----- IMPORTANT! ----- An important note due to changes to localization in version 1.11+, for the localization to work properly please move all the files inside the localisation folder into a folder called 'english' for the localization to appear properly. ----- IMPORTANT! ----- Due to the large amount of questions on this topic I will post this sticky so that everyone can find an answer quickly. For anyone having the issue with all countries changing their colors - This happens because you probably did not close a bracket properly in the common/countries/colors.txt file. Either find the bracket that is not closed and close it or just replace the file with the vanilla one and repeat the process of assigning a color to your country as it shown at 07:21 As you can clearly see it did not happen in my video so there is no reason for it to happen in your game if you follow the instructions carefully. For anyone having the issue of nothing changing - This happens either because you did not activate the mod in the game launcher before testing your new country or one of your folders/files is misspelled so the game doesn't know what to load. Hope this helps.
Is there a way to delete local mods so that they don't appear on the launcher anymore? I've been creating a bunch of test mods I don't need anymore and some of them accidentally happen to have the same name so it became confusing! What does color_ui (at 8:55) does in the game btw? Thank you for your attention towards beginners like us!
You convinced me. I think I'm going create my own mod about a scenario I wanted to play but I had no chance to realize due to the fact that one of the "countries" is basically Sci-fi stuff. I don't know if I can create that particular country, but I think I can remodeling the world map to fit my scenario. But I still have some questions. I think I will first watch a few times more this guide before start.
Just as a note to anyone wondering why the country name won’t appear, if you look into the HOI4 folder before the countries_1_English folder there is a folder called the language/English/Polish etc and you need to place that folder for it to work.
Thanks for your comment, please note also that this has already been mentioned in the first pinned comment and I will make sure to include this information in a future remake of this video lesson.
i've tried to move all folders to english folder but it just make the game crashed. tried to move english folder to our own mod localisation folder and add our own country but the name still wont appears
SpongeBob is a communist leaving says that in the AI SpongeBob stream Mr Krabs and plankton overthrow SpongeBob who's in charge of the bikini bottom Communist party
For anyone who has the problem that flags don't show up in-game and instead show up as a blank black flag, you may have compressed the flag files. To fix, try redoing the process without compressing the files. Edit: Note, the ability to compress files are generally shown when you save the file.
I followed everything but my country isn't there and the error log says that my tag is not in the tag list when it most definitely is. Edit: Actually I'm a dumbass and spelled something wrong
Thank you for your tutorial. I'm trying to make a submod for Millenium Dawn right now. In short I want to add the GDR (East Germany) to the game. So an alternate universe mod where there was no German reunification and the GDR still exists. I'm just trying to create the country myself with the research tree and if it's good, I'll also create a focus tree later. The advantage is that I can simply copy and paste the flags, which saves me a lot of time.
Today i watch this video and follow all steps. My country was created and show up in game when i start HOI. Thanks for help. I will watch other videos too. I want to go in depth with modding 😊
Hi, there. I've just seen this video after the new DLC "no step back" released. I've found that adding a "create_country_leader" is not functioning. Furthermore, I've found that the new version of the game has a new folder in "common" called character and all countries' corresponding characters, including leaders, generals, field marshalls, advisors, etc, are defined in there. And in those files which is in "history/countries", there are such syntax as "recruit_character = xxx". This might be a considerable modification that the new version has made.
i did everything right when setting up my ideology, but it says that all ideologies have 0% popularity, i typed all of that into the set politics with the number date on it, and it still shows up like that
I’m having some issues getting my images to load in game. I’ve triple checked all of the files and text documents so I’m fairly certain I’ve done everything right. Any thought on what I might have missed?
