Used as a trigger that checks the country being chosen. Used as a flow control tool that comes up as true when all of the triggers within are true. Used as a flow control tool that comes up as true when any of the triggers within is false. Their mere existence can cause other code to break. There are some country tags that must be avoided, as they will cause in-game confusion whether something is meant to be a reference to a country or not. To create a tag, add a new file to /common/country_tags (or edit an existing file, though creating a new one is preferable due to making the mod easier to make compatible to newer game versions) and add a line similar to SCO = 'countries/Scotland.txt', where countries/Scotland.txt is the address of the country file that will be created/edited, located in /common/countries A country must not share a tag with any other country. This is how a country is referred to in all of the game's script. Optionally add the country to the game by assigning it states within the /history/states/*.txt files.Ĭountries need a 3-character country tag.Add a large, medium and small flag for each ideology to the /gfx/flags folder.Add the country's name to any /localisation/english/*_l_english.yml file that uses the UTF-8-BOM encoding.Buildings will not be assigned to the country properly otherwise. Create an OOB file in /history/units and load it within the previous country history file.txt file in the /history/countries folder, with the first three letters of the filename being the country's tag, and fill it with the starting historical information. Define the country leader and optionally advisors and unit leaders in /common/characters.Create a file in the /common/countries folder with the same name as the one that's linked in the country tag definition.Define a unique 3-character country tag in any /common/country_tags/*.txt file.10 Randomly-generated portraits (optional).

Custom nations mod hoi4