modding

[kindred axle]

just an idea

like the soviet night witches

aye

[timber anvil]

How do you make a mod

We’re you change the portrait

I wanna make a hm submod

[vague sand]

Hey is there something that takes your focus and makes a picture, drawing or something of it?

nvm found it

[pale sparrow]

https://marijn211.github.io/HoI4-GFX-Search/

[vague sand]

its not what i meant but thanks anyway

[native glacier]

This is missing quite a few icons, particularly from the latest dlc

[unreal sorrel]

you should probably ask in a Kaiserredux discord

[swift field]

im gonna add someday tech and Equipment trees for ALL majors and minors

as part of my hoi4 multi mod

[high hatch]

It is normal:

set_compliance = 35
set_resistance = 12

doesn't work on history\states file? It is still by default. Ie 70% compliance and 0% resistance in the state I want.

[pale sparrow]

Do it like this

Rt56 example but vanilla does the exact same in Japan's file

[high hatch]

Thank you.

Do you have any to set up the default garrison template division use 🤔?

[swift field]

i do also wanna add 999 slots for civs mils and dockyards

[fiery spire]

yo do any mods require any dlc's?

I never modded the game so Im just curious

[pale sparrow]

Yes, but very few

For the most part its easy to make DLC/non-DLC variants for things

[lyric estuary]

Can someone teach me to make events in depth

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Event_modding

[lyric estuary]

I know a wiki exists

It’s not what I asked tho

[fiery spire]

how do I know which mod is like the original? Im like searching old world blues but there is like so many versions

im lost 😭

[lament berry]

can anyone give me a good mod to play

[fiery spire]

also do I download them from steam or paradox plaza?

[tough lotus]

With the exception of techs

[pale sparrow]

Steam if you can

[pale sparrow]

Most downloaded one

[tough lotus]

Which usually is the reason for the requirement

[pale sparrow]

ahem Skill issue

🙃

[fiery spire]

When I download them from steam do I also need to manually upload them n launcher ?

[pale sparrow]

no

[burnt vigil]

what's it called? i'm prolly gonna use it since ion know crap ab making art for focuses and how to make them look good

[vague sand]

https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4modding/comments/bfpk7u/tool_to_take_hoi4_focus_tree_screenshots/

[burnt vigil]

thx

[vague sand]

np

[steep willow]

Who can help make a supervent?

[burnt vigil]

man this little progress took me over an hour, i'm never gonna finish lol

though once i get the shell for the left-side of the political focus tree, i can probably move it too

[shut dawn]

You get faster as you get better

It helps also to break things into steps. I usually go:

-plan the tree
-make a skeleton
-add the localization
-add the effects
-add the art

[fiery spire]

Do all mods disable achievements?

Or are there any exceptions?

[pale sparrow]

graphics/localization ones usually

[fiery spire]

Any recommendations? Especially for performance.

[pale sparrow]

FPS map used to work well but idk if its up to date

[fiery spire]

I'm good until likeUSA joins allies

[pale sparrow]

there isnt any mod that helps performance a huge lot tbh

debug_smooth console command helps a decent bit

[fiery spire]

Rip

[fiery spire]

Ik but can't do achievements then

[pale sparrow]

Actually you might be able to

debug_smooth might persist if you switch saves

so you can load in - debug_smooth, then switch save

[fiery spire]

Interesting.

[fiery spire]

So it lasts until I leave the whole game?

[pale sparrow]

I think so

[burnt vigil]

adding the hoi4 util extension to my VSC, and god DAMN this is old content

this was from what, WTT when germany got their alt-hist path?

[kindred axle]

no, like fps map doesnt lol

[kindred axle]

ancient stuff lol

[kindred axle]

that was the first default focus tree for germany ig ? and it did not have any alt path until waking the tiger DLC i think

which got the democratic and monarchist path for germany

[burnt vigil]

Yea, represented by that purple line at the top, tbf this extension is ancient

[tough lotus]

Works pretty well though

You don't have to redo your entire description if it still showcases what you can do pretty well

And that focus tree was in the game until one and a half years ago

[echo sphinx]

If i was going to make a patch that gets several mods to work with one another, would it be easier to make a patch that makes two of the mods work together, than from that modify the patch a single mod at a time?

[burnt vigil]

What is the main issue between them working together

[vale bough]

is there a mod out there like kaissereich or TNO, but instead of axis the comintern dominates the world?\

[kindred axle]

i think there was, but not fully the world but just europe and some parts of africa

tho i dont rememeber the name

this one is in the cold war era but soviets won it
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2166453693

[swift field]

how do i change the building slots

like if i wanna add more

[vague sand]

Hi, this took me 2 days and its still pretty basic, i have effects for only half of the democratic path and the fascist path is basically just a skeleton. Any thoughts? (Canada)

[vague sand]

Im aware most of the icons are vanilla ones, i will change it probably in an update after i release the mod

Im planning to expand on this path in the future

and reogernize this one

[tough lotus]

It's a define + you'll have to edit state categories so you can actually make use of the extra building slots

And the state view if you want to see the extra slots

[wise cradle]

I gonna add jersey and guernsey to the map

[swift field]

OH alr

[vague sand]

so proud of this focus🥹

[austere wyvern]

pls add line skips

[vague sand]

xD i realized i didnt need to add everything to one focus so i removed the entire effect but the resistance and added the rest to 2 other focuses

[vague sand]

            every_country = { 
                limit = {
                    is_on_continent = europe
                    has_government = fascism
                }
                create_wargoal = {
                    type = puppet_wargoal_focus
                }
            }

whats wrong with this effect? Nothing shows up

[pale sparrow]

continent is for state scopes not country

[vague sand]

ohhhhhh

[vague sand]

so what works?

because i put continent = europe and it worked on every fascist nation in the world

[tough lotus]

capital_scope = {

probably

[vague sand]

so
capital_scope = { europe }?

[tough lotus]

Should scope to the state the capital is in

[vague sand]

oh yay that worked

[tough lotus]

capital_scope = { is_on_continent = europe }

[vague sand]

yeah tnx!

[vague sand]

hey and im trying to get it to create a war goal on the nations but it only takes one of the nations

        completion_reward = {
            every_country = { 
                limit =  {
                        capital_scope = { is_on_continent = europe }
                        has_government = fascism
                }
                ENG = { 
                    create_wargoal = {
                        type = puppet_wargoal_focus
                        target = PREV
                    } 
                }
            }
        }

(the country the focus is in is canada)

[tough lotus]

any_owned_state = { } or any_controlled_state = { } should also work, would check if they're present in europe as opposed to having their capital there

[vague sand]

?

[opaque basin]

is it possbile for me to change August von Mackensen portrait gfx and still keep iron man mode on, im wondering beacuse its diffrent path file compared to the others since its inside a dlc,

[tough lotus]

Same filepath, the game omits the dlc folder

So you can replace it without any problems

[opaque basin]

yeah but its iron man mode still avaible then

[tough lotus]

Yes

It's still the gfx folder

[opaque basin]

i will look onto it then

[burnt vigil]

Not all fasc states are in Europa though

[vague sand]

yeah thats the issue

[burnt vigil]

The continent scope works perfectly if you wanted to say "owns at least one state in europe" for a focus, like a focus to reinstate your government

It can also be used in a NOT argument, like with the Dutch focus tree to continue the war out of Batvia (DEI)

[vague sand]

i want to just create a war goal on each country in europe thats fascist

[burnt vigil]

oh, isn't there a focus that alr does that?

i think the USSR has one, though idk

[kindred axle]

i have been crashing for some times because of a map error that i cant understand which one is

(after i already did buildings validation, unistacks and railway )
i was almost finished with doing the map and close it for teh day, i noticed two provinces inverted in the states and i fixed them but then one province didnt fix, so i tried to delete the province from teh defintion and all stataes/strategic regions files and then it started to crash with no reason, the erorr log showed nothing wrong related to the map but yet i crashed still, first at the checksum and then at the initializing game

i really need an help as i didnt save the provinces changes i did for the whole middle east and half of turkey 💔 which are almost 600 provinces

[burnt vigil]

could the duplicate tag for Saudi Arabia be the issue?

[22:05:25][no_game_date][countrydatabase.cpp:137]: Duplicate Country Tag - SAU

[kindred axle]

it was alawys there before the province change

but imma try

[burnt vigil]

alr

[kindred axle]

yea nope

[burnt vigil]

try adding -crash_data_log to the launch settings in steam

[kindred axle]

already in

[burnt vigil]

is this from the crash\error.log, or logs\error.log?

iirc they show different things, but idk to be 100% honest

[kindred axle]

crashes

here the logs one

[burnt vigil]

piss, they're identical

i honestly have the damnedest clue from here honestly

[kindred axle]

i have been having it for almost 3 hours lol and i damn every second myself for not saving the mod before changing it lol

[burnt vigil]

so what did you change since the last real save?