i think i might know, since i used to have this issue. what i use to do (incorrectly) in gfx/leaders is just copy my portrait twice and rename to put a '.dds' and a '.png'. i used to think this would actually change the file, but it does not!! make sure you are converting the file properly in paint.net by saving as, and right before clicking 'save', changing it to a DDS and a PNG hope this helps
@@nacroeisdumb9482 so you need to have (in the gfx --> leaders --> (country tag) folder) 3 images: 1 needs to be the paint.net file 1 needs to be a dds file 1 needs to be a png file you can use paint.net to create the portrait, save it into your folder, and then just use the save as feature on paint.net but select the dds and png file types hope this helps
The Iron Workshop Hi Thanks for your tutorials on creating a country and other videos I just want to ask how can I change/manipulate the initial number of existing buildings like infantry factories of a specific state? I didn't saw you mentioning it in your other tutorials. Please help me out ;) E.g. unlocking all the building slots for new york in 1936, decreasing the number of infantry factories of new york. Thank you very much for helping me out as a beginner, I learnt a lot from your vids.
You will find the answers here: hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Commands#Buildings Just apply these in a focus/event/decision or edit the state files directly to change how they start with buildings (if you open an existing one it should pretty easy to understand what's going on in there).
Damn that was easy. Thanks, just made a basic mod with Ukraine starting in 1936 and I gave all the SOV cores to a re-purposed crimea and Vlad and Vlod portraits. Now I just gotta copy Italy's files to make them start at war
the leader portrait wont show up, I've tried many ways, I used the format size, match the leader's ideology with the ruling party. I used google photo btw so..pls help Edit :Nvm it worked! Turns out it's one of the folders that are misspelled so the picture's file is fine everything's fine so all this time it was one of the folder that is misspelled, tysm for the tutorial!
For anybody stumbling onto this who are having problems with 1 or more things not appearing: SPELL. CHECK. EVERYTHING. Edit: was making mod, make sure before moving onto the next focus that the completion reward is actually filled (I was making an event and by not having it's ID there, it caused the next focus to not appear.
When I opened up the game with the mod on all of the countries were different colors and the country that was suppose to be in the Bahamas wasn't there, in fact no one owned it. Can someone tell me what went wrong cause I'm all to new at this.
Same here. When I went into the game no one owned the state and for some reason Germany was green UK purple Spain red and France some sort of green... same thing for all countries. If someone has a solution it would be greattly appreciate if you can help.
Hi, I followed the tutorial and it was really helpful, but when I entered the game with the mod on my country didn't show. I dont know what I did wrong
Been getting the error: "Some errors are present in the map definition and have been logged to error.log" I check the error log but nothing is present. So far I have tried to recreate the states folder, assign my nation a new capital a few times, cleared the user directory. Not sure if I am missing something here or not. Any help would be appreciated!
I didn't think I would need all the text in things like colors.txt, and now I'm looking at a very colorful map with nameless nations. But hey, besides that and me messing up the flag everything works.
All I wanted to do was change the name of Germany and it made all the names of every nation disappear and I didn’t make an extra backup folder so now I’m screwed 🫤
Spongebob Character Political Ideologies: Spongebob- Liberal Patrick - Foodism Gary - Futurism Squidward- Social Democrat Sandy - Texan-Technocracy Mr. Krabs - Kleptocrat Plankton - Evil-Technocracy
Thank you for your help! Do you know how I remove a country from the map? I wanted to play only with Asia, but I'm not able to remove the other countries
If you have installed the later version of paint.net like me, you may not get the save configuration. To get the file to become like the one in the video, type A8R8G8B8 into the file type. That is how to fix it.
Im thinking about making mod that is based just after world war one. It will be called Schandfrieden, and i will add some new focuses and nations to the mod. Never done this before and i hope it works out.
