Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Mods Any way to output variables in-game?

Specifically, I am wondering about Strings. Is there a way to output a string to the player ingame, even if you don't necessarily know what the contents of that String is (like if a character uses a skill, what skill that is)?

The CharacterDisplayText and related functions don't work that well. The strings that are passed into that function are actually keys to a localization table, which determines what value is actually displayed (and if it's not there, prints nothing).

Are you trying to emulate the functionality of Character Display text? or are you trying to get a different effect? Or it doesn't matter as long as they get the info?

Well, it's for debugging purposes mainly. I don't care how the variable is presented as long as I can see what it says.

I suppose you can use DebugBreak() function like:

DebugBreak(_MyStringVar);

The result are shown in the MessagePanel. (Usually on a bottom of the screen)

I am not sure if the execution of the rule will break but it should be o.k. to use it as a last line in a rule.

One more thing: DebugBreak() doesn't display the same text multiple times in a row.

That's not in-game though is it? I thought DebugBreak only functioned in the Editor, where there is the Debug part of the Message Panel there.

To be honest, I haven't touched the Game mode of the Editor. I've just started up a new game outside the Editor, since that takes me through the mod like how a player would experience it.

But it's about 1000x faster to hit escape then to load up a new game.

Hi. I'm trying to use display character text for the same purpose. The code is compiling and doesn't error when I play but I'm not sure it's working either. Did you ever find an alternative Rhidian?

I ended up accomplishing this by putting in a condition check and display text when it was true.

Something like

IF
_variable == "Value_You_Expect"
THEN
CharacterDisplayText(_Player,"TextKey");