Devs: What are the areas in DH that need doing or joining up?

[novapaddy]

To the Devs:

What are the areas in DH, allowing for the current mods, that need either joining up or doing to help make DH a better game?

I've been chatting with Burning and adding that to what FT said to me ages ago, "having a reason to do a mod first, a plan..."; they are both right, it would be better to spend the time and energy on getting DH better, rather than probably repeating work already done, and just concentrating on getting a version of RDD up and running.

So, what needs doing?

 

[MartinBG]

Helping AAR mod development is probably the best way to improve DH in the long run as the plan is to integrate this mod into DH at some point in the future.

 

[Fernando Torres]

Yep, over the long run I would really like to see AAR and NWO added to the main game.

 

[novapaddy]

Thanks for the replies and clearing that up for me.

I was thinking of "tinkering" with a DH save-game, OOB type program, of the type found on the HOI3 site, OR a very simple event generator to mass produce events for DH.

Any use?

 

[ewphoenix123]

There is already a event editor generator for HOI2 that works with DH, but it's only very limited and restrictive in what you can create.
A tool to easily add new ministers/leaders/techteams would be useful aswell i guess, every small mod would benefit from a complete db in dh full.

The most important thing in both tools would be a graphical interface, and a mechanic to check for already used ids/names and automatic/or manual assignment of free ids.

 

[unmerged(174159)]

If you wanna make a useful third party tool, an external province.csv GUI would be handy, since doing the whole thing from scratch is terrifying! Especially the whole x, y thing which has to basically be done blind.

Similarly with the tech mods.

Actually if you could create a program that can call up the relevant image and allow you to place cities/beach/fort etc icons. on the map or tech icons on it's relevant tree, that would be incredibly useful.

 

[novapaddy]

There is already a event editor generator for HOI2 that works with DH, but it's only very limited and restrictive in what you can create.
A tool to easily add new ministers/leaders/techteams would be useful aswell i guess, every small mod would benefit from a complete db in dh full.

The most important thing in both tools would be a graphical interface, and a mechanic to check for already used ids/names and automatic/or manual assignment of free ids.

Yes, I think I know exactly the type of little program you want. I've already been tinkering today, and successfully got my little program doing what I wanted. I'm pleased.
So give me a few weeks and let me see what I can come up with.

@KaiserMuffin: yeah, this will have to be for later on. Hopefully I'll sort something out. Cheers

 

[unmerged(174159)]

No worries, I'll just do it the hardway till then - mine was more specialised anyway.

 

[BeardedHoplite]

A minister/general maker would be amazing. I remember making entire (fictional) countries leader and minister pools in half-an-hour with the tool that came with the complete version of HoI2

 

[Limith]

If you have DD/ARMA, just use the editor from there and copy the files over. It's what I used for CG ministers.

 

[razorbird789]

If you have DD/ARMA, just use the editor from there and copy the files over. It's what I used for CG ministers.

it'd be lovely to have a better version of the DD/ARMA editor.....

 

[Burning]

Help would be awesome in the following order

• a event-script language definition for a common IDE (Netbeans, Eclipse) that supports auto-indenting and code completion, instead of a stand alone event creator
• Help in AAR
• a debugging tool that automatically analyzers events for script-errors (if the language definition exists, this would not be needed)

 

[novapaddy]

Help would be awesome in the following order

• a event-script language definition for a common IDE (Netbeans, Eclipse) that supports auto-indenting and code completion, instead of a stand alone event creator
• Help in AAR
• a debugging tool that automatically analyzers events for script-errors (if the language definition exists, this would not be needed)

@Burning.. you should contact AC, as I'm sure he has a tool that does what you need? based on XML I think?

 

[unmerged(174159)]

Would this be pluggable into Notepad++?

 

[novapaddy]

Would this be pluggable into Notepad++?

Yeah, you're correct! It was notepad++ and not eclipse...

 

[Kung Zog]

Yes, I think I know exactly the type of little program you want. I've already been tinkering today, and successfully got my little program doing what I wanted. I'm pleased.
So give me a few weeks and let me see what I can come up with.

@KaiserMuffin: yeah, this will have to be for later on. Hopefully I'll sort something out. Cheers

if you need more work burden a program to edit scenario files would be lovely but not really really needed.