Debugging mods -- how is that done?

[sen4mi]

Is there some way of generating a message when a stellaris event fires?

 

I am trying to debug a strange problem which might be a mod conflict (where content from an origin which I have not selected is firing, and the origin which I have selected is not activating).

[darkspleen]

Is there a way of getting the game to automatically fire of a message if something isn't working right? Not that I'm aware of.

 

Is it possible to edit a mod to signal to you when it fires off an event? Certainly. You set up any event to put up an event window that says whatever you want. IE "Event [whatever you want to debug] has fired." I used to do that when making MASSA to ensure that events that wouldn't normally have any kind of message (behind the scenes kinds of things) were actually triggering.

[sen4mi]

Hmm... this sounds promising.

 

But I tried commenting out the hide_window = yes lines in some country_event declarations, and that did not seem to work.

 

Specifically, regardless of whether I added title = "something" and desc = "something" all that seemed to happen was those mods started throwing errors, which removed their content from the game.

 

So, maybe you could give me a few more hints?

 

Do I need to create a localization file for this to work? Do I need to fire off secondary events somehow, to make this work?

 

I'm a novice at this, and any going-over-basics you feel comfortable with would be great.

 

Edit: I found Event modding - Stellaris Wiki (paradoxwikis.com) which says "visible events need at least one option", so that's probably what my problem was. Now to test...