xdAyden

this usually means one of your focuses are broken, since I can't view the focuses I'd have no way of telling (also I am not that great at this), you can view the error log in game by opening the console (by hitting the ` key, or the one to the left of 1) and typing error. Even something simple such as missing a "}" can break entire sections of the tree. Try checking any new focuses you made first, since it will most likely be caused by one of them.

Also many modding changes have been made in the recent updates so some things such as balance of power have to be edited manually.

I tried tht and it worked but the prob im having is that it repeats itself like 50 times every day in game and it gave every country war goals on the USA idk what happened.

-Midknight

 If you want it to happen only one time make sure the "fire only once" box is ticked, and if you want a specific country to get a wargoal against the USA add this code to the effect box:

TAG = {

create_wargoal = { 

type = annex_everything 

target = USA

}

}

(replace tag with the countries tag that should get the wargoal)

I think the best way to do that would be to add country_exists = TAG to the trigger then set mean time to happen to 131 this should make the event fire after around 131 days.

That was due to the countries having the same name upon creation; this is used as a filename, and as you can't have two countries with the same filename, the export failed. (Anything edited when editing the country doesn't affect filenames)

I've changed the filename to "Cosmetic Baddie Empire", all of the other things inside the tool are as you left it - But seems to export as expected now :)

-jordsta95

I couldn't get the flag to work (the name worked fine) so I just changed my main countries flag but then I noticed something. The flag is upside down despite being the right way up when I view the file and look at my country on the site, is there anyway to fix this?

Edit: It seems to also happen with a different country I'm working on in a different mod, the flag look the correct way up on the site but in game they appear upside down.

That was due to the countries having the same name upon creation; this is used as a filename, and as you can't have two countries with the same filename, the export failed. (Anything edited when editing the country doesn't affect filenames)

I've changed the filename to "Cosmetic Baddie Empire", all of the other things inside the tool are as you left it - But seems to export as expected now :)

-jordsta95

 Oh thanks, I was thinking that could be an issue but I couldn't find anyway to edit the name without deleting the country :)

In that case, you only need to do "set_cosmetic_tag = EMP"

The way you have done it would be the filename for the communist flag of BAD when it is a subject of EMP

-jordsta95

 I did that but the same thing happens, I also added portraits (just in case), still didn't work.

It might be because every time I go to export the mod it shows an error, ErrorexportingcountrywiththetagEMP

I haven't added anything except a leader portrait, a name, a flag and a tag so I don't know how it could be causing an error, only idea I have is that it's caused by the country having no states assigned to it. When I checked the files there was no files for the country with the tag EMP. So the code most likely works it just seems that my new country isn't being exported at all.

There isn't an official way to do this on the site yet, although another user has created a guide on how you can sort-of do it here: https://edge.hoi4modding.com/forum/mod-discussion/620-guide-to-making-formable-nations-no-outside-tools

How the essentially work is you are assigning a new tag to your nation, and using this tag to get their name/flag/and potentially other things - such as focus tree.

A cosmetic tag can be something completely made up, e.g. "ZZZ", and acts exactly how you would expect. 

However, if you are just wanting to change flag/name when they are a subject of another nation you can do something very similar to cosmetic tags without assigning one. With the flag's file name, or their name ID in the localisation files, you can insert "_[OVERLORD_TAG]" or "_[AUTONOMY_TYPE]" (or both) after the nation's tag, and whenever the nation is a subject of the overlord specified, it will have the name/flag specified.

For example:

CAN: "Canada"CAN_GER_autonomy_dominion : "Dominion of German Canada"

And for the flag file "CAN_GER_fascism.tga"

-jordsta95

 So I made a new country with the tag EMP, I followed the guide and added this to my focus rewards:

 set_cosmetic_tag = BAD_EMP_communism. 

When tested in game nothing happened but also no errors showed up on the log (other than  missing country leader portrait, but I don't think that's needed). Is anything wrong or is it because there is no country leader portrait?

Just a quick question on how custom Cosmetic Tags work, I know the code set_cosmetic_tag adds a cosmetic tag to a specific country but how do you change that tag? How do you change what the country should be called when the tag is added, or how do you change the flag when the tag is added?

That's all, just couldn't find an example on how they work with this site, thanks :)