modding

[swift field]

im gonna add assault gun battalions to my hoi4 multi mod

[tough lotus]

Also in vanilla

[wet sequoia]

hey

could you send me the Wiki link for changing my leader

and the names / leaders of political parties

and future leader

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding
Be independent

Pages are linked at the bottom

ctrl+f searches in a page

[tough lotus]

Road to 56 or Kaiserreich

[acoustic berry]

Progress rn. Open for suggestions

Leader traits if I didn't show it already by the way

[brave goblet]

any mod that unlocks pre dreadnought and costal ships for any country?

[tranquil zinc]

hey guys i got a question

there is a mod that i updated but when i see the storage it says from 261 KB of the og mod to 119 KB of my updated mod.
im confused on why it somehow has less used storage space (ik it just kilobytes but still it just concerns me)

here my mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3662685846

wait did i just break any rules

i gotta read it

no as far as i see it, its fine

ok now i leave it here for now

im going to bed its 2:47 am here

[acoustic berry]

I never fail to make things occur in this game that would naturally be impossible

[acoustic berry]

Completed the America First path, if any of you have suggestions to tack on anything more I would be glad to hear

[pastel cradle]

Tno

[pastel cradle]

That a mod you making?

[swift field]

im gonna add new prototype weapons guns and firearms for ALL Nations

and ALL Real life techs and equipments for ALL nations aswell

[tough lotus]

-# Still 0 work done in game

[swift field]

becus i cant do anything since i dont have ANY modding skills/experience

[tough lotus]

Tutorials and the wiki are pinned in this channel

-# And once you realize how much work you're trying to do the Rise of Nations discord server is linked on it's steam page

[vestal sapphire]

Any QOL mods that you guys recommend? I dont want to change the base game much. Currently the only mod I have is player-led peace conferences

[pale sparrow]

R-road

Recall Volunteers, Infinite Naval Production lines

& I like Toolpack instead of Player Lead Peace

[native glacier]

Reworked industry branch for Iceland I've been working on

[vestal sapphire]

aight

[vestal sapphire]

whats the diff?

[pale sparrow]

I let the peacedeal play out normally, then use cheat tools to fix it, instead of doing the cheating in the peacedeal

[stable perch]

guys what is the best mod for wars like i can declare war infinite

and is there a mod better than millennium dawn?

[acoustic berry]

yea

[tough lotus]

Most of them tbh

[tough lotus]

What

[safe bison]

I have very weird consisted crashing behavior without any error messages in the logs with my map mod. Happens when I hover over the Beijing area and zoom in. Any idea what that could cause?

[stable perch]

like i mean i want me and my friends to make wars without waiting tention to be 50% so i cant use console in multiplayer so is there any way to declare wars without tention 50%

[tough lotus]

-crash_data_log

[tough lotus]

There might be a game rule

[pale sparrow]

IIRC should be a gamerule yeh

[tough lotus]

Also toolpack can do that

[safe bison]

Ok thanks! should I leave in -debug too?

[tough lotus]

Yeah

[stable perch]

yep i found it thx uuuu

[tough lotus]

Also it makes the game significantly slower so only use it if you're sure you have a crash somewhere

[safe bison]

I just love modding lol. Now it doesn't crash for some reason. Will try a restart.

[tough lotus]

The crash knows it is being watched

It will happen again if you disable it

[safe bison]

ok, managed to replicate it

Unhandled Exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF706ACBA97

no idea what that means tho

seems memory related

[tough lotus]

check meta.yml

[safe bison]

seems normal

LastRead: update_profile_badge_command (1)

[pastel cradle]

It got a fascist path?

[stuck barn]

Are there any opyimization mods for this game

[tough lotus]

yes

[tall hare]

When is RON done?

[tough lotus]

never

[tall hare]

When is it uh playable

😎

[tough lotus]

Unless we get like 80x our devs

[tall hare]

Its like

uh

[tough lotus]

now (it's unstable)

[tall hare]

1800s to modern day?

right

[tall hare]

which scenarios

[tough lotus]

1900

[tough lotus]

ww2 is pretty good (except that rn the german historical ai doesn't select hitler in the elections for some reason)

[tall hare]

what the

just make it so it selects him 🙂

[tough lotus]

the 1933 elections

[shrewd breach]

🇩🇪🤗

🤗🤗🇩🇪

[tough lotus]

I did, it just hasn't been pushed to steam

[tall hare]

is the goal to make it so you can play from 1900 all the way to idk

as far as you get

in one playthrough

[tough lotus]

2060 in theory

[tough lotus]

kinda

[shrewd breach]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🤗

[tall hare]

cool

it is very cool

[kindred axle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2270893555

[tall hare]

Dont even ask how my mod is going 😎

[stuck barn]

(That dont rly change anything gameplay wise)

[smoky lava]

I'm new in modding, why my mod don't work and nothing shows in debug

[pale sparrow]

FPS map

[tough lotus]

Spotmod works mostly in the backgrund, although there are many versions of it that do change stuff so you gotta find one of the ones that don't

[tough lotus]

Adding to that: non reflective water

[stuck barn]

Do u have a link to one

[pale sparrow]

All the spot mods change gameplay IIRC

[tough lotus]

not really, there is nothing in the files to indicate that they would (with the exception of host tools and modifications other people did unrelated to the optimizations themselves)

[pale sparrow]

I got it (fixed) The Spot Optimization installed and that messes with gameplay, hence I dont use it

[tough lotus]

the optimizations mainly touch graphics defines

The original spot mod changed the time between event checks since in the early versions it didn't really matter all that much

[pale sparrow]

delaying that check breaks events that presume once-per-30-days checking in their trigger

I forgot if there are any in vanilla, there were multiple in Road

[tough lotus]

IDK, my version has it set to 30

But it does touch gameplay in some way since it's an mp mod and therefore does do qol

[acoustic berry]

Yes, going the MacArthur Path and inviting the Silver Shirts can make you go fascist. By completing the focus "Presidential Powers Act" you become fascist in the new America First path I'm working on

[pastel cradle]

Hell yeah

[stuck barn]

does that actuallly change the map

[tough lotus]

It changes the look of it so the countries aren't transparent

Increases fps a little

It's ironman compatible

[stuck barn]

oh i was looking to see if there was something like optifine or sodium for minecraft but hoi4

[acoustic berry]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009437701&searchtext=better+optimization
I find this mod works well

Not ironman compatible though

[pale sparrow]

that does practically nothing in singleplayer

In MP it makes people lag for longer before slowing the game down, which seems like asking for a desync to happen

[tough lotus]

best you can do is probably fps map and non reflective water

Optimisation here is mainly limited to deleting countries or making the AI not do anything

[proud swallow]

is it there any mod where you can build anything on allied territory that works for rt56 or is that not even possible

[pale sparrow]

Should be really easy to make

[proud swallow]

u do commissions?

[pale sparrow]

Yes, but this should take me like 2 minutes, all I wonder is it doesnt exist already?

[proud swallow]

i saw one but didnt work for rt56

[pale sparrow]

That doesnt sound right because Road overrides barely anything in the main buildings file

😕

(@proud swallow) Do you have the mod page perhaps?

[proud swallow]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2664189359&searchtext=build+allies

[pale sparrow]

I guess depends on the load order you have 🤔

I wonder if for once load order will do something on that mod

Ill try later

[proud swallow]

is that just moving it in playset?

if so ill try

[pale sparrow]

I have never heard of load order being useful but in theory that should work for a mod like this

[tough lotus]

Load order in hoi is a myth

Filenames are all that matters

[proud swallow]

nah doesnt work

[pale sparrow]

Left a comment on the mod, you can also do the same fix to your local folder

though that might break things if you do MP unless all clients made the edit

[acoustic berry]

Eh well I've found better performance on my computer with it maybe it works on a case-by-case basis

Idk unless I'm playing like Kaiserreich or something or working on one of my mods, I don't usually enable any mods and play ironman so maybe I can accidentally get an achievement

[maiden lance]

Oops

[tranquil zinc]

i have made one but its changes the map like annexing the whole south america

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3662685846

every annex is optional

also could you test it real quick

i cant tell if its working or not

should be but better be safe than sorry

[proud swallow]

it wont let open the descriptor file

well idk how to open it

[pale sparrow]

Its a text file, right click->open with->set default to notepad

[proud swallow]

it worked, thanks!!

