I will be using JetBrains Rider because it is my editor of choice and integrates easily with Unity. Today’s article isn’t about choosing the best IDE. Most modern IDEs allow you to use debugging tools.

This is especially handy when you are not sure exactly where an issue is originating from. Overviewĭebugging code is the practice of walking through your code while it is running to see if the results you expect are occurring. It really isn’t all that difficult to get started with, which is what we will do today. If you have never written code before the idea of debugging might seem foreign to you. They are expensive to use and clutter things up unnecessarily. Now I am not here to tell you to stop using those, they can be helpful in isolation small issues when you are kind of aware where to look but you can find yourself wasting a lot of time putting these in and removing them from your scripts.

If you have gone through any online course or watched YouTube videos about how to make games in Unity you have come across the advice to use Debug.Log() or Debug.LogError() in order to troubleshoot the games you are making.

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