Additional Geoscape Debug Features

[MKSheppard]

Was wondering if it would be possible to toggle drawing the country polygon areas on the geoglobe; along with another debug that shows the current coordinates of the mouse cursor on the geoglobe.

This would make adding new countries to any "extended" XCOM a lot easier and require less trial and error.

[SupSuper]

I thought the Geoscape debug mode already did that.

[MKSheppard]

I thought the Geoscape debug mode already did that.

There's a debug mode?

edit:

You enable it by opening options.cfg and making this string be:

debug: true

then on geoscape you hit CTRL-D several times to cycle through modes.

There are three modes.

NONE: Doesn't display debug areas.

REGIONS: Shows regions -- the areas used for scoring performance, e.g. "North Atlantic".

COUNTRIES: Shows the countries -- their areas used for scoring performance.

(see attachments)

EDIT II -- doesn't appear to be any way that returns the LON and LAT of where the cursor is hovering over.

[MKSheppard]

EDIT: no; this won't work.

[SupSuper]

I'll look into adding a coordinate debug, but you'd be better off using a real map viewer to get geographic coordinates out of, since they should match the coordinates OpenXcom uses.

[MKSheppard]

Real world coordinates from Google Earth don't quite line up with the coordinates for XCOM's globe; I tried that.

Currently, there's no substitute for a lot of trial and error to find the LATLONG coords for the nation boxes.

[SupSuper]

Oh right, that's because X-COM uses a east-only longitude, so for example a value of 90ºW would become 360-90=270ºE. Latitude might also be reversed (north is negative and south is positive). This is what happens when you optimize coordinates for speed.

In any case now when you click on the globe in debug mode it'll show you the coordinates.

[MKSheppard]

Thanks so much, SupSuper; it works great now for adding new nations!