Age of Modding: A revolutional PC Modding assistant

[Magolor 70]

NOTICE: 0.9.8.0 UPDATE is out, please visit Age of Modding v0.9.8.0 Released! A revolutional PC Modding assistant UPDATE!

 

Hello, Age of History II community!

This is Magolor (Talirian). Please allow me introduce the software I have been developed for more than a month.

Age of Modding: A revolutional PC Modding assistant

 

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

Current Version 0.9.0.0 Features Include:

- Mods Manager: 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.

- Texts Manager: Convenient event localization, and text-based event making pipeline under the help of a new new format. (still improving)

- Pictures Manager: Convert UI files to different scales, resizing event pictures. (still improving) Also, UI files are now ready to be conveniently extracted for installation on any mod! Feel free to share your UI with others!

- Maps Manager: One of the most important feature of AoM, creating huge maps with thousands of provinces within 10 minutes！

Features to be added:

- Fast Civilization Editor

- Auto Translation and Full Event Localization Functions

- Game Code Modification and Management (probably, not sure)

- PC - Android Convert Helper

- ... or anything that you would like

 

Introductions and Tutorials will be uploaded chapter by chapter in the next few days in form of videos 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.

UPD: Tutorial (Updating)

 

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.

 

Download Link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Kr2PI5hTbYQ19Ct9YWcH_qnKMp0FXkRQ?usp=sharing

 

demo 01

demo 02

demo 03

demo 04

 

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.

Edited January 17, 2022 by Magolor
Release Tutorial

[Magolor 70]

Personally, I'm also the developer of The Pony In The High Castle MOD, version 0.3.4L will probabily be released soon, please checkout if you are interested.

[Mr Founder 2]

Holy moly 😃

[Cvekla 18]

Pretty interesting thingy, but generatin of provinces by color map works kinda weird. I guess I should wait for the tutorial lmao.

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

Can your map generator create provinces of two or more unconnected areas without odd lines or shapes between them? (Think of the Caribbean islands in the base game map.)

[TheCommonwealth 4]

There doesn't seem to be an .exe or something to run the software. All I see in the link above is a .zip file in my shared Google Drive. How can I actually start this one?

Sorry if I am actually an idiot, but I suck at using computers.

Edited August 28, 2021 by TheCommonwealth

[Valixor 122]

4 hours ago, TheCommonwealth said:

There doesn't seem to be an .exe or something to run the software. All I see in the link above is a .zip file in my shared Google Drive. How can I actually start this one?

Sorry if I am actually an idiot, but I suck at using computers.

Download 7zip (the official website is https://www.7-zip.org, the latest version is only guaranteed there) to extract it, then extract the "release" folder from the .zip file to a directory of your choosing. Then, open the "release" folder, then "AoM", and then main.exe.

[Magolor 70]

25 minutes ago, Valixor said:

Download 7zip (the official website is https://www.7-zip.org, the latest version is only guaranteed there) to extract it, then extract the "release" folder from the .zip file to a directory of your choosing. Then, open the "release" folder, then "AoM", and then main.exe.

Yes, thank you for your clarification.

I will start to release the tutorials in the next few days (hopefully tomorrow but I could not guarantee that).

Thank you all for your support and attention.

[Magolor 70]

6 hours ago, Chairman Baad said:

Can your map generator create provinces of two or more unconnected areas without odd lines or shapes between them? (Think of the Caribbean islands in the base game map.)

Yes. This is already done.

The map generator embedded in this software supports separate provinces.

However, enclaved provinces are not supported.

[Magolor 70]

23 hours ago, Cvekla said:

Pretty interesting thingy, but generatin of provinces by color map works kinda weird. I guess I should wait for the tutorial lmao.

What are the problems you are encountering? Maybe I could answer them in the upcoming tutorial.

[TheCommonwealth 4]

1 hour ago, Valixor said:

Download 7zip (the official website is https://www.7-zip.org, the latest version is only guaranteed there) to extract it, then extract the "release" folder from the .zip file to a directory of your choosing. Then, open the "release" folder, then "AoM", and then main.exe.

Thanks man!

