Live Game Debugging Editor

[the]

Are there any plans to support live game debugging from the editor? A useful live debugger would allow me to inspect dynamically created entities and their components and pause running games, similar to the functionality found in Unity.

[Leonidas]

Hi @the and welcome,

Inspecting the scene hierarchy on runtime isn’t supported by PlayCanvas right now, but there are these devtools created by @yaustar that enable that:

yaustar.github.io/playcanvas-devtools at master · yaustar/yaustar.github.io

For pausing the game similarly there isn’t any out of the box functionality, but you can partially do that in code. Try searching these forums for pausing the game e.g.

Is there a way to pause a game besides timeScale=0?

Hey, I would like to pause the game. Is there any chance to pause it without changing timeScale property? Maybe there is some “tricky” (internal) way to pause the engine and all its subsystems?