[kindred axle]

provinces

[burnt vigil]

this is odd indeed

[kindred axle]

like, i still got the province map, so not all is lost, but it would be cancerous to do it all over again

[tough lotus]

What does meta.yml say?

[burnt vigil]

so see if that's the end of the file, if not then that's the issue (line 229), if if it the end then it's whatever loads after

also W pc, i wish i had one that nice

[kindred axle]

lol thx, i had it for my bd, i had a shitty PC for 8 years so i finally got something good

[kindred axle]

so the map ?

i think

i think thats what comes after inizialing game

[burnt vigil]

idk, i wish we had a list of load order to use as a cross reference

[kindred axle]

ok no i jsut checked

it must be during the iniziatling phase

i just checked someone on reddit that it might be the buildings one ? i put the buildings.txt after doing the provinces so before i delete the two provinces i mentioned, so imma try putting vanilla buildings and see if it loads magically

[burnt vigil]

it might, since those provinces technically still exist elsewhere

again, idk much about this bc Clauswitz dosn't give much help for it

[kindred axle]

god bless clauswitz ( btw it crashed again )

[burnt vigil]

lol checks out

[kindred axle]

if it was for this i am done with modding

ok nah still crashes

[broken oak]

how do I check why my game is crashing

[tough lotus]

-crash_data_log

also hi

[broken oak]

hi

[small remnant]

does anyone have a good cold war mod for version 1.16.9 or one that works with my version?

[tawdry sapphire]

anyone got a good mod

[glass acorn]

Implement the terrain type, state, and strategic region info

I experienced this when modding the great lake states, certain areas are more vulnerable to crashes and I feel like in this case it's the Black Sea

So just manually make the correct provinces from the generated definition coastal, assign them to their respective states/strat regions, etc

It should work once you do

[vernal ridge]

rt56

[tawdry sapphire]

Alr bet

[rustic glacier]

What mod this is

?

[opaque basin]

I can’t quite find it

[mild wharf]

Is tno worth trying

[kindred axle]

i just checked the coastals ones, it seems nothing is wrong, and the states are all good, i checked teh ones i did and they match the province i assigned Pre-crash, for the strategic regions its all good, even because turkey has one air space in the whole country lol

[kindred axle]

a mine one

[kindred axle]

imma just do it all over again, anyways i got the map, screenshots of the map

[glass acorn]

Are they assigned coastal tho

In Visual Studio Code, if they're yellow, they're Coastal

Also those inland provinces are coastal too

The lake is considered an ocean province

[gentle marten]

Too many provinces

[tough lotus]

There in no province limit

Only on province connections

and that doesn't cause a crash

[glass acorn]

Tho from testing, the game DOES stop auto-generating provinces past the 65k mark

Not sure how it works with manually made ones past 65k

[glass acorn]

European-sized provinces btw

✌️

[neat fox]

What are some good WW1 mods that ARE NOT the great war

[kindred axle]

i tried but failed to understand how it works lol, anyways thx for the time but imma just go the tradional way and do it all over again, anyways i saved for each provice the state i added it to so it will take no time, just gotta add a new definition

imma speedrun this shit ngl when i got the time

[cedar ledge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3682938409

1hour and 25 views

is that okay?

[glass acorn]

Make sure you didn't export it with color space information

Very small setting but completely breaks it otherwise

[rugged tartan]

I want to add a local state effect that is automatically applied whenever a state changes controller, but I’m not sure how to make this happen. Can anyone help me?

[wise cradle]

I trying to make land bridge between a province I made and Cherbourg. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

13382;6449;sea;2871;-1;-1;-1;-1;;English channel

[prime wolf]

hey uhm anyone know the resolution of each "dots?"

[pale sparrow]

where are these in the GUI?

unless you enable UI scaling, the texture size is usually identical to what you see in screenshots, though here the antialiasing? makes that impossible to guess

[ruby dagger]

there isnt like, a mod that provides an API for a live game client, is there? im assuming the game client doesnt have such a thing built in. use case: just daydreaming about hooking up an llm to my local game client. new player to hoi4, and when i started playing i had a chatgpt window open on another screen. and i was constantly screenshotting things (like live events) and it was helping explain deeper context. which is all wiki knowledge in its training, im sure. what i thought would be fun was some sort of mcp interface to the game client that would let it just read things about the game state. like a REST API on some set of the gameobjects. could have so much fun with that

[pale sparrow]

Doesnt exist

[hybrid badger]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3297482168

[wise cradle]

Sorry to bug you but I am trying to make land bridge between a province I made and Cherbourg. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

13382;6449;sea;2871;-1;-1;-1;-1;;English channel

[pale sparrow]

Neither do I, Ive only bugfixed such passages

[languid elk]

is there a way to have dynamic national spirit icons

as in, switch icons for national spirits under certain circumstances

or is that impossible and i have to make entirely new ideas

[vernal ridge]

hey guys how to set a custom research bonuses to a country

for example I want to add +1 more research slots to Turkey

I can't do that on ideas file

and does anybody have any idea what seperates ideas and statistic decisions

[tacit elm]

Eu4 or Hoi4?

[rugged tartan]

cant you just have a if function within the icon gfx part of the focus

[languid elk]

im referring to national spirits
not focuses

[rugged tartan]

same question

[tacit elm]

Bro pls my friend accept

Hadilan hizli

[north wave]

@tough lotus
Is it possible to reset the manpower tool of a state?

Like let's say, a state has wasted its manpower fully

Is it possible to reset it back to what it was before the manpower was used?

If its possible

https://tenor.com/view/anakin-skywalker-palpatine-is-it-possible-learn-this-power-gif-17185041

[oak vine]

hello dose anyone know how to fix this ?

i have tryed my best fix this

[vernal ridge]

delete paradox launcher files from apps and appdata

[oak vine]

i tryed that

its 3rd party btw

i just wanted try few mods this happend

[oak vine]

i have tryed to fix this many times today

I guess it's happening because of codes

[plucky pebble]

hello, can I put a equipement bonus in a dynamics national idea ?

if yes, how ?

[teal basin]

Syria?

🇸🇾

[raven merlin]

how do you add them? is it just drawing or is there something else

[opaque basin]

how do i edit my dlc gfx without ruining iron man mode

[fossil fern]

guys is this a good idea for my romania mod? on the fascist path im thinking either axis or make own faction, then in three mutually exclusive focuses. one that can only be done if u create ur own faction about romanian balkan domination. puppets that give basically everythhg (puppets will have focus trees). then a path in the middle more about taking less land but coring it (eg demanding) and third is about helping barabarossa, coring some black sea and help germany (and also stopping hungary and bulgaria taking ur lands cus germany loves you). is this good? any ideas??

[grand relic]

Hoi4 on android?

[dusty linden]

Rip phone

You will be missed

[grand relic]

Update, mods are missing

[kindred axle]

u get a unique rgb, add the province ID and RGB to the definition, u paint the rgb on the province map, u add it in the province list of the states and strategic regions and then when u get in the game validate both buildings and units

[kindred axle]

syria.

[kindred axle]

https://youtu.be/bzlC9YaV8S8?si=gWf0YTl6V-vg0Ng6

[acoustic berry]

Forming the Austrian Empire as Bavaria, you can then gain access to decisions to reintegrate former territory (Germany Rework)

[nimble solar]

Süddeutschland moment?

[sour temple]

Can you set a piece of equipment to convert from itself?

This is mostly to purchase/capture foreign weapons and "convert" them to use bonuses gained from techs/MIO's and the like

[feral mango]

I need some mods , that not boring , any tips to help me ?

[acoustic berry]

sorta, ya

[golden totem]

no south german confederation?

[acoustic berry]

There's a West German Federation that you can form, I think I'll have an option, as the Austrian Empire to either Unite the South Germans or bring together the Danube

[vernal ridge]

hey yall I want to make a mod to buff a country for example Turkey. I want to set extra factories on some provinces and more research slot with some researched technologies. I am using R56 mod, should I copy and paste history files to my new mod. Does it overwrite?

[acoustic berry]

I am once again updating the politics system in the USA rework

[pale sparrow]

Might want to mark Road to 56 a dependency to be sure

[hidden maple]

anyone that has experience in modding and i could ask some questions? (the channel is for that tf why i ask xD)

[sharp knoll]

https://pastebin.com/tLTaiucE

My tech tree acts weird

Some modules are unlocked by the wrong tech

Others aren't even unlocked

[hidden maple]

How can i replace an already existing focus tree? like with usa. bc i remember i did it once. but now i just can't find a way for some reason.

