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[Corsix]

Decoda is an awesome programming for writing and debugging LUA code. The best thing is that it can debug LUA which is being run in other processes, i.e. it is able to debug DoW/WA/DC/SS AI scripts while they are running:


The downside is that the program costs $50USD, but as an AI debugger has been on the golden wishlist for a very long time, you'll likely to want to buy a copy like I have.

[ArkhanTheBlack]

The AI is pretty much finished so it's probably not needed anymore, but I might have a look at the demo. Thanks for the hint!

[thudo]

Wow damn that could be useful for SS when it shows.

Although we really need a good scar debugger to figure out why AI Donations code de-synch when AIs are involved.

What really is astonishing is that he updates Decoda every couple of days with new stuff! Quite impressive. Can we get this guy to do a real-time SCAR debugger?

[Corsix]

SCAR is lua, and this works for any flavour of lua.

[thudo]

So this would work, well sorta, to figure out why 2 computers play online/mp with AI Donations on and the computer donates to someone causing a de-synch?

[Corsix]

I doubt it could debug while a multiplayer game is in progess.

[thudo]

And debugging during an All-AI skirmish game probably won't yield anything useful anyway. Hmmmm... Still.. excellent looking tool.. That tool would be excellent for detecting the reason for a CTD which never really yields the true problem (well, Arkhan's ai_log.txt does really help in that regard since it also gives which player caused the error).