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At the moment the province density is much more uniform than paradox games. The density is on par with eu4. However, pops exist on the province level so more provinces->more pops->more lag.

The system for dynasty's are going to be almost entirely predetermined through events and decisions. Countries named after there dynastys will mainly be non-westernised countries so say if the Qajar Empire westernises it becomes Persia

There will be custom flags for each government type similar to hoi4 but there will be dynamically created flags for colonial/subject nations. (e,g the union jack in the corner being replaced with a russian flag of russia takes australia)

@@stupidonesgames5923 So fully dynamic or locked into 4 per country? HoI4 has the four government base but then any number of flags can be assigned by just having the country flagged in the code as having a new flag. Keep up the amazing work btw.

They'll be one flag per ideology in the variables. But a flag for a specific ideology/government type can be overriden. e.g bourbon fance is the default monarchy flag->nepoleon III coups->new flag for monarchy is set from the event.

@@stupidonesgames5923 Sounds good, eagerly looking forward to more videos.

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Im using a 32*16k single virtual texture. Took ages to import pretty sure unreal cant do over 32k. Make sure to use nanite tesselation it runs alot faster then having a nanite mesh for some reason. Virtual shadow maps in general have pretty blocky shadows but I havent seen any to a noticable point in my project (maybe cause its on a sphere or cause of the res of the heightmap)

@@stupidonesgames5923 Haha, that'd explain it at least a little bit - mine isn't even 8k. I'm using nanite tesselation on a few plane meshes to render the map. I haven't looked into virtual textures yet - perhaps that'd be worth it at a certain texture size, but in my experience with games like this it's the CPU that's the hold-up in 99% of cases, not the GPU, so I'm pretty lazy with optimisation! Using the same technique as you do with canvas render targets to edit the gameplay map on the fly (although mine is a hex-based map when it comes to gameplay, which means I have a lot smaller textures to worry about since you can use math get the shader to work out which hex a given pixel belongs to). Anyway - love the project and love even more that you're posting about it (and that you're even a fellow Aussie!). Great stuff!

At some point they'll def be a path for amazing Libia or Morocco and probably a French aligned state for the Algerian desert (think Nepoleon III had that idea). At the moment the Amazigh are split between Tuareg barber and Mauritanian but I'm debating merging them cause Tuaregs and Mauritanian are like 1/10th the population size of Berbers.

@@stupidonesgames5923 no. Amaizgh are not dplit between tauregs and mauritaunia thats not true i am a atlatsi chlueh amazigh my mother was chlueh and lived aswavi in north algeria not kayble

Yeah Ill probably merge them when I go over africa

I forgot to mention in the video that in a cultural group (e.g. British) each subculture has a variable called cohesion which will change over time depending on assimilation of migrants, events etc. In terms of tribal nations every nation was different, and the Maori's were perhaps more centralised than other places which was relatively recent when the Europeans sold them guns. I'll probably add a couple tribal nations but its not a huge priority. They'll be plenty of events though for skirmishes between natives and settelers.

The game will be pretty moddable cause the plan is to release an engine version with a (hashed for ip reasons) version of the game as a enigne plugin. So everything can be rewritten in engine for ease of use.

Thanks! Im gonna stick to the current setup but they'll be events to do with the establishment of Vic and Sa. I'll have to code in in a way that provides a substantial benefit to splitting the colonies (like a migration buff) cause you could imagine a NSW or UK player never partitioning the colonies.

@@stupidonesgames5923 Thats good, because otherwise there's no actual reason to split them up, that way it will provide an incentaive until you want to centralise and form Australia as a state.

The maps not final, but yeah particularly the water is very very dark.

Supposedly they had a decently sized seasonal trade bases in the region. But the region was DeFacto unorganized. Might change it in the future tho (:

I'm Aussie to so I gave Australia and NZL a lot of detail and provinces. So, in terms of cultural groups, they'll be a factor called "Cultural cohesion" so at the start the English and Australian cultures will have close to 100% cohesion. With cohesion being reduced when pops of a non-British cultures assimilate to it. In terms of Aboriginals, I split it in two to just have more pop diversity on the continent but Pama-Nyugan and "Australian-Aboriginal" are both just generalizations based of language (I need a better name for non Pama-Nyugan). But also, Australian culture even now is very much British and there isn't really a thing as a non-British-Australian (in terms of culture not race obv, culture in this game mainly being based of language diet aka goods consumed and preferred government type) in the time span of the game or arguably now. And the forced assimilation during White-Australia didn't really work very well (not to mention being evil). Hopefully the cultural cohesion modifier will elevate alot of the problems you've mentioned tho (:

@@stupidonesgames5923 Oh cool! I thought you had the accent, almost sound British yourself! The cohesion is a really cool mechanic and it is really cool to see Papa-Nyugan and Torres Strait islanders there, love it. I see the problem, I think they're referred to socially and academically just as 'non- Pama-Nyugan' which is sort of odd in context but I think you totally could just have them referred to as that.

