Images of a new beginning
- #Images of a new beginning how to
- #Images of a new beginning mod
- #Images of a new beginning mods
- #Images of a new beginning free
Now that we've created the empty template for a mod, it's time to create some dummy content.
#Images of a new beginning mods
#Images of a new beginning free
All of them are free it's recommended to have at least two text editors (powerblo uses Atom to manage his projects and Notepad++ to edit individual files) For simplicity, use Notepad++, for convenient folder management use Sublime Text or Atom.
#Images of a new beginning mod
With both of these folders/files, you should be able to select your mod in the game launcher.
mod file, containing info on how the game should handle your mod folder
When you get in there, you can tamper with the title of your mod and add new tags. When you launch HOI4, you'll notice a "Mod Tools" button in the launcher. One of these is the ability to create an empty mod in mere seconds. While unfortunately Paradox hasn't given a lot of documentation about modding, they've given a lot of useful tools to help the modder get going.
#Images of a new beginning how to
These series by The Iron Workshop give several tips on how to make several useful changes, and include a nice introduction on making new provinces.Īlong with these videos, the wiki page below shows a good list of sites you can access to learn coding or refer to resources. The playlist made by Paradox themselves are the canon resource, and while they cover several complicated schemes(new resources, province editing etc.) it's not organised or user friendly and I wouldn't recommend it for the fresh green modder. The playlist by MrKmproductions is by far the most informative and helpful series on Youtube, and help you get quite a far way. These are some of the videos powerblo thinks are the most useful for starting off. If you don't feel like learning modding from text, you can always receive visual guidance. The first few steps are a popular topic and various tutorial videos have been made on it.