[swift field]

im gonna add different landing crafts and landing vehicles for ALL nations like aavs lvts acvs lcus etc

some of them will unlock new land units

so you can support marines in a naval landing invasion

ill also add new landing ships and vessels

[tough lotus]

-# Still 0 work done

[viscid depot]

hey guys im trying to make a mod but the country's name doesnt appear on the map can someone help ?

[inland lodge]

Although i am using use_list_view = yes on the idea folder, i cannot seem to get the ideas for this set to be listed , also the coal function is stuck. GUI for government seems to be the same, please help

[pale sparrow]

use_list_view must be used every time a block adds eco ideas

so that can be in multiple files

It doesnt actually have to be all files I think, but adding it tends to fix it

[inland lodge]

So if eco ideas are in any files add the scripjtrd effect?

[pale sparrow]

Yeh in the eco idea block

[inland lodge]

I’ll try that , at work so it’ll be a min

Any idea about the coal bug?

[stuck barn]

"maoism"

[viscid depot]

Ye don’t worry about that

[acoustic berry]

Have I seen this one before?

[viscid depot]

lol

[viscid depot]

no idea why that do that

[pale sparrow]

If the internal name for a decision/focus is TUR_liberalism, then when you define its loc, that also automatically applies it as country name when Turkey is lead by it

[kindred axle]

Did you do the countries loc?

[viscid depot]

yes

i figure it out

[indigo dagger]

everytime i try to play after selecting a country it crashes idk if this is cause of the No compromise no surrender mod braking stuff (As I had to remove and readd files from the main game to the mod as the mod was made pre No compromise no surrender) but now it just won't launch is it cause the old country TAGs in china are doing something?

[kindred axle]

when you implement a new dlc into the mod you need to update the mod by the dlc standards

so i guess

[indigo dagger]

idk what those standards are

[kindred axle]

did u change the mod version, in the first place

[indigo dagger]

im on 1.17 and i think i found the problem

the country tags didn't update ive updated them now

the tags were missing

[kindred axle]

for the new chinese countries ig ?

[indigo dagger]

yup

nope didn't work

still crashed

I don't get it

[kindred axle]

what does the error log say ?

[indigo dagger]

a lot of stuff saying no game date

[20:30:46][1936.01.01.12][mapbuildings.cpp:716]: map/buildings.txt error at line 64000: map building(Naval Headquarters) location is not within specified state. Supposed to be '327 - Manila' but was '623 - Luzon'for province 1388. BUILDING IGNORED!
[20:30:46][1936.01.01.12][map.cpp:1628]: Province 1388 is setup as coastal but has no port building in the nudger. This will likely crash the game.
[20:30:46][1936.01.01.12][map.cpp:1628]: Province 4233 is setup as coastal but has no port building in the nudger. This will likely crash the game.
[20:30:46][1936.01.01.12][map.cpp:1628]: Province 4288 is setup as coastal but has no port building in the nudger. This will likely crash the game.
[20:30:46][1936.01.01.12][map.cpp:1628]: Province 10272 is setup as coastal but has no port building in the nudger. This will likely crash the game.

found this

[kindred axle]

well the first is just a building update you need to put

nothing crazy

the others

you need to change the province coastal

from true to false

beacause u prob changed or the game added some weird provinces which make the provinces non coastal but u use your definition ig so they didnt update

[indigo dagger]

I haven't made any new provinces

ive only added the new provinces from the update

[kindred axle]

ok then

try to change one of the provinces

from coastal true to false

and run it again

see it the province appears in the crash log again

if not

it means its have been fixed

so do it to all of the others

[indigo dagger]

it be nice if the game told me what state each province is in

[kindred axle]

you dont need to find it

open your mod definition

and look for the province

its in the error log u sent

Province 10272 is setup as coastal but has no port building in the nudger. This will likely crash the game.

[indigo dagger]

the descriptor?

[kindred axle]

definition

in the map folder

[indigo dagger]

I don't have a map folder in my mod

[kindred axle]

where this things are

[indigo dagger]

should probably add it then

[kindred axle]

how did you add new provinces then ?

[kindred axle]

.

[indigo dagger]

I didn't the game did it i mean i removed the old states and added the new ones

that came with the new provinces

so they should just be in the main game files

[kindred axle]

it shouldnt bother you then ?

[indigo dagger]

im looking at the definition files apparently theres something wrong with the [Vanilla] common/national_focus/TSR_lingguang_incident_joint_branch.txt Parsing failed! Please check if the file has issues!
UserError: In file common/national_focus/TSR_lingguang_incident_joint_branch.txt:
File content can't be completely parsed at (460, 2): (EOF)

[kindred axle]

ye i dont get that

[indigo dagger]

i might have accidentally deleted some provinces that i wern't meant to

[kindred axle]

lol

[indigo dagger]

I don't understand how to fix this

should I just start over again?

[kindred axle]

did you delete those provinces from the main game files ?

[indigo dagger]

nope

I restored them

[indigo dagger]

and this error dissapeared

but still won't launch

[kindred axle]

huh

[indigo dagger]

im confused

[kindred axle]

me too

[indigo dagger]

honestly be nice if I knew someone who could just look at the code and go oh yeah the problem is this and fix it but that means paying someone for work and i have no money lol

[kindred axle]

paying someone for that is just for those who havent got time lol, its nice to learn about this topic, i was in this type of situation too lol, like, i had hoi4 crashing for 2 weeks straight jsut for some map errors i made and i didnt get the m

[indigo dagger]

its been crashing since the update came out

that like

2months and 10 days

[kindred axle]

💀

ngl man, if you didnt do much in the mod just start over at this point

[indigo dagger]

Yeah i think im gunna do that

the most I got in the mod was just map changes

that takes like 2 seconds

[kindred axle]

welp

[burnt vigil]

Theres a bunch of errors that ezist in vanilla, mostly bc they don't get defined for that specific one but have custom names for that ideology/subideology

Like smth becomes "Kaiser-Wilheln Werk", but its mostly for norway

[shut dawn]

<@&846894118219022336> Another scammer

[acoustic berry]

Lowk didn't learn it until recently from my own experience but I didn't know that subideologies could be used for localizations of country names and flags, but yeah that's why

[acoustic berry]

Don't know if you've tried this already, but basically go into Nudge and regenerate buildings for all provinces. Whenever I have updated my mods that was a severe problem but updating buildings seems to fix

[golden totem]

yeah the only time ive seen is that communist_anarchist brazil is cangao brazil and stalisnist austria becomes austrian soviet republic

its should probably be used more, theres a couple countries that are juntas or can become millitary dictatoships but none get the millitarism sub-ideology (only japan has its leaders and its puppets)

like the lithuanian milltary path is actually oligarchism

[steep wadi]

me and my friend are thinking about making the mod that probably make the trade fairer since we thought it's not fair to buy 8 steel for 1 factory when you can buy 8 chromium for 1. Since we need steel more and steel is much more cheaper so we thought making a mod that may change the prices of resources.
For 1 factory we can get
20 steel
20 coal
6 rubber
8 Aluminum
4 Tungsten
4 Chromium.
Any advices?

[haughty venture]

Can anybody who knows how to make submods (preferably for tno) help me out with some stuff?

[wise cradle]

I curios what exactly make a good focus tree

[deft aurora]

How do I remove canada's autonomy?

Where are the autonomy files located?

[pale sparrow]

if you want them to be indepent, puppeting is done in the overlord country's history file

so history/countries/ENG

[deft aurora]

Thank you Marj 🙏

[sharp knoll]

Okay, I tried changing the mod order, but my R56 keeps overwriting my mod regardless

How do I fix this?

