Getting game state data

[onyx flume]

Hello! I'm new to Celeste modding (but already an experienced programmer). I'd like to start with a simple project to get the hang of everest api. I'd like to show in a command line (or on screen) the current gamestate, with Madeline X/Y coords, current map we are in, maybe Madeline velocity etc.. this kind of data. Is it possible?

I've found a lot of stuff on reacting to events, but is it possible to actually get live data from the game without any event triggering?

I believe it's possible to get this kind of data from entities but i'm not sure i really understand how it works.

Thanks a lot :)

[barren girder]

this already exists in celestetas

[shrewd jetty]

https://gamebanana.com/tools/6715
(shared by @barren girder)

[barren girder]

you can look at how it does it

[onyx flume]

Thanks a lot! I think that's exactly what i'm looking for, i'll look into it

[barren girder]

you can try it in/game

install the mod and press left control twice

you can show up a cursor by holding left control and you can drag the window around

[onyx flume]

Is there an API? The goal of this is for the data to be used in my code in the end

[barren girder]

well, you can just copy what celestetas does

[onyx flume]

Yea i'll just look the source code

Thanks

[barren girder]

https://github.com/EverestAPI/CelesteTAS-EverestInterop

be aware celestetas is pretty complex so you may see a lot of confusing stuff

[onyx flume]

I've looked into it and it's indeed quite confusing lol, if anyone that has a good knowledge on the CelesteTAS codebase (a maintainer maybe?) passes by i'd really appreciate if you can slide in my dms to help me 🙏

actually @barren girder, i see that you're working on celesteNET, would how you're transfering data between players be a potential thing i could look into?

if i can send data as detailed as what CelesteTAS is showing to a local endpoint it would be more than sufficient

[inland hemlock]

if you just want data sent to an endpoint, celestetas has a debugrc endpoint that you can use to access the info that it displays

[barren girder]

how would that relate?

[onyx flume]

my goal is to get the data, one way or an other, since at least some data is getting passed around in celestenet (i assume) maybe i would have found what i'm looking for in there

[onyx flume]

but i'm going to look into that, it seems like it may just what i need, thanks!

[onyx flume]

i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong, is there an option i need to activate?

[barren girder]

idk about you, but it just works™️ for me

can you open the link in your browser?

[onyx flume]

nope

[barren girder]

nnnnnnnnnnnnno
all that's passed around is just player position and graphics packets

[onyx flume]

oh ok lol, makes sense

[barren girder]

close celeste, is something using the 80 port?

try netstat -anop TCP

wait no

its not the 80 port

hm

[onyx flume]

80 port is just http

[barren girder]

yeah ik

besides its not even using the 80 port

is something using 32270

[onyx flume]

nope

[barren girder]

it should be just 0.0.0.0:32270

reopen everest and check?

this is weird

[onyx flume]

same thing :/

[barren girder]

what if you open everest this time and check

[onyx flume]

nothing after everest restart 😭

i'll try on my other computer lmao

[barren girder]

okay what the hell

can it not open a socket or something

is there anything in the log

[onyx flume]

no clue, i've never messed with network on this computer

[onyx flume]

no it's completly empty ahah

[barren girder]

are you checking the right log?

it should be right next to Celeste.exe

[barren girder]

that's.... the wrong log

that's olympus

not everest

[onyx flume]

oh sorry :x

[barren girder]

olympus is the launcher, everest is the mod loader

[barren girder]

there should be a Started DebugRC thread, available via http://localhost:32270/ line at the bottom

[onyx flume]

logs end there

[barren girder]

okay weird

hmm

i could make a custom everest build has better error checking?

[final otter]

Is debug mode enabled?

[onyx flume]

i have not enabled it, i'm not sure how to check wether it's enabled

[barren girder]

oh

wait true

its in mod settings

[final otter]

Thats your problem

[onyx flume]

ok guess we fouund the option to activate 😭

[barren girder]

yeah i literally just got to here lmao

thats so bs

[final otter]

Tho this wouldve been really funny to debug a setting not being on lol

[barren girder]

[onyx flume]

i feel like there is a documentation problem rather than a debugging problem lol

[barren girder]

i mean there always is

[onyx flume]

ok this fixed it i feel kind of stupid now ahah

[barren girder]

its not immediately obvious so

[final otter]

Well.. it is called debugrc

[onyx flume]

i didn't even know there was a debug option lol, i've literally just installed everest 2 days ago