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Hi guys. I want to make a my first mod into Darkest Hour. In start, i'am sorry for my weak language. As i said, i want make my first mod into this game, but i dont know how. Most guides have sites down, or it is incompletly, or incomprehensible. Maybe once of modders can take me a lesson from basic?
I started from scratch a few months ago and it has been a very satisfying experience. I strongly recommend starting with this event making guide. It goes over all of the basics and walks you through it step-by-step. I personally went through it several times. It takes patience, but is well worth your time if you are interested in creating mods:
There is an enormous amount of helpful information in the modding questions thread. I spent a few hours and went through every page noting down useful information and learned a lot reading through past questions:
And finally, the modding documentation folder (located in Darkest Hour A HOI Game\Modding documentation) has a number of useful files, but most notably "event commands.txt". This will be your bible and you should have it open at all times when writing events. I also recommend taking a look at the existing events in Darkest Hour Full, most notably the events for major powers (UK.txt, germany.txt, USSR.txt are all very useful - these are located in Darkest Hour A HOI Game\Mods\Darkest Hour Full\db\events) which can give you an idea for how the developers wrote their events. It's often a good idea to take an existing event from one of these files and then rewrite the data to fit your needs.
Start with that event making guide and make a simple event. Once you get a small taste of success, it leaves you wanting more.
