Debug Improvements

[noubernou 77]

I would like to see some more powerful debug tools added to A3 (and while you are at it, VBS2 :p).

A debugger would be nice, DBG style. The ability to halt execution of the engine, stack traces, watches, eval, etc.

Of course you would have to limit this somehow to not being used in MP, maybe a separate debug executable that can't do MP, or can only connect to debug enabled servers (because MP testing is a big thing too).

Right now its hard to trace issues when you have thousands of lines of code spread across multiple packages. :(

Hopefully... :p

[Big Dawg KS 6]

ArmA 3: SQF IDE.

:p

[noubernou 77]

I can see this probably be worth more to people doing VBS2 work probably... (or at least willing to pay for the investment BIS makes).

[.kju 3245]

Yes please.

To save time is the most essential topic for modding.

[gossamersolid 155]

I don't want description.ext errors to crash my game anymore BIS... if the mission can't load, don't load it. Just keep me in the editor with a blank mission instead.

It's such a pain in the ass to be missing a bracket and for the game to crash on mission load.

I know there are tools out there to help debug, but I would like to see this right in the game.

[Smurf 12]

Seen?

http://takeonthegame.com/social-media/?pid=57

[wamingo 1]

I don't want description.ext errors to crash my game anymore BIS... snip

100% agreed.

I barely ever experiment with anything in the description.ext because of that nonsense.

[kremator 1065]

I don't want description.ext errors to crash my game anymore BIS... if the mission can't load, don't load it. Just keep me in the editor with a blank mission instead.

AMEN to that.