Vic3 to HoI4 Converter Thread

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0.1 Anders - for Vic3[1.3-1.4] and Hoi4[1.12]​

Welcome to the inaugural release of Vic3 to HoI4! It's very basic for now as you'll quick notice, most suited for people who already heavily customize their conversions (looking at you, Something Awful crowd) or multiplayer megacampaigns where you collectively make something happen. The focus has been on converting territory, some initial industry, manpower, and resources. Country internals like politics or focus trees are completely generic still. Everything that is converted is pretty out of balance too. Still, this should be enough to get things going, and you'll see continual improvements, so make sure to update the converter every time you run it!

We do log a lot of balance-related information, so it would be helpful if you shared log.txt from the converter directory even for conversions that succeed. That'll help us determine the correct balance. As well, we know there's a bunch of weird map stuff. If you find more, please report them here.

Hotfixes

• Initial release - no crashes to fix yet!

Coldfixes

• Initial releases - no oddities to fix yet!

Enhancements

• Hoi4 mods created
• HoI4 playlists created
• Vic3 saves imported
• Vic3 mods read
• Countries converted - name, color, capital
• States are converted - territory, names, and owners
• Disconnected states such as islands are split as appropriate
• Manpower is converted
• Industry is converted
• Buildings are placed
• Technology is converted
• State categories are converted
• Wastelands are split from non-wasteland states
• Victory points are converted based on Vic3 significant provinces
• Naval bases are set in position
• Resources are placed
• Basic division templates are handed out
• Templates for ships, planes, and tanks
• Required world tension is lowered until politics are converted
• Default infrastructure is set
• Railways are converted
• Supply nodes are converted

Shuffles

• Inititial province mappings created

 

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0.2 Blamey - for Vic3[1.3-1.4] and Hoi4[1.13]​

Welcome to another release of the converter! At this point, most of the basics in the world are in place. Many country internals are now in place, and there's been some attempts at balancing. Focus trees, decisions, and events are still limited to generic ones, so the world is still static without some effort to add your own trees. Thus this is still most suited for people who already heavily customize their conversions (still looking at you, Something Awful crowd) or multiplayer megacampaigns where you collectively make something happen

All changes are pushed to the converter immediately, so make sure to update the converter every time you run it!

We do log a lot of balance-related information, so it would be helpful if you shared log.txt from the converter directory even for conversions that succeed. That'll help us determine the correct balance. As well, we know there's a bunch of weird map stuff. If you find more, please report them here.

As well, I've created a mod that tweaks some of the significant provinces to make VP locations and railroads come out better: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040854878

For the next bit, we'll be working on ways to make the world more active and customizable. Hoi4 modders, this will be your time to shine, we'll need your help to make this great. More on this topic is a future post.

Hotfixes

• Import Vic3 1.3-style pops
• Find missing railways
• Puppets now have proper politics
• Ignore missing heads of states

Coldfixes

• Log the date of conversion
• Support newer Hoi4 versions
• Support newer Vic3 versions
• Log when Paradox messed up special provinces

Enhancements

• Decentralized country status converted
• Bookmark included
• Ideologies converted
• Elections converted
• Sub-ideologies converted
• Industrial conversion is based on economics, not just employed people
• Track country cultures
• Convert state categories
• Give cores on owned land
• Map more country tags
• Convert victory points
• Convert most characters
• Improve railway conversion
• Limit supply nodes
• Some VP names matter more
• Convert treaty ports
• Convert puppets
• Convert fewer commanders
• Convert ideology support
• Convert laws
• Convert number of research slots
• Create generic national focus files for easier modding
• Convert infrastructure
• Add some basic air bases, but not in wastelands
• Convert institutions
• Convert stability
• Convert air base levels
• Distinguish split nations
• Better placement of naval bases
• Convert militaries
• Use multithreading for faster conversions
• Update officer-corps spirits
• Convert resources
• Give traits to advisors
• Give ideas for constitutional monarchs
• Flags are copied when possible
• Some initial ideology balancing

Shuffles

• russian strays & impassible fudging
• bohemia & Kursk
• USA
• Canada
• Mexico
• Cuba
• North Africa
• South America

 

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0.3 Chen - for Vic3[1.3-1.5] and Hoi4[1.13]​

An update to Vic3 meant just enough of a change to the converter to justify a release. Especially since contributors have added some significant missing features since the last one and I put in one myself. You'll now see convoys, navies, and converted wars in your megacampaigns.

All changes are pushed to the converter immediately, so make sure to update the converter every time you run it!

We do log a lot of balance-related information, so it would be helpful if you shared log.txt from the converter directory even for conversions that succeed. That'll help us determine the correct balance. As well, we know there's a bunch of weird map stuff. If you find more, please report them here.

As well, I've created a mod that tweaks some of the significant provinces to make VP locations and railroads come out better: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040854878

For the next bit, we'll be working on ways to make the world more active and customizable. Hoi4 modders, this will be your time to shine, we'll need your help to make this great. More on this topic in a future post.

Hotfixes

• Fix parse errors in ideology mappings - hopefully less fascism now

Coldfixes

• Update rakaly save melter

Enhancements

• Naval base priorities
• Convert convoys
• Support Hoi4 1.13
• Convert navies
• Convert starting wars
• Support Vic3 1.5

Shuffles
None this time

 

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So what's next for the converter? Beyond a growing list of bugs to address sooner than later, the biggest missing piece is focus trees. We’re aiming to do something more flexible than the hard-coded focus tree generator in Vic2 to HoI4. Thus, what we’re calling the Story System.

The story system consists of assigning a number of roles to various nations which collectively create a series of stories for the conversion. The converter's configurables directory will contain files specifying a number of these roles. Roles will consist of focus tree segments, events, and decisions, giving a lot of flexibility for what a role can do.

