[HOI4 Modding] Creating New Ideologies

Published: 26 February 2022
on channel: The Iron Workshop

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This Hearts of Iron IV modding lesson will explain how to add new ideologies into the game, as well as their icon and localization.

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Timestamps for this tutorial/lesson:

00:00 - Lesson beginning
00:41 - Creating Mod
01:08 - Folder & File Structure
06:30 - Editing ideologies.txt file
10:24 - Creating new ideology icon
11:48 - Creating new ideology flags
19:39 - Creating new ideology localization
29:34 - (Bonus) Assigning new ideology to country and leaders
34:04 - (Bonus) Fixing new ideology interface issue

Useful links:

Iron Workshop Flag Creator:
https://github.com/PlayerHOI/IWFC/rel...

Iron Workshop ideology template file:
https://github.com/PlayerHOI/HOI4-Res...

Ideologies GUI fix code snippet:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
containerWindowType = {
name = "chart_explanation"
position = { x = 300 y = 305 }
size = { width = 240 height = 60 }
clipping = yes
verticalScrollbar = "right_vertical_slider"
margin = { top = 0 bottom = 0}

background = {
name = "Background"
spriteType =""
position = { x = 0 y = 0 }
}

gridBoxType = {
name = "parties_grid"
position = { x = -20 y = -5 }
size = { width = 230 height = 60 }
slotsize = { width = 230 height = 14 }
format = "UPPER_LEFT"
}
}
------------------------------------------------------------------------

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