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Debugger

The Debugger view allows to examine the current state of your game in real-time, assisting you in identifying and resolving issues as you develop your game scripts.

Current State​

The Current State pane provides information about the game.

  • FPS - Displays the current Frames Per Second when running.
  • CPU Load - The current CPU load of the game.
  • Free RAM - The current amount of free RAM of the game.
  • Scene - The current scene running in the game.
  • Actors - The current number of actors loaded on the game.
  • Triggers - The current number of triggers loaded on the game.
  • Threads - The current number of threads running on the game.
  • Tiles Preloaded - The current number of tiles preloaded by Sprites.

Actors​

The Actors pane provides information about the current actors on scene and their X and Y position. You can also type in new coordinates which will be live updated in your running game.

Variables​

The Variables pane allows you to see the current value of the variables used within your game. You can also type in new values which will be live updated in your running game.

Arrays​

The Arrays pane provides information about the current arrays on scene and their values. You can also type in new values which will be live updated in your running game.

Cheat Mode & Platform​

You can enable the Cheat Mode by ticking the Cheat Mode Enabled box, after that the If Cheat Mode is Enabled event would become True and run the code normally.

You can select the Platform you want on the selector, after that the If Running on Platform event would match the selected platform.

Step Buttons​

When your game is paused you can use the Step Buttons or keyboard shortcuts to slowly step through your game to follow the progress of any running scripts.

  • Pause/Resume - Toggles between playing and paused modes.
  • Step Forward One Frame - Run the game until the next frame of animation starts. This is useful for understanding what is happening every frame during events that take time such as Actor Move To.
  • Restart - Restart's the game.

Keyboard Shortcuts​

When the debugger is enabled, you can use the following keyboard shortcuts in both the Project Window and Play Window:

Pause/Resume - F8
Step Forward One Frame - F9

Planes​

The Plane Viewer lets you visualize the different planes entirely as well as the information about the current scroll position.
You can view a single plane at a time based on the selected value.

Debugger Log​

The Debugger Log show cases the log produced by the engine as well as the log you send with the Log Message event.

Layers​

The Layers pane provides a way to show / hide the different layers.

Palettes​

The Palette Viewer pane provides a way to consult the palettes per frame and per scanline.

VRAM​

The VRAM Viewer shows the current video memory used by graphics in your running game.

You can use this pane to get a visual preview of how many additional sprite and background tiles are available in the current scene and to help debug issues when you have used too many unique tiles in the scene.

You can also choose the palette you want the tiles to use during render.