[sharp knoll]

Make your own and set the weight higher than the default focus tree or whatever focus tree your dependency uses

[hidden maple]

ye the moment you wrote i figured out xD. the timing

[sharp knoll]

Lmao

[hidden maple]

as it turns out

it doesn't show for some reason if its only 1 focus. there needs to be more

[vague sand]

Hey, im really new to scopes and what not

                if = {
                    limit = {
                        any_country = {
                                is_on_continent = europe
                        }
                    }
                    add_stability = 0.10
                }

Why isnt this working?

[tough lotus]

is_on_continent doesn't work in country scope

[sleek plume]

How get althist in power

Is there like a alternative to cpusa?

[acoustic berry]

This system is only for staying democratic, by supporting the America First Party you can cause a gridlock which can trigger a civil war that lets progressives or socialists take power

[oblique crag]

Any modders interested in starting an inter war hoi4 mod?

[slow trail]

hello got a question

How do i apply a dynamic state modifier onto a state from the beginning of the game, is it in the respective history/states/x file or elsewhere?

[tough lotus]

Hello. We have interwar

[oblique crag]

I mean historically accurate inter war mod

Not the rise of anarchism one

Though that one is pretty fun

Historically accurate inter war with alt paths ofc

[tough lotus]

Yeah we have that. Rise of Nations does cover interwar (although it is a timeline expansion so it can get laggy)

[oblique crag]

Dude

RoN has 1900-2000

[tough lotus]

I know I work on the thing

[oblique crag]

Ion wanna play for that long😭🙏

[tough lotus]

Interwar is is 1919-1933, conveniently with a start date in 1919

[oblique crag]

Hmmmmm

Ok fine

Il consider switching ti RoN

If

Yall change the weapon models

[tough lotus]

You don't have to, having a dedicated mod is always great

[oblique crag]

Theyre super ugly

[tough lotus]

Man we're 4 active developers, none of which have 3d modeling experience

[oblique crag]

I dont mean the one for 3d infantry

I mean the one from the research tree

The 3d models are ok

[tough lotus]

They're from Endsieg or TGWR

Might be on the chopping block but I can't tell I'm not an artist

[oblique crag]

Yeah bro pls change them🙏

[keen geyser]

hi does anyone know why my mod doesn't work when i use the released version but does when i use the local? (its uploaded, i resubbed to it, so it should be the same right?) no erros related to it in the log either

[pale sparrow]

Are you aware you cant have both local and Steam version installed at once?

[keen geyser]

really?

damn no i wasnt

[pale sparrow]

Yeh it confuses the launcher/game and the mod wont load purely because of that

[keen geyser]

i thought i could test it by swapping them back and forth to see if it works for everyone

okay thanks

wait so even if theyre not activated active just present on disk it gets messed up?

[pale sparrow]

Yes

Just go to Documents folder to temporarily move the local version when you want to test the Steam version

[keen geyser]

alright got it thx

[kindred axle]

@glass acorn @burnt vigil btw i got them back :D

still gotta re-put the VPs but i am done with it lol

[glass acorn]

Nice 🔥

[burnt vigil]

nice

[burnt hornet]

what mod is this?

[kindred axle]

a my W.I.P. mod

[burnt hornet]

Turkey rework?

thats my guess

[kindred axle]

nahh

alt history path

[frank sable]

is there a mod about the 7 years war?

[acoustic berry]

Continuing to work on the parties system for the USA Rework.

• Now the size of the EC expands by 2 electors when a new state is admitted (when a new state is admitted, it has a 50/50 chance of either aligning with the Republicans or Democrats)
• Every 5 states that are admitted, the Electoral College expands by an additional 20 seats. The House of Representatives will also expand by 20 seats, with 10 automatically supporting the government
• There is an on-map area allowing you to see which states will align with each party.

[echo sphinx]

Is it possible to make a second file for the same type of equipment in the common/units/equipment folder? like for example can i make an "artillery" than a "heavy artillery" file?

[acoustic berry]

Representation of party alignment by state

• Fake "Party countries" represent the party's influence on each state.
• A core means that state will vote for that party
• A claim means a party has influence on a state, but the other is in control of it assuming it has a core
• Both a claim and a core means that the state is a stronghold for that party

Next I will make the events, which can influence a party's control over a state (or several states)

[patent willow]

why is my thousand week reich map lowk buddy asl, like i cant see anything

like there aint no colours

and default map mode looks like this

[chilly shuttle]

im making a custom country mod and why isnt the name of my country showing?

[chilly shuttle]

yeah its like that the new update

[mortal bone]

Can someone make a Dutch focus tree expanded that is really good please 🥺

[patent willow]

is there any way to fix it

😭

[chilly shuttle]

idk man

[chilly shuttle]

ill see

[mortal bone]

:0

That'd be so cool thank you!!

[swift field]

im gonna add this M1 abrams MBT tank to USA as its own sub unit

i will also increase the size of me mils civs and dockyards to 999 units

[astral finch]

Someone who has experience in Modding , is it hard to make a new one? and search some icons, photos and etc for that?

[tough lotus]

Your first mod will always be hard, but you'll get the hang of it and by that point the only complications are on the creative side

[astral finch]

Is it hard to make icons?

[tough lotus]

IDK I'm not an artist

[astral finch]

Oh i don't have artist friends. 😭 it would be pain.

[tough lotus]

There is a library with premade assets you can throw together in Photoshop (or Gimp, it's free)
https://github.com/Globvs/Ultimate-HOI4-GFX

Vanilla also has a lot of really good icons you can reuse

[astral finch]

Thanks!!!

I have big ideas about focus trees and i think it will take much time so i plan to do it on summer or other holidays. I actually want to rework fully USA , Russian Empire, France, Britain , Turkey, Yugoslavia and even Spain with Portugal.

[swift field]

i have a lot of GOOD ideas for my hoi4 mod

like new techs equipments units templates and Special projects

and new building slots

[lethal stone]

did u make this

paradox changes standardfuncs so just copy and paste theirs. should fix map issue

[rare grove]

French Revolutionary Content for France's Egypt Campaign

anyone know anything else to add to this?

[north wave]

wait a second

are you the creator of famous germany rework

the one where it had bavarian uprising

[north wave]

i need ur

knowledge

Is it possible to reset the manpower pool of a state?
Like let's say, a state has wasted its manpower fully
Is it possible to reset it back to what it was before the manpower was used?

[pale sparrow]

dont think so

[north wave]

damn

[north wave]

wait

What happens If we like

delete the population at first and then add it back with a little more at the same focus or event

can we fool the game mechanics..

[acoustic berry]

Yeah, the Better German Alt-History mod, which is now depreciated
The new version is called the Germany Rework, which I am also working on at the moment

You will be able to play as Bavaria in the next update, but it will work differently

[north wave]

Yeahhh should too

I think Germany should collapse If we are to break away ourselves from Germany

Limited collapse, like Bavaria, Silesia etc

[acoustic berry]

The way it works is that instead of them breaking away during the CW, you select 2 focuses that will cause Germany to break up into its constituent states

And instead of the 3 paths for expansion being Austria-Hungary/South Germany/Bavarian Reich it will be Austrian Empire/(West) Germany/Alpine Federation

[long crescent]

anyone know how hard it would be to make a mod where the saharra is traversable

[tough lotus]

Pretty simple but it was made impassable for a reason

[pale sparrow]

^^

pretty simple mod to make

[acoustic berry]

Wanna make those North Africa campaigns torture huh?

[patent willow]

how do i do that😭, also this is thousand week reich, not anything i made lol

[acoustic berry]

To account for the base's significance in American control over the region, Guantanamo Bay has been added to the USA Rework

[humble cedar]

Hello!, I was wondering if anyone knew which code is used to transfer all of the equipment a nation has to the country it was annexed by?

[acoustic berry]

Now in the USA Rework, there is an indicator for how many EVs a state is worth. For example (as pictured), New York is worth 53 Electoral Votes. (I am aware that some numbers are not accurate to their real-life counterparts. This is because IRL, every state is worth at least 3 votes. That is not the case for this mod, as I can not devise an accurate formula for that)

OK I just created a much more accurate algorithm, now states should only be like 1 or 2 off from their historical count maximum, for example New York is 46 in my system but was 47 historically

[drowsy mural]

still no mod for research queue?

