role

Vanilla more often just retires the old person and makes sure the new one is next in line but Im not a fan of that

[tender hamlet]

Hi Im New To Modding

Ive Started Making A New "WW2 In Modern Day" Mod

Rn Im On Flags

Can You All Tell Me If Its Good

Axis

Allies

[glass acorn]

Bit of an over reliance on circular symbols/iconography in circles

Also with flags, less is typically more, flags need to be recognizable yet symbolic and simple to reproduce

[icy fable]

Maybe the China Reich should have the same red on the entire flag

[frozen bobcat]

when is someone gonna make a 1.17 states mod? kovas sucks ass and there are literally none on the workshop that work anymore

believe me i dug so deep

cant find a single map states border besides kovas

[wet sequoia]

someone gotta make a Lebanese focus tree

or I'll make it but idk how to make a focus tree

[shut dawn]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/National_focus_modding

This should have just about everything you need to know about National focus modding. The site also had everything you’d need to know relating to events, triggers, effects, etc

[lone juniper]

Is it difficult to make mods for Hoi4

[wet sequoia]

thank you will check it out

[ancient vapor]

Not as hard as other games atleast

[ancient vapor]

Ok ima test that one out

[wet sequoia]

what's a good number if focuses for a country like Lebanon

[lone juniper]

tbf i wont mod since am an idiot squared at programming

[undone snow]

Well its a pretty small country, but i think it has rich history, i‘d say like for the political tree like, 100 focuses? Maybe 100-120ish?

[undone snow]

Like 40 focuses for each ideology ingame

[undone snow]

Uh wait no

Thats 160 focuses then

Probs 160 focuses for the political tree for like the 4 ideologies, if you want to keep it simple

15-10 focuses for the economic/industry branch

And overall for the military which is ground forces, air forces and sea forces 30 focuses

10 each

In total 205 focuses

Making focuses is pretty simple, you just copy n paste your last focus, edit it, and move to the next focuses

[wet sequoia]

ight

I have a plan on who I want in power but idk what to do for political focuses

[undone snow]

Idk like how you want to do it, i just made a recommendation like 40 focuses for each ideology communism, democracy, fascism and non-aligned

[wet sequoia]

no like what should thr focuses be

like

[undone snow]

?

[wet sequoia]

daily ideology support

enemy ideology reducution

[undone snow]

Depends on how you want to plan it out

like which path should have a civil war? Which path will have what benefits?

will any path even have a civil war?

you‘ll have to plan it out before starting

Like make a concept first, and when ur done with thinking, just start coding

So you wont have to think about it on the fly yk?

[mild inlet]

So

To anyone alive

Ive heard so much about this kaissereich mod that is supposedly amazing

Yet I find nothing

Is it named smth specific (does it exist?) 😭

[undone snow]

Wdym you cant find it? Also its called Kaiserreich

It is probably the best mod you could get from the hoi4 workshop

[mild inlet]

Im not seeing a real one

Js 0 star bad attempts

[undone snow]

In filters do most subscribed

[mild inlet]

Kaiserdevs im guessing

I retried it a billion times and these guys finally popped up

[undone snow]

so you found it?

[mild inlet]

Yea based on the reviews Im guessing this is it

Looks good too

[undone snow]

If its correct, enjoy

[brave veldt]

i need hoi4 old world blues discord server limk

[lone juniper]

whats the original player led peace conference mod

[ancient vapor]

Uhh

Guys

Anyone know how to make a rivers.bmp?

I'm pretty sure the Amazonas shouldn't be here

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1521695605 and it's schizophrenic cousin https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2076426030

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336> 3 times I'll let you guess which scam it is this time

[azure elk]

hello there

so basically i was trying to use some dynamic modifiers

` timeout_effect = {
YUG = { declare_war_on = { target = SKA type = annex_everything } }

        add_dynamic_modifier = { modifier = SKA_surprise_attack_modifier }
        
        set_variable = { SKA_surprise_attack_defense_var = -0.35 }
        set_variable = { SKA_surprise_attack_training_var = 0.15 }
        set_variable = { SKA_surprise_attack_org_var = -0.20 }
        set_variable = { SKA_surprise_attack_planning_var = -0.30 }
        set_variable = { SKA_surprise_attack_st_var = -0.25 }
        set_variable = { SKA_surprise_attack_ws_var = 0.05 }
        set_variable = { SKA_surprise_attack_pp_var = -0.20 }

    }`

and yes, i already put the variable stuff

`SKA_surprise_attack_modifier = {
# This modifier scales based on the variable below

icon = GFX_idea_generic_army_problems

army_defence_factor = SKA_surprise_attack_defense_var
training_time_factor = SKA_surprise_attack_training_var
army_org_factor = SKA_surprise_attack_org_var
planning_speed = SKA_surprise_attack_planning_var
stability_factor = SKA_surprise_attack_st_var
war_support_factor = SKA_surprise_attack_ws_var
political_power_factor = SKA_surprise_attack_pp_var

}`

but, it doesnt show on the ideas tab, i was trying to make something like the USSR ideas in which every time a focus is completed the idea is modified

does anyone know more about this dynamic modifiers stuff?

[09:28:50][1936.01.01.15][effectimplementation.cpp:19338]: common/decisions/timed_decisions.txt:38: add_dynamic_modifier Invalid dynamic modifier SKA_surprise_attack_modifier

found this error line

[quiet berry]

yeah its essentially a national spirit but the modifiers are linked to variables

[pale sparrow]

Presumably you made some sort of syntax mistake in the file where you put this

[ashen radish]

any kind soul that can explain to a complete idiot in shortest lines possible how to make event that changes country leader on a certain date, i want first colonial administrator to retire and then day after the second one takes over

[warped jewel]

how do i increase equipment production base speed and stuff using national spirit

[warped jewel]

nvm i found it

[warped jewel]

ey this is pretty good

[undone snow]

Yo that looks pretty nice

[warped jewel]

union in aden adds core to province of aden and fortify aden removes core of everyone else cause it matters LOL

<@&846894118219022336>

bro what

is this

<@&846894118219022336>

[ashen radish]

Its a bot

He clicked on link and got his account hacked

[warped jewel]

<@&846892247651057716> <@&846892188725673984>

[warped jewel]

[ashen radish]

I dont know how people still fall for that shit

Im actually sobbing

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336> you're slacking

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/On_actions#on_startup is the most reliable way to trigger an event on a specific date. https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Effect#promote_character is great for assigning a new country leader (assuming they already have the correct role)

[rose heath]

Any clue how do I change modifiers on a colony state?

for example have it give you more resources or manpower

[warped jewel]

nope

[ashen radish]

I need leader to change around 1940 i can do that with those too?

