0004153: SEED Console Spam - The Dark Mod Bugtracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004153	The Dark Mod	SEED	public	21.05.2015 01:03	25.07.2015 02:39

Reporter	nbohr1more	Assigned To	grayman
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Platform	ALL	OS	ALL	OS Version	ALL
Product Version	TDM 2.03
Target Version	TDM 2.04	Fixed in Version	TDM 2.04

Summary	0004153: SEED Console Spam
Description	SEED currently produces large amounts of console messages which can make it troublesome to debug maps that use it. Further, as demonstrated by the recent DMAP vsync fix, console messages can have a non-negligible impact on performance so the spam may be eroding part of SEED's core purpose (optimization). The current implementation appears to be a byproduct of the early unreliable nature of the feature where there was a need to constantly monitor it's actions to track down bugs. SEED has proven to be reliable in many released maps over many TDM build versions so constant debug messages should be reserved for debug binaries only.
Steps To Reproduce	1) Begin any map with an active SEED entity 2) Note continual console spam about SEED events
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grayman 24.07.2015 21:18 viewer ~0007666	I've begun wrapping the spam in debug-only wrappers, since my current WIP has a LOT of SEED in it, and I finally got tired of not seeing what was behind the spam curtain. Since I started, I'll finish the job.

grayman 25.07.2015 02:38 viewer ~0007667 Last edited: 25.07.2015 02:39	Fixed in rev 6521. The SEED code was using a variety of ways to suppress the messages: 1 - messages were commented out 2 - messages were controlled by the value of a variable 3 - messages were controlled by a couple of #defines. 4 - print all the time Rather than bringing uniformity to this (too much work), I just added another #define, S_DEBUG to handle case 4. To get any SEED spam now, a special DLL needs to be built for whoever's having a problem.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
21.05.2015 01:03	nbohr1more	New Issue
24.07.2015 21:16	grayman	Assigned To	=> grayman
24.07.2015 21:16	grayman	Status	new => assigned
24.07.2015 21:18	grayman	Note Added: 0007666
24.07.2015 21:18	grayman	Target Version	=> TDM 2.04
25.07.2015 02:34	grayman	Status	assigned => resolved
25.07.2015 02:34	grayman	Resolution	open => fixed
25.07.2015 02:34	grayman	Fixed in Version	=> TDM 2.04
25.07.2015 02:34	grayman	Additional Information Updated
25.07.2015 02:38	grayman	Note Added: 0007667
25.07.2015 02:38	grayman	Additional Information Updated
25.07.2015 02:39	grayman	Note Edited: 0007667