modding

[nova heron]

Didn't PDX make it to where that can't happen anymore?

Like, there's a baseline now

[mighty skiff]

yes there is but it is still that good

[golden totem]

Yeah theres consumer goods factor and now consumer goods base expectation

So it's only -125% consumer goods factor with the 15% expectation if full mob

[acoustic berry]

I looked at it before, it seemed there was much effort put into it, but it just seemed a little too bloated

[mighty skiff]

if i remember correctly the focus adds a special eco law

[acoustic berry]

I did find it a little amusing that some of my focus icons were in the mod tho

[mighty skiff]

first the focus kills your eco

then it absolutly hypercharges your eco

there is more

[acoustic berry]

Yeah thats a bit crazy imo

[mighty skiff]

there are like 4 entire branches dedicated exlusivly to eco boosting

[nova heron]

Historically accurate USA

[mighty skiff]

buut as a counterbalance it takes awhile to get there & op military foci give more consumer goods

[acoustic berry]

I've felt that eco scaling that much as the USA is a little unnecessary given that your economy is probably ballooning to like 300 or 400 factories by the end of WW2

[mighty skiff]

& this single focus is soo unbelivably broken

2 civs per every investment

[acoustic berry]

Your only limiting factor is building slots which I try to add more of in my mod

[mighty skiff]

those 6 foci give like 12 factories each

this is the "wargoal" tree-branch

yeah i was right

[nova heron]

How many war goals are there in the world

Wtf

[mighty skiff]

it gets worse and worse

btw the timer extends

[nova heron]

I think this guy is an American

[acoustic berry]

Well I am also American but there has to be an actual challenge to your focus tree or else it's not fun, in my opinion

[mighty skiff]

i have only gone trough like 50% of the eco foci

35 day focus

[acoustic berry]

<@&846894118219022336>

thx

[mighty skiff]

ok this is it think it

it can go lower

[mighty skiff]

also the 1984 focus was nice easter egg in your britain rework

you couldve expanded on it tho

[acoustic berry]

Thx
Also I didn't really expand on it since it was already super OP

[mighty skiff]

maybe do it so your eco and everything else gets destroyed, but you rebuild it and reform it into the 1984 thingy

[arctic mural]

Peak

[pale sparrow]

Spent a while repairing this mod so sharing it
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3725526463

It autodistributes navy based on warscore

[paper valley]

would it work without the dlc for the options in peace conferences

[wet moth]

Who the hell made Indiana the KKK in a mod of collapsed America bro

[nimble solar]

Indiana surprisingly had a lot of klan activity in the early 1900s

Idk the timeframe of whatever mod you are playing though

[wet moth]

Mod is in 1936

[nimble solar]

Hmm, idk. The resurgence died down in the late 20s after the leader was found to be doing very bad things to little girls

[acoustic berry]

NEW moderate progressives path in the USA Rework

Next I will work on the anti-imperialism path

[wet moth]

United States of The World?

https://tenor.com/view/1984-big-brother-theory-conspiracy-theory-conspiracy-gif-14810917015813258640

[stiff nebula]

what mod has the wackiest paths in it?

[nimble solar]

Kaiserredux, maybe Red Flood

[stiff nebula]

also why doesnt paradox plaza show mods very well on it, like i can look up a mod by name and it wont show and the most subscribed tag wont work like its weird and I find it better to go to steam for mods

also is their any individual country mods that possible focus on navy a little more for countries that shouldnt have navies cause I enjoy navy.

[nova heron]

I think PDX plaza is hella neglected ngl because of how much more popular Steam is

[stiff nebula]

ok makes sense

[golden totem]

wait wdym by the occupation zones?

[pale sparrow]

Without too

[potent niche]

Are you also unable to run the game with mods after the update?

[surreal dune]

Tuff

[brittle apex]

team why is there like a whole lot of my mods missing a descriptor file that is there

[arctic mural]

Taxes

[limber escarp]

How does this work?

[snow rune]

Is there an official server specifically for modding?

[nova heron]

Just uninstall and reinstall them

[terse elm]

please help me, im make a map in HOI4 Fantasy World Map Maker, im make a map, export it in a game, but map dont change

and ye, error log isnt work

[tough lotus]

Use Random Paradox

https://github.com/panik4/RandomParadox

[terse elm]

is it map maker?

[charred axle]

is there a website where i can download all the gfx?(international ones)

[nova heron]

Map generator, you input the maps you draw up and then it generated the in-game info for everything map related.

[formal jewel]

is there a trigger to check whether any state has a certain amount of victory points❓

[nova heron]

Terrain or heightmap and climate map are the big ones

[snow rune]

No but there’s a github repository

https://github.com/Globvs/Ultimate-HOI4-GFXp

Maybe it’s in here

[charred axle]

but i dont think they in there because im looking for them in innercircle

[pseudo horizon]

Which one is better?

[charred axle]

This one

[pseudo horizon]

Lol

[snow rune]

@sick torrent

Nvm

It was deleted

[sick torrent]

hi

[snow rune]

It was a crytocurrency scam guy but I think someone else deleted it

[quick dune]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3205133002&searchtext=coloured+puppets

[proud swallow]

am i allowed to ping marjin

he the goat he always help

[proud swallow]

do you know how to get rid of these stupid cat gui icons

its a timelapse mod but it plasters this stupid cat everywhere

[pale sparrow]

It must be outdated

[arctic mural]

Lmao

[tall hare]

Hello people

[proud swallow]

no if u use other mods the cats appear, is ther really no way to remove them or is it a placeholder

i tried mod by itself and they werent there

[pale sparrow]

It means a texture cant be found

[proud swallow]

Who tf comes up with a idea to put cat that take up half da screen as a placeholder

tell old devs at paradox to fix da

[mighty skiff]

is there a hyper isolationist path yet? one where you go the swiss route completly and only focus on internal stuff?

[acoustic berry]

Yes, Teddy Roosevelt was a cosmopolitan and because this path is supposed to be continuing his legacy, and so you can take that idea a little to the extreme...

[acoustic berry]

TFR for sure, but Kaiserredux and Red Flood are close

[mighty skiff]

wackiest path i think goes to red flood, or rather the worst one in terms of morality

[acoustic berry]

The USA historically had occupation zones in several countries in North America to try to stabilize them. The idea is to restore them, as Teddy Roosevelt was a bit of an imperialist and supported these ideas

[golden totem]

oh the banana wars

[acoustic berry]

Yea

[acoustic berry]

There is the America First Party path that's already in the mod. You will still have to inevitably go to war with Japan however

[mighty skiff]

no but i mean where you retreat from all colonies and do hyperwall around of the US

[tough lotus]

https://github.com/Globvs/Ultimate-HOI4-GFX

Accidental p at the end

[charred axle]

sadly there are not the ones that i need

[tough lotus]

All the game's GFX are unencripted in the game's GFX folder, + some portraits in the DLC folder

If you want that instead

[charred axle]

i have the german edition but i need international ones

[tough lotus]

dlc/dlc001 if you have it

[charred axle]

no i dont because its not in the german version

[blazing kettle]

updated cold war mods ?

[pseudo horizon]

Thank you

[pseudo horizon]

Road to 56

[snow rune]

None rn

[snow rune]

But it’s not strictly cold war

How does this nudge tool for ambient objects work?

[pseudo horizon]

It extends to that period

[acoustic berry]

No, because I feel that a path like that is boring. I feel that is a sentiment not just thought of by myself, as I have yet to see anybody play and compliment the historical Switzerland path. Anytime someone, or myself, plays Switzerland, it's almost always for the Alpine Confederation path that would lead to war.
Furthermore, I feel that wouldn't make sense for the USA as those who supported isolationism (the America First Committee) were neutral on the basis of trying to keep the USA out of any foreign wars, but would likely never appease any other nations to stay out of war.

As far as I'm aware, in the time period, the only countries that supported concessions to other nations to prevent war were the United Kingdom and France (and I suppose China as well, by going either democratic or Jingwei). The idea of appeasement to me seems completely uncharacteristic to American politicians at the time who would have likely deemed it unnecessary for what was at the time the most powerful country in the world.

