Debug your Godot game with this simple trick! 🤖 #shorts

In this short video, I show you how you can utilise the debugger in Godot Engine to make the most of your game development!

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[emi_cpl]

That's very nice and all, but I'll probably be printing values again in a week 😭

[ShiloBuff]

It's so funny. After decades of programming (including professionally) and nearly every environment supporting a debugger and breakpoints, I still find myself using print statements often.

[Rex-syye]

I typically include a prints(self, "text") to make it simple to filter it while playing.

[erichbauer]

I keep forgetting godot has this, I'll definitely start using it more instead of print.

The only thing I wish for now is more sophisticated debugging in the actual game itself. Stuff like drawing lines/shapes or keeping debug values on the actual game screen.

There are some tools out there by other godot devs (which I 100% recommend using, stuff like being able to draw 3d lines is so helpful when working with vectors) but I think it'd be neat to have them right out of the box.

[princeedhwardhezmi]

Ngl, It makes me feel less insecure that there's still a lot of if else even from developers because me personally I kinda felt humbled when I look on my code and there's bunch of if statement

[karim]

Thank youuu, I’ve been meaning to figure out how this works for ages

[bitstargazer]

At least in my anecdotal experience this tends to crash if your scene is heavy

[GustonExE]

so that's the use of a breakpoint

[MistaSmith]

And how to debug events as they walk through the tree?

[einlandersvideos]

Until godot has a realtime variable watchlist like visual studio, print statements will persist.

[MistaSmith]

It would be cool to start the game and in the game click a button to switch to debug mode right where we are in the game. Why decide the break point before the action?

[bestshadow]

Is this only with GdScript? I currently use C# and Visual Studio in my project. Intried breakpoints, but it never pauses.

[driedpotatoes]

run with visual studio and hit breakpoints ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[slothinahat]

Is this new in Godot 4, the stepping through lines?