[tough lotus]

If you want to download it from the workshop it would require way too much work for what it gives (primarily rewriting the entire research system) since paradox doesn't give us a way to start a research and we'd have to edit parts of the game paradox doesn't allow to be uploaded if we wanted to do it in any reasonable way

[pale sparrow]

^^

Or youd have to make a research tab GUI from scratch which makes it pretty impossible to include certain elements

[tough lotus]

Only MIO research bonuses I think

regular research bonuses you might be able to do with a lot of scripting

[pale sparrow]

Assigning MIO to a tech is probably the biggest pain if possible

Research bonuses included

[drowsy mural]

thanks for the info

[swift field]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3124469902&searchtext=more++divison+icons

these are good icons

for Divs

i do wanna add more div icons

[glass acorn]

Did HOI4 update or something?

This error wasn't here before I slept and now my mod is crashing

Nvm fixed it, there was a "#" in my defines instead of "--"

[zinc girder]

Guys best mod for playing India? Excluding road to 56

[tough lotus]

Road to 56 Beta

[steel veldt]

can someone help me

[zinc girder]

😠

[zinc girder]

Road to 56 or shattered land?

[steel veldt]

you can mode in only

paradox

[zinc girder]

What?

[steel veldt]

like if i try on

steam its dont work

but if try it in paradox its work

[drowsy mural]

i know the main cause of MP lag is division spam through puppets/independent nations, but are there mods, settings, or commands that help with the lag at all?

[tough lotus]

any mp mod

[pale sparrow]

[tough lotus]

Through steam betas

[eternal latch]

we have the austrian states of europe with its colony the hungarian austrian states of europe and the austrian states of europe is justifying on the hungarian austrian states of europe

[tough lotus]

And Czechoslovakia, missing Slovakia, doesn't like the Austrian States of Europe

[eternal latch]

did u pull that image out of historical records, make it or use ai?

we have big tannu tuva, big turkiye (me), four germanies, big luxembourg and long morroco

[steel cove]

I plead guilty 🤣 I used ai

for the rest its my own work

[tough lotus]

that's the ottoman empire over there

[eternal latch]

exactly what im makin

[tough lotus]

be careful at vienna

[eternal latch]

a minute ago they were asking me to peace out and give them back all their territories, now theyre split into four.

[pale sparrow]

@old nymph English only please

[sleek plume]

I love being in a resteraunt

[pale sparrow]

@kindred axle@eternal latch@eternal latch Clearly not, next time its a warn

[kindred axle]

[eternal latch]

its english

[kindred axle]

sadge

[eternal latch]

you never specified wich english

[pale sparrow]

use common sense

If you have a problem with the rules, open a ticket with @timid bronze, please dont argue about it in here

[chilly shuttle]

Hey guys why when i try to make a state with the nudge tool it cant be made? i mean it can but i always get an error that the state exist but its also a part of the state i took it from

[wise cradle]

Did you look in your hoi4 document and history

[chilly shuttle]

for what?

for the state?

[wise cradle]

Yes

[chilly shuttle]

ye i have it

[wise cradle]

Is there a history file ?

[chilly shuttle]

yes

[wise cradle]

Can I see a screenshot inside it

[wise cradle]

If it not the 1047 state then

It properly gonna need to keep going into the history file untill you can't and it should be there

[chilly shuttle]

ok

[wise cradle]

Did you find it ?

[chilly shuttle]

holdup ill send you a vid

Ok nvm i see it

[wise cradle]

Also when you done with the state and make sure it work. Make sure to delete the history file in document else it will corrupted your base game

[chilly shuttle]

yo guys ive been trying to make a general and it worked, but all the leader's portraits are now stretched? Except hungary for some reason

[kindred axle]

did u take both th emoodified state and the new state file from the doc/hoi4/history ?

[chilly shuttle]

i fixed it dw

[kindred axle]

oki

👍

[chilly shuttle]

Does any1 know where are the general portraits?

[untold raptor]

@molten basin help

[tough lotus]

Don't ping random people

[tough lotus]

gfx/leaders

Generals, country leaders, everything is in there

For DLC portraits they're in dlc/.../gfx/leaders or integrated_dlc/.../gfx/leaders

[chilly shuttle]

where is this located?

[tough lotus]

probably integrated_dlc/dlc020_death_or_dishonor/gfx/leaders

[opaque basin]

is it possible for me to change portats on each generl depends on the rulling, example communist, facist, and the general uniform changes, while keeping iron man mode avaible.

[mint oar]

how do i scope for a dynamic tag, specificly vichy france?

i want to fire an event for vihy france but i cant figure out how to

[tough lotus]

no

[opaque basin]

figured..

[tough lotus]

check if a dynamic tag exists in common/country_tag_aliases (spoiler, it exists, it's VIC)

[mint oar]

a thx, wouldve never figured that out

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Data_structures#Country_tag_aliases

VIC specifically checks for a country whose original tag is FRA and that has the vichy french focus tree

[mint oar]

alright

good to know that those exist

[fossil fern]

how do i make a focus automatically complete overtime once its prerequisites are filled, similiar to germany's inner circle?

[lament berry]

does anyone have any good mods where u can play as prussia and form germany?

[tough lotus]

End of a New Beginning

[lament berry]

thanks

[tough lotus]

Yeah for once the answer wasn't RoN or RT56

[tough lotus]

-# Also Victoria 3

[rare grove]

i want to add something to prussia for forming germany eventually imo in the napoleonic wars revived mod

[lofty quartz]

Does anyone know how to make some files in the interface change checksum?

[tough lotus]

1. why would you need that
2. just add a file in common (maybe a scripted effect or trigger since those don't do anything)

[lofty quartz]

1. There are three buttons that, when pressed simultaneously, will crash any MP host. You can delete or hide one of them. People just delete folder interface and it will reappear.
2. It doesn't work that way.

[tough lotus]

That's a problem you didn't mention, I assumed you needed to update a mod and wanted the checksum to be different

It does work that way in that case

/interface doesn't get checksummed

I think

[kindred axle]

remember to put the last barrack on character={

[shrewd peak]

Hey guys, I have a problem because I'm making a fashion for a country. I finally managed to fix the flag and the country color, but there is no country name that I would like to have.

I don't know what should be in these files Too

[kindred axle]

ope up the countries and took a ss of what u wrote for the country nake

name

[shrewd peak]

bro thanks sigma

https://tenor.com/view/pout-christian-bale-american-psycho-kissy-face-nod-gif-4860124

[kindred axle]

wha

<@&846894118219022336>

[naive stump]

bro

[kindred axle]

i did nuthing wrung

[ashen lion]

anyone good at millenium dawn? I want to form the kaisereich as germany but cannot seem to become fascist or the 66% governemnt trust for the article 21 thing

[noble cape]

Hello I wanna make a mod where i shorten some special projects how do I do that?

[pale sparrow]

Set up your mod like this

You override the vanilla project files you wanna edit by keeping their name and path the same, then just edit the durations inside the file

[steel cove]

Hello dear HOI 4 players,

I would like to share with you my first own mod and I would love to have some feedbacks about it.

The mod enhance the building system of the HOI4 base game by adding a total of 24 new buildings.
-# Every building purpose is explained in detail in the mod description !

For the curious that are willing to give the mod its chance, you'll find the mod's link down below !

I would like to thank in advance the players who will take the time to play with the mod and even more those who will give me their honest opinion on the mod.

-- Respectfully, Syxerian

|| https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3685094566 ||

[arctic mango]

where is the kaiserreich/kaiserredux mod at and the ww1 mod at so I can play them

[storm frigate]

Hi,

I started playing the novum vexillum mod just because it has a start date of 2016. But I found out that the national focus states that have their own focuses don't show up in the 2016 scenario. The only time they show up is when I was playing with one state in debug mode and then switched to another, which made the focus trees appear. Even when I tried copying the focuses from the base mod data into my submod, it still didn't work (same with the global conflict submod). Is there a mod that would solve this or should someone make their own mod that would solve this (and yes I know it's undeveloped but I enjoy it much more than the 2000 start date). I would gladly remove the 2000 start date with the mod I created so it would work (I don't know if it will help, I'm not a modder).

Thanks

[sharp knoll]

I noticed the submarine deck space has add_equipment_type = carrier. Does this mean it makes the game treat the ship as both a submarine and a carrier, benefiting from modifiers to both?

[pale sparrow]

See the page for most subscribed mods, theyre all on page 1 or 2

[wise cradle]

Is there away to empty a file of all it content like the countries file but on mass

[pale sparrow]

replace_path

You can search it on the wiki if you dont know what it is

[wise cradle]

[10:51:18][no_game_date][scopedvariable.cpp:525]: empty variable name

[wise cradle]

I figure it out

[11:14:18][no_game_date][nationalfocusstyle.cpp:50]: Multiple styles scripted with the name , script will only find the first

[wise cradle]

I did it

I made a working map mod from scatch

[pale sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/pat-garrys-mod-garrys-mod-physics-fast-intense-gif-26322619

[kindred axle]

steam workshop

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1521695605

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3365515312&searchtext=

[wise cradle]

My thinks the nugder is broken

[tiny violet]

hi

whenever i try to load great war redux it wont load what do i do

it just goes to the vvanilla and i need help

[serene owl]

is it just my end rn that cant update mod?