[tough lotus]

I'm working on it

Very slowly though

[empty flower]

hi, im trying to learn modding but why doesnt this work? I used the official modding tutorial

[pale sparrow]

The HOI IV plugin for VSC gives a lot of false positive errors

[empty flower]

Wdym by that

I mean if I start the mod nothing happens

[pale sparrow]

Those spelling correction lines are wrong quite often, try enabling debug mode and checking the error log

[empty flower]

Okay thanks

[snow rune]

Yo?

[mighty skiff]

will you maybe create a better poland focus tree?

or rather what are your plans for future nations

[mighty skiff]

the soviets would be nice, the last big russkie-overhaul didnt get any updates for years

[arctic mural]

The Soviet tree is great

[acoustic berry]

No, because I'm not very knowledgeable about Poland and I think their focus tree is pretty good.

[tender wave]

wich folder do i place all of my mods in?

this is not working

[snow rune]

Are you making a mod or downloading a mod?

[tender wave]

downloading

[nova heron]

You should just be able to hit the subscribe button on Steam, unless you're downloading them through something else? Or are you importing the files for them?

[tender wave]

im doing manual downloads cause the launcher i got it from was abandoned or something

[tender wave]

is this better?

now its in the documents hoi4

okay it doesnt work

does it need to be in a zip?

[tough lotus]

Paradox Launcher V2 comes with every install of the game. The only reason you wouldn't be able to use Steam Workshop would be a pirated version, for which we cannot give support

[tender wave]

no i got it from a website with discount

like 50%off

i got a code

and a zip

[snow rune]

Isn’t that just buying a pirated version?

[arctic mural]

Yeah

[tender wave]

no

[tough lotus]

Unless that code is a steam key, you got sold a pirated copy

[tender wave]

no it wasnt a key

it was a random receipt code

did you even read it

i got a zip

[shut dawn]

So you gave some guy money, and they gave you a zip file with a copy of the game in it? Yeah, that sounds pirated

[tough lotus]

Someone sold you a pirated copy of the game

[tender wave]

no

its a launcher

[tough lotus]

The only places Paradox sells the game are Steam and the Paradox Store

[arctic mural]

What Vicky said yeah

U paid for a free zip file

[tough lotus]

Free
Virus may apply

[arctic mural]

Viruses are skill issue

[tender wave]

its not a torrent maybe you dont know the launcher

[tough lotus]

First stage of grief: denial

[tough lotus]

To whoever sold that: I respect the hustle

[arctic mural]

That is very true

[tender wave]

i mean i kinda got it for 20 bucks with all dlcs and no malware

i got good anti malware subscriptions too

[nova heron]

Question, does anyone have any good collections of modding resources that they wouldn’t mind sharing? Mainly what I’m looking for is things like design philosophy and gameplay considerations whatnot. Hella stuck on some focus tree stuff right now, but it’d also be good for just other parts of the game. Did some google searching and didn’t find much on this

[tough lotus]

Yeah

You paid for a pirated copy

[tender wave]

no

[tough lotus]

You want to tell me that you got it for 150€ off

(which also doesn't contain expansion pass 2)

[nova heron]

I think buying from any source other than the developer, publisher, and distributor is considered piracy or scalping lmao (depending on the context)

[snow rune]

Why is my states like this? I’m on nudge tool

I have an overhaul mod but disabled it could that be why?

I didn’t delete the mod, I disabled it

[tough lotus]

Check Documents/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron IV/
There should be a localisation folder, delete it. Also delete the map and history folders if you're not using the nudger or once you're done using it. Those 3 folders are where the nudger outputs the files it generates, and they will always get loaded no matter what.

If you leave those folders empty that's also fine

[snow rune]

Okay, thank you 🙏

[shut dawn]

I've got a guide for how I make focus trees, but I also mainly work on Old World Blues and submods so not everything will translate to base game or other mods well. I can send it over to you if you want.

[nova heron]

Sure, I’d like to take a look at that

[shut dawn]

Alright, I sent it over

[tough lotus]

https://discord.com/channels/696379419895398411/985565628469510174 has some

You should be able to see that

[tall hare]

Saint boss I found some devs for my mod! 😎

[shut dawn]

Glad to hear it

[tall hare]

mod might get somewhere

[shut dawn]

Don't forget it isn't a race, y'all don't need to burn yourselves out rushing things along

[tall hare]

yeah I know

but it might get somewhere

closer to release

[acoustic berry]

Here's how the United States of the World in the USA Rework work btw. You can integrate any integrated puppet for 300 political power and gain cores on them, or any state that has less than 10 resistance and above 30 compliance for 50 political power

[tall hare]

Very tuff

your mod is super tuff

[acoustic berry]

I'm currently using the star spangled banner as a placeholder flag but I would be glad to know if anybody has an idea for a flag that's not just the UN

[acoustic berry]

thx

[snow rune]

What is the placeholder for?

[tall hare]

You're doing custom mechanics and such too right

[acoustic berry]

Yes, for getting rid of the Great Depression and for elections

[tall hare]

I want to learn to make it

it's really needed for my mod

as mentioned it's very tuff

[acoustic berry]

I'm gonna have to fix the way the state electoral votes are calculated because when you grant statehood to new states the number becomes extremely inaccurate

[acoustic berry]

Thx

[acoustic berry]

https://youtu.be/QvJ4h3XCXO8
https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Scripted_GUI_modding
I would refer to the Iron Workshop video and the wiki. For learning anything about modding, I almost always refer to those two sources (but if there is a video from the official HOI4 account, I would check that too)

[tall hare]

I been thinking of adding like a Reichstag mechanic 👍

[tall hare]

thanks boss

[acoustic berry]

Oh yeah you would also need to learn to do scripted localization as that is an integral part of most custom guis

The Great Depression one would never work without it

[nova heron]

Thanks for reminding me that I need to finish those, I skimmed through them but didn't look too deeply bc of time and stuff

[tough lotus]

Big pink box

[acoustic berry]

Scripted effects too, but they are very easy to set up in comparison

[tough lotus]

I didn't read the entire thing 😭

[tough lotus]

Someone made a flag of the earth https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:International_Flag_of_Planet_Earth.svg

[acoustic berry]

Ah, I could probably use that instead of the stars in the US flag

thx for the suggestion

all right here is the new flag

[elder dock]

really urgent

I need a mod that adds a new unit model thing

that is a cat

I want cat

how get cat

where find cat

[tough lotus]

Your local shelter

[snow rune]

Why is it not working? I move the localisation, map, history foldsrs but it won’t show the provinces I assign to the new states [now theyre just in single provinces in the pic]
I hit save after I edited everything I testran-> moved files -> Reboot game, but theyre still here

At least it doesnt crash anymore

[tough lotus]

State files go in history/states

[snow rune]

Ah

[arctic mural]

yes

[snow rune]

Is there a better way to learn about the syntax than rummaging through the files and wiki or does it just come with time

[tough lotus]

The wiki

[nova heron]

The wiki is your lord, the wiki is your saviour, there is nothing better than our holiness the wiki

[lavish kestrel]

lord have mercy on me

why am i putting myself through such torture

[kindred axle]

for the mappies.

[snow rune]

I tried something from github called hoi4 province map editor v0.4.0 to edit both the definition.csv and the provinces.bmp and it gave me 21,044,291 characters worth of errors
Instant delete

[tough lotus]

looks like a replace_path on history/states

[wise cradle]

i have fininally gotten rid of all - missing in tag list errors and all the tags

[echo kindle]

@acoustic berry hello man. sorry to disturb.

Since you discontinued your Germany Rework Mod. I'm still working on my Rework for my mod, would it be able for me to release my rework as an stand-Alone mod? obviously with Credits. Thanks

[onyx coral]

Does anyone know how to fix this? i can't open the research tree

[mild musk]

@pale sparrow If you are only allowed to discuss in public channels, are you allowed to hold voice calls or not

[arctic mural]

Restart game

Either that or it’s that broken research tree mod

[brisk orbit]

How to make a formable country? Like France can became Europe Union. How I can to do that to orther country?

