Checking variable value during game play

[Richard Karlsson]

How do you check the value of a variable during game play?

What I want is to be able to track a variable during game play, to see how the value changes over time due to events and other things. To make sure that I get the effect I want.

It should be pretty simple and a very basic thing to do when testing the mod, but I haven't found out how to do this.

I have started the game in debug mode and looked through the explorer, read the Victoria 3 wiki-pages related to modding as well as some other paradox games modding-instructions.

Even though I'm pretty new to modding these games, I have done some programming before. Finding the necessary information is difficult though.

 

[CaesarVincens]

I posted an answer to a similar question in the quick questions thread:

What are the values in script terms? Are they variables, modifiers? Either way, the check should be straightforward.

The check format is type:name_of_type compare value
For example, If x1 and y1 are modifiers with x1 in root/current scope and y1 in prev scope, this should work modifier:x1 > prev.modifier:y1

If they are variables, then var:x1 > prev.var:y1

Then it's just a bunch of if/else_if checks

Basically, you just write var:variable_name then a comparison operator and the comparison value, and you can "dot-scope" if you want to call a variable stored on a different scope than the current one.

 

[Richard Karlsson]

Thank you! Appreciate that you take the time to answer!

 

[Richard Karlsson]

How do I check the variable value in the console during game play in debug mode?