Easy Save - The Complete Save Data & Serialization Asset

Hi
im trying to save and load my player placement using a save and load buttons
the problem is that when i save it works fine but when loading my player position stays the same(im a real beginner with this system, i cant figure it out) here are the two methods

public void Load()
{
ES3AutoSaveMgr.Current.Load();
}



public void Save()
{
ES3AutoSaveMgr.Current.Save();
}

 

Hi there,

please could you post a screenshot of what you have selected in the Auto Save window for that specific object in that scene?

I also recommend putting a Debug.Log call before your ES3.Load call to ensure that it is being called.

All the best,
Joel

 

thank you for replying,ive selected only the player


and for the transform parameters

i also enabled the "save children" in the ES3 script on the player so that it saves the camera and his body.

note that when i enable Load event on start it actually puts the player where i saved last time
but when using Load button it doesnt work even if the debug.log works

when i enabled log info in the debug settings it shows this

does ------ mean that its loading the objects?

 

Hi there,

Please could you create a new project with a simple scene which replicates your issue and private message it to me with instructions? It’s not possible for me to replicate this from what you’ve sent.

All the best,
Joel

 

Hi Joel,
after creating an asmdef in my root script folder I get : error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ES3Spreadsheet' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
I already added manually my assembly name to ES3Defaults which removed similar errors, but this one sticks. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Cheers,
Jan

 

Hi there,

As this is part of Unity’s functionality rather than ours, this question may be better aimed at Unity. However, you would need to ensure that Assembly-Csharp-firstpass is accessible to your assembly.

Easy Save is in the Plugins folder so that it is compiled before other scripts in the “firstpass” of compilation.

If this isn’t the issue it may indicate a bug at Unity’s end, as we do nothing non-standard with our scripts so Unity should be able to pick them up.

All the best,
Joel

 

Just one other thing which came to mind (apologies for the double post), you might need another asmdef in the Plugins folder to be able to make it a dependency of your main asmdef. Otherwise your asmdef will be compiled before Easy Save.

All the best,
Joel

 

Hello!

I'm loving the ES3 system so far but I'm having trouble deleting references from my ES3 Reference Mgr. I've added these references by right clicking on my object > ES3 > Add Reference. But now there isn't any way to remove it from the list of references.

I've tried setting the list element to 'none' but that does nothing. Any advice on this is greatly appreciated!

 

Hi there,

Is there any reason you want to remove the reference? The reference list is only there to view references for debugging issues and removing references isn’t usually necessary as they have essentially no overhead.

All the best,
Joel

 

Thanks for the reply! I mainly wanted to get rid of the references since I don't need to save some of those objects anymore. I wasn't sure how much of an overhead they had though, so if it's not that bad then I may just leave them in.

I'm still curious if it's possible to delete individual elements from the reference list though. Thanks!

 

Ahhh my apologies. I see the Optimize button will get rid of un-used references. That's basically what I was looking for!

 

I bought EasySave in 2012. Im finally trying it

I have 2 errors on import into Unity 2019.4. Theres no errors in a clean project so it must be something iy project but I cant figure out what. Im using iOS but no error on that in clean project as well. No other console error besides these two.

Code (CSharp):

1. Assets/Plugins/Easy Save 3/Scripts/ES3.cs(729,38): error CS0103: The name 'UnityWebRequestMultimedia' does not exist in the current context
2.  
3. Assets/Plugins/Easy Save 3/Scripts/ES3.cs(741,24): error CS0103: The name 'DownloadHandlerAudioClip' does not exist in the current context

Any ideas? or can I delete this function or comment it out since I dont use any web features?

 

Hi there,

This appears to be a bug at Unity's end as those APIs certainly exist in 2019.4 (see screenshot).



Are you on the latest version of 2019.4? I don't appear to be getting any errors in the latest version, and have had no other reports of these errors.

All the best,
Joel

 

Yeah, it must be something in my project because it works fine in a clean project. I just cant imagine what setting - publishing or otherwise - or installed asset could interfere with what should be an accessible API. Ill do some research outside to try and find out, I just thought in case anyone had encountered this (or serahces for similar errors) I might get a hint. Thanks for maintaining the app so long. Its obviously loved by many, many users

 

Let us know what you discover, or if you find a way of replicating it. And thanks for the kind words

All the best,
Joel

 

Thank you I started a thread to try and track it down:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/does-not-exist-in-the-current-context.1245715/#post-7927420

Its not an error in EasySave for sure, but it is preventing me from using Easy Save in my project, so if it yields fruit I will share it here. And I anyone comes across this who might have a suggestion or any hint, even if its out there, please let me know on the thread I linked to here - I appreciate it.