[tough lotus]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Cosmetic_tag_modding and adding cores through an effect

[mild siren]

😭 what is gonig on

[snow rune]

What’s the app name?

[mild siren]

its not out yet

[snow rune]

You’re the dev?

[swift field]

hello

i wanna add Helis to my hoi4 mod

[nimble solar]

Buy gotterdammerung and you can

[swift field]

alr

[nimble solar]

Do you have any dlc

[swift field]

i have em all

[nimble solar]

Do you know the features in them?

[swift field]

yes

[nimble solar]

Then why are you trying to add a feature that already exists

[mild siren]

yea

i have a windows binary if you want to test it out its on my github

[swift field]

idk

[mild siren]

i think it works on windows but i havent tested myself

[snow rune]

Link pls

[mild siren]

https://github.com/Vaspyyy/Hoi4_Studio/releases/tag/v0.4.2

[snow rune]

Thank you 🙏

[mild siren]

no guarantuees it works without issues lol, its not even close to finished

[fossil fern]

the historical branch for my romania mod (including a path where carol ii stays..). thoughts?

[blissful lion]

"Militarise the people" and "Romanianization" have Crush the Iron Guard or Demonstrations against the Carol as prerequisites? Those mutual exclusives need to be a bit more apart so the conditions would be more clear for the other focuses. Otherwise, it seems good so far.

[fossil fern]

oh yeah i get that sorry

this is my first ever focus tree so thats my excuse for it sucking

[dusty ravine]

this is more down to personal preference but i think theres too much open space here

creates the illusion of there being more content than there is which can be a benefit but i see it more as lazy

for a first focus tree its good though

[tough lotus]

With everything packed together it can become hard to read though

It's all about the structure and flow you want to give your focus tree

[fossil fern]

i wanted the player to be able to do whtv they wanted whenever so

[twin mauve]

If I want to start modding, do I follow official hoi4 tutorials, or is there some better sources?

[tough lotus]

Looks like it's not a lot more spaced apart than the bftb trees

[tough lotus]

They're fine

I personally learned from the wiki, wouldn't recommend

[dusty ravine]

true but theres a middle ground you can get that isnt too spaced out and isnt too condensed

i guess we have different interpretations and opinions of that middle ground

[dusty ravine]

you can still accomplish this with less space between focuses

[dusty ravine]

iron workshop is good, its what i used

its probably a bit outdated now though, could still be useful

[snow rune]

Don’t watch their making new states videos though

I watched it yesterday and it made me pissed off for an hour until I read the comments and they said it was outdated and not usable anymore and that it was posted 5 years ago

[dusty ravine]

yeah i remember that frustrating me asw

anything related to nudger get advice from other places like the wiki

[latent mountain]

Guys I want to make a full custom map mod but with random paradox its a little hard I don't have much modding experience I made some mods but Im totaly new to hoi 4 map modding I need to make a full custom map and I want to select where I want to have rivers and towns and when to be snowy and when to be desert but how can I do that random paradox is just not like that its hard I couldn't set it up the way I wanted anyone knows how can I make a full custom map the way I want?

[snow rune]

Map folder in steam\steamapps directory for hoi4, copy and paste it into your mod, it will give you the provinces and definition folder, also for the rivers and terrain
Watch hoi4 official tutorial for map modding
NEVER EDIT THE BASE GAMES FILES
Copy and paste it into yours first

Also check error.log

Btw anyone ever found any other way to use syntax? I had to learn arabic just for this

[snow rune]

<@&846894118219022336>

HOW DO THEY KEEP GETTING IN

[wise cradle]

What happened?

[shut dawn]

Think it’s more that people lose their account by falling for one scam or another and then they’re used to spread it. Like a virus

[latent mountain]

Could you tell me where can I see this hoi 4 official tutorial for map modding? would you mind sending me a link if its possible or just tell me how to reach to it

[nova heron]

YouTube (the intermediate modding guide collection)

[latent mountain]

But that guy just uses Nudge and it looked not easy to do

I want a full custom map you think its possible to do all that stuff with just nudge?

[nova heron]

There's still a tutorial for drawing new stuff onto maps. However, this process is extremely tedious and fairly complex, so my suggestion is to use RandomParadox to generate things like provinces and states and whatever maps you don't make, alongside writing the necessary files

I'd also suggest doing other modding first if you haven't done much already because of how complex and interconnected map modding is

-# Where's the dens flowchart when you need it...

[latent mountain]

Well the thing with randomparadox is not easy to control like I can't select when I want the rivers to be and how they have to be or like I want a part of map to be full of mountains but its just not possible

[latent mountain]

I do

[nova heron]

You can manually draw them in and insert that. Also, I think there is a way to draw rivers in the program iirc?

How much time are you wanting to dedicate to this?

Like, just making the map?

[latent mountain]

Well yeah I think I could make the height map and a normal map but how would I get provinces.bmp?

[latent mountain]

Yeah just making a map with attributes I need like the north must be always snow and a part of it must be full of mountains just like that

[nova heron]

It automatically generates that and inserts it into your maps folder, alongside making all the .txt files for it to be functional

[nova heron]

You can do that, just make a climate map

[latent mountain]

Ok how?

[latent mountain]

I would read it in a sec

[nova heron]

You draw a bitmap with the colors outlining the climate regions, insert a png of it into RandomParadox with drag and drop, assign colors to climates, and you'll have a climate map.

If you haven't, read the documentation.pdf

It's essential for learning how to work the program

[latent mountain]

You mean landform?

[nova heron]

There's terrain which translates into the heightmap, I think that's the one your thinking of. Climate zones defines the rain factor, tree factor, habitability, and weather of a region which translates into kinds of deserts, jungles, standard plains, defines things like development and urban/agricultural distribution, etc.

[latent mountain]

I made a map for test for some reasons it just had a million amound of navalbases and airbases lots of units lots of industry and there was just A lot of provinces idk how to set provincesmyselfexactly

Also a million cities

[latent mountain]

So how should I draw my map in GIMP step by step? Like when I wanted to import a random map in random paradox I just made mountains white water dark blue or black and made plains pink and hills green and then gave it to random paradox but in game those places had all kinds of things some plains some hills some mountains it was just odd I thought I can have mountains in some place by just putting white color there and setting it to mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukl3FBsUdb4&t=508s&pp=ygUWYXN0cm9raW5nIG1hcCB0dXRvcmlhbA%3D%3D I followed this tutorial

But didn't help enough

[nova heron]

That's cause there's aliasing, in all honesty I don't draw my maps in GIMP, I draw them in Procreate and then export them as .pngs, I think part of the reason it does that is to create more natural terrain and such though. I'd look at the documentation for that, it'll have the best explanations for how to work with the program. If you want I can also dm you the server link for RandomParadox so you can get in contact with people who are definitely better at it than me

[latent mountain]

Sure I would appericiate that

[acoustic berry]

Yes, that is fine, as long as there is a link to my original mod on the main page with myself credited. Thank you for asking

[snow rune]

<@&846894118219022336>

[naive stump]

Eugh

[tough lotus]

[mighty skiff]

what was posted 'gain?

[tough lotus]

Scam message

[snow rune]

Anyone know what happened? Theres a weird white square under it, I also included how I exported it and its code

Its smiley face as a placeholder
Lol

[echo kindle]

Obviously. If I happen to release it i would link your mod in the credits. Thanks

[acoustic berry]

You're welcome!

[snow rune]

Never mind, it mysteriously fixed itself without me ever touching it, after a few game resets where I forgot all about it, weird

Also, I apologize to anyone I offended when I screenshotted instead of took a picture with my phone
My bad I forgot

[rain escarp]

Is there a mod that can make countries white peace with you on command? When im fighting a war and some random ass country thats covered by oceans joins even if they have no point in being it in which drags the war on for years

[latent mountain]

Is it even possible to add a video as loading screen in hoi 4? or a video with sound?

