Oof. RIP

please update

The Mod messes with some events like the death of King George V. It is therefor not possible to go monarchist as great brittain. Lov ethe idea of the mod though^^

Update PLs

Update please

for some reason it causes Italian black shirt divisions to only be engineers

From testing, the AI does not know how to use the designer. It just uses the first tanks they get and not adding any modifications to it.

Yo, the mod is great but you removed the extra fuel tank attachment to tanks and it really annoys me. Can you fix it ? Thanks

I have all dlc's but when I click on the tank designer it doesn't work. Just open the "old fashion" way of the tank designer. Any help?
Playing with Road to 56

tank roles are gone completely, artillery of all kinds, trains and infantry equipment switch to the afv tab and break themselves???

update; it breaks R56's garrison and shock divisions and they disappear from the division designer

@DJCommander that may be due to you not having the flame tank support company tech researched yet through the engineer support company. Happened to me a couple times.

For some reason i can't turn my medium flame tank into a flame tank, when i try to assign it to the flame support role i see no options

Hey Man when i open the tank designer and or the mech or armoured car the game crashes, other than that it seems to work fine, it just crashes when you open the designer after awhile in game

Just wanted to say that I can still confirm that Caedyron's fix does indeed still work.

I haven't forgotten about this. Unfortunately, other projects had to take priority while I'm trying to create a plug-and-play system that allows easy maintenance of mods like these throughout game and dependency generations. I was hoping to facilitate GitHub Copilot PR for this but their waitlist acceptance rate is very low, it's been many months now. I'm considering falling back to GPT-3.5 if this doesn't improve anytime soon. I'm sorry you had to wait so long. I can only say that I care about having an accurate tank designer in this game. So far, I'm still sitting on my incomplete prototype with some added but buggy features, that's why intended to start over with a system that automatically maintains and integrates patches into a merged upstream codebase.

We can't seem to get the Expanded tank designer mod to work with the current Support companies for 56 just leaving that out there :)

Hey I read you were working on an update for the support companies expansion for road to 56. My friends and I are looking forward to it. Thank you for your work.

I dont think so, both mods, orginal and 56 editions need to be updated.
There is a problem with mising units types, not only roles

I still can't seem to select roles. Is that a problem from my side?

It does work however the only problem that I noticed was that once enabled the mod would for some reason not allow you to create shock troop divisions, or at least add shock trooper regiments to an existing or new division template.

Is this mod abandoned or not?

Just went in to test Caedyron's solution and it does work. I loaded up a game as Greece and unlocked all techs to test and I was able to create and save some vehicles (an Armored Car and Modern Tank) and both worked (the extra options were there and I could save my designs). I haven't tested a full game yet, but it seems like this solution will work until an official update is released.

Alt+F4=WIN:

No issues so far. Works perfectly.

Steps to reproduce:

1) subscribe to mod 'Additional Tank Slots'
2) browse to mod 'The Road to 56: Expanded Tank Designer' directory '2797620391/interface'
3) backup file 'tank_designer_view.gui' (change the file extension to something like .bak)
4) browse to mod 'Additional Tank Slots' directory '2682484081/interface'
5) copy 'tank_designer_view.gui' from 'Additional Tank Slots' directory to 'The Road to 56: Expanded Tank Designer' directory
6) start the game

NB. if/when you edit your mod playset, make sure NOT to enable 'Additional Tank Slots' mod together with 'The Road to 56: Expanded Tank Designer', they are not actually compatible.

Can we get a non-r56 version too?

@caedyron how do i do this? Also does this actually work or is it extremely buggy/broken?

Temporary fix: I replaced the file 'interface/tank_designer_view.gui' with the one from the mod 'Additional Tank Slots'. So far it seems to work, but I haven't tested it extensively yet. Got the idea from user 'Star Dirt the Ordinary' in the comments of the mod 'Expanded Tank Designer Redux'.

I might consider doing other variants of it. But first things first.

Thank you a lot for continuing working on it!

Will there be a non-RT56, assuming you get it to function?

I've gone through most of it today. My previous issues with introducing different mechanized roles persist, though I might be able to work around them. It's possible that the issue is that there's no preset available for all these new mixes, like a German mechanized vehicle with a flamethrower, so the role selection is only refreshed once the configuration is changed again. This doesn't happen for tanks, possibly because there are presets available for tanks. I'd have to create sprites and presets for all these roles and countries. For now, I'll discard this feature and focus on the update only.

Do what you can when you can. There ain't no rush. Would def love to see it back, though. This mod is so well done and intricate that not having it has been the main reason why I haven't been back into HoI4 in months.

I haven't forgotten any of this. It's still on my priority list. I still can't make promises but I might look into it this or next weekend. The time is convenient.

Do you think you'll update this? I mean fair enough if you can't for whatever reason that may be, but would be nice to know if you're planning to update.

I have not forgotten this. Unexpected business in real life prevented me from gaming for some time. You have my promise that this issue will be my first priority onceI return to gaming.

The new RT56 update seems to work, except that you can't specify what role a tank should fill. So, no TDs, AAA, or SPGs

RT56 is update!!

Not yet, stay tuned

if you gonna patch this with RT56 update, maybe more ship designer slots?

Just got the game patch. It will take at least one month though for the next RT56 update.

What doesn't work? I'll start working on an update as soon as the DLC releases, but RT56 needs an update as well and there's no timeline for this either.

doesnt works

Add trains and motorized in the mod

Does this prevent using wheeled/halftrack suspension on light tanks? I can't seem to build them.

I'll look into it this week.

Still alive?

@Gen
Expanded resources isn't compatible with RT56, that's probably the reason for your crashes, it has nothing to do with this mod.

For some reason, this mod crashes on startup every time when it is loaded alongside expanded resources, which works when RT56 is loaded on its own. No idea why it does this, but if you could fix this or even give an explanation on why this happens, it'd be really appreciated.
Mod link for convenience: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2730477961

Cound you increase the static anti air level to 10? There is 10 technologies of anti air in the artillery tech tree of Road to 56, put +1 static anti air level each

And sorry for multi-posting, but I'm hitting them as I find them: This mod also isn't touching the AT Armored Car and its suffering from the same issue that the 1950 Mechanized has.

And additionally, the definitions for Shock Troop Infantry are out of date/busted in this mod compared to RT56 and is preventing you from assigning them to division templates.