How do I get divisions that spawn on my states to not start off as exiled, and as my country? Did you make a video on it? Edit: I figured it out if anyone else needs help
When starting the game, there is no country that I created, and the error "The system cannot find the specified path" crashes. In the logs writes this: [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_USA_scout_plane1_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_USA_scout_plane2_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_JAP_scout_plane1_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_JAP_scout_plane2_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ITA_scout_plane1_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ITA_scout_plane2_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_GER_scout_plane1_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_GER_scout_plane2_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ENG_scout_plane1_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ENG_scout_plane2_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_SOV_scout_plane1_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_SOV_scout_plane2_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_FRA_scout_plane1_medium [15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_FRA_scout_plane2_medium [15:07:30][equipment_effects.cpp:836]: 'history/countries/YUG - Yugoslavia.txt:368: create_equipment_variant': 'Dalmacija Class' - Invalid module setup. The project does not have one or more required modules: Battery Fire control system Engine
SEE THIS!!! 29:00 if your game copy is not in english, chose the language that your game copy uses ex: if your game copy is in spanish, chosse "countries_I_spanish" if not, then your country will have no name :v
PLEASE HELP! I am trying to make a country, however I cannot get it to appear. I have triple checked my spelling and I know for certain my mod is activated before I boot up the game, however there is no change. To check if my country exists at all, I used the "setowner" command with my country tag, but it says, "Invalid country tag". I have no idea what could be going wrong here and it seems like I followed everything to a T. Does anyone have any suggestions?
@@yanonamee i actually fixed it the problem was that somehow the mod was not turned on. I made a brand new playset with the mod only and after that it worked
I tried making a custom nation for the OWB submod. Followed this exactly, have all the required things for a custom country, as well as custom leaders, flags, etc. Launch the game and theres absolutely no trace of my country anywhere in the game. It's as if it simply does not load at all, or at the very least isn't overriding the main files that it needs to be overriding. Not sure how to fix it but I hope the uploader gets back to us soon.
@@ryman1933 I have the same problem as the person who wrote the comment and you are talking about a file called descriptor.mod that appears as a cideo file to me... mind helping me?
@@aprgames9480 If you have not already make sure to download notepad++ after you download and install that right click the file and select "open with" find notepad++ and select always open files of this type with this program.
how do i make it so that the country i created replaces (countries like) the Soviet Union on the Start up menu? (menu where you pick what country you want to pick)
I have done everything luke in the tutorial but my country is not there and for some reason the the state has been removed. I think im just stupid but pls. help
I need help. Once i boot up HOI4 all country colors are changed like the UK is Green and the state i selected my country to have is unable be conquered and my nation isnt there
This is my third time watching the video and starting again and it always goes wrong. I open the world map and everything is the wrong colour and i cant select my nation. Pls help :/ Great now its saying that the path in this mod's descriptor file is invaild or does not exist
my code for a new leader is this: // create_country_leader = { name = "Der Reichshälter" desc = "Reichshälter_desc" picture = "gfx/leaders/SOV/Portrait_Soviet_Generic_3.dds" expire = "1953.3.1" ideology = moderatism traits = { } // i currently have Reichshälter_desc = "test" within countries_cosmetic_l_english.yml it however doesn't show up at all ingame. what can i do to display the correct description in the game?
Hey i know the video is pretty old but i encountered a small problem: The flags seemingly do not get transfered. I mean i have the file name and everything correct but they do not appear to be used in game? They are also seemingly a lot smaller than the other original sizes
![[HOI4 Modding] Creating a basic focus tree](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/svFVLXzU2MQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![[HOI4 Modding] Creating a basic focus tree](/img/tr.png)
![[HOI4 Modding] Creating New States](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/h-HKNRUYF7M/mqdefault.jpg)
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----- IMPORTANT! -----
An important note due to changes to localization in version 1.11+, for the localization to work properly please move all the files inside the localisation folder into a folder called 'english' for the localization to appear properly.
----- IMPORTANT! -----
Due to the large amount of questions on this topic I will post this sticky so that everyone can find an answer quickly.
For anyone having the issue with all countries changing their colors - This happens because you probably did not close a bracket properly in the common/countries/colors.txt file. Either find the bracket that is not closed and close it or just replace the file with the vanilla one and repeat the process of assigning a color to your country as it shown at 07:21
As you can clearly see it did not happen in my video so there is no reason for it to happen in your game if you follow the instructions carefully.
For anyone having the issue of nothing changing - This happens either because you did not activate the mod in the game launcher before testing your new country or one of your folders/files is misspelled so the game doesn't know what to load.
Hope this helps.
Is there a way to delete local mods so that they don't appear on the launcher anymore?
