I've just discovered the way to enter the Nudge Mode in Victoria 2!!!! TUTORIAL
Greetings Victoria 2 and Paradox community. I'm a big fan of Victoria 2 and reverse engineering.
Yesterday, wandering around the .exe I found this text that said "Nudge Nudge...". First I searched it in google and discovered it's an internal tool used by the developers of Victoria 2 and Paradox, but apparently there was no way to get to it, as they removed their access after the realise. So I proposed to make it start one way or the other, and finaly I achived it. I had to change some of the conditions that triggers after the game charges all the files. Insted of going the normal way, directly to the menu, I made it start the tool right after, and then I could enter it.
As you can see in the image, there is a menu in the top left corner that allow you to change the position, size and rotation of all the models that renders on each province. The inputs are: Text (province name displacement), Unit, Capital, Construct, UnitConstruct (the guy with the hammer and anvil), Factory, Railroad Spine, Fort, Naval Base, Railroad (idk the difference) and Towns.
Also there is a display of the province name, the cords, a save button, 4 arrows to manualy move the position (also you can use WASD), 4 buttons to change the rotation, a rotation indicator, and 3 buttons to change the size.
In this mode, the game is limited to the geografic map view. There is no fog of war, no units and no normal menu. Also you can't pause, take screenshots, or open the console. The preview soldier will always be from Sweden because the studio is swedish, nice easter egg.
I'd like to give to everybody the modded .exe but I'm afraid as you can expect that is totaly ilegal and risky. But if you want to make this setup I can give you the process to achive this:
1. Install Ghidra (reverse engineering tool), open the v2game.exe in a new project and let the program scane to decompile it.
IMPORTANT: Remember doing a copy of the orginal .exe, in case you mess up with something. Otherway you can reinstall the game.
2. In the top bar, Navigation -> Go To... and type "0075802a", then if Ghidra made their work correctly, you will see something like "0075802a 75 7f JZ LAB_007580ab". Then right click->Patch Instructor, wait, and then you will be able to edit the line's contnent. Replace "JZ" with "JNZ" and Enter.
3. Go to File->Export Program, then as Format set "Original File" and the Output File to the game's folder. If it asks you to rewrite the file, accept.
4. If you did everything right (and if I remember right..) when you enter to the game, it will start the Nudge Mode.
This is a brute way to achive this, but I only wanted to see is this was posible. Now you know that it is so. Perhaps this will speed up and improve the game modding process.
If you are interested, I'll make a video talking over this in my Youtube channel. I'm DevDuc.