And this is where the rest of the community is needed. The team plans to only create a few basic roles, such as country unifications. The rest will be left for the broader community to create. If you’re interested in creating roles, you can read the design document for the Stories System now, and let me know you’re interested so we can chat more about how it’ll all work.

 

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0.4 Doorman - for Vic3[1.3-1.6] and Hoi4[1.14]​

Updates to a game usually mean a fair bit of work to update the converter. Two games updating at nearly the same time? Turned out to be not so bad. There's some other small fixes, but this release is mostly for game update compatibility. Work on the stories system continues in the background.

All changes are pushed to the converter immediately, so make sure to update the converter every time you run it!

We do log a lot of balance-related information, so it would be helpful if you shared log.txt from the converter directory even for conversions that succeed. That'll help us determine the correct balance. As well, we know there's a bunch of weird map stuff. If you find more, please report them here.

As well, I've created a mod that tweaks some of the significant provinces to make VP locations and railroads come out better: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040854878

For the next bit, we'll be working on ways to make the world more active and customizable. Hoi4 modders, this will be your time to shine, we'll need your help to make this great. More on this topic in a future post.

Hotfixes

• Assign unassigned provinces to surrounding strategic regions.
• Fix army unit conversion
• Fix navy conversion
• Fix various crashes

Coldfixes

• Make the minimum naval base level one
• Import 1.5-style pacts
• Update rakaly.
• Fix small portraits
• Cleanup Vic 1.5 character changes
• Map PDX's Long sentinel value to -1 for use in conversion logic.

Balance

• Use updated ideology mappings from forums.

Enhancements

• Log remaining unlogged options
• Northern Europe Province mappings updates
• Eliminate compiler warnings.
• Countries without colors take their owner's color.
• Implement Dynamic names
• Remove duplicate line in clang-tidy

1.14/1.6 Support

• Prep for version 0.4 - MINOR
• Update province mappings for 1.14
• Handle empty lines in Hoi4 province definitions.
• Compatch for Hoi 1.14 - git unmessy version
• Use a corrected province_terrains.txt
• blank additional files
• doorman banner

 

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0.5 Eisenhower - for Vic3[1.7] and Hoi4[1.14]​

Map changes are some of the more difficult to account for in the converter. The ones from this update were particularly difficult, but got us to make internal improvements that'll make future ones easier. There's some other small fixes, but as with the last one, this release is mostly for game update compatibility. But work on the stories system still continues in the background.

All changes are pushed to the converter immediately, so make sure to update the converter every time you run it!

We do log a lot of balance-related information, so it would be helpful if you shared log.txt from the converter directory even for conversions that succeed. That'll help us determine the correct balance. As well, we know there's a bunch of weird map stuff. If you find more, please report them here.

As well, I've created a mod that tweaks some of the significant provinces to make VP locations and railroads come out better: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040854878

For the next bit, we'll be working on ways to make the world more active and customizable. Hoi4 modders, this will be your time to shine, we'll need your help to make this great. More on this topic in a future post.

Hotfixes

• Better handle saves with unmeltable tokens
• Disallow tags Windows disallows as filename
• Plug in installation & savegame version verification from EU4ToVic3

Coldfixes

• add IgnoreUnregisteredItems to pact's target parser
• Move all tests out of empty namespace
• Improved image_modifier.py
• remove unnecessary triggers

Enhancements

• Correctly import attackers and defenders in wars

Stories System Work

• Import stories
• Move the work on creating stories to its own file
• Create combinations
• Make generic focuses roles.
• Add roles for Italy for culture-holders
• Score and block combinations
• Add ability to import a focus

Game Update Support

• Blank mod updates for hoi4 1.14.7
• Add warning for discrepancies between the vic3 save and the mapping file
• add a warning that checks if the provinces in province_terrains.txt are grouped by state
• Log when province mappings are in the wrong region
• Use a more robust method of province indexing
• Update province mappings

 

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0.6 Fioravanzo - for Vic3[1.8] and Hoi4[1.15]​

This update is mostly supporting the latest updates to Vic3 and Hoi4. There's also a fix to how the converter handles Eu4 to Vic3 conversion mods. Work on the stories system still continues in the background - it's disabled except for developers but does generate focus trees now. I need to make the stories system handle decisions, events, and localizations, then I'll be able to open it up to people developing stories while I work on triggers.

All changes are pushed to the converter immediately, so make sure to update the converter every time you run it!

We do log a lot of balance-related information, so it would be helpful if you shared log.txt from the converter directory even for conversions that succeed. That'll help us determine the correct balance. As well, we know there's a bunch of weird map stuff. If you find more, please report them here.

As well, I've created a mod that tweaks some of the significant provinces to make VP locations and railroads come out better: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040854878

For the next bit, we'll be working on ways to make the world more active and customizable. Hoi4 modders, this will be your time to shine, we'll need your help to make this great. More on this topic in a future post.

Update Support

• Support Gotterdammerung
• Provide scientist portraits
• Updates events for Gotterdammerung
• Update to latest Hoi4 Patch
• Allow the converter to run against 1.15
• Handle updates to ideologies folder.
• Update ideology mappings for Vic3 1.8
• Province mapping updates for 1.8
• Release 0.6 (MINOR)

Stories System

• Handle focuses in roles
• Implement repeat focuses from roles

Fixes

• Province mapping fixes
• Put correct folder into zips and installers
• Warn instead of crashing for missing state regions
• Correctly get province indexes from mods

Internal Dev

• CMake for windows. Only slightly cursed.
• Fix findings from clang-tidy
• Fix the debug build

Other

• Update country_mappings.txt
• Buildings update