[tough lotus]

You can use on_startup to fire an event a certain amount of days in the future, with the trigger = { in the event acting as requirements that have to be true for it to actually firewhen the time comes

Keep in mind that hoi4 has no leap years though

[ruby raft]

what programming language is used to mod?

[tough lotus]

Doesn't have an official name, you can call it PDX script (or just the script)
https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding

There is some lua involved but it's so minimal you don't actually have to learn it

[ashen radish]

Will give it a shot when i get home tonight

[warped jewel]

how do i make it that ideological popularity has 3 decimal points instead of two?

like for example instead of 76.85, use 76.852?

[swift dove]

why you ping them so much

[tough lotus]

I only pinged them once

There were multiple scam messages

[warped jewel]

better

[oblique crag]

tuff?

[sleek plume]

hey is this a good template?

[winter glacier]

？

[nimble solar]

Go to the tfr server

[sleek plume]

i don't like them very much

[nimble solar]

Well, most people here play vanilla

[sleek plume]

ik

[nimble solar]

Personally, that doesn't look that good from my limited knowledge of the mod

You really need SPAA in that mod from my experience

[sleek plume]

as someone who is playing tfr rn i don't like people who play tfr

[nimble solar]

True

[ashen radish]

I have been trying to figure this out for like 2 hours but im apparently too dumb, modding is extremely new to me and i basically need a "guide dog" I wanna learn tho but i need someone to walk me through it for the first time

[pulsar steppe]

Pros I saved the USA cons.....the enclave rules all!

https://tenor.com/view/enclave-fallout-scream-if-you-love-gif-14963596946908880716

[lofty plaza]

I don't know much about tfr but I'm gonna lean no not at all

[sleek plume]

yeah uhh update: added a motorized division and i won the 2acw with this

like

the hardness is op 😭

I killed so many fascists and neonazis with this

[lofty plaza]

Alright fair enough

[sleek plume]

won it way faster than i would with infantry divisions

high speed, less terrain penalties (yes ya heard me right, tfr is not a good mod imo but i'm playing it cause bored), decent hardness and uhh
yeah

the 2acw is fought with a bunch of militia divisions

[mortal pollen]

tfr combat is so ass

[sleek plume]

and they're horrible quality

idk i'm kind of a fan of their technology system

[sleek plume]

eaw no diffs tfr in every way ever buuuut i just like high speed motorized along with other stuff

the only thing i have to complain with is eaw's development system

but even then, the paperclip system balances it out

also another thing i can compliment tfr on is their hyper-buffed intellegence system

[lofty plaza]

Apparently so

Apparently a division with under 100 soft attack is okay

[golden totem]

Fire icons

Is there a reason that the flags are showing upside down in game?

its only become an issue when i added flags for texas, any other flags ive added are normal

[oak pivot]

Hellooo, do fps maps still exist? I mean for like current version? All the ones I have are outdated and I can't seem to find any. And I only want them because I like the colour schemes and they look cooler, not for the fps part.

[sleek plume]

Kaisserredux better

[tough lotus]

A mod being outdated doesn't matter if you haven't tested it to see if it still works

[oak pivot]

I have and it doesn't. Sorry I should have made it clearer that it doesn't work. It just stays default whenever I enable it.

[tough lotus]

I'm like 99% certain fps map works

[oak pivot]

Could you possibly name a specific one, please?

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2404689961

[oak pivot]

Thank you very much kind sir.

[shadow steppe]

is NCNS genuinely required for mods to function (the ones that list it as a requirement)?

[tough lotus]

Not required (as in, the mod will run) but you shouldn't expect them to have accounted for you playing without the dlc. Same as with all required dlc really.

[shadow steppe]

thank you

its just so damn expensive without anything to meaningful to add, and im already missing arms against tyranny and gotteradamaungstuff

[swift field]

im gonna add to my hoi4 mod Assault gun tanks

[warped jewel]

this looks COOL

[mortal pollen]

ima be real i had this issue and all i did was turn the flag upside down

[tough lotus]

Works

<@&846894118219022336> I'd have a scam message for you

[ancient vapor]

@tough lotus

Do you have any recommendations on how to make focus trees?

Like i got very basic ones, even for an alpha

[undone snow]

Wdym

[warped jewel]

from 109.97 KB to 111.2 KB just because i added 7 focuses lol

[ancient vapor]

Like, how many branches there should be, how many boosts should it give, how long they should be, etc

[warped jewel]

take the generic focus tree for example

this one

use this as your base and add make your own focus tree by copy pasting

and add a buff or two

[tough lotus]

Not really, I just start and then expand it based on vibes

-# Does lead to feature creep, you need to find a limit

Of course a bigger, more important country where it is easier to find sufficient information will have a bigger focus tree than a more insignificant one

[undone snow]

Looks pretty good brotato love it 👍

[warped jewel]

i havent added any completion rewards yet

[ashen radish]

@tough lotus managed to get the event done with assistance from some lad in other modding server, thank you too

[tough lotus]

I knew that thread seemed familiar

[warped jewel]

this will work right

[tough lotus]

It should

As long as you do it correctly

Any basegame focus / decision / event / etc that references the old state might have to be updated though

[warped jewel]

it crashed.

it says nothing about map

the thing is

this also happens when i followed the yt tutorial

using nudge tool

i am an idiot

[tough lotus]

It crashes because you're not in debug mode

Debug bypasses that failsafe

[warped jewel]

are you serious

[tough lotus]

That error is programmed to not show up in debug

So you can get into the nudger and fix it

[warped jewel]

what error

[tough lotus]

that

window

[warped jewel]

how do i make it stop without debug

[tough lotus]

You fix the errors

[warped jewel]

but what error

i dont see any

[warped jewel]

it just crashes without an error

[undone snow]

First you make it, then you perfect it

[warped jewel]

fr

[ashen radish]

Its insane how helpful ai can be with character portraits for some obscure historical characters that either have photos that were taken with a toaster or no photos at all online,

[pale sparrow]

Ive been very impressive restorations of even worse pics

[ancient vapor]

ok

[ancient vapor]

Ok but what if its completely new countries?