I've been creating a bunch of test mods I don't need anymore and some of them accidentally happen to have the same name so it became confusing!
What does color_ui (at 8:55) does in the game btw?
Thank you for your attention towards beginners like us!
i tried to fix the issues but the country still doesnt show up, The state it is located in doesnt appear to have a country in it.
@@kompridiplaysgames5056 same,I´ve been doing for 1 whole day and nothing happens
same issue
When I go into the Hearts of Iron folder all what there is, is a text document call console_history plz help!
With basically no code or modding experiance I was able to hammer out a nation in less than an hour. Excellent tutorial man
Name of the Nation?
same, im actually having fun with this
I have a lot of free time, and wanted to create a mod, Thank you very much man!
So it worked how did you get your country let's say example for me facist and get your leader
@@gubadagoober It's in the video bro
@@gigachad-gx9vu nvm I deleted the mod and ditched it broke my game
@@gubadagoober Well how did that happen? The mod is a separate folder and everything.
@@gigachad-gx9vu yeah
me, watching this video knowing im only going to name Italy the pizza empire
I'm renaming Canada to sorry
@@infinityarcangel5972 ._.
me, naming Poland The Pierogi Empire: *YOU ARE A BOLD ONE*
@@wojciechdabrowski4417 i would call it "the historical punching bag"
@@infinityarcangel5972 nice one
I still remember Trumpmania
Good times :D
My favourite nation
New Justice ew
@@frostyonair b
@@Whatareyoudoinnhere thats what this video is for
Hey man I never ever thought I'd be able to create a mod but your tutorial is the most well explained I've ever seen. Thanks a lot man :)
Glad I could help!
@@TheIronWorkshop how do you have 17k subs, have you had a controversy before?
my man put the tutorial as his background respect
"The ideology of Spongebob is despotism"
So I used Czechoslovakia as a base instead. I hope my mod wont break the game
Edit: It did, I tore a hole in France
Amazing! You are now thinking with Porta... I mean try again and I am sure it will turn out better.
based mod
based
based franco hole
Me when bri'ish Mod;
Thank you so much, I hope to learn a lot more from you!
Hoping I can mod a complete custom mod soon.
You convinced me.
I think I'm going create my own mod about a scenario I wanted to play but I had no chance to realize due to the fact that one of the "countries" is basically Sci-fi stuff.
I don't know if I can create that particular country, but I think I can remodeling the world map to fit my scenario.
But I still have some questions. I think I will first watch a few times more this guide before start.
Just as a note to anyone wondering why the country name won’t appear, if you look into the HOI4 folder before the countries_1_English folder there is a folder called the language/English/Polish etc and you need to place that folder for it to work.
Thanks for your comment, please note also that this has already been mentioned in the first pinned comment and I will make sure to include this information in a future remake of this video lesson.
@@TheIronWorkshop there is no pinned comment though
@@Chillerll POV: Legally blind
@@infinite_seaweed4373 There wasn't one when I wrote the comment, brainiac. He must have unpinned it for a while before he edited it.
i've tried to move all folders to english folder but it just make the game crashed. tried to move english folder to our own mod localisation folder and add our own country but the name still wont appears
best tutorial ever, first one that actually worked for me
"we will make spongebob a liberal"
ngl made me chuckle thinking of all the cons getting triggered and frothy at the mouth
@@Fermifire Ok?
@@Fermifire SPONGEBOB IS WOKE⁉
SpongeBob is a communist leaving says that in the AI SpongeBob stream Mr Krabs and plankton overthrow SpongeBob who's in charge of the bikini bottom Communist party
@@Fermifire ^like these guys
For anyone who has the problem that flags don't show up in-game and instead show up as a blank black flag, you may have compressed the flag files. To fix, try redoing the process without compressing the files.
Edit: Note, the ability to compress files are generally shown when you save the file.
thank you man, you helped me
@RealLilian It depends on the drawing program you're using, but most often it will ask whether you want it compressed when saving the image.
tysm dude
Great, now i have to redo the process alll over again. I think i remember why i gave up on modding before.
thank you
So excited now that I've finally got this working! Thanks for the great tutorial!
