Help with modding

[NorwayBernd]

I tried to add some extra events for Germany (about them adding cores in Poland), but I can't get them to fire when they're supposed to in-game nor using the console. I've included them here; could any (relatively) experienced modders take a look at them and tell me what I'm doing wrong wrong?

Trying them out in the 1933 scenario, by the way.

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EDIT: just noticed I posted it in the wrong forum. Thanks to the mod for moving it.

 

[nymet260]

line 146 :
NOT = {
esists = POL
}

line 303 :
NOT = {
esists = POL
}

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You also seem to have a lot of unnecessary trigger checks for example the not have xxx core. Germany wont have cores on a said province, it might have a claim but it can never have a core unless added via event.

otherwise I noticed no other errors

 

[NorwayBernd]

D'oh. That's what you get for copying lines from other events. Thanks.
And the seemingly excessive core checks are there just in case I make other, similar events that otherwise would conflict.


EDIT: Okay, corrected that, but still there's something wrong. Apparently, there's something wrong in line 271:

action_b = {

I really can see nothing wrong with that line, what on earth is the matter?

 

[nymet260]

Action_A from just a few lines above it is missing a closing }

action_a = {
ai_chance = 90 
name = "Very well"
command = { type = belligerence value = 10 }
[b]}[/b] <---- missing this

action_b = {
ai_chance = 10
name = "No! We will not expand the Greater German Reich to include these lands!"

command = { type = belligerence value = -10 }
command = { type = sleepevent which = 80501 }
}

 

[NorwayBernd]

Ah, thanks. Was confused since the CTD report said there was something wrong with line 271, and I didn't think about that being a possibility.

E: Okay, now there's apparently a missing closing tag in the very last event, according to the CTD report. However, it IS there!

 

[makif130289]

Did you include the name of your new event file in db/ events.txt file ?

 

[NorwayBernd]

Yes. Though I'm doing these tests by adding the coding into a pre-existing events file (I have the file itself (additional_Germany.txt) saved somewhere else.)

 

[Limith]

Try using Notepad++, select a language like Java, and go to View->Fold all and then unfolding the brackets (click the + button next to the line numbers) to see where you are missing a close bracket.

 

[NorwayBernd]

As of now, my only Internet access is via a very limited mobile broadband and my phone, and thus I cannot download any big files such as programs like Notepad++ until I get back home, which will be late tomorrow afternoon or evening.
What Limith describes there sounds like a very simple process for anyone with Notepad++, though I obviously cannot do it because I don't have it and don't have any realistic means of downloading it. If someone with it could do that and post the results, it would be greatly appreciated.
I have already fixed several typos in addition to the corrections posted here, so no need to fix those unless you want to.

EDIT: Okay, figured that out and fixed it. However, there's a new problem:
I copied additional_germany.txt into Mods\Darkest Hour\db\events where all other event files are, but they won't fire even when I use the console. (I had done the previous tests by simply pasting the text into a pre-existing file.)

I did include the line

event = "db\events\additional_germany.txt"

in the events.txt file, but it still does not work. Why?

 

[NorwayBernd]

There also seems to be a problem with getting events 80500 and 80501 to fire. I want to do so the events fire four and three years after events 80400 and 80401, respectively. However, that doesn't happen.