[dawn bolt]

is this destroyer to slow

[tough lotus]

Yes

[dawn bolt]

righty thank you

could probably throw more engines on

[mint oar]

the decision dosnt show up if i dont remove all the state triggers, so how do i structure it properly?

[pale sparrow]

I imagine you want those in available so the decision shows but isnt takeable with them false

[mint oar]

wait is that the only problem lmao?

[pale sparrow]

Looks like it

[mint oar]

damn

thx

[pale sparrow]

The state ones I mean
The other 3 checks seem good for visible

[bright sonnet]

I am having a very odd issue, maybe It's common, maybe It isn't.
I made a mod, by myself, with little to zero experience, where I added new decisions for Germany and Japan, which can change their flag.

It works! It worked perfectly, until I uploaded it to the Workshop.
It just doesn't load!
I have tried everything, every file is identical to the original one before I uploaded it.

I activate only the workshop version? I load in, zero decisions, I try and use the command to force change my cosmetic tag to one of the custom flags I put in? Doesn't work, the debug box goes empty.
I've never had this issue with any other game before when uploading something, so, any help would be appreciated greatly.

[tough lotus]

The game doesn't like having 2 mods with the same name

Even if one isn't loaded

[bright sonnet]

That could be it?

[tough lotus]

That will be it

[bright sonnet]

Thank you! I will try and fix that

I never thought of that

I must ask, when you say "name", which one?

[tough lotus]

Easiest way to fix that is to move the .mod file for your local copy out of documents/paradox interactive/hearts of iron iv/mod

[bright sonnet]

Oh, well, that'll do then!

I will tell ya if it worked, thank you!

[bright sonnet]

It worked!

Thank you so much, I was so lost.
I'll remember that.
💙

[mint oar]

why does this not work, its a mission

its says invalid scope, but why would it be invalid, is it not a pretty simple scope?

[pale sparrow]

custom_trigger_tooltip doesnt work like that

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

[swift field]

im gonna add a FLEET carrier as a new SP

and as a new tech equipment

[mint oar]

does that break the other stuff aswell because that’s what i meant wasn’t working

[pale sparrow]

possibly

[desert gazelle]

guys, can yall tell me how to add custom music to the hoi4 music player?

[dreamy spire]

anyone knows where i can download up to date mods? not steam, i jsut want the raw files

[mint oar]

maybe...steam?

[dreamy spire]

how tho

[mint oar]

Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\394360

and then the folder which is the mod u want

[dreamy spire]

doesnt show the 394360 file

[mint oar]

have you ddownloaded a mod through the workshop before?

[dreamy spire]

nop

[mint oar]

do that then

[mint oar]

u just search up the mod and hit subscribe

[dreamy spire]

after that?

[tough lotus]

After that all of the mod's files will be there

In that folder, in a folder with the workshop file id

So for Rise of Nations (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2026448968) the files would be in Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\394360\2026448968

Just remember that if you're gonna use content from a mod in another mod you're making, you should ask for permission from the mod's development team

[mint oar]

then you go to that file location i sent earlier and all your subscribed mods will be inside that folder

to find the mod your looking for just look here:

[ashen radish]

@tough lotus sorry for ping, quick question,In british colonies there were many instances where certain people were colonial governors of multiple colonies (not at the same time tho) is there a way i can make a character belong to multiple countries at once or should i just make a clone of the same characater for another nation that he administrated

[tough lotus]

Make a clone, the same character can't be in 2 countries at the same time

[ashen radish]

thanks

[rare grove]

I am the Captain now

The Hanseatic League

[severe nest]

So um... I added this to my generic focus tree thing, and I can get the reactionaire_ethos to complete in-game, but I don't know how to add more below it.

I tried copying the nationalism focus as I did with the liberty ethos, but it hasn't worked for me.

[severe nest]

Update: I did a thing and basically did what I did before but now look!

The nation I am using as a testing base for all of my modding is Haiti by the way.

[lethal stone]

only 38 errors?

[severe nest]

Not trying to overwhelm the world with Artheocracy just yet, but I'll get there.

Though I have NO IDEA how to make a generic political advisor for the political party.

So I can passively gain influence instead of needing to ban parties for it.

[lethal stone]

like for all countries?

check history file

you can add more advisors by going into the country's file and adding it

[tawdry wagon]

Mod suggestion:
New germany path where the SS overthrows Hitler and becomes the "Volkssturm Reich", when this happens no, himmler does not become leader, the SS does. one of the many things about it is that instead of regular manpower laws, your manpower is based on how many people WANT to fight, you can do decisions overtime to increase this gaining up to 30% population, but things like losing major cities, staying in a war for too long, or other stuff causes it to go down drastically, which when you reach 80% surrender progress, a civil war can break out (notifying you 20 days in advance) because the people are "growing tired of the current regime". along with this, everyones (any country that isnt fascist or in the axis) base opinion of you is -50 because of "War Criminal Leader" and other countries are less likely to ally with you if they arent the same ideology. Also occasionally, divisions will be made on their own by the SS however they will use more equipment.

[nimble solar]

Reading this makes me question the hoi4 community.

Also PDX will vaporize any mods that mentions war crimes

They had to rename a focus in the Japanese tree because it was related to some very war crimey things

I think multiple times actually

[tawdry wagon]

really?

[nimble solar]

Yeah, something about the three policies

[tawdry wagon]

i mean instead of the reason war criminal leader it could be called Horrible Leader

[nimble solar]

They changed to intensify anti guerrilla policies or something like that

Turns out, kill all, loot all, burn all, was against PDX policies (rightfully so)

[tawdry wagon]

i js came up with the mod idea in my head cause i was thinking of germany while it was losing and i thought "what if there were a path to turn germany somewhat into that but like not actively losing (unless france kicks ur butt)"

[tawdry wagon]

what i mean by this is i was thinking abt germany using the volkssturm and i thought "what if that was used as their military from the beginning?"

[nimble solar]

Before the Germany rework, I was thinking they would add alt-history fascist paths possibly being Goering, Goebelles, and Himmler

[tawdry wagon]

i mean you CAN have one of them become your leader as germany

[nimble solar]

Or just goering and himmler since they already had those portraits

[nimble solar]

All three are possible to become leaders along with Speer, bormann, Hess, and totd

[tawdry wagon]

mhm

[nimble solar]

I was thinking that a Himmler path could have been a challenge path as no one would appease him

So you'd have to war over everything

[tawdry wagon]

actually

that gives me an idea

[tawdry wagon]

imagine if this was a path, but instead of the entirety of the SS ruling germany, it was himmler, and like you said, nobody would appease him so you would basically have to go to war for anything

[nimble solar]

Well Himmler and the SS are one...