 

I found it. Unity Web request is disabled in my project. It's a built in package, but it says it implements a legacy feature - I think it's included for backwards compatibility.

 

Hello, I'm have a hard time trying to just save everything in the scene. I have a checkpoint that triggers at the start of the game that should save everything in the scene and, when the player dies, it should be loaded again. Thanks!

 

Hi there,

I've replied to your email.

All the best,
Joel

 

hello
I use bolt and easy save3.
I add
ES3Spreadsheet to my bolt unit

but I can not find getcell and setcell

please help me
what es3 unit I miss?

 

Hi there,

This appears to be a bug at Bolt's end not recognising the generic methods.

I'll report this to the Bolt/Unity Visual Scripting team. However, in the meantime I've created a version which includes non-generic methods for these to work around this bug. If you private message me or contact me via moodkie.com/contact I'll send this update directly over to you.

Regarding the issue mentioned in your negative review on the Asset Store page, I've responded with the following:

All the best,
Joel

 

I'm very sorry I'm here again


ES3Spreadsheet.Load cannot be used in the new bolt node. Using this node, unity will crash down 100% without any error immediately，Save is correct.
my unity is 2020.3.17.f1

 

update:I try myself and delete the red part of the code
and now It work correct!!!

 

Thanks for the info, that's definitely a bug at Bolt's end, though it's strange that I don't appear to be able to replicate it at my end.

First ensure you're on the latest version of Bolt. If so, if you're able to send a bug report to the Bolt team that would be appreciated. It looks like they've not accounted for the situation where there's both a generic and non-generic version of the same method. In the meantime I'll send a slightly different version which provides different parameters for the non-generic method.

All the best,
Joel

 

Hiya,
I have just started using Easy Save 3 and am struggling at the first hurdle with a few test saves.

I am trying to use autosave with a few items on an script with don't destroy on load. I read in another reply that I should also include the ES3 Manager on the DDoL which I have.

If I save and load while in the original scene all is fine and works perfectly, but if I leave the scene and then come back to it when I load a new object is created with a copy of the saved script.

I would be really grateful for any help!!

Thank you

David

 

Hi David,

Because marking something as DontDestroyOnLoad essentially puts it into a new scene, it's not possible to save them using Auto Save as the object will no longer exist in the scene where your Auto Save manager is.

In this case you would need to use code. I.e.

Code (CSharp):

1. // To save
2. ES3.Save( "yourKey1", yourDDOLObject1 );
3. ES3.Save( "yourKey2", yourDDOLObject2 );
4. // etc
5.  
6. // To load
7. ES3.LoadInto( "yourKey1", yourDDOLObject1 );
8. ES3.LoadInto( "yourKey2", yourDDOLObject2 );
9. // etc

All the best,
Joel

 

Thanks Joel,

Appreciate the quick answer - especially on a Saturday!!

David

 

Hi again, I'm trying to save a prefab and load it between scenes. From what I read, I can accomplish this by using a Global Reference, but I can't find any documentation or settings besides "use global references". Even with it enabled and the prefab setup correctly, it doesn't load when starting a new scene that has ES3 set up the same way. So in short, how can I save a prefab then load it when a new scene is loaded? Thanks!

 

Hi there,

You can find information on saving and loading prefab instances in the Saving and Loading GameObjects guide:

https://docs.moodkie.com/easy-save-3/es3-guides/saving-loading-gameobjects-prefabs/

Note that global references are not used for this purpose, and are only used internally (which is why they’re not documented).

All the best,
Joel

 

So far I've been mucking around and got a system that creates the classic 4 save slots working great and it's clever enough to check if the file exists and if it doesn't it will create one.

I know you told me last time about using a catch file IO exception to check if the file is open or not but
what about if the directory exists or not?
Should I worry about if the directory doesn't exist then create one or is this something that Easy save automatically handles for me so I don't have to worry about it?
To take it a step further what about if the directory is in use and can't be modified-is that even a thing?

 

Hi there,

You don’t need to check that the Directory exists because Easy Save does this for you. However, if you’re letting users choose their own path (we don’t recommend this unless absolutely necessary) then you’ll want to ensure that they have permission to write there. This will throw a SecurityException or UnauthorizedAccessException if they do not have permission.

This isn’t a thing thankfully.

