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Where can i find a bunch of resources on modding Hoi2 Arma that have working links? for example how to insert a country like DDR into a scenario that hasnt been liberated? A in depth knowledge base on how to use the editor and such?

 

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Where can i find a bunch of resources on modding Hoi2 Arma that have working links? for example how to insert a country like DDR into a scenario that hasnt been liberated? A in depth knowledge base on how to use the editor and such?

Right. Let's answer this a sentence at a time, since you're asking for a lot of stuff here.

Where can i find a bunch of resources on modding Hoi2 Arma that have working links?

The HoI2wiki and Lord Ederon's Interactive Map (google it) are two tools in any serious modder's arsenal. Also the showid command (f12 then showid) and a windowed version of ARMA as well as GIMP/Photoshop/Paint.net also make life easier

for example how to insert a country like DDR into a scenario that hasnt been liberated?

Depends on exactly what you mean here. If you want to REPLACE GER with DDR, it's the case of changing a tag in the .inc file for Germany in your Scenario/1936 (or whatever) folder.

IF you want the DDR to exist with GER or other countries on German territory at the scenario start, you need to create a new .inc file and flesh it out - which is covered in the Hoi2wiki (paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki)

A in depth knowledge base on how to use the editor and such?

Personally, the editor has never been any use to me. Other people say they managed to get it so it doesn't break the game after a couple of patches, but I never bothered - using the wiki and a good notepad program (I use notepad ++ which is very helpful) can let you do everything the editor does, and you learn how to CODE and what good and bad code looks like, as opposed to fiddling with some values and wondering why the game stops working.