[tawdry wagon]

so while trying to appease your citizens you would need to have quick wars to prevent the manpower loss

[nimble solar]

Either way, do we really need another nazi Germany mod in this game

[tawdry wagon]

eh not really, i just thought it would be a cool alt fascism path

[swift field]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383026142&searchtext=escort+carrier
i like this mod

[warped jewel]

lol while map modding i got 16500 something errors

[severe nest]

Checked history on vanilla and copied over general, seeing as it has the generic_advisors file. Added this, but do I need to go define artheocratic_advocate anywhere for it to work, or am I just dumb?

[severe nest]

This leads me to believe there is a place in the files I can define artheocratic_advocate, but I haven't the foggiest clue where the heck it is.

I tried to make this Luis guy one, but it doesn't work.

[warped jewel]

this is going great

even if i havent given them completion rewards yet

[lethal stone]

BRO EVERY TIME I MAP MOD

PMO

i cant map mod anymore

[severe nest]

The spaghetti I'm making of the political focus tree

[lethal stone]

looks amazing

i remember when i first started messing around with focus trees

[severe nest]

It's quite fun

[lethal stone]

i always do completion rewards first though just so i dont lose my train of thought for the tree

[severe nest]

I would love to know how to do that, though I also don't know how to define new modifiers to the game.

[lethal stone]

honestly the best way to learn is just to search through game files locally or on reddit or the hoi4 modding community discord

they have almost every bug you can think of unless ur looking at map bugs

[lethal stone]

or look at your favorite mods but dont reuse code just look at how they did it

[severe nest]

Funny thing

I have not used mods extensively enough for that

I have some I want to try eventually

[lethal stone]

like let me tell you something

the new doctrines system broke my mod so i had to find a way to get the old doctrines system back

[severe nest]

How did that go?

[lethal stone]

tried looking at other mods which got me thinking of making a tech tree for doctrines under research (so all old doctrines would go under tech tab) then just made a bypass self

[severe nest]

Sounds painstaking

[lethal stone]

i still found a workaround

after 8 hours

[severe nest]

Oh my

[lethal stone]

issue is that some of the old special forces tree: this does not load

so will need to find a bypass

[severe nest]

Good luck on your mission!

Meanwhile, I need to go back over some files, seems I might have neglected some things based on Reddit.

[swift field]

i wanna add new Special projects to my hoi4 multi mod

[echo kindle]

what's your mod?

[pale sparrow]

Hm I dont think the rules allow that sort of advertising, though you could open a ticket

[echo kindle]

i'm not advertising?

[swift field]

well

hold on

[pale sparrow]

Recruiting too I mean

Though if you ask in a ticket I assume you'll get an exception

[echo kindle]

ok

[swift field]

can i post the mod idea here

for giam

@pale sparrow

[pale sparrow]

sure

[pale sparrow]

Should be quite easy

[swift field]

alr

[warped jewel]

just use nudger to make random buildings

[lethal stone]

i did and the issue is that it says rocket and encampment are not defined for X state

[warped jewel]

yeah

[lethal stone]

i tried even revalidating it and i honestly dont know what the issue is

[warped jewel]

buildings

the issue is the buildings

just use random for all states

and save

[lethal stone]

i added the buildings onto the provinces and saved

[warped jewel]

then copy the map folder

into your mod

[lethal stone]

i also did try that too but reverted bc it did not work

[warped jewel]

do random for all states, then save then close hoi4 and open documents/paradox interactive/hearts of iron blah blah then move the map folder to the mod folder and move the map folder into your mod

try this once

if it doesnt work then show me your error

[lethal stone]

sure one second

[lethal stone]

still there

do you want to download the mod? i have it on a github repository

[warped jewel]

welp

idk

[lethal stone]

its okay thanks for trying to help out

[warped jewel]

no problem man

[sand mantle]

Is there a mod that makes nukes even more powerful

[warped jewel]

a dlc exists

called graveyard of empires

when playing british raj

as nuclear gandhi

[sand mantle]

I’m a Greece player

Now

[warped jewel]

play as british raj with GOE and watch a tutorial to get nuclear gandhi

[sand mantle]

what if I want to be communist Gandhi

[warped jewel]

you cant

[sand mantle]

Why …. Sharing is caring

So Gandhi doesn’t care ?

[warped jewel]

gandhi doesnt have a communist tree

it only has a m n roy communist tree

[sand mantle]

I want to mod now because if it

[warped jewel]

i am making a subhas chandra bose tree

and you speak of communist gandhi

[severe nest]

Error code generator achieved!

[pale sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/rookie-numbers-rookie-numbers-gif-gif-25047417

[severe nest]

Hehehehe

Though I know why it happened

Tech bypass galore for politics

[echo kindle]

I need Beta Testers for a new mod i'm making. Dm me so i can add you on steam (it's a closed alpha)

[lethal stone]

was able to fix that mod issue earlier

ty btw

[golden totem]

when i forget to disable decisions.nochecks when unpausing

[pulsar steppe]

What better to try first Kaiserredux or Kaiserreich?

[ancient vapor]

Yo, you are making an Avatar mod?

[ionic lion]

are there any mods that take place in the russan civil war

[warped jewel]

HUGE focus tree update to my mod

[lone juniper]

any mod that like gives paths for the african nations

[glass acorn]

I decided to make a mod that lets you utilize the old coup/boost popularity diplomatic actions while also having La Resistance on
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3641427979

[lethal stone]

hey does anyone know of a way to make the game switch to night mode through an event? is this possible?

