Life is Feudal: Forest Village Wiki
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Step-by-step debugging is advanced technique of programming for finding and resolving proble

Setup[]

  • Find root game directory at your system. Usualy it is something like this:

C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Life is Feudal Forest Village\

  • Create debug.cmd in this directory with following content:
"ForestVillage.exe" -debug -console
  • Find script.pak in the same directory. Extract it by QuickBMS.
  • Download and install [ZeroBrane IDE]. Run it.
  • Select Project -> ProjectDirectory -> Choose and select root game directory.
  • Select Project -> LuaInterpretor -> Moai
  • Select Edit -> Preference -> Settings: System. Add this lines at the end of file and save it:
debugger.runonstart = true
debugger.redirect = 'c'
path.moai = "debug.cmd"
  • Restart ZeroBrane IDE.

Usage[]

  • If setup done correctly you can press "start debugging" button (green triangle) and game will start.
  • When the game window pops up start a new game.
  • Browse project window (Project View -> Project/FileTree) and open some scripts. Click next to any line number to toggle breakpoint at this line (red circle). When script execution reaches this line the game will stop.
  • Use stack window (Project View -> Stack) to examine stack and local variables at this point.

Debug

  • Use Project -> Step Into, Step Over, Step Out buttons to step-by-step execution.
  • Use this command in scripts to print any information into View -> Output window:
print("text")
  • To print information about the running game you can just put available global variables in print statements. If you put the following code in one of your Mod-Lua files it will print all elements of the fv.core Table to the Zerobrane console:
for key,val in pairs ( fv.core ) do 
     print( key,val ) 
 end 
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