[tough lotus]

Load order is a joke, doesn't actually do anything

[sharp knoll]

Alright, what should I do then?

[pale sparrow]

Set your mod a submod of Road by adding dependencies in the .mod file

[sharp knoll]

Alright, I'll try that

Thanks

I really miss turning everything into a carrier in R56

Battleships? Now they have a flight deck each. Cruisers? More flight decks!

[stoic rose]

How do i make my own mod?

[fallen dome]

how hard would it be to code Karl Doenitz as my leader say after Berlin falls or something
and then have a modifier to increase my surrender limit to like 99%

[iron pendant]

pls I need help with my mod

it's super simple

but it doesn't work

is there anyone that could help me rn?

[kindred axle]

not much i think ? you should make an event that when u get to a certain surrender progress u get the event, and make karl doenitz country leader and add the trait

i think you can look into the german vanilla files

[kindred axle]

what is the prob ?

[iron pendant]

litorale should be a new country

but it looks like it's nobody's land

and every country's color is random

[kindred axle]

did u watch a video on how to make them ?

[iron pendant]

yes

[kindred axle]

to create a country you need

• Create a Tag

add a unique color

[iron pendant]

I did

[kindred axle]

add it in the countries tags

[kindred axle]

did you copy and paste the vanilla colors ?

[iron pendant]

yes

[kindred axle]

send ss of the file

[kindred axle]

did you check that its a unique rgb ?

[iron pendant]

no

[kindred axle]

fix the belgium barrack btw

[iron pendant]

ok it is

[iron pendant]

what is that

barrack

[iron pendant]

now?

[icy fable]

Bracket

[kindred axle]

mine are different

tho i dont know if it does change

[iron pendant]

what changes?

it looks the same to me

[kindred axle]

my colors are under the bracket

while yours are next to it

dunno if it changes something

check it

[iron pendant]

ok

so like this

[kindred axle]

try to run the game and see if the belgium rgb matches

[iron pendant]

is it ok if I don't write rgb before the numbers?

because I did this to lja

[kindred axle]

nah just write it, to be sure, it changes nothing to write it or not lol , write it to be sure

[iron pendant]

ok

[inland lodge]

c++ notepad is a security risk btw

[iron pendant]

why?

[inland lodge]

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

[inland lodge]

their website even says so

i recommend using VS code or something else, its a security risk to the rest of your compouter

[wise cradle]

i think you may have fogttern to close the line

[iron pendant]

:_..

[inland lodge]

https://code.visualstudio.com/

get this and there even tools for brackets and colors

[iron pendant]

already have that

but since the video said to use notepad++ i used it

[inland lodge]

you going off of iron workshop?

[wise cradle]

did you cheak that both the rgb colours are the same in both files ?

[iron pendant]

I'm watching his video

[iron pendant]

yes

ALSO

I think the problem might be in another file

in history/countries

wait

let me censor it first

capital = 736

Starting tech and units before start

set_technology = {
infantry_weapons = 1
}

recruit_character = ALG_ar
recruit_character = ALG_acr

... all other characters ...

set_convoys = 20

1936.1.1 = {
# Politics
set_politics = {
ruling_party = communism
last_election = "1936.1.1"
election_frequency = 48
elections_allowed = yes
}

set_popularities = {
    democratic = 0
    fascism = 0
    communism = 100
    neutrality = 0
}

# Leader
create_country_leader = {
    name = "person"
    desc = "Imperatore dello stato di Leonia"
    picture = person.dds
    ideology = leninism
    traits = { }
}

# National focuses
complete_national_focus = army_effort
complete_national_focus = equipment_effort
complete_national_focus = motorization_effort
complete_national_focus = aviation_effort
complete_national_focus = naval_effort
complete_national_focus = large_navy
complete_national_focus = industrial_effort
complete_national_focus = construction_effort
complete_national_focus = production_effort

# Tech
set_technology = {
    tech_support = 1
    tech_recon = 1
    support_weapons = 1
    gw_artillery = 1

    # electronics
    electronic_mechanical_engineering = 1
    radio = 1
    mechanical_computing = 1
    computing_machine = 1

    # industry
    basic_machine_tools = 1
    improved_machine_tools = 1
    advanced_machine_tools = 1
    construction1 = 1
    construction2 = 1
    dispersed_industry = 1
    dispersed_industry2 = 1
}

# Doctrines
set_grand_doctrine = grand_battleplan
set_grand_doctrine = new_fleet_in_being
set_grand_doctrine = new_strategic_destruction

# Special projects
complete_special_project = {
    project = sp:sp_air_radar
}

}

@kindred axle @inland lodge @kindred axle

[kindred axle]

why didnt you add thre country lesader to the common/character ?

it makes it more clear where you need to search later

i dont think the picture will appear lol

did you add the _leader_portatirs

[iron pendant]

didn't make a character folder

[iron pendant]

yes

[iron pendant]

in gfx

[kindred axle]

no

this

goes to interface

[iron pendant]

sorry for bad screenshot

[kindred axle]

is it saved properly ?

[iron pendant]

wdym

like if it opens?

[kindred axle]

ye

and it shows

remember it needs to be 156 x 210

[iron pendant]

I just copied this:

and yes,it opens

[kindred axle]

is it the right pixels

btw

[iron pendant]

I think so

since I copied it from the games files

[kindred axle]

open your leader portraits file

[kindred axle]

then its good

[iron pendant]

this is

[kindred axle]

erm

no

the interface one

[iron pendant]

I put this as the leaders photo

[kindred axle]

ye but if you dont add the interface file it wont appear

[iron pendant]

the guy on yt told me that it would work even if I just put that

[kindred axle]

ok then, did you add the common/countries_tags

and the common/countries

[iron pendant]

picture = person.dds

I put this in history/countries

[kindred axle]

send what you put in that

[iron pendant]

only a small part

:

set_convoys = 20

1936.1.1 = {
# Politics
set_politics = {
ruling_party = communism
last_election = "1936.1.1"
election_frequency = 48
elections_allowed = yes
}

set_popularities = {
    democratic = 0
    fascism = 0
    communism = 100
    neutrality = 0
}

# Leader
create_country_leader = {
    name = "person"
    desc = "Imperatore dello stato di Leonia"
    picture = person.dds
    ideology = leninism
    traits = { }
}

# National focuses
complete_national_focus = army_effort
complete_national_focus = equipment_effort
complete_national_focus = motorization_effort
complete_national_focus = aviation_effort
complete_national_focus = naval_effort
complete_national_focus = large_navy
complete_national_focus = industrial_effort
complete_national_focus = construction_effort
complete_national_focus = production_effort

# Tech
set_technology = {
    tech_support = 1
    tech_recon = 1
    support_weapons = 1
    gw_artillery = 1

    # electronics
    electronic_mechanical_engineering = 1
    radio = 1
    mechanical_computing = 1
    computing_machine = 1

[kindred axle]

are you sure the barracks match all of them

[iron pendant]

Idk :/

this is my first mod

[kindred axle]

is it copied and pasted ?