[lethal stone]

yeah

[glass acorn]

I don't believe there is

[lethal stone]

do you think a good workaround would be using a custom interface

thats slightly transparent

[glass acorn]

Perhaps? It won't show the city lights though

I know there's a mod that makes it night 24/7 though

[lethal stone]

that one changes the shaders and gfx i think

[glass acorn]

Yeah

[swift field]

Anyone know a player only quicker focus tree mod or a hungary quicker focus mod

[lone juniper]

So like, is it very difficult to make mods

[spare crest]

Lion and Vanguard

[ancient vapor]

cool

[tough lotus]

no

Unless you're making a total conversion by yourself

[lone juniper]

Like if j wanna make a simple focus tree for Albania

[tough lotus]

There is a bit of a learing curve but overall it's not too hard

[lone juniper]

what if its to make albania own the whole world

though hella step amounts

[tough lotus]

Then you'll have to design all that content

The complication there is a creative one

Not necessarily a technical knowledge one

[lone juniper]

but is it mostly like programming or

is it something else

[lone juniper]

is it like a unique software or

imagine being a desperate challaneged scammer

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336> work for ya

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding

[sick torrent]

forgot this channel soz

[tough lotus]

😭

[lone juniper]

Thanks

[hot vine]

Is there an easy way to identify which of my mods is causing the game to crash

[pale sparrow]

Error log/disabling mods until it stops crashing

[hot vine]

Do nuclear power plants provde energy?
I want to know if I need to just wholesale turn off coal as something... dumb

[nimble solar]

Civilian reactors reduce power consumption by a lot

[native glacier]

I've been working on the industrial tree for Iceland, and wanted to have three choices for you, continue the shift of your industry towards fishing, go back to an agricultural country, or go for a forced shift towards heavy industry. But I thought I should add at least some risk to the heavy industry branch, since realistically, it would have been really difficult for Iceland do such a thing at the time. So, while the heavy industry route will give you the best buffs, resources, and such, it will come at a massive risk, a collapse of the economy if the deadline isn't met

[rare grove]

anyone know how to remove all the basegame loading screens and add a new one?

[icy fable]

What RGB color is the grey in the rivers map?

[icy fable]

Not sure, but you could probably add your own loadingscreens folder in gfx with your new loading screen

[icy fable]

Is it 133 133 133?

[past ocean]

Hey guys; could someone do me a mod which acts as a bug-fix for this:
the tank role starts in medium tank for ex.

now if u go artillery as a gun, you may not save this tamplet while in role medium tank.
you need to switch first.
if you got more experince in rules for tank and plane desinger, please dm me. well have a paid project.

[tough lotus]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/859580/Imperator_Rome/

Steam

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Price

$39.99

Recommendations

19447

Metacritic

76

[west vapor]

shush

that shit is dead

[coral radish]

doing a cavalry only run in kaiserredux as mongolia, what doctorine should i pick?

[lethal stone]

does anyone know how i can replace the new doctrines with the old doctrines? i was able to do it for land, navy, and airforce, but not with special forces

[tough lotus]

Special forces are still using the old doctrines

[icy fable]

What is the RGB color for the ocean in the rivers.bmp map?

The color picker in GIMP stopped working

[inland falcon]

literally does anybody know where i can find a countries division names Like the "Infanterie Division 1." Stuff just division names?

[lethal stone]

oh im stupid just didnt have the dlc active

[tough lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/sealyx-naked-gun-the-naked-gun-facepalm-facepalm-meme-gif-11743768702765397589

[regal monolith]

Is this mod tuff? I made it yesterday and i hope its compatible with other mods because i was trying to make it playable with anything.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3642113190

[fluid chasm]

hi stupid question but how do i delay between events ? im wanting event.1a outcome to come up as event.2 after 10 days but carnt seem to get it to work (it triggers right after event.1a)

[pale sparrow]

You have set it correctly, there must be some other issue

[fluid chasm]

found out im pretty stupid lol in event.1 i still had:

 mean_time_to_happen = {
    days = 1
}

[pale sparrow]

🔫

[golden totem]

Stacking nuclear power plants with dams makes it so there's no power consumption in that state

[fluid chasm]

in my defence ive only just started modding HOI4, today being my first day

[pale sparrow]

👏

Then making your first event is good progress

[fluid chasm]

thank you, ive learned basic focus tree's and events and to change cosmetic name and flags of nations i.e. austria to austria-hungary empire or austalia-hungary empire (dont ask lol)

[tough lotus]

Well, tomorrow will be your second day

Also australia-hungary is peak content don't let anyone tell you otherwise

[lethal stone]

does anyone know when paradox will finish updating shaders?

[tough lotus]

iirc Areho said the fix will come with the first war effort patch of this year

[lethal stone]

ty

[pale sparrow]

(PDX is still on vacation this week)

[severe nest]

How do I make a modifier for Artheocratic drift? I thought I was on track for it and couldn't get it to work.

The best I can guess is that there are three files involved, one for definitions, one for effects, and one for graphics.

[pale sparrow]

if you mean authoritarian drift its just

  neutrality_drift = 0.05
}```
In an idea

[dire violet]

does anyone know if i can disable the recruitment of a batallion based on national ideas?
i have a custom batallion and i want it disable unless the country has a specific national idea, is it posible?

[pale sparrow]

You could link it to a tech that unlocks the batallion but removing the tech wont block pre-existent templates from being deployed

[ancient vapor]

yo

you can add modifiers to focuses right?

[timber zenith]

make an idea to add the modifier to

then add the idea through the focus effect

[ancient vapor]

hmm ok

[lethal stone]

thx for letting me know. was able to find a temporary patch to shader issues breaking my mod meanwhile

:)

[grave mulch]

the fire may rise

[tall hare]

Uh

I kinda forgot to mod

should I start again?

[tough lotus]

[tall hare]

I just been busy

😎

Should I start again

[tall hare]

Should I ?

Is my mod even a good idea

hmmm

[tough lotus]

Don't remember everyone's mods

[tall hare]

Germany and Russia won ww1

[lethal stone]

the fire nation is invading ba sing se

trust

[tall hare]

What

🤔

What this

[lethal stone]

avatar the last airbender mod

[tall hare]

Tuff

well

i cant get focus tree ideas 😭

[lethal stone]

Hmmmm

[tall hare]

Super hard

trying to make one for Germany

[lethal stone]

I am bad at focus trees

The own mod I'm working on doesn't even have focus trees

😔

[tall hare]

Why

[lethal stone]

Everything through decisions and events

Focus trees limit different paths and gameplay

[tall hare]

Should I remake UI for my mod 🤔

[lethal stone]

If you want

[tall hare]

and add like more advisors

[lethal stone]

Your mod looks pretty cool

[lethal stone]

Open the advisors or political ui for germany

[tall hare]

I mean

havent changed anything

not added those yet

trying to make focus tree for now

[lethal stone]

Map looks nice though that's a big W

Looks like you used that one mod's shaders

Or did you make the shaders yourself

Either way it looks amazing visually

One thing is that you misspelled Belgium

[tall hare]

made them myself

No

its in German

[lethal stone]

Ah ok

[tall hare]

but is it hard to like have them be multiple

advisors and such

[lethal stone]

No

Trust just look through documentation

[lethal stone]

Any advice aesthetics wise? Should I change the pdxwater? @tall hare

Or the font

[tall hare]

I tried gfx

[tall hare]

Yes def

make it darker

[vast hedge]

make servers on

[tall hare]

@lethal stone I know just how to make it better

[lethal stone]

?

