Saving a randomly generated Terrain

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I have a randomly generated terrain and a functional Save/Load system using XML. In order to save the generated terrain, I tried serializing the heights in XML but it gives me an error (2d arrays aren't accepted as primitives). T$$anonymous$$s is basically what I did :

var heights;

var xRes = Terrain.activeTerrain.terrainData.heightmapWidth; var yRes = Terrain.activeTerrain.terrainData.heightmapHeight; heights = Terrain.activeTerrain.terrainData.GetHeights(0, 0, xRes, yRes);

And then the data is serialized.

I tried serializing other types like int, string or even Array() and it works, so it's not the Saving system that causes the problem.

Are there any other methods to save t$$anonymous$$s type of data? Would exporting the heightmap on the hard drive and importing it when loading the game work? If so, how can I export the heightmap from script?

For reference, t$$anonymous$$s is the Save/Load code I'm using : http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Save_and_Load_from_XML

Thanks for any answers.

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Answer by Tetrad · Jun 19, 2010 at 11:15 PM

You could use .NET's built-in serialization.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4abbf6k0(v=VS.71).aspx

Basically, save your data using BinaryFormatter.

Example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.formatters.binary.binaryformatter.aspx

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