[prime gale]

90283109538933778

[lofty plaza]

Wrong chat

[prime gale]

we had to hide it from a cheater

90283110995542034

[azure nimbus]

Hey guys,
I´ve a short question.

I started with nearly zero knowledge to create a small mod, just for my coop runs with a friend.
I tested it for a war, between two countries and it works fine.

But I´m struggling now to make it dynamic.

I just want two decisions, that only pop up if it in a war with someone.
These will trigger few events and to the enemy.
One trigger is that they make white peace at the border. They transfer states to the owner and create in all states at the new border a dmz for 180 days.

That´s the basic, with few more things.
I tested it with GER vs AUS and that works fine.

But I don´t know how to write it now for all nations.
If I´m working with ROOT and FROM, decisions are still there, but there are no events anymore.
debug/log is empty too, no errors.

I changed even things like:
has war with AUS to has war yes.

I would be happy if someone can help me with that.
I just want this kind of mod for my friend and me, to stop wars earlier with few extras, like the dmz.

I have my folder with ger vs aus - which works.
But changing it and remove country TAG, I don´t get events anymore.

Another thing is, that I don´t get more decisions, when I get more enemies into a war.

[manic bloom]

What is the best modern day or cold war mod?

[shrewd peak]

I have a problem adding a leader to the country

I have the leader's picture added to the leaders folder, but the Paradox HOI4 guide doesn't explain everything because there are no codes to copy.

[cloud zephyr]

In common/character goes to your country file
characters = {

VIN_le_kha_phieu = {
    portraits = {
        civilian = {
            large = "gfx/leaders/VIN/Le_Kha_Phieu.png"
        }
    }
    country_leader = {
        ideology = marxism_leninism
        traits = {}
        desc = PHIEU_DESC
        expire = "2050.3.1.1"
        id = -1
    }
}

}
In history/countries goes to the nation file and add this
recruit_character = VIN_le_kha_phieu

[shrewd peak]

If it works, thanks

[cloud zephyr]

Make sure two thing, make sure the portrait has the same file type (png, dds,…) and the file location path is correct

[gleaming moon]

Will somebody make a mod that removes naval superiority requirements from the game? Because I don't know how to mod and I am banging my head against the wall trying to invade the UK as Italy. The British are making me regret my existence.

[primal seal]

Guys

is there any mods with an actual Philippine focus tree (-Kaiserreich & RT56)?

i dont feel like buying something thats about as expensive as the base game just for it

[river path]

Guys why My Millennium Dawn doesn't show up in game

[blissful lion]

I just browsed recent mods, there's "No Paradrop & Naval Invasion Requirements". Give that a try.

[wise cradle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3686922686&searchtext=No+paradrop

[wise cradle]

Is the nudger broken?

[pale sparrow]

It has some bugs but it isnt outright broken afaik

[wise cradle]

It seems to crash very often for me, also it doesn't like gernating buildings

[tough lotus]

You need an existing buildings.txt file

[wise cradle]

Full or ?

[tough lotus]

Just copy the basegame one

[wise cradle]

How do I get rid of the civil war border event errors

[wise cradle]

That crashs it

Also it wont generate or let me getnate nave bases

I thing it may be because my states are too big

[unreal sorrel]

I am not sure what you exactly try to do but I think you want to use targeted decisions if you want more decisions to appear for other countries

[azure nimbus]

When a country has a war with another country, he get two decisions.
Both will trigger a white peace but with different modfiers.

I wrote it with TAG with GER and AUS at the beginning, for learning and testing. Everything works fine here.

But what I want is now, making it working for all countries.
So, it doesn´t matter which country started a war, they get both decisions for "asking" for a white peace.

[unreal sorrel]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Decision_modding#Targeted_decisions
this should help you

[azure nimbus]

I´ll check it later, thanks!

Edit:
I can´t bring it to work.
I mean, the mod isn´t big and there are not many lines.. But I don´t know what to do. I was happy that I can bring it to work, when I focus it on two nations. But change it into "dynamic" or autofill... nothing work now.
So, I´ll stop with it. I would be happy, if someone have time and feel free for it... My decision/event/dmz file have 300 lines together, that´s all. (This version, which works)

[shut shuttle]

a suggestion for RNO: pls fix the lag problem

it aint the worst but it could be better

[gaunt nebula]

Hello, I'm trying to make a custom alt-history map scenario for a roleplaying HoI4 game my friends. Along with territorial changes, I would also like to wipe national spirits from all nations, and add my own custom spirits with custom names. I would finally like to remove focus trees from all nations, and be able to set certain ai nations to do nothing (not join factions, basically be removed from the game in terms of gameplay). Is there a good mod set I can do all this with? I've already found "Toolpack without the Errors" to be great for making the territorial changes, but how could I accomplish the rest? I would really appreciate any advice for this.

(Edit: Sorry if I didn't make this clear, but I'm not interested in making a custom geographical world, I'm fine with using irl Earth with all the in-game state and province borders.)

[tough lotus]

There is an empty world mod

Intended to be a template for these kinds of things

[gaunt nebula]

That's not really the big issue, I can (probably more slowly than the method you suggest) make the territorial changes just using the Toolpack mod. I'm mainly looking for how to wipe focus trees, and add/remove custom national spirits with custom effects.

[tough lotus]

Toolpack doesn't save anything

[gaunt nebula]

?

[pale sparrow]

You can use it to modify savegames but its not very useful to set up starting maps

[tough lotus]

You will have to write owner, core, claim, potentially building information into the files manually

[gaunt nebula]

My plan was just to make a save where I edit all the countries, then load that save into the multiplayer game.

[gaunt nebula]

Ok

[pale sparrow]

Thoouuugh

I do want to write a Python script at some point that converts saves to starting mods

[gaunt nebula]

So is the mod just called "Empty World Mod"?

And once I'm set with that, how can I set up custom national effects like spirits?

[tough lotus]

Empty world

[tough lotus]

The wiki is pinned in this channel

So are tutorials

[feral mango]

That sad

[tough lotus]

The mod is set up to have everything from the base game deleted, only France exists in Corsica but that can obviously be changed

[gaunt nebula]

Are there tools for adding tags into the game, how does building it into a full scenario work?

[tough lotus]

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

There should be a page on country creation

[gaunt nebula]

Could potentially be a bit above my scope. I'd just like to use the pre-existing vanilla tags, such as Prussia. I'm not good at file based editing, as I kind of have 0 experience doing any of it. So I'm wondering if I can mainly make this scenario with the help of tool mods like Toolpack, and the Empty World mod you listed. Something I've been looking for is a mod that more easily allows me to set again, custom spirits or the like, without having to go in and create them manually in the files.

My plan is just to have a rearranged world with some formable/releasable nations replacing others, and then custom spirits and default focus trees.

[tough lotus]

The you can replace the mod's file for country tags with the vanilla one

And remove the replace_path on common/countries

[wise cradle]

Is there a way to quickly asign stares more quickly

[pale sparrow]

open the folder in VSC then just do folder search for the state ID every time you wanna assign one

[wise cradle]

i mean I actually have to like give a onwerless state to a country

[wise cradle]

can i get some help with : [14:36:52][no_game_date][nationalfocusstyle.cpp:50]: Multiple styles scripted with the name , script will only find the first
[14:36:55][no_game_date][effectimplementation.cpp:17578]: : invalid on_win event for start border war
[14:36:55][no_game_date][effectimplementation.cpp:17591]: : invalid on_lose event for start border war
[14:36:55][no_game_date][effectimplementation.cpp:17604]: : invalid on_cancel event for start border war. it not causing crashes but i fear it will in the long run

[unique sand]

I really want to try Red World mod, but are there any other mods out there that are also good?

[wise cradle]

depends on what kinda of expirence your look for tbh

[unique sand]

Anything that kind of alternates history in a way like Red World, or maybe WW1 setting

[wise cradle]

kaiserreich maybe ?

[unique sand]

What does that one do?

[wise cradle]

it the universe where germany won world war one

[unique sand]

Ok, I’m interested in that one now too, I still need to play Vanilla version because i suck A**

[wise cradle]

idk ? tbh haven't play it in a long itime

[steel cove]

Hello,

Does someone knows how to make AI able to build new state buildings ( that are added with a mod ) ?

I can manage to do so and i cant find how to...