[rigid crest]

where is the popup when a mastery gets completed

in the files

this where do i find this

[raven bobcat]

anyone knows some mods where you can change the maps to other years like the millennia dawn or another mod that makes your map to 1492

[wise cradle]

Cant garruante it still workes

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3142844611

@@raven bobcat

[tough lotus]

It won't

2 years out of date

[terse elm]

how to fixs error log? computer cant find way to error.txt

[pale sparrow]

if you do error console command it opens it

[snow rune]

toolpack

[tough lotus]

Toolpack without the errors

-# Hi @pale sparrow

[tough lotus]

Rise of Nations

[brisk orbit]

I am also doing a Romania mod.

[fossil fern]

care to show👀

[snow rune]

I got hacked and they bought a $119 game, but at least they didn’t touch my hoi4 or mod folder

[fossil fern]

what game

[nova heron]

Shameless plug

[snow rune]

Forza horizon 6 with every DLC

[tall hare]

Kinda good game lowkey

from what I heard

🙂

[tough lotus]

I'd plug my personal mod but it's not done

[nova heron]

So real

[fluid remnant]

level 9 is max for generals and it gives 25% bonus , how to removethe limit and make level 100 wit hsuitable bonus

[nova heron]

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I believe its in the defines file?

[fluid remnant]

i did not found it

[snow rune]

Did you use ctrl+f

[mild siren]

oh wow

[latent mountain]

Sometimes shit just happens

[mild siren]

i went from 22k errors to like 1.7k

it still crashes 😂

[latent mountain]

Is there ANYONE here that is familiar with map modding?

[mild siren]

im trying that lol

its painful

[neon wagon]

Not mine, but I am using it and it works really well. "HOI4 Fantasy World Map Maker". Its way easier to edit it with this.

[rugged yarrow]

Probably not gonna make a mod for these, but I made a bunch of ideology icons. How do they look?

[pale sparrow]

Looks cool

For materialism and progressivism their symbol had me thinking of another ideology first but Ig they dont really have fixed ones

[swift field]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_organization#Army
im gonna add these Real life army units to my hoi4 mod

[wise cradle]

i figure out what scripted localisition is, honestly

it should't of took me that long

[kindred axle]

In what specifically?

[tough lotus]

yes

[plain basin]

Can someone take a look at some broken code for me please?

[tough lotus]

Send it here

[plain basin]

I want it to add the decision to add the referenced resources under a decision when the game launches. The decision doesn't appear, but the category does.
decisions = {
my_capital_decision_category = {
my_add_capital_resources = {
icon = generic_resource

        visible = {
            NOT = { is_ai = yes }
        }

        available = {
            NOT = {
                capital_scope = {
                    has_state_modifier = my_capital_resources_bonus
                }
            }
        }

        cost = 50

        complete_effect = {
            capital_scope = {
                add_state_modifier = {
                    name = my_capital_resources_bonus
                    duration = -1
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

}

[tough lotus]

The decisions block isn't a thing and should be omitted, and a negative duration might cause issues, the duration will be set as infinite if it's not present

Also the decision is only visible to the player but I'm sure that's intentional

[burnt vigil]

a lot of them are in game

all you need is light infantry, HQ (support company) and a couple one-off for specific countries

and maybe make irregulars more accessible, especially for smth like the 1SAS

[strange crystal]

any notable TFR submods/other compatible mods I should look into or is it recommended to play just base + music?
(I know about the ROC one)

first time

[icy fable]

When creating a mod, am I allowed to use character portraits, focus icons or other GFX from DLCs?

[pale sparrow]

If you want 0 doubt about it Id just follow what PDX puts in DLC folders

Focus icons are always in the base game folder, so are almost all idea icons except advisor ideas.
Portrait & tech icons are usually all in the DLC folder unless it has free paths like BBA, NCNS and NSB, then assets for those are obviously outside the DLC folder

https://yard1.github.io/HoI4-GFX-Search/

Simply deselect all except base on this and you get all the assets you can use

Avoid using the CCP 2d icons as those are different with DLC, I should probably make a bug report about those being on the site

[swift field]

im gonna add NEW ship types variants and versions

like lhds lhas lpds etc

[kindred axle]

https://tenor.com/view/hms-vanguard-gif-5923256317878304417

Warspite mentioned 🗣️

[swift field]

im gonna add Other techs equipments etc from 1900 till 2065

[icy fable]

Thank you

[swift field]

im gonna allow access to the  Panzerschiff,coastal defence ship and pre dreadnought for ALL nations in my hoi4 mod

[oblique lion]

g

[sullen fulcrum]

Any performance mods for sp that are effective besides fps map?

[pale sparrow]

no

unless youre okay disabling countries

debug_smooth console command is also good

[kindred axle]

Take off 3d models in the graphics settings

[tough lotus]

non-reflective water

[latent mountain]

Creating full custom maps

[mild siren]

how does this even happen 🥀

[kindred axle]

LOL

[wise cradle]

Properly somthing In the terrian folder most likely an unedited colormap_rgb_cityemissivemask_a.dds or colormap_water.dds files

[mild siren]

this is a little better

[kindred axle]

wtf

how man

[mild siren]

im testing

my map generator

[mild siren]

i will take a look

ty

whoops

[wise cradle]

Also make sure to use gimp

[wise cradle]

Also try using the nudger for that

Anyway Im going

[mild siren]

im using my own modding tool lol, so i somehow need to make it automatically create it

[latent mountain]

@tough lotus @kindred axle Could you guys tell me how can I manually make good heightmap normalmap and terrainmap? do you guys know anything about it? I searched about heightmap in youtube and it just brought me some irrelavent I would say it was tutorials about unreal and stuff not what im exactly looking for

Or if anyone else can help me on this I would be glad

[tough lotus]

Adding more steps into it would smoothen it out

[latent mountain]

Ok but the main problem is that there is flat ground everywhere for some reason

Oh nvm I figured

I had my landform with 2 colors

[swift field]

im gonna add the Assault rifle tech as a SP

[kindred axle]

dunno about that tbh, i keep the same terrain map as vanilla

the only times i tried to modify it every forest province became a city somehow

[tall hare]

Hello

[swift field]

hello gus

[umbral charm]

My event won't flip the provinces. Do any of you know how to fix it?

[shut dawn]

You try just doing

JCS = {
set_province_controller = 10412
}

?

Oh wait

[shut dawn]

Have declaring war go before the province change. If they aren't currently at war, it just flips right back.

[pale sparrow]

Youre right

Unless the wiki is missing a version of the effect, thats the correct formatting

[tall hare]

Hello

[mild siren]

FINALLY NO CRASH 😭

i am crying tears of joy

[sharp vigil]

How do i download the hoi4 mod utilities? I can't make it work

[kindred axle]

Herat 🔥 🗣️

[cosmic token]

Free icon

[simple vault]

Whats the icon abt

Looks pretty similar to something

[simple vault]

Tbf if u can't see 💩 on the screen photo dont post it

[cosmic token]

It's a focus icon that could be used for Ukraine or Kaiserredux mods

[simple vault]

Oh

[noble zenith]

can anyone help me with this? im trying to make indiana its own country but it just disappeared

these are the last issues logged

[golden totem]

Did you define the tag in the common/country_tags/00.countries.txt file?

[noble zenith]

i’ll check later, i’ve given up for today lol

[acoustic berry]

New socialist/communist tree in the USA Rework

[nova heron]

What's the deal with being able to presumably invade the Soviet under the same branch as allying with them? Is it a backstab or is it something else?

[acoustic berry]

You can only do it if you didn't ally with them

[nova heron]

Ah, aight

[tough lotus]

It's giving you the option to, you don't have to ally them to go down that path

[acoustic berry]

Same thing for the Sino-Soviet Split focus

[nova heron]

So either branch has options to essentially back out from your path and grab up the land

[acoustic berry]

More so that certain paths are locked out of certain options. By doing "A New Revolution" (creating your own faction) you should have access to all of the focuses since you are on your own

Here's a mockup when I add the anti-imperialism path, which will be in the center

It will largely based off of the old progressive path

[nimble solar]

@acoustic berry small nitpick, but the USS Langley in your mod is a Yorktown class. In vanilla it is a converted battleship hull and I personally think it should be a converted cruiser hull

[amber notch]

people claimed a country for my mod based off my school first one of the day is Israel 🥹

this is my first mod this is gonna be funny as shit

[umbral charm]

I have an event where some provences flip to a new rebel nation but the nation keeps capitulating after 1 day. I even gave it an idea to give it 100% surrender limit but it still caps.

