EU5 Location Painter

EU5 Location Painter

Europa Universalis V's powerful external modification tools designed to make map, territory, population, culture and religion editing faster, easier and more intuitive.

Guide: EU5_Location_Painter_User_Guide.html (English/French)

EU5 Location Painter allows you to:

Plot locations directly on an interactive map

Assign locations to countries/labels with just one click

Automatically generate and update required files

Edit map data while viewing real-time changes

Intuitively manage territory ownership and country settings

Edit demographic, cultural and religious data directly from the editor

Expedite province, state and territory setup for total conversion model

Reduce manual file editing and mapping errors

To find application files:

Open EU5

Go to installed mods

Find EU5 Location Painter

Click "Open in folder"

To start the tool, run:

EU5 Location Painter。exe

Original map template

Inside the templates folder you will find a .txt file containing the vanilla EU5 map settings.

To display the original map in the tool:

• Open the .txt template file
• Copy its contents
• Paste this into the right interface menu within the application

This allows the original country and location settings to be displayed directly within the editor.

Country editor

Country tabs include:

Interactive mapping tools

Country/Label Assignment Tool

Monaco code editor integration

Real-time territory visualization

Quick ownership editing workflow

This tab remains dedicated to country and region management.

Population Editor

The Population tab allows you to:

Load population data directly from EU5 files

Edit the population of each location

Apply changes to all locations belonging to selected tags

Set, add, remove, multiply, or redistribute population values

View total demographic data

View dominant cultures and religions

Access detailed demographic breakdown

Culture Editor

The Culture tab allows you to:

Load culture directly from game files

Apply culture to a single location or entire label

Convert only a certain percentage of the population

Filter by population type (nobles, clergy, peasants, etc.)

Perform targeted cultural conversion operations

Example:

Apply 40% Dorian culture only to nobles.

religion editor

The Religion tab allows you to:

• Load religions directly from game files
• Apply religion to a single location or to an entire label
• Convert only a certain percentage of the population
• Filter by cultural group
• Perform targeted religious conversion operations

Example:

Converts only Dorian populations to the chosen religion.

Export system

Editors include:

• Export current
• Export all
• Automatic creation of .bak backups
• Smart export system that only modifies changed locations where possible

Supported export targets:

main_menu/setup/start/06_pops.txt

This minimizes the risk of file overwriting and helps maintain compatibility with existing mod content.

quality of life features

• Automatically detect and store EU5 original path
• Automatically detect and store mod paths
• Improved statistics panel
• Better workflow for large-scale projects
• Designed for full conversions and large remastered mods

document

See the ReadMe file for more information, setup instructions and usage details.

If you are new to EU5 modding, it is highly recommended to check out the official modding wiki before using this tool.

Important matters

⚠️ This software does not create mods for you.

EU5 Location Mapper is a visual editing tool designed to simplify map drawing, territory management and population editing. You are still responsible for creating and organizing your mod files.

roadmap

Planned for the next major update:

• Completely restructured export system
• Expanded country territory mapping tool
• Additional ownership editing capabilities
• Better workflow for creating and managing countries directly from the map
• New tools for large-scale territorial reorganization

Function

✔ Real-time visual editin …