Accessing varibles from console [SOLVED]

[Granamir]

Hi everyone,
i'm trying to debug some script i did, that doesn't work properly, and i found that i cannot access variable from console.
Beeing specific:
access to external file form a script entity
generate some global variables, not in a function
then use those variables in some functions
some function works fine some other don't
so i tryed to acces variable from console and i always get nil, even for those variables that are obviously working

anyone knows why this thing happens?
thank you

[minmay]

You cannot modify the global environment in Grimrock. Variables declared in a ScriptComponent outside of any block are not global, they are just permanent fields of that ScriptComponent. So if you have the following in a ScriptComponent:

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stuff = "cows"
function doSomething()
  print(stuff)
end

then running the following code in the console will print nil twice:

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print(stuff)
print(doSomething)

Instead you need to reference them like this:

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print(script_entity_1.script.stuff)
print(script_entity_1.script.doSomething)

[Granamir]

Understood
Thank you very much