Modding Stream

[PlayerHOI]

Single files. Spirits, political adv, design comp etc: 60*68 65*67 64*64 - Keep it in this ballpark and you should be fine.
National Focus: 94*79 84*80 82*76 - Keep it around this is...

Thanks, can't wait to see further adventures of princess Daniel

 

[Axe99]

Cheers for all the responses @Havebeard, looking forward to the next modding stream whatever you guys are keen to show .

 

[columbusbobby23]

I would like to know if the camera can be modded in any way. I would really love to see the game from the viewpoint of the rotating "trailer camera". Or maybe even play the game at a 45 degree angle instead of the 70-80 degree angle we see in the streams.

 

[PlayerHOI]

Single files. Spirits, political adv, design comp etc: 60*68 65*67 64*64 - Keep it in this ballpark and you should be fine.
National Focus: 94*79 84*80 82*76 - Keep it around this is...

Are national focuses (spirits) also in a three picture format? (large, medium and small)

 

[Achilles Return]

@Havebeard - Can the game map display non-latin characters?

 

[The GOAT 1988]

@Havebeard - Thank you to you, Dan and the team for putting the modding streams on! Very helpful stuff. Like other, I would also like to see some more complex event and trigger chains. I do have a question in line with the stuff you've shown off so far. If you add new resources and weapons based on those resources into the game, and have them available to all countries, will the AI attempt to research and build those items (and trade for the resources if needed)? Or is there other coding one would have to mod?

 

[Cpack]

Not exactly Fitting this stream, but:

Is it possible to create subunits for ships like for airplanes?

F.e adding a subunit of "Escort Destroyer" to the "Destroyer" Tech (with it's own fitting Profile of course)

 

[Axe99]

Not exactly Fitting this stream, but:

Is it possible to create subunits for ships like for airplanes?

F.e adding a subunit of "Escort Destroyer" to the "Destroyer" Tech (with it's own fitting Profile of course)
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+1 for this - it could be a sea dog?

 

[Havebeard]

Subtechs should be doable. Requires some gui editing as well, so I'm not sure we will get into it before release. Requires a lot of prep work.

 

[Havebeard]

Are national focuses (spirits) also in a three picture format? (large, medium and small)

No. This is going to be quite obvious when you start poking around the art folders when the game is released =)

I do have a question in line with the stuff you've shown off so far. If you add new resources and weapons based on those resources into the game, and have them available to all countries, will the AI attempt to research and build those items (and trade for the resources if needed)? Or is there other coding one would have to mod?

I would expect it to be somewhat able to handle it, but I would need our puppet master @SteelVolt to weigh in on this.

 

[Havebeard]

@Havebeard - Can the game map display non-latin characters?

Yes and no. I don't think our font supports it, but if you make your own it should be fine. Text is in UTF-8 BOM

 

[Ottovski]

I would like to see you guys making a new general.

 

[Cpack]

Subtechs should be doable. Requires some gui editing as well, so I'm not sure we will get into it before release. Requires a lot of prep work.

Thanx for the answer.

do you mean
a) it needs prep work for you that it is possible for us to mod it in
or
b) is the prep work in the gui files needed for us to mod it, but it works anyway at release??

 

[SteelVolt]

If you add new resources and weapons based on those resources into the game, and have them available to all countries, will the AI attempt to research and build those items (and trade for the resources if needed)?

Short answer: yes! (As in, yes, it should work just fine, and the AI would trade etc if it needed the resource.)

If it does not work like that, I would consider that a bug.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Regarding flags... we know that all countries can have democratic, fascist and communist flags, but can there also be a separate non-aligned ideology flag, or does it just just the democratic flag? What is the 'default' flag style for each country?

It would be very useful if non-aligned and democratic could have separate flags rather than sharing the same; so for example a democratic Germany could have the modern flag, and a non-aligned Germany could have the imperial flag. This would be a great way - in both vanilla and mods - to differentiate between various autocratic monarchies and non-fascist dictatorships (non-aligned) and actual democracies and constitutional monarchies (democratic).

 

[Havebeard]

What is the 'default' flag style for each country?

1) TAG_ideology
2) TAG
3) Error - no flag

 

[Havebeard]

I would like to see you guys making a new general.

I'm pretty sure we did in the 2nd mod stream.

a) it needs prep work for you that it is possible for us to mod it in
or
b) is the prep work in the gui files needed for us to mod it, but it works anyway at release??

On game release it should be no problem to mod it in.
It requires too much prep work for me to include it in the next stream.
Hope this answers it.

 

[Cpack]

Hopefully it's not too complicated. In Hoi3 I added a lot techs and new units to the game.
Most important things to know are which files are related and how to teach the AI to also use.

Maybe a Little bit copy and paste from the airforce tech ?

 

[Cpack]

Another question about the file structure:

Is the folder / naming logic similar to Hoi3 like this example?

 

[Ctanr]

Yes and no. I don't think our font supports it, but if you make your own it should be fine. Text is in UTF-8 BOM

so how have you done the russian localization withouth non-latin characters?

please please dont say that youve done the heresy called romanisation...