How can I debug my game if Godot crashes and doesn't even give an error

belgian_street_lamp

When I play my game after like 2 minutes of playing.. it just freezes and crashes

nothing useful in the debugger

is there another way to see what caused it ...

Toxe

belgian_street_lamp Launch Godot from the command line. Either run your project directly or launch the editor. In any case it might show more error messages.

$ godot --verbose --path /path/to/your/project/directory

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/editor/command_line_tutorial.html

godot is your Godot binary, where ever that is installed on your system. Pass it the path to your project directory where your project.godot file is.

This will directly launch your game. Or add -e to launch the editor.
--verbose can produce a lot of interesting output.

Or, if you know how, you can always compile a debug build of the engine and run that in a debugger and see where it crashes. The docs have everything you need for that.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/engine_details/development/compiling/compiling_for_macos.html
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/engine_details/development/configuring_an_ide/xcode.html

belgian_street_lamp

Toxe

._. still no idea what that means

belgian_street_lamp

similar issue:

belgian_street_lamp

oh I found the issue I think and in the hindsight what I did was pretty dumb.

simplified:
for n in %markers.get_children(): %markers.remove_child(n) for k in key.keys(): %markers.add_child(n)

called EVERY FRAME
to be honest I thought remove child is the same thing as queue_free() but I guess its not.. and because it doesn't actually delete the object and I add new objects every frame Godot explodes... whoops

belgian_street_lamp

oh and don't worry lesson learned. I won't remove and add nodes every frame I will rely on signals now.. 😆

xyz

Good old memory leak 🙂