I’ve been doing a lot of work with networking / replication lately, and was wondering what people are doing to debug - I’m mostly using on screen messages to debug the old fashioned way, but this has it’s limits! Are there any tools in UE4 that I haven’t seen? Some kind of networking profiling tool seems almost essential in this day and age, as an example.
As an example, I’m currently trying to work out why a bool is not triggering it’s associated repnotify function (replicatedusing=) on clients - but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this
I’m not too worried about individual code (I’ve also already solved that problem now anyway) - but it’d be good to know how people go about actually debugging and profling this stuff. A profiler tool would be especially handy, I think. It’s kind of good to know what kind of bandwidth you’re using etc.
i have’nt tested it yet but in the answer hub i found an interresting post about network profiling.
Launch the game in editor build then enter netprofile in the console to start recording then do it again to stop it. After that you should see a .nprof in your game Saved/Profiling folder. To read the file launch the NetworkProfiler located in: < your Unreal install directory >/< version >/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/NetworkProfiler.exe
Setting up break points in Visual Studio, and commenting each function, where it is supposed to run. Then I just step by step, try to diagnose problem.
Though there certainly would be nice to have some option of explicitly looking at which functions are executed where (client, server), and what data is transferred in real time.
If you are working with network code and server.
I Have found that attaching the server process to Visual Studio Debuger and running under Debug_Editor works very well.
