eu4-modpack-4k

EXPERIMENTAL

Europa Universalis IV opinionated modpack with adhoc 4k compatibility patches and custom modifiers. Recommended use with hard difficulty. All original mod credits go to their respective owners:

• Advisor Types Expanded
• Extended Timeline (only map and some features used to ensure other mods' compatibility)
• Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Addon: Extended Timeline Patch)
• Theatrum Orbis Terrarum for 1.30+
• Flavour and Events Expanded
• Governments Expanded
• Great Monuments Expanded
• Historic Colonization
• Subjects Expanded
• Proper 4K UI Project
• Peace Treaties Expanded
• Xorme - AI

Installation

To ensure seamless and quick upgrades as game and mod updates come, it is recommended to follow the setup as a git repo, since it will incrementally update everything. git must be installed. You can always default to downloading the repo as a zip and uncompressing directly.

Windows

git clone https://github.com/danicc097/eu4-modpack-4k # anywhere within your machine, need not be same disk. approx 6GB uncompressed
cd eu4-modpack-4k
.\setup.ps1 "<your mod folder>"
# follow instructions

To update on a new release:

cd <...>/eu4-modpack-4k
git pull
# run setup again if necessary

Useful links

Mod downloads

Steer clear from steam workshop downloaders (obsolete, incomplete or suspicious content).

Alternative links:

• https://catalogue.smods.ru/

4K settings

Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/settings.txt: game_ui_scale=1.100

Development

Fixing PROPER 4K UI on new patches:

Delete all alerticon*.dds files from the mod and change alerts.gui (copy paste original alerts gui and double "alerticon_startposition"). Icons will be tiny but usable... no known way to fix broken alerts. Use .9 font size from mod to fix some overlapping (goes to gfx/fonts).

Scaling

TODO: enhancing.

.dds

$imageFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path . -Include *.dds -File -Recurse # NOTE: ",*.tga" not included since some tga files may be old revisions...

# upscale inplace
foreach ($file in $imageFiles) {
    magick convert "$($file.FullName)" -scale 200% "$($file.FullName)"
}

.tga

To handle unrecognized tga versions, use a Photoshop script:

var folderPath = "<...>";

function processFolder(folder) {
  var files = folder.getFiles();

  for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
    if (files[i] instanceof File && files[i].name.match(/\.(tga)$/i)) {
      var doc = app.open(files[i]);

      doc.resizeImage(UnitValue(200, "%"), UnitValue(200, "%"));

      doc.save();

      doc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
    }
    else if (files[i] instanceof Folder) {
      processFolder(files[i]);
    }
  }
}

var initialFolder = new Folder(folderPath);
processFolder(initialFolder);