EU5 Location Painter
A powerful external modding tool for Europa Universalis V designed to make map, territory, population, culture, and religion editing faster, easier, and more visual.
EU5 Location Painter allows you to:
• Paint locations directly on an interactive map
• Assign locations to countries/tags with a single click
• Automatically generate and update the required files
• Edit map data while seeing changes in real time
• Manage territory ownership and country setup visually
• Edit population, culture, and religion data directly from the editor
• Speed up province, state, and territory setup for total conversion mods
• Reduce manual file editing and mapping errors
Open EU5
Go to your installed mods
Find EU5 Location Painter
Click Open in Folder
To start the tool, run:
EU5 Location Painter.exe
Inside the template folder, you will find a .txt file containing the vanilla EU5 map setup.
To display the vanilla map in the tool:
1. Open the .txt template file
2. Copy its content
3. Paste it into the right-side interface menu inside the application
This allows the vanilla country and location setup to appear directly inside the editor.
The Countries tab includes:
• Interactive map painting tools
• Country/tag assignment tools
• Monaco code editor integration
• Real-time territory visualization
• Fast ownership editing workflow
This tab remains dedicated to country and territory management.
The Population tab allows you to:
• Load population data directly from EU5 files
• Edit population for individual locations
• Apply changes to all locations belonging to a selected tag
• Set, add, remove, multiply, or redistribute population values
• View total population statistics
• View dominant cultures and religions
• Access detailed population breakdowns
The Culture tab allows you to:
• Load cultures directly from the game files
• Apply cultures to a single location or an entire tag
• Convert only a percentage of the population
• Filter by pop type (Nobles, Clergy, Peasants, etc.)
• Perform targeted culture conversion operations
Example:
Apply 40% Dorian culture only to Nobles.
The Religion tab allows you to:
• Load religions directly from the game files
• Apply religions to a single location or an entire tag
• Convert only a percentage of the population
• Filter by culture group
• Perform targeted religious conversion operations
Example:
Convert only Dorian pops to a selected religion.
The editor includes:
• Export Active
• Export All
• Automatic .bak backup creation
• Smart export system that modifies only changed locations whenever possible
Supported export target:
main_menu/setup/start/06_pops.txt
This minimizes file overwrites and helps maintain compatibility with existing mod content.
• Automatic detection and storage of EU5 Vanilla path
• Automatic detection and storage of Mod path
• Improved statistics panels
• Better workflow for large-scale projects
• Designed for total conversions and large overhaul mods
More information, setup instructions, and usage details are available in the ReadMe file.
If you are not familiar with EU5 modding, it is strongly recommended to read the official modding wiki before using this tool.
⚠️ This software does NOT create your mod for you.
EU5 Location Painter is a visual editing utility designed to simplify map painting, territory management, and population editing. You are still responsible for creating and organizing your mod files.
Planned for the next major update:
• Complete restructuring of the export system
• Expanded country territory mapping tools
• Additional ownership editing features
• Improved workflow for creating and managing countries directly from the map
• New tools for large-scale territory reorganization
✔ Real-time visual editing
✔ Country/tag assignment tools
✔ Population editor
✔ Culture editor
✔ Religion editor
✔ Statistics dashboard
✔ Vanilla data support
✔ Mod override support
✔ Automatic backups
✔ Smart export system
✔ Standalone external utility
✔ Designed for large EU5 projects
tag: Modding, Tool, Mapping, Map Creator, Population, Culture, Religion
