Paradox - about the German Reich's flag [NOT about Swastikas!]***read OP before posting***

[bengast]

Hmm i like the new flag. Better than the old they used anyway.

And offtopic : I live in a country that doesn't have democracy, but have free speech. Oh and then we have democracy too. But really as i live in a Monarchy with parlamentarism....it's easy to get confused
So no Democracy/Free speech is not the same thing.

offtopic: what kind of government form is it then? constitutional monarchy where the monarch still holds 1 of the 3 powers? Because you confused me there


ontopic: they can keep using the current flag they have or use BIs flag, I don't care rlly about flags, as long as Belgian fascist flag is bad ass.

 

[RazakelApollyon]

I know that, and I wish people's first answer to a question wasn't 'you can mod it yourself'. I am aware of that.

I am simply asking why the decision was taken, when the imperial flag was still one of the two official state flags until 1935 (the year before the game starts) and is a better choice than the weird flag we have now.

Am I missing something here? I'm really having a hard time understanding what the big deal is here. You don't like the current flag, so Paradox should change it for everyone? Just change it yourself, Paradox made their games easily customizable on purpose for a reason, namely to avoid entitlement threads like this one.

 

[Scutatus]

Is there a file where one can find all the in-game flags? It probably doesn't help us now, but it would go a long way to (eventually) answering all these questions about the flags - because I have a suspicion that many of them might well be in the game - just reserved for certain factions that can arise.

 

[RazakelApollyon]

Is there a file where one can find all the in-game flags? It probably doesn't help us now, but it would go a long way to (eventually) answering all these questions about the flags - because I have a suspicion that many of them might well be in the game - just reserved for certain factions that can arise.

I would imagine so, pretty much every Paradox game keeps their world flags in a single folder somewhere in the directory.

 

[Scutatus]

I would imagine so, pretty much every Paradox game keeps their world flags in a single folder somewhere in the directory.

Then little over two weeks from now, we'll likely have our answers.

 

[bengast]

Then little over two weeks from now, we'll likely have our answers.

I assume it is the same in HOI3, considering its a HOI game and on the clausewitz engine their game folder construction would be almost entirely the same.

 

[Scutatus]

I assume it is the same in HOI3, considering its a HOI game and on the clausewitz engine their game folder construction would be almost entirely the same.

I'm not sure about that. There were less options to play around with in HOI3. For instance, turning democracies into Communist states wasn't really a thing - where as now, it's a biggie. More possible outcomes strongly suggests more alternative flags.

 

[Kourgath223]

Then little over two weeks from now, we'll likely have our answers.

If its like EU4 and CK2 (which it likely will be) then the process will be something like the following:

1. Go to Drive Letter:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common if installed to your OS drive on a 64-bit PC (or in my case E:\Steam Library\steamapps\common)
2. Find the HOI4 folder (if it like EU4 then it will probably be called Hearts of Iron IV)
3. In that folder find the gfx folder
4. Within that folder their should be a folder called flags
   • The whole file location by the end will probably be something like Drive Letter:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\gfx\flags if installed to your OS drive but for me it would be something like E:\Steam Library\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\gfx\flags
5. In there will be every flag used by a nation in the game.
6. The file names will be probably be the tags for each nation
   • i.e. The United States will probably be USA while Italy will probably by ITA.
7. Each file will probably be a .tga file which can be edited easily in Photoshop and Gimp, not sure if you can use Paint since I always use Photoshop.

 

[Scutatus]

If its like EU4 and CK2 (which it likely will be) then the process will be something like the following:

1. Go to Drive Letter:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common if installed to your OS drive on a 64-bit PC (or in my case E:\Steam Library\steamapps\common)
2. Find the HOI4 folder (if it like EU4 then it will probably be called Hearts of Iron IV)
3. In that folder find the gfx folder
4. Within that folder their should be a folder called flags
   • The whole file location by the end will probably be something like Drive Letter:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\gfx\flags if installed to your OS drive but for me it would be something like E:\Steam Library\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron IV\gfx\flags
5. In there will be every flag used by a nation in the game.
6. The file names will be probably be the tags for each nation
   • i.e. The United States will probably be USA while Italy will probably by ITA.
7. Each file will probably be a .tga file which can be edited easily in Photoshop and Gimp, not sure if you can use Paint since I always use Photoshop.

Nice. Thank you Kourgath. I'll be trying this out on the 6th - well. maybe the 7th.

 

[Had a dad]

Thread cleaned up once again...

Guess people just like infractions

 

[frolix42]

Anyhoo...

...I'm replacing the German flag with the flag of the short-lived Northern Caucasian Emirate.

 

[Had a dad]

and done