I made a little module of convenience functions to help draw lines, shapes, and text for visual debugging. The render “draw_line” and “draw_text” messages are really long and cumbersome to type, so this wraps them up and makes things simple. It’s not an exhaustive shape-drawing library, just enough to draw a few different kinds of indicators and things.
You can use it as a library dependency with the following link, or just grab the lua file and drop it in your project wherever suits you.
https://github.com/rgrams/debug-draw/archive/master.zip
See the Readme on github for documentation (though it’s all pretty straightforward).
A set of convenience functions for drawing debug lines, shapes, and text with Defold.
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Pawel
August 29, 2019, 8:20am
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Add it to our asset portal, it’s great and convenient
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Yeah I know.
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Ragetto
December 24, 2020, 12:20pm
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Hello!
I just discovered your library, it looks soooo convenient!
I just followed the instructions here (Working with library projects in Defold ), but… can’t make it work
The library seems to be properly installed:
But this simple line…debugdraw.circle(100,100,100) (in the “update” function)
… generates an error message:
Did I miss something?
Rag’
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How do you “require” the Lua module?
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Ragetto
December 24, 2020, 1:29pm
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require "debug-draw.debug-draw"
1st line of the same script
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Then you’ll get the variable “debug-draw”, and not the “debugdraw” as you wrote.
Try this instead:
local debugdraw = require("debug-draw.debug-draw")
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Ragetto
December 24, 2020, 1:48pm
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Oh ok… As you expected, it works
Thank you very much Ross for this super useful library, and Mathias for the help!
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Thanks Mathias for helping out. I’ve added a line about this to the readme.
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Since the dashboard’s going to be removed and the asset portal shuffled around in a few weeks I figured I might as well wait.