[iron pendant]

I copied and pasted it

but moved a date

to make it 1936

capital = 736

Starting tech and units before start

set_technology = {
infantry_weapons = 1
}

recruit_character = ALG_ar
recruit_character = ALG_acr

... all other characters ...

set_convoys = 20

1936.1.1 = {
# Politics
set_politics = {
ruling_party = communism
last_election = "1936.1.1"
election_frequency = 48
elections_allowed = yes
}

set_popularities = {
    democratic = 0
    fascism = 0
    communism = 100
    neutrality = 0
}

# Leader
create_country_leader = {
    name = "person"
    desc = "Imperatore dello stato di Leonia"
    picture = person.dds
    ideology = leninism
    traits = { }
}

# National focuses
complete_national_focus = army_effort
complete_national_focus = equipment_effort
complete_national_focus = motorization_effort
complete_national_focus = aviation_effort
complete_national_focus = naval_effort
complete_national_focus = large_navy
complete_national_focus = industrial_effort
complete_national_focus = construction_effort
complete_national_focus = production_effort

# Tech
set_technology = {
    tech_support = 1
    tech_recon = 1
    support_weapons = 1
    gw_artillery = 1

    # electronics
    electronic_mechanical_engineering = 1
    radio = 1
    mechanical_computing = 1
    computing_machine = 1

    # industry
    basic_machine_tools = 1
    improved_machine_tools = 1
    advanced_machine_tools = 1
    construction1 = 1
    construction2 = 1
    dispersed_industry = 1
    dispersed_industry2 = 1
}

# Doctrines
set_grand_doctrine = grand_battleplan
set_grand_doctrine = new_fleet_in_being
set_grand_doctrine = new_strategic_destruction

# Special projects
complete_special_project = {
    project = sp:sp_air_radar
}

}

[iron pendant]

here it's 1936

[kindred axle]

you dont need to say its 1936

when its 1936

you can even not write it because it puts it as default

[iron pendant]

so I remove the 1936 thing?

[iron pendant]

wait

I think I messed up here

so I'm gonna rewrite this part

[acoustic berry]

I'm aware that HOI4 had less subideologies before, it was in like 1.14 they added populism for democracy and 1.17 they added militarism for N-A, emperor fascism, and Buddhist socialism

[golden totem]

yep like 1 leader uses populism

and only the east asian nations uses those 3 currently

[acoustic berry]

So yeah before they had much less to work with. I do agree that it would be cool to see more differences between subideologies and them being used more

[golden totem]

none of the other milltary leaders have millitarism

[acoustic berry]

Vargas (Brazil president) in 1936 start

[golden totem]

id say like how if a guy had millitarism they have less world tension requirements to justify as non aligned

[acoustic berry]

Yeah, or that anarchism for N-A and anarchist communism should have stability debuffs

[golden totem]

and war support buffs

also would love for progressivism and a communist socialism to get added

only effects it has currently is like the war goals stalin path can get on non-stalinist nations

[iron pendant]

@kindred axle

[acoustic berry]

The only difficult thing is that subideologies aren't defined by either ideology or government type, it's always a mix of both

If they ever make a HOI5 I feel like the party/ideology/government type system should work more like it does in HOI3

[iron pendant]

@kindred axle here is the code for now

[wise cradle]

how do they do things like saying x countries at x times like when a country capitulate

[iron pendant]

how do I put this:

in my code

to put the photo as the leader of the country

do I write GFX_Leaders_LJA_Person?

[kindred axle]

no

hollon

[iron pendant]

?

[kindred axle]

https://youtu.be/zuLKOK7Cnq4?si=yEBpeZJdB-lxKcJx

watch this

[iron pendant]

ok

thx

[kindred axle]

you will find out what you are messing

no prob

[iron pendant]

do you make mods?

or are you a beginner that definetely know more than me?

[tough lotus]

recruit_character can't be on the last line, the game ignores it for some reason

[pale sparrow]

The empty lines are enough though

[ashen radish]

Is there anyone who is good at making icons to give me few tips on how to improve overall quality of the icon, so its not as pixelated, like what size should i use, filters etc, i did this just as a test, using Paint.net but i dont like that quality is bad, i do have Photoshop as well but paint.net is easier for me at least now

[acoustic berry]

I suggest learning photoshop, I have found from my experience it is a far better tool

Since you have it, def use it. Ur throwing away money otherwise

But as for my tips, make use of a slight drop shadow/black glow on the icon, it will probably look better that way

A focus icon that I made for example, notice every single element has a drop shadow, even if its not as noticeable

https://github.com/DuoDex/hoi4GFX
Also use this resource, it is full of tons of HOI4-style elements you can use in your focuses. It makes making focuses take significantly less time and they look close to the ones in the base game or at least look nice

[onyx night]

Time to commit to a mod

[onyx night]

is this normal to have 2 of the actual mods? one gets uploaded to steam and one is the actual files

fixed it, nvm

[tough lotus]

Never subscribe to your mod on stream
#modding message

[haughty venture]

has anyone here ever worked on TNO / know how TNO code works?

[ashen radish]

Tell me pls what size should the paper be, 100x88?

[echo kindle]

@acoustic berry

[rigid crest]

i'd like to make timelapses alot better so how do i get rid of the ui's on the side, theres a mod that gets rid of most of them already (timelapse counter)but its outdated and some still show, and also if i want to timelapse another mod it sometimes adds the ui back or a completely new one, where should i look (like common file names for ui that mod creators use) and how can i remove them?

(image is TFR)

[chilly shuttle]

I was trying to make a mod and it worked but all colors are off

Does anyone know a fix?

[wise cradle]

did you close the line ?

[chilly shuttle]

what line?

[wise cradle]

the code that you did for the rgb color

[chilly shuttle]

ill check

i didnt, ty

[rigid crest]

do u know how to help me 🙏

[wise cradle]

with what ?

[rigid crest]

this

less of i wanna make my own mod more that i want to get rid of the gui

[wise cradle]

try CRTL + F9

[rigid crest]

well i mean i wouldnt mind learning how to make one too

that gets rid of everything

including the flags

i just wanna get rid of the diplomatic notifications, this thing on the side too

[wise cradle]

IDK to be honest

[rigid crest]

thats alr

[wet sequoia]

im making a mod, while testing it in game i tried opening HOi4 with my mod in Playset and it didnt work

when i tried loading a Different mod like Kaiserreich

it worked fine

but my mod auto closes the game

The game appears to have crashed or terminated
unexpectedly (exit code 3221225477). The issue may be
solved by verifying the integrity of your game files and
deactivating any mods. If you are using Windows, you
may also need to install Visual C++ Redistributable and
.NET Framework.

[serene owl]

launch with -debug, it might get u past it

[wet sequoia]

i already do

and its only this one Mod

that im working on

it workd a few days ago

[tough lotus]

Talking about piracy isn't allowed in this server

[ashen radish]

now this turned out much better using the photoshop @acoustic berry

still need few tweaks but overall its much better now

[dusty linden]

Its not even the right server

Rule 6

[acoustic berry]

Glad I could help! Looks great

[idle palm]

MAN does it take a while to fix old mods

took me 5h to fix one from 2023

buildings from v17 were missing for some reason

and editing building icons was a diffrent kind of hell 😭

[coarse thistle]

Apologies deleted the message

[coarse thistle]

Deleted the message, sorry

[acoustic berry]

Considering what I've had to do to fix my mods, yea its not fun

Can't imagine what it's like for larger mods, but then again I'm a one-man show most popular mods have fairly large teams or at least a few people

[tough lotus]

Not fun, that's for sure

[acoustic berry]

Well I've played RON a few times and can say it's a very expansive mod so it must be awful

[tough lotus]

The backend is even worse, the entire mod is held together by hopes and prayers

[acoustic berry]

The funny thing for me is when I have to go back and fix something that I realized I never fixed after updating, I know very well that there are things in my mods that are broken that I have forgotten about

[acoustic berry]

That statement is definitely true for the USA Rework, was only the 2nd real mod I had made and as a result I notice a lot of terrible things in the code because I did not have standards back then...

But yeah I gotta feel really bad for larger mods, ton of work gotta go into updating...

[glass acorn]

Anyone know why the localisation doesn't work?

Nevermind I found it

[dusty linden]

Awesome

https://tenor.com/view/my-little-pony-twilight-sparkle-mlp-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-twilight-sparkle-mlp-gif-6396438480313651304

[nova heron]

That focus tree made me sweat

[golden totem]

it be cool if you added navassa island and guantanamo bay

[ebon badger]

MAKE KAISER REICH BETTER!

ngl most mods are kinda cheeks except for kaiserreich. modders pls make good mod. Base game buns now

🙏

[dusty linden]

Kaiserreich is good

Doesnt need to be better

Its already a top tier mod

[fair pewter]

anybody here grasps the concept of variables

like pretty

well

cuz im losing my mind

[pale sparrow]

yup, can you show your code?

