As you might imagine, the calculations for these edges can get quite complicated. To make these calculations easier to understand and debug, we created a powerful platform graph inspector. This can be accessed from the inspector panel (the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen).
The inspector is a tree-view widget with the following structure:
- Platform graph [character_category_name]
- Edges [#]
- [#] Edges calculated with increasing jump height
- JUMP_FROM_SURFACE_EDGEs [#]
- [(x,y), (x,y)]
- Profiler
- ...
- EDGE_VALID_WITH_INCREASING_JUMP_HEIGHT [1]
- 1: Movement is valid.
- ...
- ...
- ...
- [#] Edges calculated without increasing jump height
- ...
- [#] Edges calculated with one step
- ...
- Surfaces [#]
- FLOORs [#]
- [(x,y), (x,y)]
- _# valid outbound edges_
- _Destination surfaces:_
- FLOOR [(x,y), (x,y)]
- JUMP_FROM_SURFACE_EDGEs [#]
- [(x,y), (x,y)]
- Profiler
- ...
- EDGE_VALID_WITH_INCREASING_JUMP_HEIGHT [1]
- 1: Movement is valid.
- ...
- ...
- Failed edge calculations [#]
- REASON_FOR_FAILING [(x,y), (x,y)]
- Profiler
- ...
- REASON_FOR_FAILING [#]
- 1: Step result info
- 2: Step result info
- ...
- ...
- ...
- ...
- ...
- ...
- ...
- ...
- Profiler
- ...
- Global counts
- # total surfaces
- # total edges
- # JUMP_FROM_SURFACE_EDGEs
- ...
Each entry in this inspector tree is encoded with annotation information which will render debugging info over the level for the corresponding entity. Additionally, each entry contains a detailed description. These are both shown when selecting the entry.
