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I remember someone posting a really neat object that you paste in your game that lets you pause the game and then move one frame at at ime by pressing a button. It was very useful for checking for bugs etc. Do anyone remember what it was called? I think it was just an active with some events in its behaviours.
Don't know about the specific object, but this feature is built into Fusion 2.5's debug editor
https://i.imgur.com/KitQb3R.png
The pause (circled in red) button will pause the frame, and the step (circled in blue) will unpause the application for one frame, letting you step through frame by frame
I prefer a keyboard method rather than having to click on the debugger, as it's quicker and more precise to use imo. I figured out a way to do it using regular events. You can see (and copy/paste) the method in VACCiNE on the clickstore, including the free version.
Nice! Is this also available in VACCiNE 2? (Is the debugger in Vaccine 2 the same or different from the one in volPROFILER?. Btw, I just bought all your 4 products on the clickstore, I have not tested them yet but they seem awesome and very well made from the descriptions!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Volnaiskra
Cool, thanks :)
Both VACCiNE and VACCiNE 2 have the freeze-frame functionality (as does the latest volCAMERA, which is stuck in its fourth month of approval queue purgatory). The panel in volPROFILER is different from the debugger panel in VACCiNE.
Ahh I should have probably added there's keyboard shortcuts built in to the debugger that do this too (Ctrl+F8 to pause, Ctrl+F10 to step and F8 to unpause) but I don't think they can be rebound, which I assume vaccine can doQuote:
Originally Posted by Volnaiskra
The debugger one also gives different results to my event-based one. At least in my case, the debugger version only steps through every 3rd tick of the MFA (clicking it twice makes no visible change in the game, clicking it a third time updates a frame of the game, 3 ticks later). With the event-based version, I can see freeze-frame through the game every 1 tick.Quote:
Originally Posted by marbenx
Huh, that's unusual - could it be related to some other events in the game? I was trying with a simple setup (counter in the frame, event with always set counter to counter value + 1) and it steps through one single frame loop the way you'd expect, but I'm yet to try it on any larger projects
My guess is that it's something to do with the frame rate or other system properties settings. These are mine:
http://bit.ly/2WE2NoD
Great! :) I looked at your video on the volCamera and it also looks like a great tool also! Hope you will make more of these tools as they seem very thought out in detail and well and carefully made in every regard!Quote:
Originally Posted by Volnaiskra
I have been fiddling about a bit with volProfiler so far can I change so results in % is set as the default at start since I think that is the one I will use the most?
Also for the new qualifier images, what is the procedure to implement them to an existing mfa game?
The readme file explains how to use the qualifier icons. You do it from the MFA file properties panel.
You'll be able to set percentage mode as default I'm sure. I can't remember which value to change off the top of my head, but it should be fairly self-evident if you look through the code comments.
I'm proud of my tools, but I've actually decided I won't do any more, as they take too much time away from Spryke.
Oh, you have to import the qualifier icons one by one if you do it in an existing mfa? If that is the case I hope Clickteam will make a better method to import several icons at once.. :sQuote:
Originally Posted by Volnaiskra
Btw, I noticed that in my game the volProfiler takes up about 150% of performance (?) Is that right or what does that mean?
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Ah I understand it must take time away from Spryke! I hope you can release Spryke soon! Btw, a tip from someone who have released multiple games on Steam, you should put up your Steam page as soon as is possible to be able to gather wishlist tickets from people. From my experience the amount of wishlist adds you have been able to gather once you launch is very determinating in how successful the launch is (perhaps the most important outside factor even besides the quality of the game itself) I stupidly only understood this just recently and have not even put out my Steam page for my next game (Plantera 2) yet even though it have been in development for over a year so I will do so within the next weeks.. :p
Wow, I'd better get that steam page up soon!
VolPROFILER measures how much performance it consumes itself and excludes it from the main results, but it still tells you (in the bottom row) how much it consumes. In your case, it consumes 1.5 times more than all your game's code put together. (the volPROFILER panel is expensive, due to the many string objects it's constantly updating.... If I were doing it today, I would probably use counters instead of strings)