Openapoc: Its possible to add minecraft like F3 overlay for output bacgkround information?

[makus82]

Its possible to add minecraft like F3 overlay for output bacgkround information for debug?
for example binded at F1 in OpenApoc

where will be for ex:

• -Number of music track playing now
• -Build version
• -How many memory game use
• -In future maybe (list of mods)
• Link for Bag reporting
• Link for Github and discord and forum links

Statistic

• -Location name where you at current moment (Cityscape or Name of the battlescape map etc)
• -Current date and time and number of week
• -How many agents die
• -How many aliens killed
• -How many civilians killed
• -How many humans guards killed
• -How many building raids finished
• -How many Ufo Crash mission finished
• -How many research completed
• -Your funds (and how many you spent money )

Debug

• -How many aliens right now in the city
• -How many UFOs fly in game right now
• -Game fase (where somthing for u not available )
• -List of names orgs and amount of they
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  • -Some random funny frase)
  
  

[makus82]

[JonnyH]

While I'd like some method of adding useful debug info to some kind of live overlay/output, it doesn't make sense to do it "up front" - when working on something and debugging something, adding specific useful output may be useful, but trying to figure out what is useful in advance is hard, and having "non-useful" info there just adds work, more code to maintain and break, and adds visual clutter.

It feels most of the listed info isn't /really/ for debugging, more as a weird stats overlay - there are already stats pages in the original (if not yet implemented in openapoc) and better "in-game" places to add such things.

[makus82]

just write what first come to mind
yes its need to think what need to be output

[makus82]

Also maybe that info will be intrested for testers so they no need describe many thing
they just turn on overlay and screen and send in bugreport....

[makus82]

And also many screenshots will uploaded in internet with our basic info (websites)

[JonnyH]

I suspect the log file we generate will contain all that info and more, and be more useful as it can be extracted after a crash or similar.

Adding this in advance as a "Feature" is probably putting the cart before the horse, new useful debug info will come from the natural process of debugging problems - so long as people are willing to cleanup their debugging "hacks" and what they found useful to push upstream.

Debugging info isn't a feature, it's an ongoing process :)

And I doubt many people will take screenshots of openapoc with some nasty-looking text smeared over the screen....