Age of Modding v0.9.8.0 Released! A revolutional PC Modding assistant UPDATE!

[Magolor 68]

Hello, Age of History II community!

This is Magolor (Talirian). After months of silence, finally I'm coming back with the brand-new Age of Modding v0.9.8.0 UPDATE!

- You are a new modder, you want to make a mod with custom events, maps, musics, icons and everything else, but don't know how to do?

- You are a skilled modder, you have so many ideas but it takes too much time and effort to realize?

- You are a gamer, you want to quickly improve the game experience with prettified event pictures, custom music and modified game rules?

Now, Age of Modding can save your day!

Age of Modding (AoM for short) is a Windows software, designed to help AoH2 modders, providing a super convenient and intuitive GUI-based modding pipeline.

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Make AoH2 Great Again!

>>>Age of Modding v0.9.8.0 UPDATE Download Link<<<

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Current Version 0.9.8.0 features Include:

- Brand-New UI: Taken from PyDracula, a UI way better than previous one! Enjoy the tool's efficiency as well as beauty.

- Better Map Generator Algorithm: No more gaps between provinces; more options and more flexibility; allowing separated provinces including enclaved provinces. Creating huge maps with thousands of provinces within 10 minutes!

- Pictures Manager: As in v0.9.0.0. Convert UI files to different scales, resizing event pictures and leaders portraits. Together with the Game Base Manager. You can finally enjoy large event pictures in your game experience!

- Texts Manager: As in v0.9.0.0. Convenient event localization, and text-based event making pipeline under the help of a new format. Improved in v0.9.8.0 with more intuitive edition. Automatic registration of charset: never going to have missing characters again! (still improving)

- Mods Manager: As in v0.9.0.0. Manage game with different mods and versions: add, clean, rename, move and export to .zip file to be ready to publish with just one click.

- Music Manager: Replace your own music and sound effects! It is easy! 

- Game Base Manager (Dev): Change game base and change the rules! More technologies, different combating computations, different event picture sizes, different diplomacy, etc. Different game bases are collected from different mods. Also, I personally modified the original game base for simple things like war declaration turn. This is still under development and more documentations and explanations are definitely required.

- Civilization Manager (Coming Soon): Civilization BATCH editor! Add hundreds of civilizaitions using one click only. Made available by the custom Game Base developed throughout months: serializable AoH2. This is still under development (I once finished it but the source code was lost in a catastrophic breakdown of my computer, together with all the source codes of the old v0.9.0.0 AoM 😞).

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Introductions and Tutorials of the old AoM are already uploaded on YouTube in English, please subscribe my Youtube channel Taliran: Talirian. Or if you want Chinese Tutorials, or have a bilibili account and willing to support me by subscribing my bilibili account Talirian: Talirian. (Please do subscribe if you are interested. Thank you very much for your attention!)

Currently only English and Chinese (since I'm Chinese) are supported as interface language, if you would like to help me translate and add new languages, please contact me.

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Old Topic: AoM v0.9.0.0 Link

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Disclaimer:

Please do checkout Tutorial, and please do backup your files. The software is currently under beta so BUGs may occur. Please contact me if you find any.

The software is completely free of charge (and it will always be), and you could freely use it for any purpose in any way. But please notice:

1. Though this is not compulsory and I have no means of checking, please add acknowledgement if you used this software during the production of your mod or map or whatever it is.

2. It is allowed to profit, if you like, from mods created under the help of this software. But it is not allowed to profit by redistributing, selling or providing services from this software.

3. Though this is not compulsory and I have no means of checking, using this software that I'm willing to share, you should also be willing to contribute to the community and share your findings whenever you discovered some new techniques in AoH2 modding.

[Italian PeC 653]

In the game base changer manager,  how do I make it so that event pictures arent 279 in size but way bigger

[Magolor 68]

18 hours ago, Italian PeC said:

In the game base changer manager,  how do I make it so that event pictures arent 279 in size but way bigger

The default event picture is 512×96，I have modified a version (i.e.: 2.0.0.1), which supports 640×360.

You can also use the picture manager to batch convert all event pictures to 640×360 or any other size.

This Game Base Manager is only a primitive version, for more flexibility (e.g.: custom event picture size), please wait for later versions.

Edited December 6, 2021 by Magolor

[Italian PeC 653]

42 minutes ago, Magolor said:

The default event picture is 512×96，I have modified a version (i.e.: 2.0.0.1), which supports 640×360.

You can also use the picture manager to batch convert all event pictures to 640×360 or any other size.

This Game Base Manager is only a primitive version, for more flexibility (e.g.: custom event picture size), please wait for later versions.

Your base crashes at 98%

[HawkerSP 262]

Great update!

[Magolor 68]

23 hours ago, Italian PeC said:

Your base crashes at 98%

2.0.0.1? That should work fine if the original base works. Only event picture size is changed, everything else are the same. It works on my computer.

If you are using later versions, please DONT, wait until later updates.

Edited December 7, 2021 by Magolor

[Italian PeC 653]

2 hours ago, Magolor said:

2.0.0.1? That should work fine if the original base works. Only event picture size is changed, everything else are the same. It works on my computer.

If you are using later versions, please DONT, wait until later updates.

 im using 2.0.0.1 

Whatever mod i apply it to, it crashes at 98 or 99%

[Chairman Baad 1,971]

On 12/4/2021 at 10:38 AM, Magolor said:

- Better Map Generator Algorithm: No more gaps between provinces; more options and more flexibility; allowing separated provinces including enclaved provinces. Creating huge maps with thousands of provinces within 10 minutes!

