paradox-mod-merger/README.md

Paradox Mod Merger

A piece of shitty code i wrote to simplify merging Paradox Interacive's game modifications. Works for HOI4 and Stellaris.

Installation

1. install 7z and add it to path

2. install dotnet7.0 sdk

3. copy Makefile in a new directory where mod merging will be happening

4. set CSPROJ_FILE and WORKSHOP_DIR in Makefile

5. Build mod merger and copy it to your directory. On windows use /usr/bin/make (from MSYS2 repository) instead of /mingw64/bin/make

   make update_merger
   

6. Prepare directories for each mod cathegory

   make create_dirs
   

7. Copy mods from workshop directory to human-readable directories. Automatically deletes trash files mod developers forgot about. Downloads mod descriptions from steam workshop.

   make clear_workshop
   

8. Copy mods from src/ to separate/ according to their cathegory.

   • Example: src/src_1999.12.31/Merger of rules -> separate/pre/Merger of rules

9. Now you can merge each cathegory using command make <cathegory>. See other options of stellasis-mod-merger by command ./merger -h.

dir structure

separate/ mods sorted by categories
├── content/ 
├── graphics/
├── localisation/
├── post/
├── pre/
├── ui/
└── unused/                 
src/                      
├── src_yyy.MM.dd_hh-mm-ss/  
│   └── ... unsorted mods copied from steam workshop copied by clean_workshop task   
└── ...  
merged/
└── ... merged mod categories