Manuals
Manuals
- Overview
- Scene Editing
- Code editor
- Custom project templates
- Editor scripts
- Editor scripts: UI
- Debugger
- Preferences
- Refactoring
- Styling
- Importing assets
- Caching assets
- Importing 2D graphics
- Importing 3D models
- Adapting to different screen sizes
- Live update
- Atlas
- Buffer
- Font
- Resource management
- Tile source
- Texture filtering
- Texture compression
- Overview
- Flipbook Animation
- Model animation
- Property animation (tweens)
- Rive animation
- Spine animation
- Overview
- Collection factory
- Collection proxy
- Collision object
- Camera
- Factory
- Label
- Light
- Mesh
- Model
- Particle FX
- Rive
- Sound
- Spine
- Sprite
- Tilemap
- GUI overview
- Box nodes
- Text nodes
- Pie nodes
- Spine nodes
- ParticleFX nodes
- Template nodes
- Scripts
- Clipping
- Layouts
- Physics overview
- Collision objects
- Collision shapes
- Collision groups
- Collision messages
- Collision events listener
- Resolving collisions
- Ray casts
- Joints and constraints
- Scripts
- Properties
- Script properties
- Lua in Defold
- Source code obfuscation
- Modules
- Debugging
- Writing code
- Application security
- Bundling an application
- Caching assets
- Command line tools
- Hot reloading
- Porting guidelines
- Refactoring
- The mobile dev app
- Version control
- Writing code
- Working offline
- Debugging game logic
- Debugging native code
- Debugging native code on Android
- Debugging native code on iOS
- Reading game and system logs
- Video recording
- Optimizing an application
- Optimize game size
- Optimize runtime performance
- Optimize battery usage
- Optimize memory usage
- Profiling
- Introduction
- Advertising Info
- AdMob ads
- Android Device Performance Framework
- App review and ratings
- AppLovin MAX ad mediation
- Camera
- Firebase Analytics
- Firebase Remote Config
- Google Play Game Services
- Google Play Instant
- Inter-app communication
- LevelPlay ad mediation
- Push notifications
- Play Asset Delivery
- Safe Area
- Webview
- The mobile dev app
- Introduction
- Advertising Info
- AdMob ads
- App review and ratings
- AppLovin MAX ad mediation
- Camera
- Firebase Analytics
- Firebase Remote Config
- Inter-app communication
- LevelPlay ad mediation
- Push notifications
- Safe Area
- Webview
- The mobile dev app
Browse manuals Debugging in Defold
Getting Started
Project Setup
Editor
Core Concepts
Assets and Resources
Animations
Components
GUI
Fonts and text
Physics
Sound
Game logic
Files
Network Connections
Workflow
Debugging
Optimization
Monetization
Android
- Introduction
- Advertising Info
- AdMob ads
- Android Device Performance Framework
- App review and ratings
- AppLovin MAX ad mediation
- Camera
- Firebase Analytics
- Firebase Remote Config
- Google Play Game Services
- Google Play Instant
- Inter-app communication
- LevelPlay ad mediation
- Push notifications
- Play Asset Delivery
- Safe Area
- Webview
- The mobile dev app
iOS
Engine extensions
Debugging
Defold contains an integrated Lua debugger with an inspection facility. Together with the built-in profiling tools it is a powerful tool that can help finding the cause of bugs in your game logic or help analyze performance issues. Defold also provides crash logs for the rare occasions when the engine itself crashes.
The Lua debugger is available in native debug and headless builds. Release and Web builds do not support attaching the debugger.
- Learn more about debugging your game logic.
- Learn how to connect an external debugger, including a VS Code setup example.
- Learn more about debugging native code.
- Learn how to record the game window to an MP4 file from Lua or development tools.