I love this tutorial so much! Thank you for sharing this, and taking your time to help others become a Hoi4 modder. 🙏
I was looking everywhere how to change ideologies for nations, thank you so much
19:20 you didn't copy the picture, you moved it
Lol ireland unite the irish iles
💀
"the ideology of spongebob is currently despotism" never thought id hear that
Thanks to this video the Empire of the Hand has been brought into HoI4
ZA HANDO
For anyone having trouble with the mod not showing up, make sure that it is enabled in your playtest in the launcher for hoi4
I followed everything but my country isn't there and the error log says that my tag is not in the tag list when it most definitely is.
Edit: Actually I'm a dumbass and spelled something wrong
you gotta add it in the english_I_localisation or something file for your mod
Bruh your like a total idiot
Hey it's a mycelium block I like saying you
Hey I have the same problem, what did you mispell
Thank you for your tutorial. I'm trying to make a submod for Millenium Dawn right now. In short I want to add the GDR (East Germany) to the game. So an alternate universe mod where there was no German reunification and the GDR still exists. I'm just trying to create the country myself with the research tree and if it's good, I'll also create a focus tree later.
The advantage is that I can simply copy and paste the flags, which saves me a lot of time.
Today i watch this video and follow all steps. My country was created and show up in game when i start HOI. Thanks for help. I will watch other videos too. I want to go in depth with modding 😊
this guy is such a chad that he uses 3 different web browsers.
Hi, there. I've just seen this video after the new DLC "no step back" released. I've found that adding a "create_country_leader" is not functioning. Furthermore, I've found that the new version of the game has a new folder in "common" called character and all countries' corresponding characters, including leaders, generals, field marshalls, advisors, etc, are defined in there. And in those files which is in "history/countries", there are such syntax as "recruit_character = xxx". This might be a considerable modification that the new version has made.
Yes, and there is a video about this here: th-cam.com/video/dKLkI1AGArc/w-d-xo.html
every time i feel this immense relief when starting the game and everything works. thank you for that
That was so good. Mordor in new zealand is running well
Directions and steps as windows wallpaper, very creative!
the moment you use my country i as example (Algeria) i loved you
bruh he using it random....
@@zortidi3595 I mean let him be happy just because his country was the easiest to modify in-game
idk if you still read these, but dude your tutorials are actually amazing
19:07 my checkpoint
i did everything right when setting up my ideology, but it says that all ideologies have 0% popularity, i typed all of that into the set politics with the number date on it, and it still shows up like that
are you sure that you wrote 0.5 instead of 50
That's coz party popularities should add up to 100 no more no less
@@branwysskyratchetat which point do I have to write that?
Would Mr. Krabs be a captain of industry or a financial expert?
I’m having some issues getting my images to load in game. I’ve triple checked all of the files and text documents so I’m fairly certain I’ve done everything right. Any thought on what I might have missed?
i think i might know, since i used to have this issue.
what i use to do (incorrectly) in gfx/leaders is just copy my portrait twice and rename to put a '.dds' and a '.png'. i used to think this would actually change the file, but it does not!!
make sure you are converting the file properly in paint.net by saving as, and right before clicking 'save', changing it to a DDS and a PNG
hope this helps
@@chubby5188 DDS or PNG? Or does it matter?
@@chubby5188 also the base game uses Targa so will that not work?
@@nacroeisdumb9482 so you need to have (in the gfx --> leaders --> (country tag) folder) 3 images:
1 needs to be the paint.net file
1 needs to be a dds file
1 needs to be a png file
you can use paint.net to create the portrait, save it into your folder, and then just use the save as feature on paint.net but select the dds and png file types
hope this helps
BEFORE SAVING MAKE SURE THE FILE IS NOT COMPRESSED WHILE USING ANY EDITOR UNCHECK THE COMPRESS OPTION WHEN SAVING
I HOPE IT HELPS!
You earned my respect. You know how to make a good tutorial, and explained it very well! You got my like and subscribe.