[viscid osprey]

my idea for another alt uk path, don't know if Im skilled enough to make it, but Ill try

[viscid osprey]

anyone know why my focus isnt appearing

nvm I fixed it

[echo sphinx]

I would recommend using Visual studio with the HOI4 tools addon, it makes editing alot easier by letting you preview focus tree's and tech tree's etc

[tiny violet]

hi

idk if this is the right chat to ask but i cant load up the great war redux and i need help i

[simple island]

i made a macro that pauses the game every 5 minutes, leaves it paused for a minute, then unpauses it. to use it you install the macro program, boot up hoi4 and pause it, then play the macro using the program, its for multiplayer so you can take a break every 5 minutes to sort your stuff.

does someone know where i can upload it?

[sharp knoll]

Is it possible to make a focus change the name and icon of an industrial concern/central bank/etc?

[kindred axle]

just gotta change the loc and gfx for it ig? so not much

[rare grove]

1798 France Egyptian campaign branch/branches imo

[tough lotus]

Suspiciously west germany shaped hole

[sharp knoll]

So it's doable via effect?

[kindred axle]

my english aint that good to understand what it means

[sharp knoll]

I was wondering if an effect triggered by a focus (maybe something like set_icon?) could change the name and/or icon of an existing industrial concern

[tough lotus]

You can hide it and make another one with your desired icon visible

[sharp knoll]

Mmm what about military industrial organizations?

[tough lotus]

No idea about MIOs, you can technically do the same thing but levels obviously wouldn't carry over

[sharp knoll]

That's unfortunate, but thank you for letting me know

[tall hare]

Vicky and everyone do we start modding again?

[rare grove]

[19:45:06][1789.01.01.12][graphics.cpp:1345]: Failed to create gui object. Could not find sprite type [GFX_report_event_001]
[19:45:11][1789.01.01.12][bitmapfont.cpp:1356]: Couldnt find texticon: unit_line_infantry_icon_small|1

anyone know how to fix any of these errors?

anyone know what exact files have to do with these erorrs

[finite scarab]

Do you guys ever play 8 Year War of Resistance

Im gonna do a Mengkukuo run tn

[grizzled bramble]

quick question, can you use the number 0 for division numberings?

[pale sparrow]

wdym

division by 0 throws an error afaik

[grizzled bramble]

Like if i wanted to give a division in the name list a special name could I assigned it to 0?

Like this:

1 = 1st inf div
0 = Special name
2 = 2nd inf div

[pale sparrow]

idk, seems more logical to have a separate list for the unique names

[grizzled bramble]

I think if paradox let us use letter ids for div name lists that would be better imo.

[feral mango]

hello , off topice i need help

[gaunt nebula]

Hello, currently trying to create a custom scenario save for some friends and I. Does anyone know a mod which allows me to go into a save and remove/make my own custom national spirits for nations?

I also need to figure out a mod/command to make specific nations have the default focus tree.

[gaunt nebula]

Also is there some command/mod which would allow me to instantly change a nation into one of its formable tags? For example: Switzerland into the Helvetic Republic.

[unkempt spire]

u can create your own custom mod and do it yourself

i know nothing about coding but ive been watching some tutorials and it is doable

[surreal stone]

Hey, I saw there was only one mention of this in the visible history of the channel from 2 years ago and no reply that i could find, but it was about recursive scripted localization.

Basically, the HOI4 modding wiki mentions it twice, how to display all elements of an array through recursive scripted localization and editing variables within the trigger of the localization. Im not quite sure on how to do it and was wondering if anyone by now knows how this is done

essentially what im trying to do is use an array of states to display them all in a localization string

[swift field]

im gonna Add pre dreadnoughts,dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts

to my hoi4 mod

[simple fox]

Yo, ive got a question is there a mod that just adds post ww2 content to the vanilla game? Like cold war focuses, mechanics etc.?

[tough lotus]

-# @pale sparrow so this time the answer is both

[tough lotus]

Road to 56 perhaps. Or Rise of Nations. Iron Curtain is only cold war but worth checking out

[simple fox]

are you a part of the rise of nations team?

[tough lotus]

yes

[simple fox]

Are there any plans of adding content to the modern era scenarios?

[pale sparrow]

road to 56 or Rise of Nations 🙃

[tough lotus]

Not at the moment, we're a bit starved for manpower. IIRC we have permission to port parts of novum vexillum though

[pale sparrow]

Ive asked for permission to use Iron Curtain stuff for Road but I end up using more Equestria at War assets, they also did some tech expansion

[wise cradle]

After doing some bug fixing i can load in and play my mod

[normal flicker]

i know there are the text files you can modify but how do you make a mod without messing up the base game files

[wise cradle]

by copying the base files in to you r mod

[tough lotus]

By copying basegame files if you need to edit them for your mod, or just making new ones. The game accepts most files as long as they're in the correct folder (with some exceptions)

[wise cradle]

[18:02:05][no_game_date][effectimplementation.cpp:17578]: : invalid on_win event for start border war [18:02:05][no_game_date][effectimplementation.cpp:17591]: : invalid hoi4on_lose event for start border war [18:02:05][no_game_date][effectimplementation how do i fix this

[astral finch]

Just one question , how y'all got ur mod so popular?

[tough lotus]

I joined an already popular mod

[astral finch]

Oh , gotcha

[viscid yew]

which mod that works with the battle royale mod to disable the constant war popups

[fossil fern]

how do i make it in the available thing in making a focus, that the focus can be done if atleast one of the conditions are true

[unkempt spire]

i believe its done with the prerequisites line

[acoustic berry]

Current party system in USA Rework

National and state-wide campaigning decisions can increase the support of the party that you align with. At its base, there is a 60% chance that these campaigns will be successful (for the Democrats). Certain factors, such as the number of electoral votes that your party already has, can effect this

Republicans have a lower chance at the start of the game to have successful campaigns to represent the country being bitter about the Hoover presidency...

[fossil fern]

what do y'all think of romania's first expansion path for the fascist path in my mod? any improvements or suggestions? im gonna add some wargoals on germany and ussr i think at the bottom for funsies

im probably gonna add more to the political bit before u start eating ur neighbours because i feel its lacking rn

[golden totem]

Ever thought of an alt-hist where the union party wins?

It had some huey long supporters but also that radio priest that's the fascist demagogue for the usa

[tough lotus]

available

[fossil fern]

did you see the new usa rework mod?

its really cool beans

[acoustic berry]

I did see it

Haven't played it tho, too busy

Looks interesting, and it seems the developer put a lot of effort into it

[fossil fern]

only problem i have with it is i find it so confusing to navigate. theres so many focuses idk where to start, and some complete automatically over time. it took a decent amount of runs before i knew where to go. i prefer a more.. not linear, but simpler focus tree. it was still great though

[acoustic berry]

Indeed. I suppose my main issue would be the lack of major alternate history options, and I believe the dev said no more were going to be added (fascism, communism, neutrality, etc). I personally find fun alternate history paths to be the most fun and that's why I put them in my mods.

The focus on the historical path as well as the military and economy is still absolutely commendable

[fossil fern]

yeah i totally agree with that. it's really limited on what you can do with it. you're feeling a bit expansionist? well, you puppet all of the americas... and that's it. you're just waiting for WW2 on historical. and japan isn't too hard to destroy. it's a very linear playthrough

unbelievable

[acoustic berry]

yeah im gonna take a look at the mod myself now

[acoustic berry]

Oh yeah looks good btw

[fossil fern]

thanks a lot, this is my first mod 😭 ur mods are so cool they're my favourites (especially the uk one)

[acoustic berry]

Integration is great, def something romania needs since its one of the only nations that can't get extra cores (besides that one yugoslav focus)

[acoustic berry]

thx

[fossil fern]

yeah it kinda sucks. annoying that they have no foreign claims though, and all the romanians back then just lived in romania. so u gotta make the reasons for coring it yourself which is a pain as i try to keep it semi-believable

[acoustic berry]

A lot of nations are like that. Japan's certainly one of them and Paradox had no hesitation giving them a lot of extra cores in NCNS (which is great imo)

[fossil fern]

i don't get how people hate on NCNS 😭 i love it so much (especially since now i can actually win as china)

[acoustic berry]

So if Romania ever gets new content I wouldn't be suprised if a Balkan formable was included.

