Switching out a Flag, Italy

[Steve711]

Hello all,

I know there has to be a way to do this, I want to play as Florence->Tuscany->Italy game, but I want to to keep the Medici as rulers an do) but I hate the Italy flag. Instead I want to take the flag from Etruria, a generic italian country popping up two years after the last bookmark, and use that flag as Italy's flag after I form the country with Tuscany.

I can change the flag(s) in an Iron man game?
If I decided instead to just make a custom country (With Etruscan culture based on their bronze age boundaries), how can I load in Etruria's flag?
-Steve

P.S. Looking to modify the game files not a mod, but will still take mod suggestions.
P.P.S. On a slightly related note, anyone know of any mods that make Custom Nation Lost Cultures useful? Like I would be great if I could make a Roman or Etruscan custom nation that would treat Italian Sub-Cultures as part of their Cultural Group.

 

[Tom D.]

Altering a flag in EU4 changes the checksum and thus is not ironman compatible. If you really want another flag, it's best to make a mod - easiest way is to copy the flag of Etruria and copy paste it and change it to ITA.tga (not 100% sure about the exact extension) and override the original italy flag.

 

[heliostellar]

As to the question on cultures, I think you could easily accomplish what you’re asking by simply moving Roman and Etrurian into the Latin culture group. I’m not even sure why Paradox ever thought it was a great idea to create a “Lost Culture” group of random cultures that have nothing to do with each other anyway.

 

[ZivDero]

Altering a flag in EU4 changes the checksum and thus is not ironman compatible. If you really want another flag, it's best to make a mod - easiest way is to copy the flag of Etruria and copy paste it and change it to ITA.tga (not 100% sure about the exact extension) and override the original italy flag.

It doesn't.; Altering a color changes checksum, flag - no.

 

[Tom D.]

It doesn't.; Altering a color changes checksum, flag - no.

Oh is it? I must've mistaken it with the colour than, my apologies, it's been a long time since I modified something myself in EU4.

 

[ecrurudesby]

SteamApps > common > Europa Universalis IV > gfx > flags

This is where EU4's flags are stored. Each flag is a 128x128 image in TGA format. You must replace the desired tag's TGA file with your created image. It must be TGA (I use Adobe Photoshop). It doesn't have to be 128x128 but it is recommended for image quality. Ironman compatible.

My Russia:

 

[Steve711]

SteamApps > common > Europa Universalis IV > gfx > flags

This is where EU4's flags are stored. Each flag is a 128x128 image in TGA format. You must replace the desired tag's TGA file with your created image. It must be TGA (I use Adobe Photoshop). It doesn't have to be 128x128 but it is recommended for image quality. Ironman compatible.

My Russia:

Awesome, that I can do thank you so much! Cool Russian flag BTW, the in-game one looks very German/HRE like.

As to the question on cultures, I think you could easily accomplish what you’re asking by simply moving Roman and Etrurian into the Latin culture group. I’m not even sure why Paradox ever thought it was a great idea to create a “Lost Culture” group of random cultures that have nothing to do with each other anyway.

Sounds like something a may use this play through or another, how would I do that though? (The most I've done to the game files is change a ruler's name, leaning on my own)

Also, is there away that I could build on adding Etruscan and Roman to the Italian group, by making the culture in the tuscan area and roma province into Etruscan and Roman and/or change the country of italy's name into Etruria and have it have Etruscan as a primary culture?

Is any of that even possible? Or will it break the game/be very time consuming to implement.

-Steve

 

[heliostellar]

To move the cultures, go to ...\Europa Universalis IV\common\cultures and open 00_cultures.txt

Search for "lost_cultures_group" and cut/paste all of the contents of "roman" and "etrurian" into the "latin" section.

Here's more info about culture modding: https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Culture_modding

If you want to modify provinces you can either mod it or just use the custom Nation Designer.