Announcing Hoi2Lib

[Lothos]

When you finally release it please contact me shadowdm@comcast.net so I can host it on the TRP website. Trying to make a central location for all HoI 2 tools etc... that people make. Sorta like Road To War was.

 

[unmerged(37417)]

Well done Heimdall - Will you be linking this product with any other mod groups such as CORE or Stony Road??

I don't mind if they're using it and are giving input to me (that's why I'm making the tool and will distribute it, anyway) - but I'm actually planning on doing a mod myself (1980's).
So basically I'm just coding this tool to help my own efforts

I have a question, can you make it so that if you used a name like "TECH_APP_ARMOR_20_DESC" in the description field, that there will be a way to actually view what that says? Because it's kind of a pain in the butt to have to open the file and find that particular description.

What a minute... technology description????

Take a look at the screenshot in my first post - if you click on the litte button named "..." at the side of the text-ID, it will open a toolwindow where you can edit the text belonging to that ID - for every available language, and the different languages are the reason why I did it this way.

Technology descriptions are in there, yep. Example:

This field of research allows a nation to develop weapons and materials for its infantry personnel. It includes hand-held weapons and special equipment allowing the construction of Marines and Paratroops. But perhaps most importantly, this field of research will allow the development of proper field engineering equipment and improved logistics and command systems. This field is vital if you want good infantry, paras and marines.

Didn't see them being displayed by the game so far .. and there are only descriptions for the main fields, the desc fields for the single applications being empty as far as I checked.


Edit:
Forgot something .. if someone wants to do a user documentation for my tool, feel free to, as I mostly am
a) guessing "if I can use it, everyone can"
b) too lazy
to do it
But we'll see ..

 

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TECH_INFANTRY_DESC sounds like the description for the entire Infantry branch of techs, which can be found by hovering the mouse over the "Infantry" button in the Technology screen.

But does a field like "TECH_APP_ARMOR_20_DESC" have a description?

 

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TECH_INFANTRY_DESC sounds like the description for the entire Infantry branch of techs, which can be found by hovering the mouse over the "Infantry" button in the Technology screen.

But does a field like "TECH_APP_ARMOR_20_DESC" have a description?

Whoops didn't try hovering

But as I stated above, the description (DESC) texts for applications (TECH_APP) are all empty as far as I've browsed them.

 

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Updated - see first post (edit).

 

[Executor]

Looks very nice. I especially like the Preview option.

 

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Just released v1.01.
Did I mention I hate finding a bug just 10 minutes after uploading a release?

Anyway, there have been "small issues" with exporting texts and deleting applications in v1.00 - these should now be fixed.
And while I was at it, I also included the ability to edit the labels for each tech category.
Oh, and I changed the look of the "Preview" a bit ..

Feedback is welcome.

Update
Now it's v1.02 .. I really should have included this stuff in v1.01 already, but there you go.
Mainly some options & settings have been added, and another bug with the text export has been fixed.
See the link given in my sig for the whole list of changes.

 

[jonnyincognito]

Nice, and while I don't condone your spending time creating this instead of playing HoI, it's much appreciated


Joshua

 

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Version v1.10 is up.

This one includes the module for modding units.
For the whole list of changes, as usually, see the link in my sig.

Have fun

 

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And again there's a new version ..

v1.11 includes "moddir" support, see details at the Hoi2Lib page given in my sig.

 

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Just a quick announcement:

Next module will most likely be finished by sunday, stay tuned

.

 

[namspopof]

Excellent Heimdall ! Good Job !

 

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Problem with hoi2lib

I just downloaded Hoi2Lib 1.1 and when i starrted it it crashes while updating tech tree, how could i solve that?

 

[Don E]

Thanks a million for a great utility. Used it to mod some unit stats with great success (always bothered me how aircrafts never seem able to inflict much damage on each other).

When trying to look at the tech tree, and possibly do some minor changes (increase the benefit from computers etc), I realised that the effects section come up with an error. In all the techs the 'value' field is displayed as -9999, perhaps indicating that the program is parsing the info wrong. Is this just some problem with my computer installations, or have other people experienced the same issue?

Cheers
E