[spring tinsel]

does the mod API not expose province-level devision counts/strengths/data?

[magic shoal]

How would one make a specific tag or ai prefer one garrison type over another? There’s certain garrison types like Reconciliation that’s only visible for certain tags but I want the garrison to be available to all

Like for example, I want Luxembourg to have a 100% chance of choosing Brutal occupation.

I’ve been looking around ai strategies and haven’t found anything, usually it just relates to garrison templates.

[swift field]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Waffen-SS_divisions
can i add these units and templates to my hoi4 mod

just for LARP

[tough lotus]

They probably don't control a state

[tough lotus]

Occupation laws have an ai_will_do block, you can have weights for the ai there

[wise cradle]

does anyone know to create a scrollwheel in country selection menu ?

[spring tinsel]

I have never modded before but what about a ScrollingFrame (assuming its the same Instance.new() system as luau)

[lone hearth]

<@&846894118219022336>

[tough lotus]

Get to work

[pale sparrow]

Get to work

🙃

[tough lotus]

[tough lotus]

It isn't

[spring tinsel]

rip

[magic shoal]

gem post, thank you

[limber juniper]

does someone know an good prussia mod

with bismarck

[gleaming prawn]

do graphics mods mess with mp?

[dense ore]

Any tips to form Roman empire?

[tough lotus]

End of a new beginning

[viral niche]

Has anyone tried modding with Claude code?

[mighty skiff]

my brother thats called vibe coding and is abbhorent

dont post to workshop without specific ai markers, ai cant make good code

[kindred axle]

https://tenor.com/view/low-tier-god-eo-eoquote-chat-quote-this-guy-gif-7326053746658113800

[viral niche]

Just experimenting but I embedded Claude into VS code and it’s pretty incredible

Not sure as to the quality

[mighty skiff]

if you dont understand what you are doing, everything ai does seems incredible, its not

the shit ai shits out is so bad, id rather copy and paste stuff from other people and pray it works

[viral niche]

I don’t think so.

[pale sparrow]

The formatting of HOI code is pretty trivial so I dont see any reason to use it

[viral niche]

I know someone who works in Vetrinary and they’re utilizing Claude code to experiment with diagnosis in radiology machines

[mighty skiff]

the problem i have encoutered is the unoptimisation, which often makes the mod standalone incompatible

[viral niche]

If it’s not good now it definitely will be someday

[mighty skiff]

this has nothing to do with the current conversation

f off with trying to sell me ai,

[lusty talon]

Hello Men

Is there a mod that keeps the game historically accurate but also simplifies the game for more fun haveing?

[mighty skiff]

afaik there is none that activly simplifies the game, historical ehhh, agora with hist mode or expert ai hist mode

[lusty talon]

How much does it cost to get a custom mod made?

[mighty skiff]

ehhh, idk its not the place for this tho

[weak crater]

I want to play hoi4

[mighty skiff]

wrong channel browski

[weak crater]

my interwar captured destroyer has destroyed multiple soviet and italian light cruisers

[lusty talon]

Is there a mod that makes it so you cant lose? Even putting the game at minimum difficulty and giving your country extra strength its still almost impossible to win

[mighty skiff]

yeah, quoted from hoi4-general?

[lusty talon]

https://tenor.com/view/sisyphus-rock-mp4-transparent-color-gif-11114772717737196968

[mighty skiff]

ehh maybe play some far off nation like canada, buff all allies and you cannot lose ww2

there is no need for mods

[lusty talon]

But I want to play as the French or soviets

Canada is lame

[mighty skiff]

soviets? hmm, release some minor nations at your borders to larp as Russian SSR , puppet them with toolpack, then buff give them factories

[lusty talon]

You neeed to win ww2 first

[mighty skiff]

no? toolpack has feature for releasing

[lusty talon]

Hufff is there mad that Makes the game really easy? Or make germany really weak

You can't even recreate Dunkirk, because the British are not allowed to fight with France.

France is basically all on their own

And Soviet tanks are useless for some reason. Actually, all tanks are useless.

[mighty skiff]

browski how many hours do you have?

[lusty talon]

100

Or more

[mighty skiff]

just watch tutorials and gameplay, lose till you win

eventually vanilla's gonna get too easy

[lusty talon]

Its boring I just want to have fun is there a mod that makes germany week? Or harder to lose?

[mighty skiff]

toolpack + delete germanies factories, set population to 0

[mighty skiff]

maybe fuhrerreich/redux

[pale sparrow]

@mighty skiffhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2913150560

Here's the up-to-date one that author stole the code for that tool from me IIRC

[lusty talon]

If I wanted to make it impossible for Germany to play, I may as well not play the game at all.

[lusty talon]

What is this exactly?

[mighty skiff]

it is? huh didnt know that

[lusty talon]

https://tenor.com/view/sisyphus-rock-mp4-transparent-color-gif-11114772717737196968

[mighty skiff]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036458446&searchtext=fuhrerreich its like germany kaiserreich, but if kaiserreich germany would lose ww1

also strong poland

[lusty talon]

https://tenor.com/view/drunk-gif-11079826643093500565

I give up

[rough parcel]

Y'all like Kaiserreich or Kaiserredux more?

[wet moth]

i need a mod to censor the nazi flag

[lusty talon]

🫃

[half flicker]

finally bro

the apla is a pain in the ass

[wet moth]

buddy chose a fascist america

[half flicker]

the patriot front opath is the most in depth path in the 2acw

atomwaffen and nsm are short

apla is boring

[wet moth]

atomwaffen VS being actual people (atomwaffen lose)

[half flicker]

real

[wet moth]

their own ideology failed itself in ww2

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-reverse-smile-ishowspeed-confused-gif-17362243368421867313

[half flicker]

atomwaffen worse than nazism

there a nazi satanic death cult who wants to blow up the world

genuine geeks

[tall hare]

Someone drop me some good name ideas for my mod if Germany and Russia won ww1

[dense coral]

Pax Autoritaria

[tall hare]

Hmmm

[dense coral]

it's bad i just came up with it

Berlin-Petesburg Order

[tall hare]

it's not too bad

[tall hare]

I made a server for it so need a good one

[dense coral]

show me

[tall hare]

dms

[dense coral]

send me friend request

[tough lotus]

The nazi flag is censored

[wet moth]

a mod i have for some ungodly reason uncensored it

and i dont know which one it is

[amber notch]

How long does it take to make a mod that renames a countries political party, leader portraits (per ideology), focus tree, name and color (and if it’s a puppet make it not a puppet)

Basically just replacing the country

[tough lotus]

Not very long

[amber notch]

Oh sweet

[amber notch]

Whats the estimated time for a beginner

[rigid crest]

how do i delete this popup in game files

[tough lotus]

It's hardcoded I think

[tough lotus]

If you have no idea about modding at all, probably a day or two

Of course depends on the quality of the focus tree, although most of the time spent on that will be designing it

A high quality focus tree can easily take weeks or even months

[amber notch]

I may do it with a few branches

the only path that won’t branch is democratic

[rigid crest]

including the "an enemy has decrypted your cypher" popup? cuz i wanna delete that too

[tough lotus]

A good and fun focus tree can be made relatively quickly if it doesn't have to be grounded in reality at all

[tough lotus]

When those popups show up from basegame mechanics they're usually hardcoded

[rigid crest]

usually? where would i check if it is or not

[amber notch]

I mean one of the paths is a Chinese Arabic Jewish union in Israel and Benny yahu turns into AI and merges with a dog and rules France

oh replied to wrong thingy

[tough lotus]

Yeah, then you'll probably have to do no research

[amber notch]

all the research I’m doing is for like

[tough lotus]

Which is also pretty timeconsuming

[amber notch]

Symbols and stuff

To make sure I don’t put anything bad

[opaque cloud]

My 1897 Great War Mod is still under construction.. i have already made several changes to the base "great War Redux" Mod.. but among the many changes so far, the Names of some nations to be period accurate

and yes, i have permission

[arctic saffron]

looks good

[opaque cloud]

it's supposed to be a sort of modern version of the old darkest hour "1914" mod

which starts in 1914, ends in 1924

this one should end maybe around.. december 1928/jan 1929

eventually

[arctic saffron]

ok if you want i can be a tester to loo for bugs if you need 1

[opaque cloud]

hmm, i shall take note of that.