[fair pewter]

focus = {
        id = ITA_plunder_africa
        icon = GFX_focus_attack_italy
        prerequisite = { focus = ITA_towards_a_greater_italy focus = ITA_mare_nostrum }
        x = -4
        y = 1
        relative_position_id = ITA_towards_a_greater_italy
        cost = 2
        ai_will_do = {
            factor = 1
        }
        available = {
            GER = {
                has_war_with = SOV
            }
        }
        completion_reward = {
            450 = {
                set_variable = {
                    var = ITA_civs_to_remove 
                    value = industrial_complex_level 
                }
                set_variable = {
                    var = ITA_mils_to_remove 
                    value = arms_factory_level 
                }
                divide_variable = {
                    var = ITA_civs_to_remove 
                    value = 4
                }
                divide_variable = {
                    var = ITA_mils_to_remove 
                    value = 4
                }
                remove_building = {
                    type = arms_factory
                    level = ITA_mils_to_remove
                }
                    
                remove_building = {
                    type = industrial_complex
                    level = ITA_civs_to_remove
                }
            }
            add_offsite_building = { 
                type = industrial_complex 
                level = var:ITA_civs_to_remove 
            }
            add_offsite_building = { 
                type = arms_factory 
                level = var:ITA_mils_to_remove
            }
            
        }
        
    }

variable is defined in history file

the offsite doesnt register the variable

in-state its fine

funny thing is, if i put the offmap addition in state scope it shows properly, but doesnt work cuz its not supposed to be in state

[pale sparrow]

the removal and offsite are in different scopes

[fair pewter]

Okay but its a global variable defined in history?

[pale sparrow]

then put global. in front of the variable

[fair pewter]

shouldnt it just become X when i do the state thingy and stay that way

global.ITA_civs_to_remove like this?

[pale sparrow]

yes

[tough lotus]

We make good mods you just have special tastes

[pale sparrow]

the removal should now be using 450.industrial_complex_level variable while the offsites are using ITA.industrial_complex_level

[fair pewter]

okay it works now

thank you so much

[fair pewter]

do you maybe know how to make the decision show the proper amount of factories taken?

it says 0 but when clicked it works properly

nvm I will just make a tooltip and hide the effect

[ashen radish]

@acoustic berry Hey man, quick question, what settings here for the paper am i supposed to use for best quality? are current ones okay or should i tweak this too

[wet sequoia]

can anyone help me

[wet sequoia]

the only things I did was rename the Military Division template to fix a grammar mistake and add a localisation file

[ebon shoal]

Is it normal that there are so many errors in state history files?

[tough lotus]

no

[ebon shoal]

Weird, I just copied it from the hoi4 files and changed owners and cores. In the official tutorial they do the same thing without any additional files or anything.
How can I fix the errors?

[tough lotus]

Probably by telling the extension where your hoi instalation is

[weary forge]

Is there a way to mod to make port strikes more effective? Maybe factors in defines.lua?

[acoustic berry]

I don't create my own files, I use the .psd backgrounds from the resource that I shared

I just copy the psd's over into the folder for the focus icons and then save as then dds once I add stuff to them

[acoustic berry]

Navassa island has little strategic importance and would be way to small to see so I wont consider adding it, but maybe next update if I can remember I'll add guantanamo bay and maybe make the Virgin Islands a state too idk

[ebon shoal]

It didnt fix it

But when I open the original hoi4 files there are no errors

I think I will ignore the errors, mod work just fine with them

[tough lotus]

It should have fixed it

Those are errors that come from not having the base game files indexed

You might have to restart the extension (or vscode) for it to take effect though

[ebon shoal]

I wasn't setting the setting properly, it helped. Thank you!

[golden totem]

ah okay, also maybe it be cool to change haiti a bit as even though the occupation ended 2 years before game start, the us still had influence over the island with controlling its finances and the military didnt fully leave until the 1940s.

[slow pebble]

i played your mods their peak for rp

[pale sparrow]

@slow pebbleNo advertizin in this server please

@acoustic berryNo advertising posts please

[wise cradle]

How do I add ideological drift defence as a leader trait

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modifiers

common/country_leader/00_traits.txt

[wise cradle]

Thank you

[echo sphinx]

Does anyone know of any up to date mods that add the Baltic-White Sea canal?

[glass acorn]

Random test I found out but apparently the define BASE_ENERGY_COST has a cap of 6

[wet sequoia]

please someone help me

I seriously cannot find anything wrong with my code and it's only my mod

all other mods work

[wise cradle]

I have no idea but the title for my country event don't want to appear and i know why

[wet sequoia]

I just made it a National Spirit

[wise cradle]

I already figure it out

[wet sequoia]

hey if you can help me out with something

[wet sequoia]

this

[wise cradle]

Sure

[wet sequoia]

when I load my mod and my mod only into the game

it just leaves the game

doesn't even give me an error log

the only things I did were add 1 localisation file and Change the military template name

[wise cradle]

Did you make sure all the names line up i don't know to be honest

[wet sequoia]

yep I copied the localisation file from the base game and changed the name of the Neutral and Communist Party

[wise cradle]

Maybe have to do with the flags they have to be the same ideological name as the ideologicay

[wet sequoia]

they are

[wise cradle]

Yeah idk then sorry

[wet sequoia]

who would know how to help me

[wise cradle]

Maybe German Luxemburg redux

[tough lotus]

Try making a new mod and moving your files there

[wet sequoia]

ight

[wet sequoia]

the new mod is 130B while the old one is 80KB even after I copied all files

is that an issue

ok it still doesn't open

[ebon shoal]

Do you have the correct path in your .mod file?

[wet sequoia]

the in the descriptor?

[ebon shoal]

yes

[wet sequoia]

it worked for weeks

a few days ago

it didn't

[wet sequoia]

yep

if you guys need the code I don't know how to send it

[wet sequoia]

should I download CWTools would that help me

find the problem

[tough lotus]

Probably

[wet sequoia]

how do I backup my folder

and do I need to

[wise cradle]

How do I make paragraphs in localisation files ?

[pale sparrow]

Wdym?

\n to skip lines if you mean that

[wise cradle]

Yeah

Thanks

[wet sequoia]

I fixed every problem using CWTools and it still didn't work

my mod is refusing to open

this is depressing

PLAY

An error occurred A

The game appears to have crashed or terminated
unexpectedly (exit code 3221225477). The issue may be
solved by verifying the integrity of your game files and
deactivating any mods. If you are using Windows, you
may also need to install Visual C++ Redistributable and
.NET Framework.

this is gonna kill me

i didnt sign up for this

[lone carbon]

I am playing IC:CW (iron curtain) and i cant justify war, does anyone know what happend?

[fossil fern]

is this too small of an industry branch (this is my romania mod)

[dusty linden]

Its fine

Perfectly good industry tree

[gleaming moon]

@dusty linden Hey, I like your profile picture. I'm also a fan of My Little Pony. Friendship is Magic. My favorite alicorn is Umm Luna. Not just my favorite alicorn, but my favorite character is also Luna.

[nova heron]

not enough stealing 💯

[mighty oxide]

best mod for ww1?

[wise cradle]

Any tips for creating focus icons ?

[pale sparrow]

Theres community resources for frames/icons etc you should definitely use, I dont have them on hand though because all the projects I work on have dedicated artists, should be Google-able

[wise cradle]

Thanks you been a really life save this week

[pale sparrow]

🫡 Feel free to spam me questions anytime

[pale sparrow]

Personally I didnt really like Great War and Great War Redux because both felt quite scripted (that was a while ago though), but I think those are the only ones with a reasonable amount of content, maybe one of those long-timeline mods like Rise of Nations

[tough lotus]

There are a few projects but I don't think any of them are playable yet

The Magna Europa one sure isn't

[zinc mauve]

Working on an update for Tannu Tuva Improved

Presenting what the new historical tree might look like

[wise cradle]

Looking good

[dusty linden]

https://tenor.com/view/my-little-pony-twilight-sparkle-mlp-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-twilight-sparkle-mlp-gif-6396438480313651304

[ashen radish]

@acoustic berry would you mind if i dmed you?

