Hellow, I'm SarkenHS. I'm a Paradox's Games fan and of course an EU4's player. I love their games, and love the work putted in it by modders to make them even more enjoyable.
Missions Expanded has evolved greatly since its start and offers now dozen of completly new missions trees for us to enjoy. Sadly, their official page presenting their work is now dead. To celebrate the 1.9 Land of the Rising Sun update, I wanted to make a small galery site, as a thank you for them but, to be honest, mostly for my personnal experience in graphics, presentations, etc. I love to see how far I can get with these things.
However, as it gathered a bit more of attention that I honestly expected, it encouraged me to keep going. I then made trees for some old nations to works on my assets a bit more before attacking Middle East region, one of the most massive update from the team.
I still want to make it clear that I'm not an official member of the team . I do not take credits for their work and I can't really help you either if you have any problems with the mod itself, as I don't know a single thing about modding xD.
At the moment, I'll keep it as a visual utility only, as I think it's more fun and interesting to discover the details and what the tree actually has to offer while playing it. But I'm one of those people who pass a lot of time launching a game or even cheating to form a nation only to see what it has to offer at a first glance before choosing my next nation to play and I was thinking of sharing what I was making for people to see.
While there might be some major changes from one bach of trees to another, I'll try to keep it consistent for each tree in a same batch.
The softwares used to make these are Gimp for most of the work and some upscale with Topaz Gigapixel wich upgrade both size and quality of pictures.
Finally, I'm using Google Site because it's easier to quickly make a gallery site with it, please understand it's still quite limited in terms of customisation, though I'll do my best to make it pleasant! Maybe one day, when I'll have done all trees from ME, I'll work on an actual website...
If you want to contact me for any reason, be it reporting an error in one of the tree or some typo or even participate in any way, you can beep me on the Discord server, @SarkenHS.
If you want to help while not knowing anything about graphic stuff:
You can provide good quality screenshot (aka don't set your capture device on low quality for instance) of completed tree (or at least with no "greyed" mission). It can be in several parts, as long as all missions can be rearranged afterward. You do not have to reconstruct the whole tree yourself, you can just give me the separated parts.
Exemple: Ardabil tree extracted from the game using, as you can see from the "separation", 3 screenshots. You can also see that I only bothered to "cheat-complete" around half the missions since completing one unlocks the next, and thus "color" it. Put simply, there shouldn't be any greyed mission left (the arrow can be grey, no problem on that side).
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You can provide description, from a player perspective, or a more roleplayed one, of the nation of your choice. Even if one tree already has one, it can be a good idea to have different points of view.
If by any luck you're into Gimp scripting, I could ask for some little scripts.
Any suggestion is good to give, like an idea on how to arrange the trees, some general pictures to add to make it prettier, etc.