The Powder Toy

Kirbystarfighter

I did this once were whenever I panned over an element that was placed I could see it's ctype,the gravity value, and if I remember correctly even the tmp but recently I reinstalled the game and now I don't how to get back to see that again. :( please help I can't even see how many parts I'm using... but I'm on android so if anyone has an idea be my guest.

mark2222

@Kirbystarfighter (View Post)

Hit 'H' to toggle the HUD, and 'D' to toggle the extra HUD output (it's probably 'D' that you're looking for).

Kirbystarfighter

I'm on android ...

Mrprocom

@Kirbystarfighter (View Post)
There doesn't seem to be a direct and easy way of doing it on Android, if you desperately want it, here's a somewhat-complicated way:
Close the game entirely just in case, use your file manager to find a file called

powder.pref

, I'm not sure if the location is the same for everyone, but I found mine in

Android > data > uk.co.powdertoy.tpt > files > powder.pref
If you can't open the file to edit it (I couldn't, but I'm not sure if anyone can), download a text editor, I used this one which worked for me, called Text Editor.

Now open the program and use it to edit

powder.pref

, if you are using that program I linked to, you should be able to tab "Open file..." in the side panel, navigate to that

powder.pref

file and tab it.

Inside the file you will find a bunch of stuff, don't worry about those, we are only looking for

"DebugMode"

under

"Renderer"

, it should be somewhere at the very top, so you don't have to search for that long, here is how mine looks like (yours doesn't have to be exactly the same):

	"Renderer":	{
		"ColourMode":	0,
		"DebugMode":	false,
		"DisplayModes":	[],
		"RenderModes":	[258944, 324480, 67171201, 4278252144],
		"GravityField":	false,
		"Decorations":	true
	},

you see that

"DebugMode"

? change its value from

false

to

true

, so it should look like this now:

"DebugMode": true,
Save the file and open the game, that's it! If you want to disable it, just change it back to

false

.
Note that you should never share your

powder.pref

file to anyone according to this thread, I only shared the Renderer part, which is totally safe.

Kirbystarfighter

Thank you so much : ) but still doesn't work for some reason...

jacob1

The much easier method is:

Hold down the console button until a keyboard appears. Press 'd'. The debug HUD should be active now.

I think .tmp is off by default, that's maybe something I should fix.

Kirbystarfighter

@jacob1 (View Post)

*facepalm* I feel like a dumb*** .... Thank you very much I would be literally no where if you didn't comment t go into the console and press d so thank you

jacob1

@Kirbystarfighter (View Post)
Well that keyboard isn't very obvious, @Mrprocom didn't even know it existed, lol

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