Unity save everything (snapshot)

Question

I\'m trying to save everything whilst running my program. I want to save every Gameobject with their scripts and variables. I know that it\'s possible to serialize everythin

Answer 1

This is where MVC comes in really handy.

It's kind of advanced, but I hope you'll find it useful.

You have all your state in one place, call it: Model class.

You can serialize to and from JSON.

You create views by iterating through the state in the model. The views represent the state in a visual way.

As an example, say you have this model class:

[Serializable]
public class Model {
    public string List<City> cities = new List<City>();
}

[Serializable]
public class City {
    public string name;
    public int population;
    public List<Person> people;
}

[Serializable]
public class Person {
    public string name;
    public int age;
}

Create a new instance of it:

Model model = new Model();
City c = new City();
c.name = "London";
c.population = 8674000;

Person p = new Person();
p.name = "Iggy"
p.age = 28;

c.people.Add(p);

model.cities.Add(c);

You can serialize Model to JSON:

string json = JsonUtility.ToJson(model);

And deserialize JSON to Model:

model = JsonUtility.FromJson<Model>(json);

Having this state, you can iterate through the needed information and create GameObjects for them, so that you're able to represent the information in a visual way.