How do I add shield and flag of a new nation?

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 11, 2018

So I was lately editing the 1944 scenario so I can add Tito's partisans as a sovereign nation. I thought about using the already existing YUG nation tag, but since I reject to use their flag for the National Liberation Army but I also don't want the flag of the socialist federal republic of Yugoslavia to appear on 1936's yugolsvia, I guess I would have to add a new nation .
I already added the shield and flag in the gfx folder. My problem now is that I don't know where to add the shield_nla so that it is assigned to the new nation. Can anyone help me with that?

Pioniere · Jun 13, 2018

FieldMarshallRommel said:
My problem now is that I don't know where to add the shield_nla so that it is assigned to the new nation. Can anyone help me with that?

You add them in here: \Arsenal of Democracy\gfx\map. You can see the named folders.

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 13, 2018

Pioniere said:
You add them in here: \Arsenal of Democracy\gfx\map. You can see the named folders.

Yeah, I already figured that out. But that only works for STILL EXISTING nations. For instance if I want to edit the German flag, I just paste another shield_ger.bmp in there.
My question regarded newly created nations, so a new nation tag. That must be an excel data as far as i figured out. But I simply can't find it.

Pioniere · Jun 14, 2018

For a new nation: you need to use the revolt file(revolt.txt):
just an exampel.
U01 = { # Cornwall
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1934 }
expirydate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1965 }
minimum = { xx}
extra = { }
capital = xx
}
Cornwalls tag would be U01
tag must be named in the doomsdaytext.csv also. It should be written in all User Defined sections.
U01;Cornwall;Cornouailles;etc;

Cornwalls sheild tag would be shield_U01 not a big suprise.

The same tag must be used in the minister files, leader file and tech team file.
I recomend that you use notepad ++ for this.
Leader file would be U01.csv, minsters_U01.csv,teams_01.csv all files need uniq id numbers, but you might know that now.
notepad ++ is very usefull for excel data editing.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 14, 2018

Pioniere said:
For a new nation: you need to use the revolt file(revolt.txt):
just an exampel.
U01 = { # Cornwall
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1934 }
expirydate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1965 }
minimum = { xx}
extra = { }
capital = xx
}
Cornwalls tag would be U01
tag must be named in the doomsdaytext.csv also. It should be written in all User Defined sections.
U01;Cornwall;Cornouailles;etc;

Cornwalls sheild tag would be shield_U01 not a big suprise.

The same tag must be used in the minister files, leader file and tech team file.
I recomend that you use notepad ++ for this.
Leader file would be U01.csv, minsters_U01.csv,teams_01.csv all files need uniq id numbers, but you might know that now.
notepad ++ is very usefull for excel data editing.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Thanks! I got it now.
Yeah, now that you mentioned it I also realize that I can edit those files with notepad ++ instead of excel. I will make use of it.

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 15, 2018

Pioniere said:
For a new nation: you need to use the revolt file(revolt.txt):
just an exampel.
U01 = { # Cornwall
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1934 }
expirydate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1965 }
minimum = { xx}
extra = { }
capital = xx
}
Cornwalls tag would be U01
tag must be named in the doomsdaytext.csv also. It should be written in all User Defined sections.
U01;Cornwall;Cornouailles;etc;

Cornwalls sheild tag would be shield_U01 not a big suprise.

The same tag must be used in the minister files, leader file and tech team file.
I recomend that you use notepad ++ for this.
Leader file would be U01.csv, minsters_U01.csv,teams_01.csv all files need uniq id numbers, but you might know that now.
notepad ++ is very usefull for excel data editing.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Well, sorry to bother you again but it seems like the new nation still doesn't show up in the scenario menu.
I did everything you mentioned plus I made a new ai-data for the ai folder and added the new nation tag in the country.csv in the db folder. Any idea where the nation tag still needs to be added?

Pioniere · Jun 15, 2018

I know that bugs might mess up work and slitest typo will stop softcoded elements to work.
The country.csv just determend color for that nation. ai-data would not help you add it only make it work better.
What patch do you use?