[hybrid fractal]

Friends, I need help creating a mod for Hearts of Iron 4. I have an idea for a plot, but I don't know how to create mods. If anyone could help, I'd be very grateful.

[dusty linden]

There are some pretty good tutorials on youtube

[pale sparrow]

If its an idea requiring huge map reworks you probably want to start with something smaller

[hybrid fractal]

I tried to do it myself, but it's very difficult. I want to create a team to create a modification.

[dusty linden]

It might be better to learn the basics on your own at first

[pale sparrow]

You could check modding Discords/Reddits but you should probably do as Dempsey said ^^

[hybrid fractal]

I'll try to do this, thanks

[hybrid fractal]

I spent over 5 hours on the material, but everything is clear. I put the idea off for too long and decided to find people.

[formal jewel]

what does "priority" mean in the unit definition?

is it to make battalions appear in a certain order?

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Unit_modding

IIRC it multiplies the priority with amount of battalions, so a low prio one is still default if theres lots of it

[dusty linden]

I forgot how fun modding hoi4 was ngl

[mild siren]

why is leader modding soo weird compared to earlier stugfs 😭😭😭

ik the wiki entry was updated in december but eugghhh

[pale sparrow]

the system used to be simpler, but its now easier to track leaders that arent active and to check where they go in civil wars

[rigid crest]

how do you get rid of the diplomatic notifications on the bottom right?

[lucid stag]

hold enter

[wet sequoia]

I NEED SERIOUS help it's over for me

a few days ago I went to test my mod

and then that mod specifically wouldn't open

The game appears to have crashed or terminated
unexpectedly (exit code 3221225477). The issue may be
solved by verifying the integrity of your game files and
deactivating any mods. If you are using Windows, you
may also need to install Visual C++ Redistributable and
.NET Framework.

this only appears when I try to load in a mod I'm Making

[limpid comet]

Is anyone else's mods broken?? Like it just won't run mods at all, it just boots up normal vanilla for no reason

I deleted and redownloaded the mods and hoi4 iteself too

Checked the playsets

But it just opens vanilla for no reason even with mods enabled and everything

[wise cradle]

how do you fix or expand the UI, I just add a new major and it just off the screen ?

[mild siren]

is there an updated tutorial i can follow? the wiki is a bit meh

[pale sparrow]

If you view how vanilla does it, that should be a good template

[mild siren]

true, ty

[wise cradle]

Can you help me ?

[pale sparrow]

I was already looking into it, havent find the file yet

[wise cradle]

Ok

[pale sparrow]

Most of the country/starting date selection stuff is in /interface with the files starting with frontend[...]

[wise cradle]

Ok thanks

[rigid crest]

no i dont want them showing at all

[limpid comet]

Help pls

[wise cradle]

Would it be the country_entry one ?

[pale sparrow]

Its whatever thats part of, but that might be hardcoded, maybe theres workarounds that some big mods use

[wise cradle]

i mean EAW has three start days

and the gui look fine

well it was bookmarks not dates but there thing

[lone blade]

Mines is fine

Running Great War redux rn

[limpid comet]

What the hell is wrong with my game bruh it just randomly stopped working

[wise cradle]

yeah, IDK how to fix this tried looking for it manually could find it, I tried the wiki and that didn't help and no-one on you did either as far as i can tell

please @ me if you do figure it out

[limpid comet]

So mods aren't working for you either? Just launches vanilla no matter what?

[wise cradle]

No i make a mod my vanilla work fine

I just trying to make Evington fit inside the box

But thr other nations is outside the box

[viscid cairn]

Hey, I'm doing " Mughal Influenc" on the Congo tree, exactly as shown in the picture. I'm changing it from striving for independence to “Congo_Influenc,” which I added to the dynamic modifier. Everything works fine, the only problem is that after making the focus, the territories already controlled by “Congo” get the modifier on the land, but the newly conquered territories don't. I don't know how to arrange the code and what to add to make it work, and I've been struggling with it for an hour already.

And adding the “condition” that if congo does not have this territory, the modifier should disappear.

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/On_actions#on_state_control_changed

[viscid cairn]

thx mby that's gonna help im kinda new and honestly from this example you send i understand 30/100%

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modifiers#Dynamic_modifiers
remove_trigger inside the dynamic modifier

[viscid cairn]

"files dynamic modifier"

[pale sparrow]

naming it idea is misleading when its not an idea

[viscid cairn]

oh

I did it because Mughal is made in a similar way, so I followed his example.

[pale sparrow]

        NOT = { 
            OWNER = { 
                original_tag = COG
            } 
        }
    }```

[viscid cairn]

oh i know now

i know

[pale sparrow]

and for the on_action

[viscid cairn]

this is form chat gpt honestly i don't think so that work how i want

[pale sparrow]

ChatGPT is garbage for HOI coding

[viscid cairn]

i don't have other thing for help and my enlgish is not good that mutch to read some documentery and understand everything + my friend is sleep but im kinda autistic i need to do it before i go sleep xD

[pale sparrow]

    effect = {
        if = {
            limit = {
                original_tag = COG
                has_completed_focus = COG_hold_the_pan_african_congress
            }
            FROM.FROM = {
                add_dynamic_modifier = {
                    modifier = idea_COG_congo_influence
                }
            }
        }
    }
}```

[viscid cairn]

name is good or i should change?

sry

[pale sparrow]

did you steal my on_actions file there 😂

[viscid cairn]

no why?

this is not my mod

[pale sparrow]

templatelock_on_actions is a file I made I think xD

[viscid cairn]

i work on him but is not my

i can give you contact on DM to person who make that

[pale sparrow]

Nah no need

to be consistent Id name it congo_on_actions

[viscid cairn]

oh so wait

now is good?

[pale sparrow]

Yeh sure

[viscid cairn]

So that's gonna be good

in "National_focus"?

i have kind issue with this to understand in 100% what i need change to what and named what only i know the TAG honestly xd so 10/100% of everything

Wait, so:

1. I fixed the Dynamic modifier by adding remove_trigger.
2. I changed the file name from congo to congo_on_actions.
3. Should the code you gave me, on_state_control_changed, be in congo_on_actions or in national_focuses/congo?
   Because I'm a little confused.

[mild siren]

well this wasnt that bad!

im making a modding tool to streamline modding and this was like the only thing i was struggling weith lol

now i need to add idea editor in it

[pale sparrow]

3 on actions

[viscid cairn]

done

what next?

that should stay?

[pale sparrow]

That seems to look good

[viscid cairn]

so em seems also good but when i start game annex portugal and colony the angola state don't have modfier "Congo_influenc"

[pale sparrow]

You could technically optimize the first block slightly if the tree is for COG by making the every_state an every_controlled_state

[viscid cairn]

like this

on Congo land works
on Angola land not works

[viscid cairn]

done and still the same i mean don't works

Unless, as it says annex portugal, it doesn't work like that and I should just take these areas through the conference?

[viscid cairn]

i type something like that

and it's working now

but hey! still thx for helping me

[acoustic berry]

Working on the Bavaria tree for the Germany Rework. Here's how it is so far. Any suggestions?

Here is the one I had made for the former Better German Alt-History mod, for reference

[dusty linden]

Looking good

[acoustic berry]

Basically just going to be a better version of the old tree, and the economy and military trees I will create a sort of generic one that will be available to all German state nations

Not shared btw, more like how the Baltics are just a copy+paste of each other

[dusty linden]

Makes sense and very understandable

[pale sparrow]

Yeh but its not very performance-optimized

If you replace every_state with FROM.FROM, it runs about 1000x faster

[viscid cairn]

Okay i will test it

[swift field]

im gonna add new ship crafts and vessels like: lhds lhas lpds lsts lcus lcacs etc

[viscid cairn]

i do it and works great

thx very mutch for helping me!