[TheCommonwealth 4]

Uh, sry, but why does this main.exe does keep getting me a virus? I downloaded 7zip, then do as what have been said above, and suddenly virus alert comes up and delete the .exe by curing the virus. However my PC still works fine, I am not sure if I got a virus for real or not...

[Valixor 122]

51 minutes ago, TheCommonwealth said:

Uh, sry, but why does this main.exe does keep getting me a virus? I downloaded 7zip, then do as what have been said above, and suddenly virus alert comes up and delete the .exe by curing the virus. However my PC still works fine, I am not sure if I got a virus for real or not...

It's a false positive. The program has no viruses. What antivirus do you use?

[Vyatkomsk 47]

Hope you're gonna make an Android version of this so i don't have to get on PC anymore when i need to add more music, flags, leaders, civs, and portraits for all things i gotta add in the TNO mod (i added After Midnight, SS Civil War, Deunifiers for all Russian regions, Karelian Autonomy, South Urals content, Kingdom of Kaukasia, and Militarbezirk Russland so far, all on PC), especially adding flags as the normal PC process is painfully hard and long for me

[Reza Shah 426]

This is OP

[Magolor 70]

1 hour ago, Vyatkomsk said:

Hope you're gonna make an Android version of this so i don't have to get on PC anymore when i need to add more music, flags, leaders, civs, and portraits for all things i gotta add in the TNO mod (i added After Midnight, SS Civil War, Deunifiers for all Russian regions, Karelian Autonomy, South Urals content, Kingdom of Kaukasia, and Militarbezirk Russland so far, all on PC), especially adding flags as the normal PC process is painfully hard and long for me

Sorry dude, the entire design of the software was aimed to let me don't have to get on Android anymore instead of the other way around.

Though, I am definitely gonna add the civlization creating feature in the next version of the software.

[centur 7]

Could you add functions like can be change leader when playing or event functions to change leader like form civilization.

[Magolor 70]

The first parts of the tutorial has released.

Subscribe if you would like to support.

[Magolor 70]

3 hours ago, centur said:

Could you add functions like can be change leader when playing or event functions to change leader like form civilization.

That's not the part of job that the software is currently designed for.

Though, modifying the game code is one of the things I am currently working on.

[TheCommonwealth 4]

22 hours ago, Valixor said:

It's a false positive. The program has no viruses. What antivirus do you use?

I use a Korean-made antivirus program, which is well-known in my homeland. Maybe it's a malfunction... I can override the message I guess.

Edited August 29, 2021 by TheCommonwealth
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[Cvekla 18]

On 8/28/2021 at 4:36 PM, Magolor said:

What are the problems you are encountering? Maybe I could answer them in the upcoming tutorial.

No, thanks. I just watched tutorial and now I know why color map generator works bad, I just need to repaint my map with black borders. Anyway thx.

[BasaraMestre 49]

I make mods, I convince Aoc2 never made my job easier, leaving us stressed and paranoid, but now I see I can make mods more efficiently and quickly, I hope I have options to place images of events or place more than one nation will receive the event, because it manually places the same event for each nation, meaningless suffering, I will test your software, if it is as good as it says, I will pay you my money

[Magolor 70]

8 hours ago, BasaraMestre said:

I make mods, I convince Aoc2 never made my job easier, leaving us stressed and paranoid, but now I see I can make mods more efficiently and quickly, I hope I have options to place images of events or place more than one nation will receive the event, because it manually places the same event for each nation, meaningless suffering, I will test your software, if it is as good as it says, I will pay you my money

This function is not included in the software but can already be done by modifying the source code of the game, which I am currently working on and may (just may) be added to the next version of the software.

[Vyatkomsk 47]

17 hours ago, Magolor said:

Sorry dude, the entire design of the software was aimed to let me don't have to get on Android anymore instead of the other way around.

Though, I am definitely gonna add the civlization creating feature in the next version of the software.

So that means there won't be an Android version?

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

Ouch. I tried to generate a HoI4 map with a plain white line map and the color map from the game files, and the map crashed past the 143rd province. Any way to fix this? I can provide my map images if needed.

Edited August 30, 2021 by Chairman Baad