[Finding] - Debugline Commands

[nonnex]

Here I'll collect commands for the DebugLine:

Commands found:

RELOADUI - (Reloads the UI. Helps when You get trouble with the UI, errors or get stuck in menues) @nonnex
DISABLEUI - (use careful, you'll have to kill the game) @UniTrader
RELOADMD - @UniTrader
RESETMD - @UniTrader
REFRESHMD - @UniTrader


... the search has just begun, but will be continued. If someone know more, please let me know.

[UniTrader]

thats a beginning, this string is inside the ui/addons/gameoptions/gameoptions.xpl - maybe we can finde some more in this file? (could be a bit difficult since its mostly binary goo)

[nonnex]

You're right, I got that string directly from the Rebirth.exe. but also found that value in that one You have pointed to.

It must be more than that there.

My hope is to get some kind of "init" comand, or "reload extension". that would be nice because of runtime editing mods.

concerning the xpls, I can decompile them.

[UniTrader]

just got a few more:

DISABLEUI (use careful, you'll have to kill the game)
RELOADMD
RESETMD
REFRESHMD

[nonnex]

cooool! U'r fast *grrrr*.
How found? Which method do U have used?

[UniTrader]

intuition & luck i just needed an idea what kind of input it expects and then tried some logical variations ^^

[nonnex]

Your expiriance with ES wordings is paying off. hehe.
My search is concentrated in reinitializing, especially extensions. How great would that be for mod dev! no m0ar quit and restart the game.
Checking changes by runtime would be awesome.

[UniTrader]

well, i dont think something like that is included.. it would be awesome if it were, but since you have to restart the Game if you change the current extensions i dont think it is.. (or at least not for everything, MD and UI have reload options, aiscripts probably too... but map, object definitions and most of the other stuff probably needs a restart of the game to work properly)

[nonnex]

Well, extensions will be initialized by starting a new game or loading a saved one.

Lets see, In our case we want to reinitialize extensions. In my point of view i'ts just a matter of the right "entrypoint".
Theoreticaly it is possible by reloading the current state or step. In this case one of the steps is responsible for initializing/loading extensions, but I dunno which one of them. But not yet.

Even if we start from the "init" routine, it will be much more faster then manually restart the game.

btw: I wonder why the map needs most of the loading time

see: progressbar.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<progressbar>
.
.
.
  <type name="savedgame" loaded="235">
    <step name="init" duration="0.223523"/>
    <step name="map" duration="5.80215"/>
    <step name="scripts" duration="0.372019"/>
    <step name="init2" duration="0.128947"/>
    <step name="map2" duration="2.13395"/>
    <step name="scripts2" duration="0.392245"/>
    <step name="patch" duration="1.25639"/>
    <step name="cutscenes" duration="0.0516157"/>
    <step name="scripts3" duration="0.331035"/>
    <step name="jobs" duration="2.17432"/>
  </type>
</progressbar>

[YorrickVander]

As the title says. The in-game CLI appears to be potentially very useful, but I have no idea what I can actually do with it. Simply requesting a cue to run appears to do nothing.

[UniTrader]

you mean that one here? http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=358873

[iforgotmysocks]

btw: I wonder why the map needs most of the loading time

Thats a really good question. ^^
Probably its ment to be the universe, not just the "map".

[YorrickVander]

lol search fail. ty uni