[HOI4 Modding] Creating Cities 

yay, I can finally add my home city to hoi4 :)

I've been looking the internet for answer and I never found one... Until today

Thanks bro, i waited for this video

very interesting video. i will follow your tutorials and try to make a mod for my beautiful homeland called romania. thank you

I like it! Now a good fallow-up tutorial will be about how to change the province picture and how to add victory points (naming them and such). What are the next tutorials about, if it is not a secret?

Can you make a video about the background picture and size of the research tree?

Thanks for the guide! Was wondering if it would be possible for you to cover adding customised nations' equipment? Eg- the panzers for germany, or the PPSH for the Soviets... Adding things like that. I saw your video on adding techs to the tree, but would it be possible also to add techs that are country-specific? For example a country having a tech only they can research? If it's not possible, that's cool- I'm making a mod for a custom country and just want to find more ways to add as much detail as possible...

I don't know if you're responding to comments anymore for this video, but I'm stumped at the moment. I'm adding the city of Antioch into the game (where Hatay is in the base game), and while I got the province properties and map graphics right without issue, I am having a lot of trouble with the city emissive. It worked at first, but suddenly everything in the Middle East and Africa gained this sickly green hue, and it only went away when I removed the cityemissivemask. I tried adding the lights again from scratch but experienced the same issue, so now I need some help. Other resources, such as on Reddit, haven't been helpful at all because all the advice is confusing and not helpful. I've been doing some pretty heavy manipulating of the states and ownership, and I think the problem started sometime when I was trading states between countries. I don't know if that'd have anything to do with the issue. (BTW, I really appreciate your tutorial videos, they've been incredibly helpful, and I've been having a lot of fun playing god. So thanks for that.)

Hello i have problem because when i edit terrain.bmp and when im launch the game i cant see the cities... Only name but i cant see textures

You can just use command "tdebug" and "nudge" you dont need to change lauch options

hey, cool video! But how do i make the city name appear on the map

Seems some people are having the same problem I am. When I follow this tutorial to the t, It just wipes all Urban buildings, Like it just excluded that color code from the terrain file. Is there something in the export settings that affects this? I know you said to leave it as is but we didn't see the option details of that export box at 14:20 edit: I can't open it back up in GIMP after the export. Gimp Message says: Unrecognized or invalid BMP compression format.

Hi! You have already made a tutorial on how to make a new state. Can you also make one on how to create a new province (or whatever those little tiles are). I'd appreciate it!

I just created a city and I opened the game, all of cities building in the world just gone. Idk why

Is there a way to add the square with a name of the city not the visual effects?

Great work! Can you make a video about ai strategy ?

I don't get it. How the game knows where to put the city specificly in that province, what is it's name, etc.? I don't see these parts in your tutorial. I made the file & folder structure, fixed the terrain map in paint, rewrote the province details in notepad and now?

Can you show how can we add new terrain like urban mountains plains?

I exported the terrain file and I tried to open it with ACDSee and it says "The source data format is not recognized." and when I put in it my mod and open the game all the cities and graphic stuff just disappeared. Any way to fix that?

Hi i have a question? Is there any video or can u make a video when u show how to turn one state in state that i can satellite/ puppet. For example i play with USSR and i declare war at Iran for example. When i have the peace conference i want to satellite only Teheran. And its will be called Iranian People's Republic or something like this.

having same issue as other people i've followed guide 2 times but both times all my urban sites disappear?

I'm a South African and I found it funny when you mistook Cape Town for Johannesburg lol

Great guide! Except that everything that you did using GIMP I can do with paint net

Just one question, how do you make a bridge between two provinces?

How do you turn the game on the debug mode, i've already set it in the launch options by typing -debug but it's just isn't looking like yours, whats wrong with it xD?

very cool. i just wanna know how i can remove the dmr (demilitarized rhine) part

Hello, when I try editing the urban graphics , all the urban graphics just disappear when I launch my game. I Don’t know what I’m doing wrong

how to rename cities after capturing it as a certain country? (it is like one mod where after you take turkey as greece, istanbul is renamed to constantinople) I want to make it so when I take Istanbul as Bulgaria, it is renamed to Tsarigrad

GIMP always crashes if i try to paint on the terrain.bmp-file

In my save, convert from VIC2, some cities name are not showing especially bigger city with many VP. How can I fix that, please

13:30 can’t paint. It says the active layer is not visible

How do you create like the name and all

it does not change the province it stays forest at me why ??

Can you use photoshop instead of GIMP for the graphics?

Pls show how to create rivers.

I have a question:Where I can add new relations like military access and guarnetee?

Changing the province type to urban made it so that all coastal provinces are unable to build any naval buildings, and exoisting naval buildings dissapear. Can anyone help?

Hi I am a HOI modder you may have seen my mod The Great Lakes confederation. I am having a problem where when I edit the terrain.bmp file the file no longer works. Sometimes the terrain just disappears and sometimes it replaces all the urban areas with mountains. I have tried using GIMP, Paint.net, MS paint, and Krita. If anyone is reading this and you know of a solution please let me know. Thanks P.S I only seem to have problems with .bmp files

hey how do you give a city a name? i just got a nameless lincoln now

Yeah this doesn't work anymore? Your other tutorials are fine, but the map doesn't update any changes now.

um i did something wrong and whole Sahara desert is city now

After adding the files it crashes the game

How do you change the city "theme" ? (European, Middle Eastern, Western, Asian etc.)

is it working at 1.7?

I have made a completely different map using an old map generator, it was a disaster. I was able to learn to mod (one of the tut vids i've watch was from u) and created myself a new island and a country with a custom ideology, leader, flag etc a complete diff. country and made it op af. So I pushed myself and fck it cuz why not. Rn im suffering becuz the supposedly seas are typed as lands and i think that's breaking the game. I had no problem clicking for coastals but the whole provinces of the sea? Cmon. I need help 😂

still don't have city

My city lights dont work ):

How to name the city?

oh it was too hard😓😓😓

I bet nobody is here in 2022.

lol "the worst intro" bwahahahahahahahahahaha

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