Mod Help.

[Elbow Presley]

I need help with a couple of things.

1 - Where do you find the modding tools?
2 - How do you change a country name?
3 - How do you create an island (something like Ireland)?
4 - How do you create a new country?

Any help with these would be greatly appreciated.

[comsubpac]

1. None exist. A text editor is all you need.
2. Look into the localization files.
3. Modding the map might be difficult if at all possible.
4. I think paradox made a video about that.

[equinox1911]

Originally posted by comsubpac:

3. Modding the map might be difficult if at all possible.

This should be possible, it was in past paradox games and it will be done in hoi4.
But maybe not the thing you want to start with.
Best place to start is defines.lua and the modding videos on paradoxExtra youtube channel.

[Elbow Presley]

Originally posted by comsubpac:

1. None exist. A text editor is all you need.
2. Look into the localization files.
3. Modding the map might be difficult if at all possible.
4. I think paradox made a video about that.

Thank you, I appreciate it.
One thing though, I tried watching the video that Paradox made about #4, and I'm still not sure on how to do that. Unless I missed something later in the video, all they did was nuke texas to create a new country.

[Elbow Presley]

Originally posted by equinox1911:

This should be possible, it was in past paradox games and it will be done in hoi4.
But maybe not the thing you want to start with.
Best place to start is defines.lua and the modding videos on paradoxExtra youtube channel.

Alright, thanks.

[Kingfizh]

Thanks, I wanna make Tropico. Nice suggestions :)

[[NL]Ibahalii]

Originally posted by Henry Kang:

Thank you, I appreciate it.
One thing though, I tried watching the video that Paradox made about #4, and I'm still not sure on how to do that. Unless I missed something later in the video, all they did was nuke texas to create a new country.

They made 4 video's
Video 1: is how you can get a idea on how to start modding, and how a event(nuke texas) can create a new country
Video 2: how you get a country from the start + rescources.
Video 3:(i believe from memory) is a bit backtracking over the previous 2 videos while going a bit deeper into the matter.
Video 4: is map editing, more complex to follow, and you will need programs like photoshop/GIMP. and a rough idea of what you are doing with it.

Creating a country(if memory does not fail me) is more discribed in video 2 & 3

But a few points you just need to remember

1. Open the launcher
   
2. Click on mod tools
   
3. Create a new mod
   
4. Go to your documents and the paradox Heats of Iron 4 folder
   
5. Find the mod folder and go in it
   
6. Find the modname you gave it
   
7. Inside this folder(your mod name). you need to re-create the structure of the base game
   
8. For countries you need a few folders that you need to re-create in the mod folder

So you get this structure:

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\history\countries

In here you get the main file for your country, this contains the dates, Capital, load for OOB's*, leaders, techs, etc.

Then you need to create another folder:

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\history\states

In here you place the state files from the base game(copy them over) of the area's you want to asign to your new country.

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\history\units

This is where you create the files for the OOB's*

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\localisation

Here you create .yml files for the translation of your mod(or multi-language support).

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\common\country_tags

You need to copy the file from the base game into this: 00_countries.txt
Then inside you need to add your tag** of the country. (which you create in the early stages of making your own country)

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\common\countries

This is your last folder you need to make.
in here you place a file that holds the "culture" for your new nation. the culture desides how your random generated leaders look and are named. as well as the country colors you set for it in RGB***


* OOB's = Order Of Battles.
** tag = 3letters that you asign to a country(for instance Mexico = MEX, Holland = HOL, and so on).
*** RGB = Red Green Blue, the 3 values we use to get a color(goolgle RGB red for instance to get the color code for red)

If you have trouble you can always look in the base game folder to see how the files should look/what needs to be in there:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\

is the base folder, if you want to see how a country file looks, just follow the structure as i layed out for you. so for a country file you need to be here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\history\countries

And then just open a file to see whats inside it.(goes for all files and folders as i described).
Keep in mind that it's probably best to use a editor like Notepad ++ or Sublime(or a variant of) to mod. as some files need a special conversion that the basic text editor of windows would not support(like UTF-8-BOM)

[Elbow Presley]

Originally posted by NLIbahalii:

Originally posted by Henry Kang:

Thank you, I appreciate it.
One thing though, I tried watching the video that Paradox made about #4, and I'm still not sure on how to do that. Unless I missed something later in the video, all they did was nuke texas to create a new country.

They made 4 video's
Video 1: is how you can get a idea on how to start modding, and how a event(nuke texas) can create a new country
Video 2: how you get a country from the start + rescources.
Video 3:(i believe from memory) is a bit backtracking over the previous 2 videos while going a bit deeper into the matter.
Video 4: is map editing, more complex to follow, and you will need programs like photoshop/GIMP. and a rough idea of what you are doing with it.

Creating a country(if memory does not fail me) is more discribed in video 2 & 3

But a few points you just need to remember

1. Open the launcher
   
2. Click on mod tools
   
3. Create a new mod
   
4. Go to your documents and the paradox Heats of Iron 4 folder
   
5. Find the mod folder and go in it
   
6. Find the modname you gave it
   
7. Inside this folder(your mod name). you need to re-create the structure of the base game
   
8. For countries you need a few folders that you need to re-create in the mod folder

So you get this structure:

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\history\countries

In here you get the main file for your country, this contains the dates, Capital, load for OOB's*, leaders, techs, etc.

Then you need to create another folder:

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\history\states

In here you place the state files from the base game(copy them over) of the area's you want to asign to your new country.

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\history\units

This is where you create the files for the OOB's*

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\localisation

Here you create .yml files for the translation of your mod(or multi-language support).

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\common\country_tags

You need to copy the file from the base game into this: 00_countries.txt
Then inside you need to add your tag** of the country. (which you create in the early stages of making your own country)

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmodname*\common\countries

This is your last folder you need to make.
in here you place a file that holds the "culture" for your new nation. the culture desides how your random generated leaders look and are named. as well as the country colors you set for it in RGB***


* OOB's = Order Of Battles.
** tag = 3letters that you asign to a country(for instance Mexico = MEX, Holland = HOL, and so on).
*** RGB = Red Green Blue, the 3 values we use to get a color(goolgle RGB red for instance to get the color code for red)

If you have trouble you can always look in the base game folder to see how the files should look/what needs to be in there:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\

is the base folder, if you want to see how a country file looks, just follow the structure as i layed out for you. so for a country file you need to be here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\history\countries

And then just open a file to see whats inside it.(goes for all files and folders as i described).
Keep in mind that it's probably best to use a editor like Notepad ++ or Sublime(or a variant of) to mod. as some files need a special conversion that the basic text editor of windows would not support(like UTF-8-BOM)

Thanks for this.