I have even added a few custom laws.

[arctic saffron]

ok

[opaque cloud]

This stuff is to simulate westernization reforms and stuff, since so many nations outside europe and america even in 1897 aren't fully industrial yet

You need to be up to level 4 in all planned reform sects to unlock the reform "Fully Industrialized"

[arctic saffron]

ok sounds nice

[opaque cloud]

which catches you up to a 1870 baseline..

although finishing out some reforms will allow you to research stuff on the main tech tree before you com,plete this stuff.. kinda simulating how some nations like the ottomans had some gun factories, some modern tech but a horrendously outdated government with basically feudal practices

costs a shit ton to implement these reforms as you can expect, im talking like minimum, 500 PP points each. The top tier ones may well be like 2/4000 pounds

[arctic saffron]

ok

[opaque cloud]

may also add a custom "reform point" variable, where you slowly gather points representing how willing your people are to take that reform, and stability requirements.

it's agony, but still simpler than black ice would do it as a ww1 mod

[arctic saffron]

ok

[amber notch]

Anyone know any good tutorials

[tough lotus]

Pins

[tawdry wagon]

could i also be a tester?

[opaque cloud]

Maaaaaybe. I know I’ll need a GFX artist who’s good at sprites and icons for ideas, technology etc

[wise cradle]

Can you use tootip in bookmarks ?

[pale sparrow]

In what context?

Main thing you gotta be aware of all text in bookmarks defaults to using Germany as ROOT scope

[wise cradle]

As in to change the name to somthing shorter so it fit in the bookmark gui

[lofty plaza]

And what is something? A country name, idea?

[wise cradle]

Like if I have a country call republic of France but I just it say france on the bookmark

[lofty plaza]

Yes, you could use [FRA.GetNonIdeologyName]

I dunno if that'd work on a bookmark though. Might take some custom gui

[high hatch]

I think for France, should be only "Republic of France" or "French Republic". Otherwise, seems to be interesting. Continue your amazing work.

[sour temple]

I'm looking at the wiki, and under the effects of mark_focus_tree_layout_dirty it claims If put within a focus' completion reward, the focus will not be marked as complete at the time the effect is executed, leading to has_completed_focus checks specifying that focus in particular to be marked as false. is this still true or has this been fixed?

[tough lotus]

I doubt it has been fixed, it can be bypassed by having the focus set a country flag before running mark_focus_tree_layout_dirty

[sharp vigil]

I just started modding and I watch the first 2 hoi4 tutorial and the mode not even opening (and when it do its won't give the event)

[opaque cloud]

I mean even just removing the “The” bit does shorten it a decent bit.

[brisk orbit]

Somebody can help me with that?

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/National_focus_modding#Icon

you're missing a shine

[brisk orbit]

So To all gfx focus I need to add shine?

[pale sparrow]

all focus icons, nothing else

[brisk orbit]

Ok.

[brisk orbit]

Is matter If is png or dds?

[high hatch]

Is only in the code to do that, except you made a custom shine. Look the vanilla goal_shine.gfx for example in interface folder.

[brisk orbit]

I managed to do it.

Thx btw.

[high hatch]

You're welcome. Good luck and continuation 🙂

[tall hare]

Hello 👋

[tough lotus]

hi

[tall hare]

Vicky which countries is it you're working on in RON

[tough lotus]

The one that has bugs

[tall hare]

Prussia

[tough lotus]

All of them but yes

[tall hare]

🤔

Cool

[tough lotus]

-# The one where I play Valorant instead of doing anything useful

[tall hare]

😎

[tough lotus]

The one where I constantly tell @lone hearth to update too

-# Update the mod

[tall hare]

👍

Making lore is so damn hard

[swift patrol]

guys i know this isnt HOI4 related directly but if my mod on paradox launcher says installation interrupted, log in to continue and im already logged in what do i do i cant find anything online

[sinful forge]

what are some of the best mods for medieval era?

[tough lotus]

hoi4 mechanics don't translate well more than a few decades back in time

So go buy Crusader Kings
-# Although Ck2 is free

[sinful forge]

which is better?

ck2 or 1

[tough lotus]

Depending on who you ask, ck2 or ck3

[lone hearth]

I have the upload error (99% sure it's some Linux shenanigans)

[tough lotus]

Skill issue

[swift patrol]

so can someone help or not?

[tough lotus]

Help with what?

[swift patrol]

this

[kindred axle]

#tech-support Will help more i think

[swift patrol]

okay thank you

[vague sable]

any1 balkan?

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336>

[rugged flame]

I'm wanting to make a map consisting only these areas but theirs a problem with hoi4 making the map seamless. anyway to turn that off?

[tough lotus]

No way of doing that. Although what you can do is having an impassable state covering one of the sides of the map so it's as if it was cut off

[rugged flame]

perhaps AI could modify it to make it seamless

[nova heron]

Yo @pale sparrow idk if you know bout this, but I was playing your win for ships mod and found that it crashes every time I click the button on the gui pop-up that shows after you win a war

[pale sparrow]

Can you send me the savegame

[timid void]

can enyone go ahead send me the linke to Extended Tech Tree 1960

[tough lotus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1778255798

[timid void]

bruh wont work trid all ready

[nova heron]

Shoot didn't see your message, yeah gimme a second
I've had this happen twice since the start of the playthrough, I forgot to mention

[south kiln]

90286099784698891, need a germany to HJ (December 1936 historical path)

[vague sable]

any1 balkan?

[mighty skiff]

is there a mod that prevents the formation of collab goverments, like if you controll long enough, get complaince and then form the collab?

[wooden rain]

Is there a mod that brings back the og doctrines

[tame flint]

Can anyone help me out? The admiral himself works perfectly fine, but the bonuses (modifiers) from AUS_maximilian_navy_chief_trait aren't showing up or working at all. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[eager sleet]

Hello, I'm trying to store a character in a variable, but when I try to get their name, I get the country's name instead. Does anyone know a solution?

I read a post from 4 years ago describing a very similar problem. Someone said it was fixed, but I'm not sure because it still happens to me.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/hoi-4-every-random_character-effect-causes-this-to-target-country-and-not-character-when-assigning-to-variable-absolutely-broken.1545552/

But it seems to work correctly for characters whose roles haven't been modified.

[distant island]

peak modding here

[ancient vapor]

Did you even do anything or it was with an app?

[distant island]

a tool on steam workshop

i was just testing stuff

[tough lotus]

Careful, a lot of those have malware

[distant island]

i read that its safe

but who knows.The chinese might infect my pc

[tough lotus]

Somehow I doubt that

[distant island]

well ig ill just delete it.its not like i wanted to make an actual mod

i also have randomparadox but i read that i cant import images and turn it into a map

[ancient vapor]

Nah it's pretty 我认为安全

[ancient vapor]

Randomparadox is the best one

And yes

It can turn images into a map

Who told you that?

[distant island]

i searched it up and it said i couldnt

[distant island]

ill try it out later

thanks

[ancient vapor]

I mean

Technically it can't do it automatically

[sturdy galleon]

Soo
Whenever i try to create a mod, the launcher creates its files in my onedrive documents. Is there a way to change it so it makes them in my local docs??

[ancient vapor]

It does

Automatically I think

[tough lotus]

Uninstall onedrive, it's useless bloatware anyway

In the launcher settings

[ancient vapor]

Damm, mine does it automatically

[ancient vapor]

All you have to do is tell he engine what colors represent what and that's it

[distant island]

alr ill check it out later

[tough lotus]

The launcher requests the location of the documents from the os, if onedrive is installed windows will retURN THAT FOLDER

[sturdy galleon]

So if i unistall onedrive it will automatically put into local?