Could this be the one that brings Paradox maps to AoH? We shall see...

[Reza Shah 355]

Damn, this is too good. U also should add some gfx option ;)

[Cabo_Taylor 29]

it's good, yes but i need --- converter i want to make PC & Phone mods.

[Golo 73]

I've got a problem with the new version. It does not really work. I tried loading a 5000+ province map  and the game just crashes at 59%. For now I will Stick to the old version.

[Chairman Baad 1,971]

It doesn't work with the HoI4 map or the EU4 map... 😭

Edited December 8, 2021 by Chairman Baad

[Magolor 68]

21 hours ago, Golo said:

I've got a problem with the new version. It does not really work. I tried loading a 5000+ province map  and the game just crashes at 59%. For now I will Stick to the old version.

I've tested on a map of 5000+ provinces and it works fine.

Please send me the line map that causes the game to crash and I will debug it through. Thank you for using and helping me improve the tool, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Also, try to play with the parameters, I once encountered crash because the provinces are too large.

[Magolor 68]

11 hours ago, Chairman Baad said:

It doesn't work with the HoI4 map or the EU4 map... 😭

Definitely. Actually, over a dozen Chinese modders have contacted me and wanted to build the HoI4 and EU4 map.

This tool can help you make a map with LESS effort, but it can NOT help you make a map with NO effort. In HoI4 and EU4 map, there are strangely shaped borders (too narrow, close to single-pixel level), which could not be clearly recoginized IN PRINCIPLE.

So please smooth the map first (especially the provinces close to the sea and the islands). That's what I've told all the modders  who came to me. (I'm not sure but I guess some of them have already manually smoothed the map and succeeded in building a map from Paradox, I've attached a picture).

Also, I'm not sure what color encodings the HoI4 and EU4 color map are using. Anyway, it seems that these maps have a large need. I may check and try to build them next month (winter vacation).

[Magolor 68]

21 hours ago, Cabo_Taylor said:

it's good, yes but i need --- converter i want to make PC & Phone mods.

Converter can not be easily made automatically, but quite easy manually:

1. PC -> (use the tool) Extract Version -> .zip

2. Unzip .zip in your phone or emulator.

3. Open game .dex file with MT Manager, copy everything in the unzipped directory to assets, replace when conflict occurs.

4. Save, done.

[Magolor 68]

On 12/7/2021 at 7:52 PM, Reza Shah said:

Damn, this is too good. U also should add some gfx option 😉

Yes it can. Definitely in the next version.

Currently, in the tool folder you can find a file "config.json", adjust the "dpi" value to change the gfx size.

[Noobs Dudes 180]

@MagolorMy game crashes when i try to use the Auto Province thing. Is it fixed in the new update?

[Golo 73]

So far i've only managed make one map work with this and it had 360 provinces and it took seven hours for the game to load it.

Edited December 11, 2021 by Golo

[Golo 73]

Finally managed to get a large map to work, but it took two hours and something like 10 crashes.

[Magolor 68]

9 hours ago, Golo said:

So far i've only managed make one map work with this and it had 360 provinces and it took seven hours for the game to load it.

How large is your map? What's your computer configuration?

On my laptop (bought 4 years ago), 5000+ provinces takes about 45 min from scratch to final playable.

[Magolor 68]

14 hours ago, Noobs Dudes said:

@MagolorMy game crashes when i try to use the Auto Province thing. Is it fixed in the new update?

Guys, I can not get what the problem exatcly is unless some reproducable examples are provided.

Game crashes are relatively common during any mod making problem, try binary search on the number of provinces to determine the id of the error. Usually they are caused by zero-pixel provinces (this would not happen using this tool), oddly shaped provinces, large provinces (this is the most common), missing files, or just plain randomness. Also, you can crop the original map picture to determine where the provinces are.

It is recommended (at least this is what I do) to first try out small examples (maybe something draw by hand, or by cropping the original picture). Make sure it works on a small example. Then just follow the exact same steps, on a completely new mod base (clone from a backup or raw template in mod manager), using larger maps. Also, when you load the game, you can first set the number of provinces in the config to only 2 or 3, then gradually increase.

[Magolor 68]

9 hours ago, Adolf hitler from fnf said:

Detected as virus

Just ignore it. Have some faith dude XD.

[Golo 73]

7 minutes ago, Magolor said:

How large is your map? What's your computer .configuration?

On my laptop (bought 4 years ago), 5000+ provinces takes about 45 min from scratch to final playable.

I've got an i7 9700k and 16gb 2400 ram  the map was 1600x1200, it could be because I didn't color the unfinished parts black, but that was no problem in the older version

 

[Magolor 68]

Just now, Golo said:

I've got an i7 9700k and 16gb 2400 ram  the map was 1600x1200, it could be because I didn't color the unfinished parts black, but that was no problem in the older version

 

The time complexity of the tool is in principle proportional to:

1. The map size (scan every pixel) * Number of provinces (find countour for each province)

2. The number of provinces (save each provinces)

3. The total length of borders (smoothing and merging)

4. Smoothing radius

 

 

As for loading it into the game, I don't know the complexity and I can do nothing about it since it is Lukas' work.

If there are fairly large provinces, try increase the step size to reduce the number of points on province borders, so that AoC2 can load them more quickly.

[Azazel_AZ 7]

An explanation video would be really nice.