I've been reading over the forums and wiki pages (http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/index.php/Modding_province.csv in particular) trying to find out about modifing some of the provinces in the game. I'm currently running vanilla Armageddon 1.2.
What I basically want to do is alter a few provinces to the Urban type (LARGE cities such as Rome, Paris, some Japenese cities, etc that are currently plains or hills in v1.2), but basically leave the game itself unchanged. While i think i can figure out the modding of the code well enough in the .csv files, I'm curious to know where to save photos (.bmp files), as all Urban tiles have to have a unique picture associated with them. Also, is there a particular method of saving the picture (preferred resolution, scale, etc) so that it displays correctly.
Also, is it possible to edit particular provinces (i.e. non-urban provinces) to have a unique picture displayed, kind of like the urban tiles currently do (for example, if i wanted a pic of a palm tree-framed Pearl Harbor to show up when Oahu is selected, but wanted to tile to essesntailly remain a hill province in terms of combat and movement).
Final (noob) question here, but once i alter all the provinces as detailed above, will it affect any games i'm currently playing, or will it only take effect on new games from that point (disregarding any savegame file modifications, of course).
THANKS!
What I basically want to do is alter a few provinces to the Urban type (LARGE cities such as Rome, Paris, some Japenese cities, etc that are currently plains or hills in v1.2), but basically leave the game itself unchanged. While i think i can figure out the modding of the code well enough in the .csv files, I'm curious to know where to save photos (.bmp files), as all Urban tiles have to have a unique picture associated with them. Also, is there a particular method of saving the picture (preferred resolution, scale, etc) so that it displays correctly.
Also, is it possible to edit particular provinces (i.e. non-urban provinces) to have a unique picture displayed, kind of like the urban tiles currently do (for example, if i wanted a pic of a palm tree-framed Pearl Harbor to show up when Oahu is selected, but wanted to tile to essesntailly remain a hill province in terms of combat and movement).
Final (noob) question here, but once i alter all the provinces as detailed above, will it affect any games i'm currently playing, or will it only take effect on new games from that point (disregarding any savegame file modifications, of course).
THANKS!