[burnt hornet]

I'm thinking of making a hoi4 mod where Byzantium survives and is like Turkey in OTL in 1936

a former empire trying to be a secular republic

paths
monarchist restoration
fascist
communist
democratic
canon ending (non aligned -> democratic)

also Constantinople is called Byzantion because the republicans wanted to de imperailze the nation

thoughts

Oh I have an awesome name for it legacy of the double headed eagle

[burnt hornet]

@arctic mural rate my mod idea

[dense summit]

how does one enter debug mode again

[mighty skiff]

the funny button under ESC

then type debug

[dense summit]

cool thanks

[tough lotus]

-debug in the launch options in steam
Enabling it via the command doesn't give the full benefits of debug (like hot reload)

[hasty valley]

How do I use nudge without messing everything up?

[ancient vapor]

Mildly interesting

Just that "What if [ANCIENT EMPIRE] survived to this day?" is pretty repeated

You have to be very creative for yours to stand out

[kindred axle]

By not doing things without knowledge ig?

[hasty valley]

Helpful ig

[kindred axle]

[silk sluice]

Can someone send link to vanilla mod im finding like 20 different.

[pale sparrow]

Wdym vanilla mod

[tough lotus]

Yeah, vanilla ia synonymous with unmoded

[mighty skiff]

i ought to say he means QoL

[lament crest]

can someone name me really good performance mods

all the fps map mods i find dont work

[pale sparrow]

Thats the only one that has a performance impact without impacting gameplay

[viral niche]

anyone know any good navy mods?

[stone fractal]

theres no such thing as a navy mod

every mod uses the base naval system

[fierce galleon]

guys

yall have any tips when playing kaiserreich as germany

[nova heron]

Why?

[potent widget]

For Germany theme song

[potent widget]

You can listen.

[kindred axle]

Just throw It at this point 💔

Take a 50 year loan to buy a corolla fr fr

[potent widget]

Why would I want a corolla

[potent widget]

Its a tuned V8 and only has 107000 miles

[kindred axle]

Sleeper build be like

[potent widget]

Lol it's ok

[vague sable]

any1 balkan?

[kindred axle]

@void pier

[vague sable]

u from serbia

[kindred axle]

Wha

Ig Italy Is serbian now

[vague sable]

i meand bcs crylc letters

[kindred axle]

Arent those bulgarian made tho?

[rugged flame]

Wip mod i'm making, heres the map.

[eternal holly]

there's a 14 day focus in mittle europa that gives you and your pals a permanent 5% factory output you may have missed near the top - might only be under reform path?

you can build to infrastructure and a electrical grid is Azerbaijan for an extra 77 or so oil under your control

naval exercises are free naval xp before the war

doing the two work creation foci on the left of the tree make it so you can win nearly every round of black monday

I got home by Christmas as promote rath plan as spd Germany iirc

[tough lotus]

Well, I am dead

[rugged flame]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbzhvNTA5amVxOGJpdXNlZGowZmhjcWptOHB2bGd6ZDJ0Znd0MmtjbSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/MlmyhIS4wgNzUXy3cl/giphy.gif

[limber juniper]

is there are mod for germany focus tree to restore prussia in ww2

[nova heron]

Unfortunate, who's going to do the work for RoN now? Harry?
-#

[sturdy galleon]

The sea levels are outta control on this one

[tough lotus]

Harry

[nova heron]

Gulp

Would Harry even survive

I think I survive by like

50 miles

[fierce galleon]

thank you so much

[eternal holly]

do you want general strategy stuff too, like building a bunch of fighters and tanks

or more specific stuff like remember build your spy agency during the lows of black Monday since construction speed doesn't apply to agencies

[tough lotus]

Isn't he chilean? He'll be fine

Technically I survive too but he just deleted me anyway

[fierce galleon]

i dont have any dlc

but i would like to know about how many divs and planes i need to win the second welkriegt

and if i should focus firstly on the western front or eastern front

[eternal holly]

west

[fierce galleon]

Ty

[eternal holly]

I'd say:

48-72 inf to hold back the French,

6-12 tanks to attack France

like 18 inf to help hold key areas in the east (Caucasus, Viipuri)

some (16-24?) port garrisons for ports west of Kiel in Europe

like 4k fighters and 1.5k cas/tac bombers

are you remembering to modify division templates to include AA, recon, or other things? that's a big thing

[paper valley]

i made new provinces but the new dlcs have created provinces with the id

[wet moth]

quick question, how do i get more resource production in Black ICE?

[tough lotus]

If you have created provinces it really shouldn't be an issue since you'll already have a definitions.csv file (and provinces.bmp) that will overwrite vanilla, you might want to replace_path history/states and copy the base game's states in there so changes to the state map don't mess up your map

[rugged flame]

the geography has been changed from the catastrophes causing entire areas to be consumed by lava and landmasses being disconnected

[rugged flame]

Nah he dead, the begotten plague got him regardless

He is faithless and transmogrified into a thrall for the Undergod.

[dry fjord]

Hi fellas, figure this is the best channel instead of the ask for help one

I don't think I understand what I'm reading. This is the Norway event for returning Trotsky to the USSR

From what I understand, the base chance is 10 (%?)
Then the factor = 0 and NOR_is_historical_ai I don't get it either

[gleaming prawn]

Right, so how does the economy system work in TNO?

[eternal holly]

let me know how it goes for you

I practically spend all my free time replaying map game strategies because... idk I can't even say it goes better every time cuz sometimes inspite my efforts the prewar doesn't perfectly pan out and I get hung up on it

[nova heron]

If Norway is on historical AI, it sets the value of 10 (using an MTTH system (AI modding - Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki https://share.google/qOGjMJOyc1LMXdBPS )) to a value of zero, making it impossible for the AI to select that option while historical is active/not aborted

[tame flint]

Can anyone help me

[pale sparrow]

military_advisor_traits isnt a thing...

[tame flint]

And which code should I use then?

[pale sparrow]

https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Character_modding#Country_leader_traits

army advisor traits work the same as political advisor ones, only commander/field marshall traits are elsewhere

[tame flint]

I tried using leader_traits but it didn't work so I thought Id try military_advisor_traits instead (even if it was a pretty dumb idea)

[pale sparrow]

Show your original traits version

[tame flint]

Here is my original traits version

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336>

[naive stump]

https://tenor.com/view/ralsei-minigun-gif-27070688

[fierce galleon]

Ty

yes i started modifying my templates

[fierce galleon]

alr

happends to me sometieems

[mighty skiff]

why isnt there a abennar of hoi4? there is one for (i think ck3), eu4 and vic3, why no hoi4?

[tough lotus]

<@&846894118219022336>

https://tenor.com/view/stalin-camp-gulag-ussr-sfsr-gif-11375769938799485374

[wise cradle]

I'm take this gif

[tough lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/fail-cat-meme-meow-discord-gif-2800765667720463238

[tough lotus]

No real demand, also I couldn't find one for ck3 either

[sharp vigil]

to make my mod work (open in the game) do i need to put my descriptor.mod and (the mod name).mod in the explorer together?

[mighty skiff]

i mean there is one that kinda looks like abennar, also ck3 would be fire, imagine the amount of tactics you could do there

i ought to saw EAW takes the place of abennar as the main fantasy mod for hoi4

[tough lotus]

CK3AGOT or EK2?

[mighty skiff]

i mean the races mechanic makes abennar fun

or rather unique

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3301072102 also this one reminds me of abennar

(i hate the banned-words-list on this server)

[dry fjord]

Ok thank you! Aborted in this context would for example be if a German player Opposes Hitler?

Or is it more a fuzzy line when the game is sure that whatever check it has for historical has fully gone off the rails?

[nova heron]

Lemme check actually, different countries have different conditions for fully abandoning their historical ai priorities

[dry fjord]

Thank you!

[nova heron]

I think the main thing that aborts the historical strategy plans for Norway is ideology flips, though that happens after they’ve already started their historical focus tree :P

But, there’s also the button to turn historical ai on/off and ways to set the path in the game rules, which also decides whether Norway (any country) has the rules locking them into historical AI focuses, so if those are not set to historical, they have chances to deviate and take non-historical options

[dry fjord]

I see, the claim of the original poster was that he was on historical and allegedly did nothing different but its clear that wasn't the case now lol

Time to tick historical off, keep everyone historical manually but Norway on random

Last question actually, generally speaking what happens if historical is ticked off but the player sets the country's AI path to historical? Which one takes precedence?

