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Bug: Running the engine in tools mode does not bring up the tools UI by default

Open JJL772 opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Describe the bug

When launching -tools, the game does not boot into the tools UI. you need to press F10 to bring it up. This can be confusing for new users.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Launch with -tools
  2. Observe the game does not boot into tools ui

Expected behavior

Game should start in tools mode when told to

JJL772 avatar Apr 13 '21 14:04 JJL772

We did that intentionally

StefanH-AT avatar Apr 13 '21 14:04 StefanH-AT

What benefit does that even have

JJL772 avatar Apr 13 '21 14:04 JJL772

Alright the consensus on the discord is to bring up toolsui by default when -tools is passed. (For reference, citadel says the changes was made because we wanted to enable tools mode by default at some point)

JJL772 avatar Apr 13 '21 14:04 JJL772

Still an issue. Though it is kind of nice to be able to just leave -tools in your launch options and pull it up when needed. Maybe this should be a cvar or other launch option (e.g. -tools_silent)?

vrad-exe avatar May 05 '23 06:05 vrad-exe

This was fixed back in December

ozxybox avatar Mar 05 '25 08:03 ozxybox