basic Saving and Loading

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I am in the middle of creating a RPG Game and i am focusing on saving and loading. What i need is a script that saves my characters exact location or possibly and "Auto-Save" feature. I am hoping to create a save game button for my pause menu. The reason why i am asking t$$anonymous$$s is because i have searched all over Google and found many results however the results was not what i needed and did not help me at all. I also have no idea where to start for the creating of Saving and Loading feature. I am also wanting a loading button for my main menu so when the user clicks the button it loads their game save.

I am sorry if t$$anonymous$$s is irrating of asking the same question but i didn't understand the other scripts and tutorials because i got many errors with them.

Thanks in advanced

UniqueProductionZ

Extra - T$$anonymous$$s is my pause menu script (I am in the middle of creating my main menu scene now:

   private var pauseEnabled = false;    
   
   function Start()
     {
     pauseEnabled = false;
     Time.timeScale = 1;
     AudioListener.volume = 1;
     Screen.showCursor = false;
     }
  
     function Update()
     {
         //check if pause button (escape key) is pressed
         if(Input.GetKeyDown("escape"))
         {
            //check if game is already paused
            if(pauseEnabled == true)
            {
              //unpause the game
              pauseEnabled = false;
              Time.timeScale = 1;
              AudioListener.volume = 1;
              Screen.showCursor = false;
            }
  
            //else if game isn't paused, then pause it
          else if(pauseEnabled == false)
            {
              pauseEnabled = true;
              AudioListener.volume = 0;
              Time.timeScale = 0;
              Screen.showCursor = true;
            }
         }
     }//end Update function
     function OnGUI()
     {
  
         if(pauseEnabled == true)
         {
            if(GUI.Button(Rect(Screen.width /2 - 100,Screen.height /2+25 ,250,50), "Option"))
            {
              Debug.Log("GUI.Button : Options : pressed");
            }
            if(GUI.Button(Rect(Screen.width /2 - 100,Screen.height /2-25 ,250,50), "Resume"))
            {
              if(pauseEnabled == true)
              {
               //unpause the game
               pauseEnabled = false;
               Time.timeScale = 1;
               Screen.showCursor = false;
               AudioListener.volume = 1;
              }
            }
         }
 }//end OnGUI function

Answer 1

Firstly, you need to understand that you are going to have to save the state of everyt$$anonymous$$ng that is important to you in your game. Hence existence and state of every object in your game. Obviously you will then need to reverse the process.

T$$anonymous$$s can actually be quite onerous and that is why many games have "save zones" w$$anonymous$$ch happens between levels or in a sleep/wake up fas$$anonymous$$on so that you wont need to put everyt$$anonymous$$ng back in exactly the same state as you found it.

Secondly, if its somet$$anonymous$$ng like an RPG, I would NOT recommend using PlayerPref class. Thats a really simple way of storing value pairs. Not really suitable if you are trying to save big list of inventory and map information.

Consequently you will need to save t$$anonymous$$ngs to files. You can use the System.IO calls for t$$anonymous$$s (read up on StreamWriter and File.OpenText).

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/5084-Can-I-read-and-write-text-files-using-Javascript

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