[tall hare]

Make it like

not fully black

make it a less darker

my water is fully dark

[ancient vapor]

Yeah looks good

[cloud pier]

does anyone know how I can make my own custom blue styled tank module icons I have ps and gimp I bought photoshop for this purpose and I still cant make it look anywhere close to vanilla blue styled icons

[pale sparrow]

You shouldnt need any paid software

wdym blue styled

[pearl axle]

i know next to nothing about coding or modding, but i've been sketching focus trees for a mod i've been wanting to work on.

this mod has the exact same concept as millennium dawn or novum vexillum, in that it's simply just the world in the 21st century

however, i want my mod to be better than both

it will be as historically accurate as possible while also offering alternate paths for some countries

it will not be as bloated as millennium dawn, but also not as bland as novum vexillum

that said, does anyone want to see what i've sketched for focus trees so far and critique them?

(critique meaning positive and negative feedback)

[severe nest]

Would this work in the |Hearts of Iron IV\mod\Artheocracy\common\ideas| location?

I'm using the zzz_generic.txt file here

[pale sparrow]

If youre adding an ideology group called Artheocracy then yes

0.1 drift is very high btw

[severe nest]

I copied the nationalism modifier below it

Should they both be lower?

[tough lotus]

drift is one of the few that doesn't work like that iirc

[pale sparrow]

Ah yes, I am going mad

xd

nvm

[severe nest]

Maybe, maybe, maybe?

Aight, it works, though it has this to

[severe nest]

Gonna edit ideas to add another one to reduce drift towards communism and fascism I think

As well as further expand the ideology focus tree so it has a League or Monarchist focus

[undone snow]

Yuh

[pearl axle]

alr i'll show at some point

maybe

[cloud pier]

sorry for being unclear i meant how i could make my own gfx/sprite/icon with this blue style i want to know if its possible to do it easily

[severe nest]

So um... How do I get the Artheocratic_drift to show as a trait for an Advisor?

[severe nest]

I figured it out, but that's a lot more errors on my plate.

[fluid chasm]

hi asking for some quick help, ive been able to get this to execute with the "date =" but the event message itself isnt displaying, its just being automatically executed ( i suspect that AI is executing the decision) how would i make it come up as a decision for a specific country so they see the message

[tough lotus]

tag =

[fluid chasm]

in options im surmising ? (new to modding)

[tough lotus]

trigger

[tough lotus]

That should make it happen for australia

[fluid chasm]

hmm, this time the event didnt even execute

[tough lotus]

let time pas for a while, events can be weird like that

[fluid chasm]

thanks you, it eventually triggered 12 days later

[tough lotus]

Event are weird

[fluid chasm]

ive learned lol, i did try it earlier but thought i did it wrong, turns out i did have it right but its just alittle random

[tough lotus]

There are ways around that

[fluid chasm]

ooohhhh

[severe peak]

i wish Antarctica was added to base hoi4

because i think antarctic exploration started in 1936

[snow rune]

finally
my event popped up
even though the localisation didnt work it was a great victory
after 8 hours over 2 days
the culprit was
i put the id in the place where the “country_event” was supposed to be
Im an idiot

[icy fable]

The color picker in GIMP is giving me a different color each time, could someone please check the grey ocean color in rivers.bmp for me?

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Map_modding#Rivers

Tldr: doesn't matter

Make them neon pink if you want to

[icy fable]

Will any color in the rivers.bmp not associated with any of the river colors or white become ocean?

[icy fable]

I tried looking there but could not find any information about the ocean color

[tough lotus]

It will become "not a river"

[icy fable]

Okay, thank you very much

[tough lotus]

Oceans are defined in definitions.csv and terrain.bmp

[severe peak]

Or maybe the 1920s

[tough lotus]

Anything that isn't a river color is ignored, the file is just for rivers iirc

[wise cradle]

Hi I want to make a mod with a custom map any one can help me ?

[tough lotus]

Out of the people that frequent this chat 2 would probably be up to the task

[lethal stone]

Total overhaul mods are HELL to work with. Me still 1 month in fixing bugs

[icy fable]

Thank you

[frosty gulch]

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-reynolds-ryan-grim-reaper-spirited-death-gif-18221343222771305504

[pearl axle]

alr i'll show you what i got so far

[wise cradle]

ok, all thank you for the checklist, I say that i properly get stuck at ether 2 or 3 properly, I also struggling with actually getting to run after.

[tribal vine]

The republic needs you

[icy fable]

Sir, yes sir

[shut dawn]

<@&846894118219022336> Another scammer

[lethal stone]

you know you're cooked when

[ancient vapor]

I should have read this

I could have saved me 6 months of pure suffering

would do it again ngl

[obtuse condor]

do someone know a mod that contains Egypt at the 50s or 60s (with national focus)

[sour temple]

Does anyone have the exact calculation behind gaining Mastery?

[verbal ermine]

How can add 3d models to hoi4

Is there a video that explain how to integrate it

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Entity_modding

[verbal ermine]

Is there a video that explain it

[tough lotus]

idk

the wiki explains it really well

[mint oar]

what does the game want more then this?

[tough lotus]

the files defined in common/country_tags are missing the .txt extension

[mint oar]

thx man, i would've never figured that out

[golden island]

somehow i got the map to load, time to celebrate

ofc the game crashes when you try to start but this is something

[lethal stone]

good!

[raven hedge]

Is this ai propaganda poster is tuff?

I might use it from rates

[shut dawn]

Given how it looks like it's been covered in piss, yeah I think it might be AI

[raven hedge]

Its ai

I said it already

Im just saying is it good

[shut dawn]

Oh, I didn't know what you meant by tuff.

But nah it ain't good

It's AI

[halcyon trellis]

I lwk wanna finish my mod that added the spotted lanternflies as a country

[golden island]

the what

[velvet brook]

hi

[velvet brook]

i want to finish my mod's british focus tree 🙏

[sleek plume]

hey question

is there mods where you can go up against opponents relatively like equal to you in strength?

