How do I edit leader portraits?

[Raspberry]

So I'm making a mod that will end up replacing almost every leader portrait in the game. My question is how can I do this in a quick and efficient manner, without having to rename each individual portrait in the game? Thanks in advance.

[De Guzman Gaming]

I was looking for an answer for this too.

[Mansen]

We have a modding subforum - As well as a good wiki and plenty of guides.

Anyway here goes.

Step 1: Create a .mod (With any notepad style editor) file in your "...\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod" folder and put in something like the following inside.

name="Name of my mod"
path="mod/mymodfolder"
picture="thumb.jpg"
supported_version="1.1.*"

Now you create a folder with the name you picked in the path line along with subfolders pointing to the leader files you need. Example "gfx" "leaders" and finally "GER" leaving you (hopefully) with the folder structure "mymod\gfx\leaders\GER"

Now you simply copy in all the portraits you want to replace and edit them with an image editor that supports the .dds format.

That's literally all that there's to it. Now you can select your mod in the HOI4 game launcher, and even upload it to the workshop should you choose to (Which is where the thumb.jpg file comes in - allowing you to give the mod a thumbnail image on the workshop)

[Raspberry]

Thank you!

[Scotvince]

How can I know the actual dimension of pictures to aplly the same for mine ?

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Vince:

How can I know the actual dimension of pictures to aplly the same for mine ?

Open an existing portrait?

[Scotvince]

I am making a mod, it works for leaders with 156x210 size pictures. But with the same size, generals don't work.

[Dav]

Originally posted by Vince:

I am making a mod, it works for leaders with 156x210 size pictures. But with the same size, generals don't work.

For An Generals Should Be 36x50

[Av Rand]

Originally posted by Mansen:

We have a modding subforum - As well as a good wiki and plenty of guides.

Anyway here goes.

Step 1: Create a .mod (With any notepad style editor) file in your "...\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod" folder and put in something like the following inside.

name="Name of my mod"
path="mod/mymodfolder"
picture="thumb.jpg"
supported_version="1.1.*"

Now you create a folder with the name you picked in the path line along with subfolders pointing to the leader files you need. Example "gfx" "leaders" and finally "GER" leaving you (hopefully) with the folder structure "mymod\gfx\leaders\GER"

Now you simply copy in all the portraits you want to replace and edit them with an image editor that supports the .dds format.

That's literally all that there's to it. Now you can select your mod in the HOI4 game launcher, and even upload it to the workshop should you choose to (Which is where the thumb.jpg file comes in - allowing you to give the mod a thumbnail image on the workshop)

I literally understand none of this. I can't even open existing ".mods"

[Mansen]

The information is all there in the quote though...

[Savok]

I'm having a blank leader, but the name is there, how can i fix this ?