The Iron Workshop Hi
Thanks for your tutorials on creating a country and other videos
I just want to ask how can I change/manipulate the initial number of existing buildings like infantry factories of a specific state? I didn't saw you mentioning it in your other tutorials. Please help me out ;)
E.g. unlocking all the building slots for new york in 1936, decreasing the number of infantry factories of new york.
Thank you very much for helping me out as a beginner, I learnt a lot from your vids.
You will find the answers here: hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Commands#Buildings
Just apply these in a focus/event/decision or edit the state files directly to change how they start with buildings (if you open an existing one it should pretty easy to understand what's going on in there).
Damn that was easy. Thanks, just made a basic mod with Ukraine starting in 1936 and I gave all the SOV cores to a re-purposed crimea and Vlad and Vlod portraits. Now I just gotta copy Italy's files to make them start at war
the leader portrait wont show up, I've tried many ways, I used the format size, match the leader's ideology with the ruling party. I used google photo btw so..pls help
Edit :Nvm it worked! Turns out it's one of the folders that are misspelled so the picture's file is fine everything's fine so all this time it was one of the folder that is misspelled, tysm for the tutorial!
Ty man!
Thank you so much! So helpful!
thanks a lot mate, your tutorial helped me create my own country. you good sir deserve a sub.
For anybody stumbling onto this who are having problems with 1 or more things not appearing:
SPELL. CHECK. EVERYTHING.
Edit: was making mod, make sure before moving onto the next focus that the completion reward is actually filled (I was making an event and by not having it's ID there, it caused the next focus to not appear.
And brackets ( { } ), close those brackets!
When I opened up the game with the mod on all of the countries were different colors and the country that was suppose to be in the Bahamas wasn't there, in fact no one owned it. Can someone tell me what went wrong cause I'm all to new at this.
did you find a solution?
Same here. When I went into the game no one owned the state and for some reason Germany was green UK purple Spain red and France some sort of green... same thing for all countries. If someone has a solution it would be greattly appreciate if you can help.
@@xaf8213 In the fixed comment it says that you probably didn't write a bracket correctly in the color archive
@@lepizuf883 Okay, thank you for the information.
@@xaf8213 I'm a month late, but I hope I've been useful
when i load the map, all the countries show random colours and where my country should be is not there, just empty land
I've had the same problem. My problem was, that I forgot to save the Notepad++ dokument befor starting.
managed to solve the problem?
@@staxzwy2379 yes
@@grexiko464 How did you get anything to show? For me nothing happens when I start the game with my mod.
There is only empty land for me whenever I load my game up in the spot i want my country to be
Hi, I followed the tutorial and it was really helpful, but when I entered the game with the mod on my country didn't show. I dont know what I did wrong
this happened to me, the land appeared but it said there was no owner, did you find a fix for it?
@@someguy8365 make sure you got the right spelling in every folder
If you're new. Remember to add it to your playset. And watch the first video that tells you how to start creating the mod
22:17 im just out of words
Thank you sooo much! I can't believe it worked.
How did you get it working? Nothing at all happens when I launch the game.
@@svenko I just followed his instructions exactly.
Been getting the error: "Some errors are present in the map definition and have been logged to error.log" I check the error log but nothing is present. So far I have tried to recreate the states folder, assign my nation a new capital a few times, cleared the user directory. Not sure if I am missing something here or not. Any help would be appreciated!
So Helpful!
Hi Can you help me with the flag part? mine are not appearing, i tried everthing.
Thank you worked perfectly, except a mess up on my end while creating the flags (which i fixed)
how dod you fix it
When I try to change the owner of Dailan and/or East Hebei the mod crashes, do you have any idea why?
DO NOT MOVE THE FORBIDDEN LANDS.
I didn't think I would need all the text in things like colors.txt, and now I'm looking at a very colorful map with nameless nations. But hey, besides that and me messing up the flag everything works.
Same thing happening with me
All I wanted to do was change the name of Germany and it made all the names of every nation disappear and I didn’t make an extra backup folder so now I’m screwed 🫤
@@ferret1447 That's a big F. I'm pretty sure either verifying the files or reinstalling HOI4 will fix it.