Currently the project exists as an engine plugin which I can turn into a SDK for modding. Everything exists as datatables and all that so its modding capable and all. Also its got visual editors for the map and decisions and events so it'll be alot nicer to dev in compared to text editors like vic2/3 (:

@@stupidonesgames5923 so basically I know next to nothing about game dev. But from your comment, can it be safely assume this is what you meant "you will release this as just an SDK and people might pick this up to make their own game ?"

@@blankmoment2 So they'll definitely be modding. But if other people were to make their own games the SDK would have to be licensed.

Yeah I'm not happy with the way the globe looks in regard to the background it does make it look odd.

The game will be more complex then Vic3 in terms of interacting systems and pop variables (as well as pops existing on a province does not state level). The general idea is that pops and trade mostly handle themselves without player interference. But this would be sub optimal and the player can manually pick pops to produce different things, promote certain jobs e.t.c. This will hopefully produce something with a lot of mechanical complexity but also be easy to learn for different skill levels. As well as not turning into a cookie clicker like vic2/3 in temrs of building stuff (:

Great, and thanks for your time, Mr. Bateman.

I'm trying to do that already but it's hard not having all the modifiers and variables set because you never know if your model works or not. Glad you like it (:

Currently I plan to only have a 1830 start date at release and subsequent 1860 and 1910 stat dates. Alot of the economic mode and math's for doing the simulation still applies to the modern world so it wouldn't be too hard once I get the ball rolling (: (so maybe)

Opps, fixed now luckily it was just the localization text not the ID text (:

The ticks will probably stay daily and monthly cause it doenst make that much of a difference in terms of simualtion, but combat will be updated hourly

Yes

Currently implementing subjects so that's done on my end (: made it so that different subjects have different ways of displaying a name, e.g heavily influenced or collaboration governments wont share a name but colonies will

I think its somewhere in the anim BP

@@stupidonesgames5923 Ok I will look for it thank you

The provinces are made in using a custom tool (some info in devlog 01) were it generates unique colors to paint the provinces. I overlay a image of modern borders by a reference and recently made a flood fill paint tool to help me. Province lines are drawn by comparing the pixles adjacent to eachother in shaders (theres a couple about an outline effect) which are then smoothed via HQX which is an anti aliasing method I build into the shader

@@stupidonesgames5923 thanks，Is the color like “fixed4 c1 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv + float2(edgeLineW, 0)); fixed4 c2 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv - float2(edgeLineW, 0)); fixed4 c3 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv + float2(0, edgeLineH)); fixed4 c4 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv - float2(0, edgeLineH)); ”？

@@stupidonesgames5923 thanks， by the way， Is the shader color like this "fixed4 c1 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv + float2(edgeLineW, 0)); // fixed4 c2 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv - float2(edgeLineW, 0)); // fixed4 c3 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv + float2(0, edgeLineH)); // fixed4 c4 = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv - float2(0, edgeLineH)); // " ?

@@stupidonesgames5923 thanks， I try to use HQX but it cant worked in unity， Im a new unity programer。。

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Ill respond to your other comment (:

I'll probably make the map free or sell it as an asset at some point latter on in development (:

Sockets on the weapon mesh

@@stupidonesgames5923 Hey man can i use this in My game that is with money

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The description has specific ingo related to that but yes

The other two I can accept, but Sinai is really weird.

The borders for continents isn't really meant to be a geographic thing because I got states->regions->continents so Sinai is part of the Egyptian region which is in the African continent. The whole continent region system is mainly for ai and optimization so dont look to much into it (:

Check the description there should be another link

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Alot of the sources I used were various books from my uni's library as well as other maps I don't entirely remember their names but usually they quote various British military estimates which I actually can't find rn a link to (think the earliest was 1865 and I had to decrease population by a couple percent). Wikipedia unironically has some of the best maps of British India because they actually break it down region by region en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat#/media/File:Baroda-gujarat.png , then they also have maps defining borders inside the agency's which is crazy. I take their religious maps with a grain of salt though. I also use this map www.deviantart.com/venezuelan-1-reich/art/Map-of-the-world-in-June-1830-remake-860270863 although it doesnt have any sources to give a general idea of countries and autonomys before I research into stuff further. Hope this helps (:

@@stupidonesgames5923 Thank you very much!