# UE4 Gameplay Debugger guide outdated?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-gameplay-debugger-guide-outdated/378443>\
**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [December 6, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-gameplay-debugger-guide-outdated/378443 "2016-12-06T02:18:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mantracker](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Mantracker](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Mantracker)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-gameplay-debugger-guide-outdated/378443/1 "2016-12-06T02:18:12Z")

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Is [this guide][1] outdated? I was inheriting the 2 classes according to this guide and can’t for the life of me get it going.

Then I dug deeper into engine code, and realized that apparently GameplayDebuggingHUDComponent class is deprecated.

 ![117541-capture.png](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/5/d/2/5d2d09504b5ceba8813b4324ac60321b1790436a.png)

Then I dug even deeper, and found out that instead of GameplayDebuggingHUDComponent, we now use GameplayDebuggerLocalController???

 ![117542-capture.png](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/8/7/1/871d5eaa0b488078f5d2577c8db534fe2b9028df.png)

_(Sidenote: You spelled “categories” wrong, it’s not “catories”_

If this is the case, can the guide for Gameplay Debugger be updated? This will waste less of my time and cause less confusion for other people as well.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Sqobar](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Sqobar](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Sqobar)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-gameplay-debugger-guide-outdated/378443/2 "2016-12-06T22:38:47Z")

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Hello Mantracker, I ran into the same problem. You can check FGameplayDebuggerCategory\_\* for Category example and seems it’s pretty straightforward. But i can’t understand how to register my category in GameplayDebugger. Maybe someone can help and explain?

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_8c09e5641](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_8c09e5641](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_8c09e5641)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue4-gameplay-debugger-guide-outdated/378443/3 "2017-01-16T00:25:52Z")

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I had difficulties following that guide too; eventually I concluded that it was deprecated, as you’ve found. I couldn’t find any decent information anywhere.

So I’ve written the following tutorial on the UE wiki:

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If it doesn’t solve your problem directly (the guide is intended for use with a **UActorComponent** ) then it should at least form a basis for you to base something of your own on. It is quite brief the minimum amount of code you need to implement a your own specialised **FGameplayDebuggerCategory** , but what with the serialisation approach it’s not easy to understand. Regardless, I expect the guide should show you the (new) way to do things and get you on your way.