Right, I think there may be workarounds. It was just an idea for the future. I doubt we'll need it anytime soon. We have a long way towards learning the game and mastering the new modding capabilities.
But thank you for all the new stuff
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Right, I think there may be workarounds. It was just an idea for the future. I doubt we'll need it anytime soon. We have a long way towards learning the game and mastering the new modding capabilities.
But thank you for all the new stuff
Saddly, I propably won't ever reach the enddate, cause, I never do, but would it be much work to add an option to keep playing? I can't speak for anyone else, but I like to keep playing after the game has oficially ended, even if it is just for the lulz.You can mod the enddate
just wanted to ask about it:
are pie charts moddable (i.e. you can show values in them)?
asking about it because they are hardcoded in Hearts Of Iron IV and they have way more potential in modding in Imperator.
are pie charts moddable (i.e. you can show values in them)?
asking about it because they are hardcoded in Hearts Of Iron IV and they have way more potential in modding in Imperator.
You never play until the end date but you like to keep playing after the game jas officially ended? How does that work?
Ok, let me rephrase that: I never reach the end date in Paradox games, because the endgame lag got too worse, or because I already conquered the world before that date, or what ever. In other sandbox games, Civilisation for example, I do reach the end date, and I do like to keep playing until I painted the map red, with the blood of my enemies... or with nuclear fallout, if Ghandi is still around (who doesn't like a little nuclear war now and then
).Besides, I can't imagine that I am the only one who would appreciate that option.
Ok, let me rephrase that: I never reach the end date in Paradox games, because the endgame lag got too worse, or because I already conquered the world before that date, or what ever. In other sandbox games, Civilisation for example, I do reach the end date, and I do like to keep playing until I painted the map red, with the blood of my enemies... or with nuclear fallout, if Ghandi is still around (who doesn't like a little nuclear war now and then
Besides, I can't imagine that I am the only one who would appreciate that option.
Well, as said, since the end-date is moddable I would imagine that there would be one up on the workshop within hours or days of release
Not sure who to ask about this, so my apologies if I should've tagged someone else. Anyway, my question is: Is it possible to use existing in-game proportions as triggers? Specifically, I'm considering making a mod that provides a benefit/incentive for not going full monoculture, and for that I need some way to "see" how multicultural a city, province, or country actually is. There's those really nice looking pie charts in game for that info, so I'm wondering if it is possible to pull the info that feeds into those charts, and if an area is multicultural enough (maybe requiring non-slave minority culture pops to make up a third of the total pops in the area?), give the citizen pops in that area a boost to their research rate output or something.Feel free to poke me about anything as well!
Is it possible to use GetName on saved scopes though? I think saved scopes are what used to be called event targets? Also are saved scopes local or global? If a character is saved as cool_person, is it saved within the scope of that country or is it global (as in there can be only one cool_person in the world or each country can have its own cool_person?)
Lastly, if someone wanted to mod the economy screen, would they use scripted GUIs or Data System?
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You can iterate over pops somewhere and count how many meet a set condition to count them.
Yes you can, you would something like [SCOPE.sC( 'cool_person' ).GetName].
They are locally saved in the top scope and are removed once the top scope ends. If you want to save something on a country or globally use variables.
The scripted guis is just a subset of the data system, the data system is the overarching system for the gui and the localization. The scripted gui is just a specific subset that handles linking the gui to script effects and triggers.
Great!
I think I got it, if I understood correctly, as far as modding is concerned, the Data System that uses C++ stuff is used for modding only the look/design of the UI, whereas Scripted GUIs are used if new buttons need to be added with their own effects, correct?
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Sort of, the data system has things that can run specific code effects or evaluate code conditions. The scripted gui is only if you want to run something via the script system.
Good post, whats the best way to make benchmarks for testing modding perfomance in imperator?
Is there a way to limit that check to an area when a pop is added or removed from that area, and at game start? I can't help but worry that if I let it try to check constantly, there would be really bad lag. (As an aside, how does culture converting pops work, exactly? Does the game remove the pop being converted then add a pop with the change made back to the location the original pop was, or does the game actually alter the pop?)
Anyway, I believe what I'll want to do is do two iterations, one to add up the number of non-slave pops in a city, and the other to add up the number of pops that are not slaves and are not the country's primary culture, assigning both of these values their own variables. Then I'll need to divide the latter variable by the former, check if that value is greater than or equal to 0.34, then apply the modifier if it is.
Does that sound about right? Or is there some easier way of doing this that I'm missing?
Code:
every_character = {
limit = {
has_variable = is_modder
}
add_excitement = 9001
}Side question: how moddable are mapmodes? Is it possible to add new mapmodes or modify existing ones?
The basic rules for coloring the map are in code due to performance reasons. But which colors are used in the different coloring modes can be set through defines, and new map modes can be created (or existing ones changed) with new combinations of coloring mode, map icons, names on map, and a bunch of zoom level and shading parameters.
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No there is no hook in like an on action for when pops are removed, would be way too frequent. Checking pop percentages every day will give you bad performance yes.
Pretty sure it just changes the culture of the pop, does not make a new one and kill the old one.
That check would not need two iterations, you can just iterate over all pops once and do an if check inside, would likely be better performance as you are not building the list twice just once.
I am not sure if there is some smart game level trigger to check this stuff already, there might be.
How the hapinness of pops is moddable.Is it possible to increase or decrease it by events,decisions or something like this?
Thanks for any reply about this.
Thanks for any reply about this.
Not sure if this has been asked elsewhere:
Since the game is now been opened up to the streamers I wonder if Paradox would consider letting some of the established modders who A) have established definite intentions to make mods for Imperator:Rome and B) have pre-purchased the game, get access to start working a little early? Thought I might as well ask as the worst case is you say no and I wait to start working until the 25th (which is what I'm doing now anyway).
Since the game is now been opened up to the streamers I wonder if Paradox would consider letting some of the established modders who A) have established definite intentions to make mods for Imperator:Rome and B) have pre-purchased the game, get access to start working a little early? Thought I might as well ask as the worst case is you say no and I wait to start working until the 25th (which is what I'm doing now anyway).