How to diagnose a game crash from the editor

[oh_cripes]

Godot Version

4.5.1

Question

I'm working on my game on MacOS and running in the editor, sometimes it will just crash and quit. The editor is still running but there are no logs or error showing in the output window. Where can I look for error logs or a stack trace for the crash?

[rpahut]

The system should keep track of the application crashes somewhere, but it will probably contain very little details. If the game doesn’t catch and report anyhing to the editor you are basically left guessing. Try figuring out what in game actions triggers the crash. Try running on another mac or on windows or in browser.

[sancho2]

Also try running from the command line.
Unfortunately I know nothing about MacOS so I can’t give you specifics beyond including the --verbose tag.

[wchc]

Check out

Logging

and

How to use the new Logger class in Godot 4.5+

[log] Last update: 26-01-30 (yy-mm-dd) Changelog section at the end of the post. Introduction Godot 4.5 introduced the Logger class (#91006), which allows users to intercept internal errors and messages. This makes it ideal for creating custom loggers (not only ideal, that’s the reason why it was added). Before continuing, it is worth noting that you might not need to make a custom logging solution. Godot already has several ways to log messages, which you should first become familiar with:…

[hexgrid]

Have a look in your apps dir for Console; it lets you browse system crash reports and the system logger.