[wet sequoia]

guys can anyone help me with something

[sleek ingot]

peak focus icons btw

[wise cradle]

so im guessing if i type replace_path = "common/country_tags" it will remove the orginal tags like germany

So that they can be use for a different nation

[nimble solar]

Didn't Bavaria almost go communist soon after ww1?

A communist path that builds upon that history might be interrsting

[wet sequoia]

it'll replace every tag with the tags defined in your mod

[wise cradle]

ok thanks

[wet sequoia]

including ones not defined in your mod

[wise cradle]

yes

[wet sequoia]

so countries you don't give tags to won't have tags

[wise cradle]

ok

[wet sequoia]

my mod broke

please someone help me

ive been asking for almost a week

[acoustic berry]

Thx

[acoustic berry]

That's the concept, you are recreating the Bavarian Soviet Republic

[wet sequoia]

this

[wise cradle]

I adding a new province and when i when to add it to a supply area there only one ?

i not adding a new state though so i hope everthing go fine

[strange cargo]

where to install?

[acoustic berry]

steam workshop, if you look it up it should be the first result

[strange cargo]

mod name is steam workshop?

[acoustic berry]

No, it's on the Steam Workshop. Look up "Germany Rework". It's the first result

[strange cargo]

oh ty

i will try and give review

later on today

[ashen radish]

@acoustic berry Is there any way i can save file as dds directly from photoshop, using online convertors ruin quality a bit, 1st pic is how it looks in PS and second after i converted it to dds and added into the game

or is it just the way it works

[tough lotus]

probably some sort of export option

IDK gimp just lets you change the extension at will

[ashen radish]

Photoshop doesnt have dds,it has tga,but issue with tga is that it exports it with white background

When i exported it with tga,quality was surprisingly good but background wasnt transparent

[tough lotus]

Maybe a setting?

[ashen radish]

Didnt really have any options about the background

When i tried to save it

[tough lotus]

Maybe some sort of transparency setting

[wise cradle]

The state is there i just getting a unknown in terrian area

[wet sequoia]

Hey guys

Every time I open my mod it immediately kicks me out of the game

The game appears to have crashed or terminated
unexpectedly (exit code 3221225477). The issue may be
solved by verifying the integrity of your game files and
deactivating any mods. If you are using Windows, you
may also need to install Visual C++ Redistributable and
.NET Framework.

this only appears when I try to load in a mod I'm Making

this has been going on for a week

for files I've added only 1 localisation file

I decided to continue working on the mod but I really can't do much without testing if it works

and obviously I can't do that if I can't open the game

it doesn't even give me an error log because I need to open the game for that

I always launch the game in debug

I use CWTools and there are no reported issues

I can send over whatever code you guys need but I seriously need help

I have another issue but that's for later

[tough lotus]

Ask in the modding den (the server linked in the r/hoi4modding subreddit)

[wet sequoia]

ight

[tough lotus]

More people there

[gleaming moon]

Hey, would anybody be willing to teach me? How to make up a portrait mod? I'm willing to learn, but I've tried reading the guides and watching the Youtube videos like I've even tried. AI. I've been willing to learn, but I need somebody to teach me. I'm trying to make a portrait mod for Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, France and America. Oh, and also Poland that would replace their. Portraits, the name for all ideology, country balls. My good buddy Victoria only already made one for Britain and I want to just copy paste that for my other countries that I play which is mainly Germany, especially Italy, Iran. Russia, and of course the country that I come from, the United States, and then of course, the country that my heritage comes from, which is the Kingdom of Spain.

[wet sequoia]

now making portraits isn't the hardest thing in the world

[gleaming moon]

cool

[wet sequoia]

if you downloaded your friends mod

it will show up in the folder

[gleaming moon]

Yeah, that's why I'm saying I'm willing to learn. I just don't know how to do it. I have zero coding experience. I'm willing to learn.

[wet sequoia]

you kinda look at the code and see what's needed now lemme explain how I make portraits

basically you need actually set up the mod first

do you already have the mod and Visual Studio Code

[gleaming moon]

Basically I basically need to make a new mod because of the fact that the the front I have made it for Great Britain but I need to look in there and then basically copy paste it for Germany, France. Spain. Austria. I almost forgot about the Austrians. Damn, I almost forgot about my other favorite country, that being Austria. And then of course I need America and France all the kind of mentioned which I have zero coding experience. I guess I'm just gonna be copy pasting and hope it works. LOL.

[gleaming moon]

Yes, I already have the mod and Visual Studio code. I downloaded it a while ago when I was trying to make a mod with AIS. Help yeah. I know Claude 4.5 opus definitely isn't that good for making a mod LOL.

[wet sequoia]

nice

[gleaming moon]

thanks

[wet sequoia]

did you make the mod you're gonna add the code to

[gleaming moon]

No, the mod for UK i did not make it. You know Victoria, the guy from Spain who's pretty famous and this chapter responding to people, he's the one that made it. If you want to look at the mod, it's called Tea Time on the Steam Workshop, but no, I've never made a mod myself, but I do know where to find mods. I know how to download mods, not and not make them.

[wet sequoia]

I mean in Hoi4 did you make the mod

because like you need the folder

if not

open Hoi4

[gleaming moon]

Oh yeah, I know how to do that. Yes, I know. I know how to do that

[wet sequoia]

ight

so just make the mod

[gleaming moon]

My problem is not actually creating the mod through the launcher. My problem is that I don't know any code, like I don't know how to do this and Claude isn't exactly clear on how to do that stuff.

All right. I will do that immediately.

[wet sequoia]

yeah but you need to get the folder to put the code in

[gleaming moon]

If you're willing to guide me on how to make this mod, do you think you could hop into AVC with me? Because of the fact that it would be easier, if you're willing to guide me, it would be easier. If we do it on a call, so I don't have to be constantly checking discord if you don't have a problem with it.

[wet sequoia]

I can't really VC as I don't really have an available working microphone but I can tell you the exact steps

[gleaming moon]

All right, that's perfectly fine. I just created the mod in the folder. I called it good German discipline because I'm going to start with Germany.

I totally understand that you don't have a working microphone as I used to, not so I totally understand and I appreciate the fact that you're willing to help me.

I've also opened up the folder in Visual Studio Code.

So what's next.

[wet sequoia]

ok so now you have the mod folder open Visual Studio Code and open that folder in it. Create a folder called interface and then a file called _Tag_leader_portrait.gfx
then type this code

          spriteType = {
               name = "GFX_portrait_tag_whatever"
                      texturefile = "gfx/leaders/tag/Name of the Photo.dds"
}
}```

then make a separate folder outside of common and call it "gfx" and in it make the folder "leaders" and make a folder under it named with the same name as the countries Tag
and then using File Explorer just paste the picture into the folder 

