Where to start

[duhsveti]

Guys im interested in making a mod, and i need some advice. Where can i find good tutorials(not including the ones on hoi2wiki that im currently reading thru), and are there any editors for scenarios, events, ministers, or anything else that would make the modding process a bit faster. Also can you give me any advice on where to start with the modding.
Thank you all in advance
P.S. I have roughly 2 months to spend on this so i hope something will come out of my little modding quest xD

 

[{LD}Firestorm]

My best advice I can give you right now:


Tech trees: Create in HoI II using their editor, and then transfer it to AoD. In my mod, I found doing it by hand created alot of headaches with alot of tech names spread between three language files.

Scenarios: Do them by hand. The editor is not very good at this. Doing it by hand is quite time consuming, however, and expect this to take up alot of time.

Events: Very easy, no tutorial needed really. Just take a look at ingame events, and relate to the HoI II modding wiki for events.

Ministers: Researching takes the most time. Putting them into minister files takes very little time.

Hopefully that should give you a headstart. If anyone has a better way of doing the above, post here so that it may even help me out

 

[duhsveti]

Thx for the advice man, i completely forgot about the hoi 2 editor.

 

[duhsveti]

Is it possible to create more than 19 nations, considering i have only 19 user defined tags for use. Or can i change the other nations also, not only user defined. Btw i'm reffering to world_names file located in the config folder.

 

[duhsveti]

Nvm the above i figured it out. I'l just use the old country tags for my new nations, and change the rest.