Hearts of Iron IV - Development Diary 52 - Modding

[Cpack]

Is it also possible to mod the air regions and sea zones you can choose for your naval and air attacks with this tool?

F.e I want to make them all a Little bit smaller and get more?

 

[Orlunu]

Hello, I'm looking into making a "historical stats" mod, mostly aimed at tanks, aircraft and ships but I may include some other things along the way. We'll see.
Anyways, is there a way to change such values as stats like speed, hard attack, soft attack etc? Would that also be covered by the tools or is there even simpler way?
I'm only now breaking into modding and this will be my first mod so any help is appreciated.

Always been easily done with notepad before.

 

[FOARP]

This looks awesome. Sorry guys, but , despite talk to the contrary pre-release, HOI3 was a total PAIN to mod. It looks like HOI4 will be way easier in this regard.

SHAMELESS PLUG: you can find a link to the mod I'm preparing for HOI4 in my sig.

 

[blackninja9939]

Wow the new tools look really good!

 

[Mannstien]

NICE!!!!

 

[BjornB]

Is something similar made/planned/possible for Stellaris?

There will be a Stellaris DD on modding soon.

 

[ok2useLane]

Thanks for this awesomeness!
Black ice cream
Just great, Dawg!

 

[funshine]

Hello, I'm looking into making a "historical stats" mod, mostly aimed at tanks, aircraft and ships but I may include some other things along the way. We'll see.
Anyways, is there a way to change such values as stats like speed, hard attack, soft attack etc? Would that also be covered by the tools or is there even simpler way?
I'm only now breaking into modding and this will be my first mod so any help is appreciated.

I also want to get into modding but HOI4 launch is still some time away so i started to try to mod eu4 to get the basics off modding a pdx game .

 

[Ostheim]

I was worried there might be less support and more hard coding this time around, absolutely awesome!

 

[ThetrueColt]

Awesome DD! I really appreciate that Paradox is going the extra mile when it comes to modding and supporting the community.

OS looks like Unity/Ubuntu to me. Is @podcat using Linux on his main workstation?

 

[The B]

Good work. This is what defines Paradox as a company. You could have been like many gaming companies who fear modifications and try to curb them. Instead you go ahead and not only allow them, but go out of your way to encourage them. Not only the community benefits but I think Paradox does as well.

 

[Jamey]

p.s whoever makes a Battletech mod first will forever live on in my heart.

I hope you're as excited about the upcoming BATTLETECH game as I am. I was so excited when it went up on Kickstarter.

I'm happy to see these improvements to modding. I've done some minor personal mods for Paradox games in the past, but haven't done more because of the challenges of modding and getting good feedback about problems with what I implemented. It sounds like a lot of that will be improved, which is great!

 

[rapttuz]

It is decided. I will pre-order this game.

 

[Sotahullu]

In build modding tools? What witchcraft is this?

I'm so gonna build North Kingdom with this, re-writing history in the process

 

[Constans]

I'v never really done any modding, other than some very light tweaking of game files in some games I get obsessed with, but this looks absolutel fantastic! I can't wait for the community to get their hands on this, and I can't wait to mess around with it myself!

 

[Havebeard]

-Do the carrier based versions of the planes have different stats/ values/ (profiles), or are they at least moddable? Means have they a different unit file? (Same for tanks)
-Also do the TD/Sp-Arty/ AA variants of tanks have different unit files?

I think this may have been answered, but just to be sure... Yes they have a different profile and you can add, remove or change them as you please.

Podcat, any chance to see the "change_tag" effect in HOI IV?

Do you mean changing to play as a different nation? Yes that's in there. change_tag_from

 

[Paglia]

we are seriously looking into it actually

That would be awesome !!!

 

[Kensai7]

The AI in HOI3 was run though Lua scripts, but we decided to abandon these for several reasons in HOI4 (lack of lua knowledge at the company and low performance was the big ones). The AI is still however very moddable and has a lot of scripts to modify. I think its best to wait and talk about that in the dedicated dev diary on AI stuff I'll make @SteelVolt write before release though.

I am really curious about this.
Lua scripting is actually very easy to learn and it should be reasonably fast, that's why many games by many developers are using it massively. Your design decision probably means you have developed an even better way to puppeteer the AI.

Actually, an ad hoc scripting system for all Paradox "map games" (CK, EU, V, HOI, Stellaris, etc) that is loved and maintained might be a pretty darn good investment* for the future. I hope you consider this.

(*the same investment Bohemia Interactive has made in the Arma series with its own bespoke scripting system)

 

[Orlunu]

Do you mean changing to play as a different nation? Yes that's in there. change_tag_from

Can't speak for him for sure, but a lot of us have been asking to modify the tag of a nation. To give an example from the last WWW, being able to become Austria-Hungary again if Austria or Hungary owns the territory of both, that kinda thing. Nation forming.

 

[dreadunsought]

I show respect for making an effort to design the game so that paradox can facilitate modding more.
Hopefully,I think that I want a complete application of multibyte character set which you were not able to realize in EU4 and CK2 to realize in HOI4.
Because it became the topic in Japan that the company which localized went bankrupt, the paradoxical situation that the people who are interested in HOI than before increase rather occurs.
Therefore, this is because the players may still increase by modding if the problem of the character code can be settled.