[acoustic berry]

It's the price point

[fossil fern]

romania and yugoslavia need reworks so badly. they're in such great positions and could have so many cool things but their focus trees are straight buns

[acoustic berry]

Yeah, they got screwed by getting content in literally the second dlc of the game

If anything they might get something like the Czechs are

Otherwise they might get stuck with the current focus tree until HOI5 comes out (whenever that is)

[viscid osprey]

can someone help me, every time I try to make a mod, I always get stuck on making leaders, whatever I do it won't work

[acoustic berry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuLKOK7Cnq4

That may help

[fossil fern]

by the time i'm done with this romania focus tree they'll end up coming out with a romania focus tree... this fascist path alone (which isnt even done) has taken like 2 weeks (which felt long, idk if thats a normal amount of time). the economic branch+army branch took like 2 months. mainly due to me not knowing how to do anything and always having to go to the wiki (heres the army+economy branch btw and see it in all of its mediocreness 😈 )

[acoustic berry]

https://youtu.be/dKLkI1AGArc
Iron Workshop videos, while some outdated, are also great

[fossil fern]

i also tried my hand at making some custom focus icons, which are dabbled around a bit. they're... okay.

[acoustic berry]

Don't worry, I always take a long time with my trees too. Quality is much better than quantity. Also, I don't think a Romania focus tree will come out anytime soon. The earliest it could be is by November when the next big DLC will probably come out, but I'm chancing that it's USA/allies-related

[acoustic berry]

You using photoshop or paint.net?

[fossil fern]

paint.net

im a brokie

i aint buying no photoshop 🙏

[acoustic berry]

Oh yeah incase you aren't using it already, this resource is really helpful
https://github.com/DuoDex/hoi4GFX

[fossil fern]

holy crap

this is amazing

i already had a pack but it wasn't like this

[acoustic berry]

I did too when I originally started working on the USA Rework so don't worry I understand

[fossil fern]

i also fear that i will finally release it and nobody will download it 😭 🙏

[viscid osprey]

I did an event to make the character the king, but idk if this is right

[acoustic berry]

Check the HOI4 wiki for effects
https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Effect

Dependent on if they already have a leader role, use either promote_character or add_country_leader_role

[tough lotus]

ai_chance uses base and I'm fairly certain set_country_leader either doesn't exist or doesm't do what you think it does

[viscid osprey]

should I use promote leader then

[tough lotus]

promote_character

[acoustic berry]

Can you show me the character file

It depends if they already have an ideology assigned

[acoustic berry]

Yeah do promote character

[tough lotus]

1965.1.1.1 will give an error, don't put in hours

[acoustic berry]

Do retire_country_leader = yes before the promotion to be sure, that's what I do

[viscid osprey]

ok

[tough lotus]

only if you don't want to use that character again

[acoustic berry]

True

Most of the time I don't

New icon for the Interstate Highway System focus, in comparison to the old one in USA Rework

[viscid osprey]

does this work, should I also do remove leader role

[acoustic berry]

I would just do:

promote_character = SCO_robert_i_and_iv

You don't need the rest, since you already have that in your character file

[viscid osprey]

ok

[fossil fern]

will you be making any changes to macarthur path? that was my favourite (mainly becos i hate civil wars 😭)

[acoustic berry]

As in, you don't need to do add_country_leader_role

[acoustic berry]

Not in this update unfortunately, the main focus is improving the political system, changing the Great Depression and making it a system, and maybe also changing the Civil War

[acoustic berry]

Also in the last update I added another "expansionist" path for if you elect the America First Party, which doesn't require a civil war

[fossil fern]

oh wait really

oh my days

i need to check this out

one moment

[acoustic berry]

Yeah I updated the mod abt a month ago, the main focus being adding that path but I changed several other things too

In that update I did modify the MacArthur path, just not by much (only added a few focuses)

[viscid osprey]

so, its still not working, idk if its my code or smt else but it doesnt seem to work

[acoustic berry]

Yeah sorry idk I would just look at the videos I linked and be sure there are no issues in your code

[viscid osprey]

yeah, I think I found the problem, I never recruited the character in history

[acoustic berry]

Ah ok, yeah always be sure to do that

Also for history files you have to completely restart the game for changes to occur

[fossil fern]

is there a way to reload decisions?

because restarting everytime is a pain

[acoustic berry]

Are you running the game in debug

Cuz if you are all you have to do is just save the file again by pressing ctrl+s

[fossil fern]

oh really

wow

i didnt realise

[unkempt spire]

does anyone know how to make it so when i puppet a country, instead of a generic leader being shown its a character made by me?

[acoustic berry]

@valen ! Funny you say that I see a mod on the top of the steam workshop called "Pipe's Puppet Leaders"

It lets you assign your generals to be leaders of your subjects

[unkempt spire]

ohhh thats cool

ill try it out

[acoustic berry]

I don't think I'm allowed to post the link because of promotion rules but its really easy to find

[unkempt spire]

what i want to do tho is adding my own leaders tho, like i create a character for that specific country when its puppeted

[acoustic berry]

Ah well you would have to create your own mod that adds characters, I suggest these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKLkI1AGArc&pp=ygUWaG9pNCBjaGFyYWN0ZXIgbW9kZGluZw%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuLKOK7Cnq4&t=1s&pp=ygUWaG9pNCBjaGFyYWN0ZXIgbW9kZGluZw%3D%3D

[unkempt spire]

ty

[livid locust]

Does anyone have a tutorial for updating my mod to version 1.17? Map crashes...

[viscid osprey]

I have a new problem, another one of my character's portraits won't show and I believe I have done everything correctly

[unkempt spire]

did u do the interface and spritetype step?

[pale sparrow]

Can technically be skipped

[twilit arch]

Is there a way to get rid of these blocky coastlines?

[wise cradle]

My guess would be to be in the height map file

[humble cedar]

How would I go ahead and give my idea an icon?

[acoustic berry]

yw

[sharp knoll]

Make one using whichever software you prefer and define it in the interface folder

[humble cedar]

Pretty suresies that's what I've done, although I prob messed something up

[sharp knoll]

Try starting the name with "GFX_"

[humble cedar]

Did not work, Unfortunately.

Ah.

fixed it.

It was "GFX_idea_restofthename"

[hazy estuary]

Do you guys know a way to make a .txt file into a .gfx file?

Can anyone here help me with modding 3D models into hoi4? I’m having trouble with it

Models are done and already work on jorodox

[acoustic berry]

The Great Depression is now a modifier in the USA Rework to allow for a future system to deal with it

[acoustic berry]

Mockup of new Great Depression System (VERY WIP) in USA Rework

The idea is, each card represents a category of policies in a Great Depression recovery policy. The cards in this example represent policies for Re-establishing the Gold Standard. By completing decisions, you will have a chance (that will tick up each time the decision is taken) to earn a card for that category of policy. When a card is earned, New Deal modifiers will improve.
The Gold Standard hand (as shown) will represent a "Straight Flush" flushing out government overreach from the New Deal.
The New Deal hand will represent a "Full House" of new government programs that will include the 3 R's of Recovery, Reform, and Relief as well as two other related things that I haven't come up with yet
There will be one for MacArthur's system but I don't know what it will be yet

Any suggestions would be helpful, especially because this is in its early stage

[nimble hatch]

Tbh i might have greater depression...

[rare grove]

Anyone know how to change the leader portrait mid game?

With a focus

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Effect#set_portraits

[rare grove]

Thank you so much

[north wave]

Don't you think it's too heavy?

Considering FDR basically lowered the affects of the great depression by 1936?

I think it'd be acceptable for 1933 USA but for 1936 USA? it might be too much

[tall hare]

Marjin I havent modded in a while

and my mod broke

do you know why?

[pale sparrow]

thats faaar to vague

[tall hare]

Yeah

it worked from what I remember

Until it didn't

give me 15 min

[tall hare]

@pale sparrow Looks a bit like this 🤔

[rare grove]

Didnt work

[pale sparrow]

I had to use it earlier and for some reason it didnt work for me either but idk why

[rare grove]

do you need interface files or smth for it?

[viscid osprey]

does anyone know why the name isnt what I want it to be

[pale sparrow]

theres a name = SCO_charles_grant argument youre supposed to put in the character

[viscid osprey]

ahh ol

would it be inside or outside the advisor stuff

[steel cove]

hello, does anyone knows how to make a max cap of building per country ?

i cant manage to put a limit of 10 to a building for the whole country

[unkempt spire]

l_english
name = SCO_charles_grant

i think

[viscid osprey]

in localisation

Im so confused, it keeps making the character neil kinley, idk what to do

[tall hare]

anyone know what have happend?

and how it can be fixed

[viscid osprey]

might be something happening with the nudge tool perhaps, that happened to me

[tall hare]

not in nudge

[viscid osprey]

check the hoi4 files in document/paradox interactive/hearts of iron iv

might have files not meant to be there

[unkempt spire]

also make sure the localisation file ends with l_english if its not that then i have no idea i only saw a few modding videos

[viscid osprey]

yeah, in the character making tutorial, they only made the country leader, nothing on the other things

ok, I finally fixed it

[unkempt spire]

peakkk

what was it

[steel cove]

hello, can i ask you a quick help with something ?