Then make a folder called common and in it one called Characters and in characters make a file called Tag_characters.txt with code 
``` characters = {
        Tag_name_name
            portraits = {
                civilian/army  = {
                    large = GFX_portraits_TAG_whatever
           }
        }
}```

this is just for leaders it's the same for others, some other things

Tag = country tag for example:
GER, ITA, FRA, LEB, SYR
for Germany Italy France Lebanon and Syria

as for civilian/army
use civilian for non generals and field marshals and admirals
use army for generals field Marshalls and Admirals 

only use .dds or .tga for pictures

[gleaming moon]

No, I'm only looking to replace the leader, not the not the generals or advisers, just the leaders. So. Basically I need to create a folder called interface. Is it just interface or what do I call it? And then do I just copy the code that you put? I'm kind of confused.

[wet sequoia]

oh in that case just ignore the common folder step

[wet sequoia]

just interface

[gleaming moon]

OK. Great. So I create a folder called interface and then from there I just. Copy the code that you sent me for the interface folder correct. After I create a text file OK and then inside that text file I copy the code that you have given me OK. I'll let you know when I finish the steps.

OK so I made the interface folder now so I understand the part that I need to make the GFX folder. Then I need to make the leaders folder and. Then after I make the leaders folder. I need to make. I need to make a folder inside a leaders folder with the countryside. For example for Germany that would be ger. And for Italy that would be ITA. I'm not sure what it is. For Austria and for Russia that would be SOB America would just be USA. And I believe II know that the sayings have different tags depending on which one it is. But either way. But then what do I name the pictures and what type of picture? Does it have to be PNG, JPEG or can it just be any type.

[wet sequoia]

it cannot be PNG or JPEG

it has to be DDS

which is Paint.net

The HOI4 developer team made a video on how to make portraits actually I forgot

[gleaming moon]

So then how do I convert an image into ADDS? Because a lot of images are jpegs or PNG, DDS are pretty rare, especially when you're just looking up country ball pictures.

Because I'm not making I'm not making custom country ball pictures. I'm just looking at the Internet to find the one I like the most and then using it in the mod. Because I have terrible artistic skills, just like I have terrible coding skills.

[wet sequoia]

you open Paint.Net

paste your image in jt

and save it as a DDS

[gleaming moon]

ok

Alright, and it's Paint.net, a free program. Just curious.

[wet sequoia]

yeah

[gleaming moon]

If it's free, then why is it saying it's $15? Unless I'm looking at the wrong program, can you send me a link to download it?

Never mind, I figured it out. I found it. I found Paint.net.

@wet sequoia OK so I have my image but when I copy paste the image into the into the folder, what do I name it? Do I name it anything specifically or do I just keep it as the same name that it was given when I copy paste it?

Also, how do I make sure that I actually rename all of the leaders? Not just make it to where all the leaders portraits are Germany Ball, but to where they're all named germany Balto where like the the leader name is Germany Ball?

[wet sequoia]

whatever

[wet sequoia]

that's where the common folder comes in

[gleaming moon]

ok

What's next?

[ashen radish]

Finally figured out this stupid dds compression for photoshop @tough lotus im making icon in photoshop, saving it as png, then i put it in gimp and save as dds and quality is preserved

🫶

quality is not ruined 🥹

[tough lotus]

I was thinking of that as a solution but it's a bit convoluted

[tough lotus]

Got ruined by discord

[ashen radish]

this is an icon for "Recruiting Levies" focus for aden colony :)

[tough lotus]

Actually nevermind

[ashen radish]

:')

[tough lotus]

Looks good

[tough lotus]

Idea icons (and only idea icons) work as png so you can skip that step there

[ashen radish]

now i just feel dumb

hahahha

thanks

actually didnt know that

[acoustic berry]

You need to get a DDS plugin

Just look up one online and you can find it

[ashen radish]

did it :] i made some company name up for nvidia one hahahah

its all good now, thanks

[acoustic berry]

Ah ok, good

I had to download an alternative because I've found quite a bit of trouble with that one

[ashen radish]

and im slowly starting to understand how photoshop works

[acoustic berry]

Yeah that's how I was when I first got it, but it is a huge step up from say Paint.net which is what I was using before

[ashen radish]

i tried intel one but for some reason it absolutely trashed the quality

[acoustic berry]

I can't remember which one I found but I think I had to look for a while. Oh well, at least I have something that works

[ashen radish]

but im very happy with this icon i just made, its already an improvement over first one

fast learner, but lazy ass

[zenith gorge]

@acoustic berry whats the next rework gonna be

[distant flame]

someone should lowk make a deepstate mod

where you play as the virgin islands

and there's a balance of power between stein and yahu

[acoustic berry]

1. It's not going to be a rework
2. It hasn't even begun development (just an idea) so I am not going to state what it will be yet

Also (because this is an extremely common suggestion, I am not making a France Rework because there are a significant number of them on the Workshop

[limpid comet]

Is there a mod that adds like a super unit to the game? Like a gundam or space marines or something

[wise cradle]

can paint.net be used for map modding ? or do i need GIMP ?

[frosty gulch]

greetings, do yall think this is a good thumbnail?

[wise cradle]

Banger thumbnail

[frosty gulch]

thank

[fossil fern]

anybody know how to make it so you have to wait so many days after doing a focus to do the next one

like with the soviets when you have to wait 175 days to do the next focus

[tough lotus]

There is that trick called "look how vanilla does it"

[fossil fern]

realised that as soon as i sent that message

debated deleting it icl😭

[kindred axle]

It can be used

I use it

[wise cradle]

Cause when ever I try to map a hight map I can't tell the colour apart

[kindred axle]

Hight?

[wise cradle]

The thing that determines the level of elevation

[kindred axle]

Never tried that tbh, didnt know It was a thing lol

I used paint.net Just for new provinces

[wet sequoia]

how do I make a custom national spirit icon

[gleaming moon]

Yo

I wanna play as the UK in Great War Redux, but I'm curious how do I side with Germany and that mod? Is there any way that I can side with Germany or am I just destined to side with France 'cause I kind of prefer Germany to France.

[left ginkgo]

Good morning

Does anyone know how to change the game's textures to optimized ones?

[pale sparrow]

I dont think its mainly the textures

[left ginkgo]

There are people who do it though :d

[pale sparrow]

Theres only shaders to optimize/disable with stuff like FPS map I think

[left ginkgo]

A game with less texture like its

@pale sparrow

[tough lotus]

That's shaders

FPS map and non reflective water

[left ginkgo]

OK thanks

[left ginkgo]

I think there's a slight problem with FPS Map 🙁 my map is completely black

[tough lotus]

You might have the wrong version

Or if you're on the beta it might not support it yet

[left ginkgo]

How are we supposed to change the game version?

I found it, it's good.

I'll restart my game and then I'll tell you

It works well except that the DLCs no longer work in an older version (which makes sense, lol).

[slow ledge]

ayo thats my screenshot😭

[left ginkgo]

I stole the first screenshots I saw lol

[slow ledge]

i was like "hmm that look familiar"

[half onyx]

dude

look up no google

'fps map 1.17'

if ur on the latest version

https://top-mods.com/mods/hoi-4/graphics/1754-fps-map.html

[wise cradle]

Yo can a impassable state have mutiable state link to it

[pale sparrow]

You mean this?

[wise cradle]

Yeah

[wise cradle]

Can it have multiple ? Cause I been testing

[half onyx]

hey guys is there a mod that changes puppet names like if i uppet france as germany iinstead of naming it "german france" it names it "french state"
or if i puppet a country aas a non-aligned country (monarchy) it renames the country to "kingdom of __"

[wise cradle]

If I remember I think it's called better puppet names ?

[wise cradle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2587197320&searchtext=better+puppet+names

idk if it still work though

[half onyx]

thanks

ill see

[pale sparrow]

I assume not

[wise cradle]

I finally work out province modding

Now I one step closer to that map mod I want to do

[wise cradle]

Any good ways I can use replace paths and test them out ?

[half onyx]

uh

it doesnt have a .mod file

[wise cradle]

Um ?

Idk how to fix that

[pale sparrow]

You need them when you wanna override the vanilla map completely

when only overriding a few states, you could skip it, but total override and its needed

[wise cradle]

Yeah i want to make a new map so yeah

[wise cradle]

It does appear to work fine without it

Also it ironman capactable

[fossil fern]

is this a good size for an army branch?

[wise cradle]

Yeah

I sure that bigger that Germany right ?

[wise cradle]

Yo got to tell me when it done i love to play it

[fossil fern]

i'd say around same

[fossil fern]

well i've done economic branch and army now

just need to do navy + air (which wont be much) and then political (which will be tons)

[wise cradle]

The topple the gaints sound so call and has a sick looking icon

[steel kraken]

sup

[wise cradle]

I guessing if I want to make a map modd I need for example repace_path =" common/country_tags"

[left ginkgo]

Oh, thank you!

[wise cradle]

My localisation is been evil

I doing everything right and just won't go through with this achievements

It won't display the names

[pale sparrow]

Screenshot pls

[wise cradle]

I figure out

I forgot the id

[ancient vapor]

Yes

[wise cradle]

Thanks

[wise cradle]

Any other examples ?