Modding noob asks a question

[Victor Cortez]

Hello,

First of all, please keep in mind that I know absolutely nothing about modding. The answer to the question below might be pretty obvious (one way or another).

So, the other day I was watching the Poland streaming and when Daniel made that final stand behind the river, for the love of me, I couldn't remember its name (Vistula, btw).

I know the reason why PDX has decided to remove province names (etc) and I kind of agree with them, but one thing I love about PDX game is the massive amoung of geography you can learn from them.

So, the question:
Would it be possible to make a mod where when holding a key not mapped to anything else (example: the 5 numpad key), all game interactions stop and a tooltip pops up where the name of the province/river/ridge/lake, whatever, appears?

The list of province names could be taken (partially, at least, from HOI3), and I suppose it would be a lot of work, but would it be technically possible?

 

[Zankoas]

I imagine you could create another map layer that is shown with that key, or you could create custom tool tips to achieve that but that wouldn't be bound to a hotkey. Naming rivers and so on I imagine could only be done on the map as you can't select them, so can't link triggers to them.

But who knows, hopefully the modding streams will help clear that up