[viscid osprey]

yes

if its about the high command name thingie, I fixed it

[steel cove]

@viscid osprey do you have an idea on how i could limit the number of a building per country not state ?

[viscid osprey]

I wouldnt ask me this, I recently started learning how to mod so I wouldnt know sorry

[viscid osprey]

jus tdidnt localise properly

[fossil fern]

this is my focus tree so far for my Romania mod. is it aight? ive made the army ,economic and fascist branch. any suggestions? (its a pretty big image so u gon have to zoom in)

[viscid osprey]

W

[shut dawn]

I'd suggest adjusting the formatting so the tree isn't so spread out, unless you plan to put something in that empty space between the branches

[unkempt spire]

yeah they just made the fascist branch

[fossil fern]

it's nowhere near done so

[shut dawn]

Fair enough. Just giving my suggestion since you asked.

[mossy coral]

what are some good mods to use in multiplayer? i play with some friends of mine and just looking for some good mods (not stuff like kaiser redux etc that rehaul the whole game)

[tough lotus]

Shader changes

No idea how to fix it though

[tall hare]

is this consequenses of not modding in half a year 😭

[tough lotus]

Don't put the name = into localisation

[tough lotus]

outside

the name goes into the character file, then you localise it

[tall hare]

thats not nice

hmmm

probably maps folder

[tough lotus]

gfx/FX could also be

[viscid osprey]

thats what was the problem

so, why doesnt this work, both characters are in the game

[acoustic berry]

It is heavy because I plan to allow you to allow you to significantly recover your industry later

The USA has a huge industrial base and I want to allow for some balancing out.

Germany, for example, when they got their DLC you are now given the choice between getting it with pretty severe economic debuffs or have a ticking time bomb on your economy, and yet you can still bring them to extreme industrial prominence. I believe that the same can be said for the USA Rework after this update

[viscid osprey]

why isnt the character being created

[fossil fern]

what is despotism

[viscid osprey]

sub ideology in neutrality, works with the other characters I made

[golden totem]

Did you recruit it in the history file for that nation?

[fossil fern]

How can I stop national spirits being removed when a civil war begins?

nvm got it gangalang

[astral hill]

Can anyone help me? I installed in workshop, road to 56, I entered the game it didn't load the mod, I deleted it and installed it again, I did a clean cache it didn't work. I tried through the praradox luncher, I made a new playset I put the mod in it doesn't work either... I tried putting it in completely manually I made a mod folder it doesn't work either. There's no error or anything, it shows that everything is fine but when you enter the game it's as if there is no mod.

what am i doing wrong?

[simple vault]

hey u just used the oficial tutorials for that?

i wann make my own mod

[pale sparrow]

Id just grab the alternate launcher i put in #tech-support pins and see if that works

[humble cedar]

Having a bit of an issue with creating a single character, the character is made in both common/characters and recruited in history/countries

[pale sparrow]

be aware that recruit_character doesnt work as the last line of history files

[humble cedar]

So, in technicallity if I move it to the very top it should work?

Additional question, I don't need any other files other than these two, correct?

[tough lotus]

Probably

[tough lotus]

A portrait optionally. But it looks like you already have one

[pale sparrow]

loc file for the name
interface file for the GFX token

To get it showing up though, no

[humble cedar]

Localisation file is already taken care of, same for the interface file.

That solved it, thank you lads.

[tough lotus]

paradox spaghetti code strikes again

[humble cedar]

lol

[acoustic berry]

Current mockup for the New Deal in the Great Depression system in the USA Rework

[acoustic berry]

By the way I have modified the Depression further, here are the effects now

[acoustic berry]

Decisions for the New Deal policies completed

[molten star]

woah!

great mod

when do you think this update will come out?

[acoustic berry]

I dunno

I'm adding a lot of stuff

[acoustic berry]

thx btw

The system I just showed is the second of two that I am adding. The Great Depression system is still a WIP as I haven't finished it for the other routes (New Deal is complete, but not Gold Standard or MacArthur path)
The other system is the new election system, which I showcased earlier in this channel
After that I plan to expand the economic tree

What I am considering adding to this update but may push back to the next update is new 2USCW content. Not sure if I will, depends on how long it takes to get other stuff done

When all of the cards are collected, the Depression can be declared to be over. When you declare it to be over, you will receive a new modifier (it is but a cosmetic change, the effects carry over from the Great Depression modifier) and you will get this event.
The "American Economy" tree will also unlock, which will allow you to buff the American Economy modifier further

If anyone is wondering what you have to take advantage of to make something like this, you need to know how to use scripted effects, scripted guis, scripted localization, and dynamic modifiers

[nimble solar]

Ah, it's a new deal, so you get dealt cards to solve it.

Makes sense

The thing is that most of the New Deal was done before his 2nd term

[swift field]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3690160606&searchtext=

this is a new mod

[simple vault]

just install vsc

its much easier

[humble cedar]

Already got it installed, I just switch between Notepad++ and VSC a lot.

[tall hare]

Is it best to continue a ww1 alt history mod were Germany and Russia won ww1 or to make a ww1 mod

[simple vault]

what?

[tall hare]

Which one is best?

[simple vault]

idk what are your goals

[tall hare]

Idk, make a cool and fun mod

[simple vault]

yeah do what you want

idk tbh

[simple vault]

wot

why cannot i sumbit it

[simple vault]

uhhhh

it works?

localisation didnt

[wise cradle]

Did you use save the encoding with bom ?

[primal seal]

Is there a functioning mod where I can get more useable building slots

I don't mean more building slots

I mean one where I can use more of it

[acoustic berry]

True, but the Depression wasn't until WW2

That's why one of the policies is "Remobilization" to represent how important that was to ending the Depression

And honestly, both that and Innovation weren't really key parts of the New Deal. But you gotta get creative

[unkempt spire]

you could do it via decisions, events or focuses

or just do a mod that changes the amount of building slots at the start of the game for ur nation

[quartz shore]

Anyone know what SOU mean in the files?

[simple vault]

ima check

why isnt it working

my extension dosent work idk why

and this still dosent work and i saved it with bom

[humble cedar]

Uh, put a zero after the ":"

That might fix it

if it doesn't, copy a localisation file from base HOI4 and erase all of its code and write your own, that's what I do at least lol

[simple vault]

huh

why does it not work

i did everything right

okay']

i think

i got it

event not events

damn

am stupid

okay wtf

[winged oak]

can someone who understans history/state modding pls dm me

[simple vault]

okay i think am gonna quit this

[stuck quarry]

Your localization key names need to end with :0
so it would be
mod_events.1.t:0 for your title

[simple vault]

oh

[simple vault]

like this

[stuck quarry]

Yes

[acoustic berry]

I would suggest splitting your localization into several different files for organization

For example, separate files for ideas and events

[simple vault]

oh

thanks

[acoustic berry]

Oh yeah, the first line should not be spaced

[simple vault]

for now am just doing the tutorial

so

[acoustic berry]

That's why its not working

[simple vault]

i have it like this

[acoustic berry]

Delete the space in the front of the first line and it should work

Wait

try adding a space on every line other than the first

[simple vault]

what space

[acoustic berry]

Sorry, what I meant is that the first line should not be spaced, but every other line should. Take this for example:

l_english:
my_first_idea

[simple vault]

oh

[acoustic berry]

After that, save and try launching the event again

[simple vault]

this

[acoustic berry]

Ok that should work now

Notice the color, this is correct but before it wasn't

[tough lotus]

Doesn't matter really

[tough lotus]

No, ask here

[tough lotus]

Whitespace is just for organisational purposes

The game doesn't care

[tough lotus]

Neither does the game care about the 0, it will work just fine without it

@simple vault

[fossil fern]

yep

[winged oak]

all good i sorted it out

[simple vault]

damn

[simple vault]

thanks

omfg

it workss!!!

am so smurt

[stuck quarry]

I wasnt aware it didnt matter , ive had instances where a key didnt work until i added the 0

[tall hare]

I got it to work

What a blessing

[simple vault]

why isnt it displaying that thing for me

[tough lotus]

Probably not set up correctly

[tall hare]

Vicky I fixed it 🙂

[simple vault]

Soo what shoudl i set up? I have the instwlation paths

[humble cedar]

Lads, Quick Question, how do I make hidden focuses like all of the secret paths and stuff?

I am working on a little thing and I wanna make it so there are 2 seperate focus paths depending on whether the targeted country accepts/denies demands

[shut dawn]

Oh that's an easy one. Basically the start of the branch needs to have this:

    allow_branch = {
        
    }

With whatever the trigger is in there

[humble cedar]

Ah, I see, Setting a country flag on 2 of my events for each path should work.