This document describes how to visually debug Gameware Navigation and your own game using the Navigation Lab.

The Navigation Lab is a tool that live connects to your game and displays most Gameware Navigation objects and attributes. It can also display custom information that you send using our provided Lua methods.

You can disconnect any time from the live view and scrub back in time to analyze the scene frame by frame, while toggling various sets of information and freely moving the camera.

The NavigationLab is available for Windows only, and located in:

Your_Stingray_lib_folder/navigation_XXX.X.X_tool/bin/

Check the Gameware Navigation reference manual for a guide on how to use the NavigationLab.

In the Navigation Lab, select the Game camera mode in the Camera toolbox to have the Navigation Lab match the game camera.

This requires that you set at each frame the game camera position and attitude for Gameware Navigation.

local pos = Camera.world_position(camera)
local camera_pose = Camera.world_pose(camera)
local forward = Matrix4x4.forward(camera_pose)
local up = Matrix4x4.up(camera_pose)
GwNavWorld.set_visual_debug_camera_transform(self.nav_world, pos, pos + forward, up)

If you integrated the NavWorld lua object in your game (see the runtime integration topic) just call the function GwNavWorld:visual_debug_camera(camera).