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Imperial Admiral has Hearts of Iron IV

20 Nov, 2019 @ 6:24am

How to implement a mod thumbnail?!

As you already know, the new launcher update caused a lot of problems for modders. The new mod data splits into two parts, a "ModName.mod" and a "descriptor.mod" file. I'm able to write and upload mods again, after the launcher was updated to 1.8.1 but I don't understand where to implement the thubmail data for the steam workshop! In the old fashioned way, it was very easy, but now I don't know...
I hope there is somebody here, who can help me to fix that issue! I've already posted a thread in the paradoxplaza forum, but it was simply ignored :(!

Thx :)

Last edited by Imperial Admiral; 20 Nov, 2019 @ 6:27am

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Imperial Admiral has Hearts of Iron IV

20 Nov, 2019 @ 6:42am

This is the way, it was before (everything included in one data file):

name="Custom Division Names"
path="mod/custdivnames/"
tags={
"Fixes"
"Gameplay"
}
picture="CustDivNames.png"
remote_file_id="1910149455"
supported_version="1.8.*"

Today it looks like:

ModName file:

version="1.8.*"
tags={
"Gameplay"
"Balance"
"Military"
"Fixes"
}
name="Expensive Air Force"
path="C:/Users/nicos/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron IV/mod/expenairforce"

Descriptor file:

version="1.8.*"
tags={
"Gameplay"
"Balance"
"Military"
"Fixes"
}
name="Expensive Air Force"remote_file_id="1916377335"

Imperial Admiral has Hearts of Iron IV

20 Nov, 2019 @ 6:55am

So as you can see the picture file could be implemented very simple in the old mod structure, but with these two new files, I simply don't know how to do...I tried everything but didn't find a solution !

Imperial Admiral has Hearts of Iron IV

21 Nov, 2019 @ 7:56am

So I found the solution by myself and here it is :):

Hello guys here I have the solution for you :)! The picture file you want to upload has to be named as "thumbnail.png" in both mod files, so that it looks that way:

desrciptor.mod:
version="1.8.*"
tags={
"Gameplay"
"Balance"
"Military"
"Fixes"
}
name="Expensive Air Force"
picture="thumbnail.png"
remote_file_id="1917091280"

modname.mod:
version="1.8.*"
tags={
"Gameplay"
"Balance"
"Military"
"Fixes"
}
name="Expensive Air Force"
path="C:/Users/nicos/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron IV/mod/expenairforce"
picture="thumbnail.png"

If you do it that way and just replace the name with "thumbnail.png" and order the position of it in both files as I did here, it works again ^^. I hope this was helpfull to you :)!