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 16, 2018

Patch 1.11 with the Improved 1936 mod. My checksum is OCOC.
Whenever I want to load my scenario it has anerror message saying "(Unknown tag) tag = NLA line = 13 file = scenarios\Endkampf\nla.inc"

Adolphin · Jun 16, 2018

You actually have to put that nation into the scenario load-up too to access it from the menu screen iirc.

Pioniere · Jun 16, 2018

When we made the don republic those files where once we used:

V for required files. You dont need any pictures for a new other than the flags for haveing a working nation it is just that the coding need to be correct. ID numbers for teams, ministers and leaders should be correc to.

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 16, 2018

So this is the doomsdaytext.csv. Do you see anything wrong? Does it maybe have something to do with the number of commas at the end?

Pioniere · Jun 16, 2018

If you did make the NLA tag that would be wrong becuse tags with leters are very hard to softcod.
its better for you to make use of the following tags like U01 to U06. You can also make use of tag u18.
I cant find NLA as a tag in AOD.

in the folder: Arsenal of Democracy\gfx\map\shields nations from shield_U20 to shield_U30.bmp would be free to mod.
shield_U31 would be used for Puerto Rico and that nation will be part of patch 1.11

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 16, 2018

Oh, well. If I only knew about that earlier. Now that all makes sense. I thought you could freely choose any tag you want.

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 25, 2018

Pioniere said:
If you did make the NLA tag that would be wrong becuse tags with leters are very hard to softcod.
its better for you to make use of the following tags like U01 to U06. You can also make use of tag u18.
I cant find NLA as a tag in AOD.

in the folder: Arsenal of Democracy\gfx\map\shields nations from shield_U20 to shield_U30.bmp would be free to mod.
shield_U31 would be used for Puerto Rico and that nation will be part of patch 1.11

Another question regardless of the topic:
Do you have any idea what the poolnumber in the minister.csv indicates?

Pang Bingxun · Jun 26, 2018

FieldMarshallRommel said:
Do you have any idea what the poolnumber in the minister.csv indicates?

You mean the id?

Each minister needs to have a unique id. There are no special rules, any id not used by a different ministers will do. Still it can be useful to have some of order, but that is just for the convenience of the human trying to keep track.

Edit:

Code:

Start;Name;Pool;Ideology;Personality;Loyalty;Picturename

This is false.

Code:

id;Name;Startyear;Ideology;Personality;Loyalty;Picturename

This is what is actually used. First the id, second the name and third the year at which the ministers starts to become available.

FieldMarshallRommel · Jun 26, 2018

Pang Bingxun said:
You mean the id?

Each minister needs to have a unique id. There are no special rules, any id not used by a different ministers will do. Still it can be useful to have some of order, but that is just for the convenience of the human trying to keep track.

Edit:

Code:

Start;Name;Pool;Ideology;Personality;Loyalty;Picturename

This is false.

Code:

id;Name;Startyear;Ideology;Personality;Loyalty;Picturename

This is what is actually used. First the id, second the name and third the year at which the ministers starts to become available.

Got it now, thanks. Seems like the poolnumbers are the start year.

Pioniere · Jun 27, 2018

for id numbers you can safly use IDs for ministers 909725 and forwards.
For tech team id its 100176 and on. for leaders 99992877 and forwards. There will be a few new nations in aod so then you wont crash with them in id nummbers.

Emperor Liberty · Jul 20, 2018

Noted, thanks.
So my most recent problem with ministers is that I cannot change them. The ones already in office that I added in the scenario/u22.inc are visible. But I simply can't change them to other ministers from the ministers_u22.csv. I already made sure they were having the same ideology as the state, still doesn't work. Any ideas? Maybe something in the misc.txt?

Pioniere · Jul 21, 2018

Emperor Liberty said:
But I simply can't change them to other ministers from the ministers_u22.csv.

not for now what about there starting year for the ministers? you could past and copy the list in this thread.

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