For the release of the Warships of the Pacific, we’ve made some updates to the model selector in the equipment and division designers in the free patch. These changes required some minor breaking changes related to the camera settings for the 3d model views. Hence, you’ll need to do some minor updates if you have overridden these camera settings in your mod. We hope that this guide will help you to make any required updates to your mods.
Whom will this affect?
Only relevant for mods that modify any of these camera settings files of the designers (game version 1.17.4), found in hoi4/game/gfx/3dviewenv/:
- equipment_editor_small_portrait.txt
- equipment_editor.txt
- plane_designer_3d_preview.txt
- tank_designer_3d_preview.txt
- template_editor.txt
- template_small_portrait.txt
What if I don’t do anything?
Then the game will use the camera settings from native 1.17.5.0 rather than those in your mod.
How do I update?
You will need to add your 3d model view camera settings to the new files in order to keep your mods 3d model view camera settings. The new files are located in hoi4/game/gfx/3dviewenv/ and are named as follows:
- division_designer_model.txt
- division_designer_model_preview.txt
- division_designer_model_list.txt
- plane_designer_model.txt
- plane_designer_model_preview.txt
- plane_designer_model_list.txt
- ship_designer_model.txt
- ship_designer_model_preview.txt
- ship_designer_model_list.txt
- tank_designer_model.txt
- tank_designer_model_preview.txt
- tank_designer_model_list.txt
The first part of the filename corresponds to which designer the camera setting will be used for and the last part of the filename corresponds
to which view of that designer the setting will be used for.
The plane designer in the image illustrates the three different 3d model view settings:
model : the big view inside the model selector - shown in red
model_preview : the preview on which a player clicks to open up the model selector - shown in orange
model_list : the thumbnails in the model list inside the model selector - shown in yellow
