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-Hides all entities belonging to the specified group. For tiles belonging to the group, any objects or characters on those tiles will also be hidden.+Prints data to the debug console, for example to display the value of a property or validate that a script is running by logging a message.
  
 ====Signature:==== ====Signature:====
-<code python>+<code>
 print(data) print(data)
 </code> </code>
  
 ^Argument^Description^Type^Required^ ^Argument^Description^Type^Required^
-|data|Data to be printed to the debug console.|[[String]], [[Decimal]], [[Boolean]]|Yes|+|data|Data to be printed to the debug console.|[[String]], [[Number]], [[Boolean]]|Yes|
  
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-You can use the related [[Show Group]] function to show the entities in a group that were previously hidden with the **Hide Group** function.+You can display variables and properties directly using the **Print** function, or you can display them with additional text using [[placeholder_expression|placeholder expressions]].
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 ====Example:==== ====Example:====
 <code python> <code python>
-hide_group("upper_floor")+print("Player is at coordinate ${player.coord}")
 </code> </code>
-//Results:// All entities in the group "upper_floor" will now be hidden.+//Results:// The player character's tile coordinate will be displayed in the debug console.
  
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-Use the **Hide Group** function to hide the ceiling of a room or the upper layers of a structure that would otherwise obstruct the player's vision when entering the underlying area.+Use the **Print** function to debug a script that isn't working properly by logging a text message or the value of a property to the console.
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 ====Editor Node:==== ====Editor Node:====
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print.txt · Last modified: 2021/04/21 18:40 by justin

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