[velvet brook]

if you are bad enough all of them

[sleek plume]

idk its just kind of annoying how it's so like

idk how to describe

[tough lotus]

Vanilla chinese warlord gameplay

[sleek plume]

maybe im gonna go to #ask-for-help-here

[velvet brook]

anyone wanna see what im working on lol

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2449480038 if everyone is 1 state big everyone should be about equal
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3452627715 And self promo 😭, haven't gotten around to updating it but everything except formables should work

[snow rune]

Just download a bunch of releaseables mods, and toolpack mod
I used this just yesterday
I use it a ton of the time
Basically mini mod maker

I went fascist as new jersey and made the Garden State the Garden Empire and unified the us

One example out of thousands of possibilities ngl

[tough lotus]

I'll also add to the list Commanders

As the competitive mod it'll be pretty balanced

[velvet brook]

unforseen consequences totally

[sleek plume]

this looks interesting asf

but like

is not having much of a focus tree that signifcant?

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2898278820

[thin plover]

hello, is there a simple mod out there that allows me to paradrop into friendly or neutral territory? or is the game engine limiting that no one has managed to do this yet? I can't find a mod for this at all but everything else is achievable, it seems.

[thin plover]

I’ve tried to find the 00_paradrop.txt file to edit to allow friendly and neutral drops but its missing. Does anyone know what files I need to edit to allow this for the player?

[pale sparrow]

engine limitation probably

[thin plover]

I understand in an earlier version of the game there was a trigger or define that had the following in it that could be changed:

“allowed_target = {
always = yes”

But I can’t find it anywhere now

[pale sparrow]

Whats your source?

Inb4 chatgpt...

[thin plover]

😇😂 I tried to corroborate it elsewhere as it must have got it from somewhere. Do you reckon there may be some code somewhere like there is for all the other paradrop pre-requisites (superiority, range, min number of planes, etc).

I noticed most of the above in one of the defines

[pale sparrow]

Mhm that Id expect because its numbers

But every formula those numbers are fed into are always hardcoded afaik

[thin plover]

Ah okay

It feels binary, i.e if enemy territory, yes. If neutral/allied, no. I will try and look again tomorrow

It’d be unfortunate if its impossible to change

😕

[obtuse condor]

will hoi4 simply crash when i try to load a non-existant oob in the effects?

[tough lotus]

Probably

It won't crash when loading an empty one iirc

So if you need to check if that oob crashes just comment it out in it's entirety

[obtuse condor]

Ok thx 🫡

[warped jewel]

this is some cool shit

[undone snow]

Is ts peak?🥹

[warped jewel]

almost

[thorny shoal]

Hello, I am modding on Mac and need some help (not by choice obv)

Whenever I save a file that should be reloaded in debug mode, like one of my custom gui files, nothing happens

It's really odd

[arctic mural]

random question about modding, but how do people figure out how many mils/civs a province/country has

[thorny shoal]

(your heart's of iron 4 location (can be found by selecting the browse local files option on steam))/history/states/(yourstateid).txt

Ah my bad I think I know what you meant

arms_factory_level is a variable equal to the amount of mils the scoped state has

And industrial_complex_level is the same thing but for civs

[thorny shoal]

Here: https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Data_structures

Hello, I am modding on Mac and need some help (not by choice obv)
Whenever I save a file that should be reloaded in debug mode, like one of my custom gui files, nothing happens

It's really odd

[arctic mural]

Like people are reading a Wikipedia article, on let’s say… Northern Ireland, they are looking at the industrial might for… 1939, and they come to a conclusion that the province had 2 civilian factories and a military factory worth of industry

[shy lion]

how can i change a party's name?

[thorny shoal]

Oh, that's up to you to figure out. I usually base my factory counts off of Germany's and their PPP GDP (so I take Germany's PPP GDP, divide it by their effective factory count
(number of civs(c) + 2/3 * number of mils)(m).
and that gives me how many billion dollars should equal a civ's IC(f). Then I distribute those factories using their military spending. Using these formulas

I don't know how others do it

Based off my experience most just pull it out of their behinds

[lethal stone]

are you reloading it in debug mode

[lethal stone]

i usually tend to have a lot of bugs with custom gui files so i exit out completely

since sometimes they dont load at all even when reloading

[arctic mural]

Ooh

Thanks

@pale sparrow do u maybe have an idea?

[pale sparrow]

Hmn?

[arctic mural]

How does one figure out how many civs/mils a country gets

[pale sparrow]

you mean balance wise how many you should give?

[arctic mural]

Uhhh

Like people are reading a Wikipedia article, on let’s say… Northern Ireland, they are looking at the industrial might for… 1939, and they come to a conclusion that the province had 2 civilian factories and a military factory worth of industry

[pale sparrow]

Ooooh

you mean at the start of the game?

[arctic mural]

Yes!

[pale sparrow]

Havent had to do that yet, Id assume GDP and educated guesses

[thin plover]

You were right.... I searched through every file in the common folder and there is nothing, not even a true or false, to indicate if/when a paradrop can go ahead. I found everything but that, sadly.... where might it sit if it is hard coded? Or is that all encrypted?

I might see if I can get someone to decrypt if possible. Just provides additional options if we can paradop into allied territory close to a frontline, etc etc.

[tough lotus]

If it's hardcoded it's not easily modable, probably within hoi4.exe itself

[pale sparrow]

No one is gonna do that

[rough yarrow]

is it allowed to promkote his own mod here or on the server in generall?

[pale sparrow]

Only with permission by opening a support ticket and asking

[rough yarrow]

thanks11

^^

[rough yarrow]

how do i open a ticket and where

[thin plover]

no worries, yeah it is probably a bit too overkill, and its unfortunate the devs don't open such a setting for modders as everything else is 🙁 Thanks again for your help/responses yesterday.

[pale sparrow]

DM @timid bronze

[rough yarrow]

thanks

[tough lotus]

If (which since I don't see any file that would probably contain that I think is very likely) it's in hoi4.exe you're more likely to get it to be modable by annoying the devs than modifying the exe yourself

[thin plover]

Are they active on here do you know?

I might contact one of them if possible or raise a ticket somewhere, if it’s literally a binary line or two stating paradrops cannot take place on neutral or allied territory, and we are then allowed to then change that, fingers crossed they entertain the idea which may be straight forward for them to implement (as naive as I sound!)

