Anyway to turn debug mode on?

[SpaceCadet11864]

I see a lot of scripts even an additional menu is available if debug is turned on, any way to turn this on?

[A.Persyn]

Create a shortcut for X4.exe.
Open the Properties window for the shortcut.
In the target section, place a space after the last quotation mark and add: -logfile rebirth.log
EXAMPLE: "d:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\X4 Foundations\X4.exe" -logfile rebirth.log
The output file will be in Documents\Egosoft\X4 folder.

[SpaceCadet11864]

Thanks!!

I ended up wanting to save each session of logs so here's what I came up with:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\X4 Foundations\X4.exe" -logfile x4-%date:~10,4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%time%.log

That way its something like: x4-2018-12-10_11:04:11.90.log

[linolafett]

Thats pretty clever, nice.

[SpaceCadet11864]

Thanks, but its not writing log files, I even changed it to "rebirth.log" and still no go.

Is steam getting in the way maybe?
EDIT: nervermind, i found the log files xD silly me

[sebast076]

You can add -scriptlogfiles too

[SpaceCadet11864]

damn, it doesnt like the dynamic vars though. So I'll just try a batch file then.

[SpaceCadet11864]

ah here we go, this is much better!

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@echo off

rem !!--- please change this to where your game is installed. do not add any spacing aroud the equals operator
set X4_EXE_PATH="%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Steam\steamapps\common\X4 Foundations\X4.exe"

rem stores a value like `x4-game-2018-12-10_11:04:11.90.log` - to be passed in -logfile
set LOG_FILE_NAME="x4-game-%date:~10,4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%time%.log"
rem stores a value like `x4-script-2018-12-10_11:04:11.90.log` - to be passed in -scriptlogfile
set SCRIPT_LOG_FILE_NAME="x4-script-%date:~10,4%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%time%.log"

set "exec=%X4_EXE_PATH% -logfile %LOG_FILE_NAME% -scriptlogfile %SCRIPT_LOG_FILE_NAME%"

rem execution phase, first we log out the command, if any of the variables are blank, make sure you dont have whitespace around any of the variables
echo Executing %X4_EXE_PATH% -logfile %LOG_FILE_NAME% -scriptlogfile %SCRIPT_LOG_FILE_NAME%
start "" %X4_EXE_PATH% -logfile %LOG_FILE_NAME% -scriptlogfile %SCRIPT_LOG_FILE_NAME%

Here's the resource should it be added to our growing list of tools and things: https://gist.github.com/MattMcFarland/4 ... 85b5d3b726

[SpaceCadet11864]

Oh silly me, just needed to not use colons lol!

just append this to your shortcut:

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 -logfile "x4-game-%date_~10,4%-%date_~4,2%-%date_~7,2%_%time%.log" -scriptlogfile "x4-script-%date_~10,4%-%date_~4,2%-%date_~7,2%_%time%.log"
 

[SpaceCadet11864]

ok, so the logs are outputting to the files, but im not seeing that many messages. It seems like debug mode is turned off, how do I turn it on? I should be seeing lots of messages, if you search the files you'll see that debug is a prop that is set to true if debugging is enabled. that prop is checked a lot when it comes to logging. Anyone know how this is turned on?

[happyslinky]

You need to add -debug all to the launch parameters. This is what I'm using:

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-debug all -logfile debuglog.txt

I'm guessing 'all' is a filter level and other values may work. There's a filter param on debug_text like this:

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<debug_text text="'Target: ' + $target + ' is not the boarding operation target ' + $operation + ' - ' + $operation.boardee + ' ' + $operation.boardee.knownname" filter="error"/>

I'm also curious -- does anyone know if there's a way to set $debugchance in the launch parameters? It appears all over the place like this:

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<debug_text text="'Now a child of ' + this.ship.parent + ' ' + this.ship.parent.knownname" chance="$debugoutputchance"/>

[SpaceCadet11864]

YES THANK YOU SO MUCH

Run X4 Foundations in debug mode - full guide with batch script so you can have dynamically named logs (timestamp as part of name)

[paris_england]

Trying to output a file which is more than possible ... except ... I don't want it thrashing my SSD on c:

So does anyone know how to write a file to another drive?

<debug_to_file name="'test.txt'" directory="_not_C/test'" text="player.age" output="false" />

Thanks

[paris_england]

To answer my own question -- and for want of a better alternative -- symlinks is the only thing I've found so far

[morning_star]

Hi folks!

I followed the instructions for creating a batch file to start X4 in debug mode found on

https://gist.github.com/MattMcFarland/4 ... 85b5d3b726

the game starts in debug mode correctly, and it does output (lots of) stuff into that debug file.

however I do not get a seperate x4-game-[timestamp].log and x4-script-[timestamp].log, X4 just creates the standard debug file with no time stamps

I copy-pasted the batch code and put in the correct folder path - did I miss something else?

Thanks for any help & have a nice day!

[Dj_FRedy]

As far as I know 'scriptlogfile' is an invalid command at the moment; It is noted in the second comment in Git. On the other hand 'scriptlogfiles', without needing to provide a specific file name below, will create a folder called 'logs' with subfolders previously named in the 'directory' attribute for the 'debug_to_file' element.
Try this way, remember to add your [gamePath]. Added 'skipintro' to speed up the start:

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@echo off

set gamePath=C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\X4 Foundations

for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%I in ('wmic os get localdatetime /format:list') do set datetime=%%I
set datetime=%datetime:~0,4%-%datetime:~4,2%-%datetime:~6,2%__%datetime:~8,2%-%datetime:~10,2%-%datetime:~12,2%
start /d "%gamePath%" X4.exe -skipintro -debug all -scriptlogfiles -logfile debuglog-%datetime%.txt

exit