Spongebob Character Political Ideologies:
Spongebob- Liberal
Patrick - Foodism
Gary - Futurism
Squidward- Social Democrat
Sandy - Texan-Technocracy
Mr. Krabs - Kleptocrat
Plankton - Evil-Technocracy
Mr.krabs Kleptocrab
hi, this worked but im just wondering why the whole map is colored weirdly.
its really ugly please help
Thank you for your help! Do you know how I remove a country from the map? I wanted to play only with Asia, but I'm not able to remove the other countries
I gess if u cut the country files in "states" Dat aren't Asian, only Asian terrotiry will have assigned states
YES! I FINALLY DID IT! Thank you so much!
Funny enough I wanted to learn how to create a pirate themed mod in ww2 and u happen to pick The Bahamas 🇧🇸👌🏻
Thank you very much, very helpful.
Can you do a video working on the updated version for 1.12.14?
If you have installed the later version of paint.net like me, you may not get the save configuration. To get the file to become like the one in the video, type A8R8G8B8 into the file type. That is how to fix it.
Where do you type it in?
@@Shmendan2 idk, but what worked for me is looking for the one that ends with "linear A8R8G8B8"
Hey, I made everything like you and flags not working, everything other is working how it should
Thank you! ;)
Everything works besides besides leader picture.
The A8R8G8B8 doesn't exist
It does it just has a different name right next to it. It should be called B8G8R8A8
actually had fun designing flags even though i thought it woukd be boring
Im thinking about making mod that is based just after world war one. It will be called Schandfrieden, and i will add some new focuses and nations to the mod. Never done this before and i hope it works out.
Thanks! This tutorial is very useful
20:49 if i edit the picture like this it doesn't show my that format
same
Same
it says next to the format the linear format, which should be there
Do you guys know what file type it needs to be?
Thank you! Wonderful video!
How do I get divisions that spawn on my states to not start off as exiled, and as my country? Did you make a video on it? Edit: I figured it out if anyone else needs help
could you say how please
Yes that would be helpful
How did you do it
@@nickmiller5277 Oops sorry. I didn't have my notifications on. Heres the video that helped me out - th-cam.com/video/bbJNm3lf32g/w-d-xo.html
@@aldahirandrade5085 I replied to the comment under yours with the video that helped me out
This is a certified attu island challenge moment
I did everything. But, my game just chrases.
28:05 this part was torture
is it possible to get rid of the 1938 start date?
When starting the game, there is no country that I created, and the error "The system cannot find the specified path" crashes. In the logs writes this:
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_USA_scout_plane1_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_USA_scout_plane2_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_JAP_scout_plane1_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_JAP_scout_plane2_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ITA_scout_plane1_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ITA_scout_plane2_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_GER_scout_plane1_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_GER_scout_plane2_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ENG_scout_plane1_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_ENG_scout_plane2_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_SOV_scout_plane1_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_SOV_scout_plane2_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_FRA_scout_plane1_medium
[15:07:14][equipment_graphic_database.cpp:32]: GFX referenced in equipment graphic database does not exist: GFX_FRA_scout_plane2_medium
[15:07:30][equipment_effects.cpp:836]: 'history/countries/YUG - Yugoslavia.txt:368: create_equipment_variant': 'Dalmacija Class' - Invalid module setup. The project does not have one or more required modules:
Battery
Fire control system
Engine
I'm getting an error, says: Failed to load the map. (im trying to create my country on Germany)
20:48 I cant find the A8R8G8B8
Me too have you figured it out?
There is an option B8R8G8A8, it worked the same for me
SEE THIS!!!
29:00
if your game copy is not in english, chose the language that your game copy uses
ex: if your game copy is in spanish, chosse "countries_I_spanish"
if not, then your country will have no name :v
thank you!
