FreeGameDev

Hello, I have this idea for a longer time , to have something where the debugging information could be presented INGAME. Do you have any propositions ?

I personally wouldn't really have a use for it as I'm always running OD from a terminal, so I get all the available debug output there.

To get it ingame, I guess there could be a console command that would toggle redirecting the debug output to a CEGUI widget (either the current chatbox, or maybe a separate overlay element, or a separate CEGUI window that could be toggled via a function key).

Hello, I have this idea for a longer time , to have something where the debugging information could be presented INGAME. Do you have any propositions ?

Hey,

What would you use it for? I must say I never had a use for it, even for debugging or testing pathfinding.

Regards,

IMHO, log files are much more usefull as they allow to keep track of what happens. Could you please add an example of why you would use that for ?

Well the simplest answer is, I want some variable say X to reach some concrete value . Without the preview one cannot be certain that the work is done , when one has teh ability to monitor what happens with X, one can more easily make it reach that value. Also it's easier to map log messages with ones in-game action.

When I have this kind of need, I usually hack ODFrameListener::printDebugInfo to display what I want and just revert changes when I'm done. In any case, this kind of tweakings should not be pushed to main repository unless they have a use for general debug purpose (like tile coords or turn number, for example, like it is done ATM)

That's something similar , tough I would like to have scrollable history to look through ( either I could watch history at random or look the top of the logger growing and putting new messages ) ...

Having some global object serving for debugging would be nice to have , as creating a custom file for debug info in one class is easy. On the other hand having such a log file which could be shared by many classes is a problem, so I opt for something more sophisticated than that . It could for example also help debugging my culling mechanism ....