

At times it can be better to do manual editing, but the nudge is still important to know of and use.

Photoshop and GIMP are alternatives that will always work.

Due to how the game reads BMP files, many image editors such as or Microsoft Paint can't be used for most bitmap files, provinces and world_normal being exceptions.It can be preferable to open these with text editors for greater performance. These may be edited within a text editor or a table editor such as Excel or OpenOffice. Hearts of Iron IV/map/*.csv files are CSV tables. Commonly these are used for the cosmetic appearance of the map, aside from the provinces bitmap. Hearts of Iron IV/map/*.bmp files are referred to as bitmaps. 14.1 Supply areas (For versions prior to 1.11).12 Unit model and victory point positions.
