[HOI4 Modding] Creating Cities

Опубликовано: 06 Июнь 2026
на канале: The Iron Workshop
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This (not so quick) tutorial will explain how to add new cities/urban regions to the world map, from changing the terrain to creating the on map graphics and city lights when day/night cycles are enabled in the game.

Timestamps for this tutorial/lesson:

00:00 - Video start
00:46 - Creating mod
03:43 - Creating folder and file structure
05:59 - Changing province definition
08:31 - Creating city on map graphics
15:23 - Creating city lights

Useful links:

Iron Workshop Discord server:   / discord  
My twitch channel:   / playerhoi  

Hearts of Iron IV wiki modding page: https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Modding

If you would like to contribute to make the Iron Workshop better you can do so on Patreon:   / playerhoi  

Here are the download links to the various tools used during The Iron Workshop lessons/tutorials.

Notepad++ Download: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
Gimp Download: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

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