PLEASE HELP! I am trying to make a country, however I cannot get it to appear. I have triple checked my spelling and I know for certain my mod is activated before I boot up the game, however there is no change. To check if my country exists at all, I used the "setowner" command with my country tag, but it says, "Invalid country tag". I have no idea what could be going wrong here and it seems like I followed everything to a T. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Same issue here. I tried for hours to fix it but no success :(
Same ;c
@@yanonamee i actually fixed it the problem was that somehow the mod was not turned on. I made a brand new playset with the mod only and after that it worked
@@goofball12312 Still not working :(
@@goofball12312 I'm making a submod of an existing mod so I dont think thatll work
The localization part doesen't work for me and so my country name is blank. But the rest worked, great tutorial, Thank you!
When i do this i have it to the T and still my nation does not appear for some reason
I tried making a custom nation for the OWB submod. Followed this exactly, have all the required things for a custom country, as well as custom leaders, flags, etc. Launch the game and theres absolutely no trace of my country anywhere in the game. It's as if it simply does not load at all, or at the very least isn't overriding the main files that it needs to be overriding. Not sure how to fix it but I hope the uploader gets back to us soon.
nevermind I figured it out, I forgot to put a dependency line in the descriptor.mod
@@ryman1933 I have the same problem as the person who wrote the comment and you are talking about a file called descriptor.mod that appears as a cideo file to me... mind helping me?
@@aprgames9480 If you have not already make sure to download notepad++ after you download and install that right click the file and select "open with" find notepad++ and select always open files of this type with this program.
@@aprgames9480 Hey man did that fix the problem?
how do i make it so that the country i created replaces (countries like) the Soviet Union on the Start up menu? (menu where you pick what country you want to pick)
I have done everything luke in the tutorial but my country is not there and for some reason the
the state has been removed. I think im just stupid but pls. help
same
is anyone else having a problem the localisation folder is no longer the same from when this video came out
have you figured it out?
I just decolonized Bavaria and the worlds colors have changed...
Yeah i have the same problem
same here
same
This was a while ago but check that you have a closed bracket where you need it, same thing happened to me.
@@nicholasios4566 Thanks
When I played my mod, all the nations didnt have names, and my country just didnt show up on the map
same with me except just with my new nation, although I doubt he's gonna respond to your comment haha
Good tutorial! Can you update the national focus tree tutorial?
Coming next week
I need help. Once i boot up HOI4 all country colors are changed like the UK is Green and the state i selected my country to have is unable be conquered and my nation isnt there
Everything is in a correct format correct path file etc, but when turning the game on it just loads as if it doesnt exist
Same man
my flags doesn't appear in game and when i change localization like "Islamic republic...." to "republic...." it not change.
This is my third time watching the video and starting again and it always goes wrong. I open the world map and everything is the wrong colour and i cant select my nation. Pls help :/
Great now its saying that the path in this mod's descriptor file is invaild or does not exist
Read his top comment
my code for a new leader is this:
//
create_country_leader = {
name = "Der Reichshälter"
desc = "Reichshälter_desc"
picture = "gfx/leaders/SOV/Portrait_Soviet_Generic_3.dds"
expire = "1953.3.1"
ideology = moderatism
traits = {
}
//
i currently have
Reichshälter_desc = "test"
within countries_cosmetic_l_english.yml
it however doesn't show up at all ingame. what can i do to display the correct description in the game?
i didnt see how you assigning states
Great tutorial! Now if only i could get Events down I'd have a pretty cool mod to make.
There is a video about events here: th-cam.com/video/Z1r4_KZbrL4/w-d-xo.html
@@TheIronWorkshop Thx! U da best
Can you do a tutorial on how to make a nee ideology?
Will probably be the next video or the one after that.
What are these teachings of the “née” you follow?
Hey i know the video is pretty old but i encountered a small problem: The flags seemingly do not get transfered. I mean i have the file name and everything correct but they do not appear to be used in game? They are also seemingly a lot smaller than the other original sizes
yeah same.
same!
Hello there! I got my hoi4 in Microsoft, and I don’t have hoi4 in steam. And I can’t make a mod, Help please.
type in yt "how to download hoi4 launcher 1.9.1 nonSteam" and the u have a tutorials how to do it
i was following the tutorial to try and make a devon empire and of course they called south east england "cornwall" in the files