Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric/Debugging Features

This is a sub-page of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

Most of these are leftovers from CryEngine.

e_DebugDraw

To do: Get a screenshot of e_DebugDraw = 10 on real hardware - Cemu (Wii U emulator) can't display it properly.

Draws the game under certain conditions for inspecting render data. There are several different modes that draw in different ways, helpfully labelled at the top-left of the screen. Any numbers not included are free slots.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_debugCheckpoints

Displays the currently-loaded stage and lists the last active checkpoints for each player.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_debugChoiceUpgrades

Displays the amount of upgrades unlocked for each player.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_debugMagnetic

Displays the current amount of magnetic objects in the stage.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_debugPlayers

Displays a list of devices pertaining to each player.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_debugtrackview

Displays the current active sequence if there is one.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_debugCamera

Displays info about the camera for each player.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_debugCamTether

Pulls the camera in closer with a tighter movement speed - possibly used for pre-release footage.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_detachCamera

Detaches the camera from the player and snaps to the world origin point. Crytek's documentation on this is incomplete.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_drawMovePaths

Draws a spline in real-time behind the players as they move.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_enemyManagerDebug

Displays state identifiers and other properties for enemies.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_fenceDebug

Draws blue spheres at the player's position when they intersect a wall.

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  Get Blue Sphe-wait...

(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_showHealthbars

Draws tally marks below enemies to represent their health.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_showStates

Displays the current state and the duration it's been active for per player, as well as metrics for speed, air time, height, and vertical speed.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_showTargeting

To do: The numbers, Mason, what do they mean?!

Draws numbers under the enemies that turn red depending on the condition, though said conditions are unknown.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

g_waterRunDebug

Displays parameters on the screen when the player is running on water, with an extra relative parameter when you perform a spindash underwater. An additional parameter is shown by the player called m_warthogDisableTimer, which is a timer that removes your water running ability if you stand on land for its duration - it resets if you land back on the water.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

r_DebugFontRendering

Displays placeholder text to verify if the text renderer is working as intended.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

r_DebugLightVolumes

Enters an unknown debugging view for light volumes. Crytek's documentation on this is incomplete.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

r_DebugRenderMode

Enters an unknown debugging view for the renderer. Crytek's documentation on this is incomplete.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

r_DisplayInfo

Toggles debugging info.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

r_ShowMT

Displays rendering performance metrics for multi-threading in real-time.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

sys_brbdebug

Adds a level select to the main menu.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

sys_enable_budgetmonitoring

Displays performance budget info in real-time.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)

sys_streaming_debug

Displays info regarding data streaming. This game in particular doesn't utilize this, so it doesn't function.

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(Source: Original TCRF research)