[HOI4 Modding] Creating New Characters 

Doing it yourself will allow you to learn much more so don't feel bad, I learned the Paradox script language with EU3 and HOI3 at times when there were no modding resources ;)

how do you look at other mods files?

@@extrage3061Go to the Paradox launcher for Hoi4, then to mods/playsets and to the mod you want to look at, click the three dots for the mod, and click open in folder

@@extrage3061 In where you enable mods, click I believe 3 dots, then browse files, I know a bit late but still

@@extrage3061 Select it on the launcher and click "view in file explorer"

Look at a lesson called "on actions"

@@TheIronWorkshopI didn't understood this tutorial

@@Claseeimperial wut

@@Claseeimperial skill issue

stfu @@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad

heya does any errors pop up?

and did you add recruit_character to the country file?

You welcome darling ;)

Mate we both know this man is a Legend... I never had so much fun coding and to see in the end what i have greated is beautiful, even tho i once Created Basicaly TnO Burgundy that gave me PTSD

let me tell you something, that's actually one of the rarest things that paradox ever managed to do historical. after the turkish independence war, there were no teachers remaining to teach stuff to the young children. there were no engineers to make new buildings. almost every one of them died for country. so most titles got acquired by commanders in the previous war.

@@meyerburada That's not what I was trying to ask. I wrote about the difficulty of doing the character encoding. I know the history of Turkey :D

(laughs in Jinnah)

Copy your code for current country leader but change the ideology to nazism. This worked when I had the same problem. So you should have your current leader in code and same leader but with different ideology. Hope it helps

Because actually the breakaway country is this first country. For example in German civil war the neutrals side is the GER tag, while the Reich is the D01 tag

It makes no difference which country you are doing this for. Check your code, paths and so on, no reason for it not to work.

@@TheIronWorkshop and still, it isn't, maybe you can look through whats wrong? characters = { SOV_nick = { name = SOV_character_nick portraits = { civilian = { large = "GFX_portrait_ger_fritz_kuhn" } } corps_commander = { traits = { } skill = 1 attack_skill = 1 defense_skill = 1 planning_skill = 1 logistics_skill = 1 legacy_id = -1 visible = { always = yes } } } }

Try the Iron Workshop Discord server, there is more context to this than just this code.

NVM IM SO DUMB I FORGOT TO PUT AN S ON CHARACTERS FOLDER

Can't really tech something I don't know how to do myself...

Hey,same problem here. Anyway I don't know did you fix it,but I found how you can fix it. Remember that he said about idea token? That it doesn't matter? Well actually I think that is what idea token does. So how did I fix it? So lets say you created you character I created in my own mod lets say (this is an example obviously) characters = { MOS_zorica_radic = { and now other codes for GFX stuff. So at the start when you created,MOS is tag to my country,and after that name of the character I created. you put that or whatever is your character name into the idea token so it would be like this: advisor={ slot = political_advisor allowed = { tag = MOS } idea_token = MOS_zorica_radic cost = 150 available = { } I didn't put whole code of the advisor but I think you get the point Anyways if you still didn't find solution,here I hope it would help,if not then I don't really know what can,because now it works for me. EDIT: You have to put for all of them the idea_token otherwise it won't work

You saved the image in an incorrect format, repeat that step and make sure to get the right format.

@@TheIronWorkshop Just fixed it. Thanks!

Yes, creating new states and countries will receive updated videos.

@@TheIronWorkshop thank you! i can’t wait. you’ve really helped me alot with modding

yes

Actually I found it used in non console uses, like in events and focuses. I gave it a try and you can still scope (focus) characters without these tokens so I'm not sure why there are there...

You have to change it in the states controlled by the country.

@@TheIronWorkshop Thank you, and thank you for replying.

Don't delete them if you want to keep them, although, this might cause problems (I highly doubt it will tho.)

I tried readding them but still didn't work, I do have 2 original advisors now tho lol@@Arbeiter2

Same issue happened with me. I fixed it by copying over the entire _leader_portraits.gfx file into my mod folders and just adding the portrait details I wanted to at the top, without deleting any of the info already in it.

@@maxwhite4177 Oh okay thanks!

You can do it even without tutorial like i did, its not complex like 5 minutes or so. Its really easy just some brain power.

@@iamkokan Thank you!

I take it I will have use MD files instead of the Vanilla game??

It's on my to do list, a lot has changed with regards to creating new states so a revised video lesson is indeed required.

AFAIK old code still works with country leaders and military leaders

What exactly are you trying to do? Add a new leader? edit an existing one? Change who leads the country?

@@TheIronWorkshop I firstly tried editing Mussolini out with another leader, nothing changed it still showed him as Benito Mussolini, so now I'm trying to create a new leader instead of Mussolini and that isn't working either, I want my character to lead the country at the start.

By another leader I mean my custom character.

Make sure that Italy has the correct political party in ruling_party, your leader won't show up if his sub ideology doesn't match the country's ideology. Besides that I'd suggest posting some of your code to see if anything is off... Best do this on the Iron Workshop Discord

@@TheIronWorkshop leader I created is fascist and the sub ideology I gave is rexism, which matches with the files, Idk if it has something to do with italy being fascist to begin with or what because no matter what I try to do nothing ends up changing.

i’ve noticed the same. have you figured out how to do this still?

It is in the common file

@@squirrelystew8323 No