[nova heron]

Historical does! Basically, ticking on historical tells every country that they have to pursue their historical path (non-historical doesn’t assign anything like this). If historical is off but you assign it for an individual country, it does essentially the same thing, but on a much smaller scope (as in, that one country)

[dry fjord]

Alright glad to hear

Thank you!

[frail rock]

There has to be a faster way in doing this 🙏

Whenever I update my mod, it doesn't update the subscribed version of it on the launcher, even after I uploaded the changes to the Steam Workshop, I have to manually unsubscribe my mod and subscribe to it again to keep it up to date

[tough lotus]

You should never subscribe to your own mod in the first place

Will cause issues

[frail rock]

y not?

[frail rock]

o

Is that why nothing happens when I boot up my game with my mod (subscribed ver)

[tough lotus]

yep

Amongst the many issues it causes, that's the main one

[frail rock]

shii

I swear it was working before?

am I schitzo?

[frail rock]

thx

[tough lotus]

It could load correctly sometimes, although generally the steam version gets loaded later

[lament crest]

does someone know how i can use the FPS Map Mod in the newest vesion

[tough lotus]

By enabling it in the launcher

[lament crest]

nah they are all bugging

i tried the normal and like 3 that say they are for the newest version and they all dont work

[tough lotus]

Any other mods active?

[lament crest]

nah i used only the fps map mods

[frail rock]

@tough lotus Are you familiar with how to setup this extension?

I followed the instructions and set the install path to Paradox Interactive

[tough lotus]

Install path is where your game files are located, usually in steamapps

or another steam related folder

[tough lotus]

So in the C drive that's in Program Files (x86)

[frail rock]

I got it thx

[vague sable]

any1 balkan?

[nova heron]

Bro how many times are you gonna ask this 😭

[limber torrent]

Its very effective at preventing such topics which are not allowed

Also those mods are not allowed in hoi

[mighty skiff]

nazi speeches are tho? i reported one multiple times, it still isnt banned

[limber torrent]

Nazi speeches are ok

Mods depicting war crimes and other such violence are not

[mighty skiff]

also please for the love of paradox, add a #do-not-post-here channel so bots get filtered out

[limber torrent]

Doesnt work

[mighty skiff]

huh, there are so many war crime mods, not one of them is banned

[limber torrent]

They only post in active channels

[mighty skiff]

the openfront.io server got one

when u post there u get yeeted

[limber torrent]

The bots avoid it

[limber torrent]

.

[limber torrent]

Send paradox and we can check

[mighty skiff]

even of the better mechanics series there is one

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3319664808&searchtext=devastation literal civilian casulties as a statistic

there are also mods where you can commit nuclear global holo***t

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2856781440&searchtext=world+war+zero

(many EAW paths and TNO)

[tough lotus]

By that logic any cold war or modern day mod is instantly banned

[mighty skiff]

yeah that what i mean, specific war crimes are banned

only during ww2

only by 1 regime

[tough lotus]

Giving players the ability to throw a lot of nukes is in fact not ever banned

[mighty skiff]

brutal oppression is litterly a occupation law

[nova heron]

Adding onto this, you can do this in vanilla WITHOUT mods, for example this video. I don't think that nuclear weapons are something that PDX is concerned about in-game. It's more the civilian aspects of it. If you include things like The Geno-word (idk if in mention or as a mechanic) than that's a no-no, along with showing how the war directly affects civilians because for the aggressor nation that would be considered a positive modifier, essentially promoting killing civilians.

[nova heron]

Question, does anyone know why the ideology pie chart might be broken for a nation? I have the popularities set, they equal 100, all the ideologies are valid ideologies, and it's in the correct file location.

Just showing up as all white in the country selection, and as democratic in the nations wheel itself once I'm into the gsme

[kindred axle]

ss of set_populariteis?

[nova heron]

It ended up fixing itself, idk what the problem was but its working now

[kindred axle]

lol

teh mysteries of paradox

[nova heron]

Truly, and now I've got to strangle Clausewitz engine until my national spirit gfx starts working because, despite the factt hat I've checked everything three times over now, its refusing to load

I hate Clausewitz 😭

[kindred axle]

hopefully hoi5 will get a better engine

[tough lotus]

It's still clausewitz

[kindred axle]

💔

[tough lotus]

Although newer versions are way better for modding

[nova heron]

It's 19 years old they better just get rid of it in hoi5
I don't want hoi5 but if they make a new engine I want hoi5

[kindred axle]

paradox is legit imperial russia taking years to modernize

[tough lotus]

That's similar to saying Unreal Engine 1 is the same engine as Unreal Engine 5

The difference between EU3 and EU5 is massive

[kindred axle]

will tehy increase their annoying province limit ?

[tough lotus]

Probably

CK3, Vicky3 and EU5 probably have way more provinces (or whatever the smallest unit of land is) than hoi4

-# So counties for ck3, locations for eu5 and something internal for vicky3

[limber torrent]

Thats more on the grey side and what he said about it being more about preventing depictions of genocide is correct

Since it is a war crime to directly impact civilians

[patent narwhal]

i want to make a Ukrainian Localisation mod, because the most popular one is shit and inaccurate, how do i find every english (language) event, decision, focus etc?

[patent narwhal]

fork found in kitchen

[tough lotus]

localisation/english

[patent narwhal]

thanks, foudn it

found

[tough lotus]

You can't add new languages, you'll have to replace an existing one

So its up to you to consider if most ukrainians are playing the game in English or in Russian

[patent narwhal]

I know

[kindred axle]

<@&846894118219022336>

[mighty skiff]

terror bombings, nukes and scorched earth affect the civilian casulties

[wise cradle]

I have a error where it says i have a invailed x crossing despited the fact there not one there and it a the bottem of the canvas

[tough lotus]

What
also that doesn't prevent anyone from launching the game, actual x crossings are just bad design since the game allows you to walk your divisions into the tile diagonally opposite

So you get a warning

[wise cradle]

ok, yeah the invalid x crossing is inside a province and is surrounded by the same colour as it

[red quail]

hy , there is a mod in development about the Great War (not the The Great War mod and not The Great War Redux) ?

[vague sable]

any1 balkan?

[tough lotus]

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

[vague sable]

u got a problem

[pale sparrow]

Idk if Vicky does but you should stop posting it in random channels

[pale sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/far-cry-3-vass-montenegro-did-i-ever-tell-you-the-definition-of-insanity-insanity-gif-9162815073500878983

[vague sable]

why tho?

[pale sparrow]

its not a relevant question for #modding and #latest-updates especially

[vague sable]

it is

[tough lotus]

I do, I've run out of cookies

[kindred axle]

shouldnt it tell u the pixels of where the X is ?

[pale sparrow]

Exactly

[kindred axle]

its just a pixel to fix no ?

[pale sparrow]

yup

[tough lotus]

It apparenyly does abd returns to be inside of a province

[wise cradle]

Yeah but when I went there there was no x crossing

[kindred axle]

ig, just nuke France

maybe

just maybe

did u use a brush ?

accidentaly, i had a similar error back in the day

[tough lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/yessir-salute-kitty-gif-10367099794658200773

[kindred axle]

https://giphy.com/gifs/destruction-wFmJu7354Csog

[wise cradle]

Ngl I kinda just redrew the whole thing and that seems to have fix the problem

[tough lotus]

Yeah, probably a very small difference in colors

[kindred axle]

i was so right fr fr

i remember drawing pixels with a brush and it made so much caos in the province.bmp , and i understood just then that i had to use the pencil

[tough lotus]

I remember not knowing the pencil existed, since gimp hides it behind the brush

[kindred axle]

i use paint.net 💔

@tough lotus btw i was curios on what mod u were working on

[tough lotus]

-# The one where I play Valorant instead of developing ||Sorry not sorry @lone hearth||

Rise of Nations

[kindred axle]

relatable af

[kindred axle]

is it already on steam or work-in-progress

[tough lotus]

It has been on steam for like 4 years