A series of questions from a HOI2 mod noob.

[Agent Larkin]

Howdy. I have been planning on doing a HOI2 AAR for a while and have finally decided that I want to continue on my Vicky AAR.

Problem is I need to change a lot of things and outside of making custom events have no real experience with modding.

So I have a couple of questions I was hoping to get help with.

(1 How do I change a nations political set up? For example I'm going to be playing as Ireland that is part of the commonwealth and thus would have the British Head's of State.

(2 How do I add or remove tech-teams? For example I'm going to be dealing with a technologically rich Canada and so need to add some teams and remove some from the US.

(3 How do I change a countries flag?

(4 How do I modify which country controls where?

(5 How do I set it up so that one country is a satellite of another?

(6 How do I change how much of a resource a territory is producing?

I also feel I should mention I have used the save game exporter from Vicky 1 - HOI2 but the results have been pretty lackluster.

*edit*

And I can't believe I forgot this but:

(7 How to change what unit model a nation uses.

 

[bestmajor]

(1 How do I change a nations political set up? For example I'm going to be playing as Ireland that is part of the commonwealth and thus would have the British Head's of State.

first of all you have to add the new minister to your ministers list (../db/ministers/ministers_ire.csv) make sure the last line is used and blank.
then you go to .../scenarios/1936/ireland.inc and change the entry for Head of State (HoS). the entry refers to the ID number used in the ministers CSV.

(2 How do I add or remove tech-teams? For example I'm going to be dealing with a technologically rich Canada and so need to add some teams and remove some from the US.

db/tech/teams/teams_(whatever)
works like the ministers CSV - gfx for both need to be in .../gfx/interface/pics

(3 How do I change a countries flag?

...gfx/map/flags
take a flag you like and rename it. (eg you want to use the german one for IRE, rename it into Flag_ire)
same goes for shields

(4 How do I modify which country controls where?

provinces are defined in scenarios/1936/ireland (for example) - note you will have to remove one province from its current owner first and give eg northern ireland to IRE afterwards

5 How do I set it up so that one country is a satellite of another?

again scenarios/1936 (maybe look up Oman and ENG then copy the entries to the countries you want to modify)

(6 How do I change how much of a resource a territory is producing?

db/province
names of provinces are in .../db/province_names

7 How to change what unit model a nation uses.

config/models

 

[Agent Larkin]

Ok I'm getting somewhere. I was able to make the head of Ireland King George but when the event comes up of his death I just get left without a head of state even though I brought all the Kings over to the "ministers" file.

Other problem I'm having at the moment is the flag as I want to change it to a totally different flag that's not already in the flag list. Needless to say it was not a simple matter of putting the file in under the name.

 

[bestmajor]

if you kill your HoS you have to introduce another one - they dont appear just like that.