[tough lotus]

Make a post on the forums I guess

[mental locust]

👋

[thin plover]

Are there any uptodate mods that rename or make planes (and ideally tanks, ships) have historical names again, etc? Even just historical blueprints.

I’ve been using Simple Planes/ Ships/Tanks mods but they are around 18 months of out date - unless they largely work still?

Or should I just jump into embrace the designers? I imagine its a case of manual name entries etc… its a shame things like Lancaster and Spitfire (for UK, for example) no longer exist…

[dire violet]

Is there a way to create a secondary manpower counter? I want to have two types of manpower that work for different kinds of units, thanks.

[tough lotus]

Black ICE

[pale sparrow]

No, the closest thing I can imagine it making the special manpower a type of equipment

[echo kindle]

Yes. But the thing the guy said is possible

Really painful to do

But possible

[pale sparrow]

if you have to start doing memory injection or DLL files might as well call it impossible xD

[echo kindle]

No.

You simply do normal modding, the issue is that you need a new Topbar gfx and Gui

[pale sparrow]

Oh yeh thats not too difficult yeh

But the equipment thing isnt really a full solution to his question, even if you could make it a topbar GUI ^^

[echo kindle]

You make a secondary manpower count and add it as requirement for specific units

[tall hare]

Marjin how can I make a leader change through a focus?

[pale sparrow]

promote_character if they already have a leader role and otherwise add_country_leader_role

[tall hare]

this?
promote_character = GER_wilhelm_ii

[pale sparrow]

yeh

[tall hare]

Okay sweet thanks

[thorny shoal]

Yeah

[clear moat]

I was thinking how it would be possible to speed up the assignment of specifying the continent number to provinces, but I would have to assign 9k provinces with pens

[echo kindle]

Best way of learding things is by looking at the actual files of vanilla HOI4 (or some high quality mods) to understand how to do stuff

[tall hare]

ok ty

[echo kindle]

Can i ask you something?

What do you think about swastikas in flags?

Because i don't like nazism, but i'm making a mod and would like to know if that type of realism is appreciated or not (original German flag for example)

• i have no idea about the policies regarding this...

@pale sparrow i believe you know something about this

[pale sparrow]

You cant post it in this Discord but you can post it to Steam I think

I used to use a realistic flag mod but since it basically adds nothing I just end up using vanilla's

[echo kindle]

I can't post the flag or the mod?

[pale sparrow]

The flag

[echo kindle]

What about the mod? Would it cause problems with the discord?

Becuase the only problem i see is YOUTUBE videos

Due to censorship

On twitch i see HIST HOI4 streamers that used mods with the Original German Flag

[pale sparrow]

Mhm

On Discord you'd have to ask with a ticket to promote stuff anyway

I assume itd be turned down tbf

[snow rune]

No honestly half the time im playing hoi4 I just forget about the focus tree, especially when at war
Which are most of my scenarios, civil war scenario
russia, china, usa, brazil, france, germany, etc

[tough lotus]

Rise of Nations has an option to use the historical flag, you should be fine

[tall hare]

How can I make someone become a leader of a party with focus

Wilhelm II

[thin plover]

Oh wow nice, thnk you! I will check out later. Can replace my Simple tank/ship/plane mods which haven’t been updated since mid 2024.

(I hope, at least!)

[tough lotus]

It is one of the hardest mods out there, have fun

[tall hare]

can I make a leader of a party from game start

like

make wilhelm be leader of monarchist

and monarchist not be in power

[deft inlet]

hey guys does every province in provinces.bmp has to be diffiernt?

pls help

[thin plover]

Thank you. They look dedicated and its being actively developed, seems to cover a lot of the mods I already use but in one go

[pale sparrow]

In color, yes

[deft inlet]

how do I find a different colour

[pale sparrow]

I think nudger has a button for that

I never use it though, I just pick a random number and see if its not already in the definition.csv

[deft inlet]

what do I do with that number

id there wiki page for that type of stuff

[pale sparrow]

Check pins

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Map_modding

[deft inlet]

alright

13500;53;94;145;land;false;plains;1 @pale sparrow would this work as a new province?

[arctic mural]

<@&846894118219022336>

[tall hare]

Why wont wilhelm become leader over the monarchist party?

I recruit him

in history

[icy fable]

Load up the game in debug mode, click on the button that says nudger, then database, and then generate RGB

[deft inlet]

yo how do i edit it tho

GIMP can't use rgb colours

two diffiernt values it says

[icy fable]

Ignore LCH and just edit RGB

[deft inlet]

if i do it turns to a pink colour

[still lily]

Hey, so i essentially made a mod, thats a copy of the TNO colors for vanilla (tho since it hasn't updated for a while i decided to do this for personal use) and the problem is: for some reason even tho i assigned colors for all the new warlords (wich the mod didnt have obv) they instead get random colors (the same ones that appear with the normal mod as it isn't updated obv).
What do I do?

[rotund cairn]

hoi, can anyone help me with this
i followed this tutorial to learn how to create my first mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7zIU3L2eUs&list=PL6EAZcF5cWbg57Srq6BTVvguMl6YfP9pG
but even doing it exactly like in the videos, for some reason the event doesn't occur in the game and if I try to use the command console, it says that the event doesn't exist
And I don't have any other mods from the workshop installed that could be conflicting with this
The only thing different from the videos is that I changed the name of the event in the file to see if anything would change

And please excuse me if my English sounds a bit robotic; English isn't my first language, and I need to use Google Translate

[thin plover]

Really enjoying black ice… thank you so much for recommending!!

If HOI4 vanilla is overwhelming at first then Black Ice is that on steroids.. but it becomes intuitive and has some lovely new features. I got carried away for the last few hours

And it has so many realistic aspects and historical names, its exactly what I was looking for. 👍👍

[dapper parcel]

hello, can anybody reccomend any mods that extend the timeline? i am new to this game and would like to attempt playthroughs that last many decades

[gray minnow]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to find working mods for my vanilla MP game that would let me do the following

Transfer/give rights to factories or dockyards
Transfer navy
Make trade deals with other players and limit trade with countries

[gray minnow]

Road to 56, as the name suggests it tries to extend the game up to 1956, besides that it's hard to find mods that add enough content beyond that. The game tends to run bad after ~10 years, let alone 20