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What is this tutorial about?
This article will give you some hints how to test your scripts easily.

Basicly I will show you two points how to improve the testing and creating of your scripts:

1: Improving scripting using -scriptdebug2
2: How to test scripts on maps quickly

1: Improving scripting using -scriptdebug2

The BFME game.dat provides a powerfull tool developing scripted maps or new scripts for an AI etc. which is unfotunally not quite well known.

You can use it when you edit your BFME shortcut on the desktop.

Right click on the shortcut and edit the first line.

You should see the path to your BFME-directory, by default:
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The battle for middle-earh(tm)\lotrbfme.exe"

Add "-win -scriptdebug2" to this line. It should now look like this:
"C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The battle for middle-earh(tm)\lotrbfme.exe" -win -scriptdebug2

Make sure that there is a space character before -win -scriptdebug2

Explanation:
-win will make the game to start in the window mode. This will provide you better testing conditions.
-scriptdebug2 will create a new window when you run the game looking like this:



This will provide you new powerful functions:

But before we continue some theory how BFME runs scripts: BFME uses the frames as game-intern chronometer. With every frame BFME considers which script must be executed and runs it if the conditios are true.

The list under "Messages" shows you which script was executed at which frame.
The list under "Variables" shows you the active timers, flags, counters etc. with their current value.

The buttons have different functions:
Pause: Pauses the execution of the scripts, the game is freezed.
Step: Let the game.dat run the actions which will take place exactly at the next frame.
Step 10: Let the game.dat run the actions which will take place exactly at the next 10 frames.
Run Fast 10x: The game.dat will execute the actions with tenfold speed. This is similar to the fast watching of replays but now you can acutally play the game.
Clear: Clears the list under "Messages".

This is very helpful creating scripts and debugging the scripts.

Continue with the next page to learn how to test scripted maps quickly without reloading the game.