All the best,
Joel

 

I am not letting users choose their own path I am doing the default persistent data path.
When you say easy save handles existence of directory how does it do that during a game play build at run time?
Will the same code I used works great for my Windows machine so in theory it should also work great for Mac and Linux (except console and phone right?).
What about WebGl?

I think the main thing I need to watch out for people opening and modifying the CSV while the game is running. Since it's being used my build can't save or read from it so putting that system IO catch exception would come into play that you sent.

If ES3 has encryption that would make this easier too.

If people are in the process of cutting and pasting the file I suppose that same catch exception would also come into play and if the file completes the cut and paste operation or they rename the file my game assumes it doesn't exist and will create a new one AT START but if they do it mid game I think I should assume this is tampering and stop and exit the game.

Maybe I am being over protective but it's good to get a clear standard on how people normally address this stuff. I'd like to know your commentary on all what I've said ere it's fascinating.

 

Easy Save automatically does this for you, so you can use the same code on each platform.

Just in case you’ve not already found it:
https://docs.moodkie.com/easy-save-3/es3-guides/es3-encryption-compression/

For anti-tampering you would generally use encryption and catch the CryptographicException or InvalidFormatException. If you’re encouraging users to open the file then I wouldn’t use the file being open as a flag for tampering. They could leave the file open after copy/pasting, or preempt needing to open the file and open it before they load the game. So really you can’t correlate the file being open to tampering.

All the best,
Joel

 

Hi,
how would it be to save the rotation?

Code (CSharp):

1.     // Generate a unique ID for this GameObject.
2.     public string guid = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
3.  
4.     void Awake()
5.     {
6.         transform.localPosition = ES3.Load<Vector3>(guid, transform.localPosition);
7.         transform.localRotation?
8.     }
9.  
10.     void OnDestroy()
11.     {
12.         ES3.Save<Vector3>(guid, transform.localPosition);
13.         ES3.Save<Vector3>(guid, transform.localRotation?)
14.     }

thaks!

 

Hi there,

Rotation is a Quaternion, not a Vector3, so you would use this as the generic type.

Also you’re using the same key for both save calls, which means you’ll just be overwriting your position with the rotation. I recommend appending “position” and “location” to the keys so that they’re unique.

Code (CSharp):

1.     // Generate a unique ID for this GameObject.
2.     public string guid = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
3.     void Awake()
4.     {
5.         transform.localPosition = ES3.Load<Vector3>(guid + "position", transform.localPosition);
6.         transform.localRotation = ES3.Load<Quaternion>(guid + "rotation", transform.localRotation);
7.     }
8.     void OnDestroy()
9.     {
10.         ES3.Save<Vector3>(guid+"position", transform.localPosition);
11.         ES3.Save<Quaternion>(guid+"position", transform.localRotation);
12.     }

All the best,
Joel

 

Thank you very much for the information! It works fine for me now with the instructions.
I take this opportunity to congratulate you on this asset, very happy with the purchase.

 

Easy Save 3 references the Visual Scripting namespace. When I remove visual scripting I see errors related to the missing namespace. If I am not using visual scripting is this going to pull it into my final build? As I understand it only referenced assets are included in the build. I want to keep things as lean as possible and I don't want packages being included in the build I am not going to use.

 

Hi there,

The parts of our API which reference visual scripting are only compiled if the UNITY_VISUAL_SCRIPTING define directive is specified. It looks like this define wasn’t removed when the Visual Scripting package was removed. To remove it:

(https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CustomScriptingSymbols.html)

All the best,
Joel

 

Quirky fun. If you remove the UNITY_VISUAL_SCRIPTING directive and try to X out of the settings window you'll be prompted to apply your settings. If you hit yes using this pop-up the settings are not applied and the directive comes back.

However, if you remove the directive and hit the apply button the settings are applied.

I've had a few issues with the project settings window not saving in the current LTS. Anyway, thanks for the help.

 

That’s very strange, thanks for the info. I definitely recommend sending a bug report to ensure they’re aware of this (assuming you’re on the latest version of Unity).

all the best,
Joel

 

I have a csv with a bunch of data. I have followed the simple guide to loading the data but I just get a 'Value cannot be null' error . My csv file is saved in the Assets/Resources folder. What I have I done wrong? (I presume its the location of the csv file?!?) Thanks

 

Hi there,

Have you set the storage location to Resources? Please could you show me the code you're using and the CSV file you're trying to load?

All the best,
Joel

 

Ah, setting the storage location in setting was the missing link. Missed that part.Thanks.

ALthough now I get an error : Input string was not in a correct format.

My Csv is just a very simple test with some strings and ints..attached

 

Hi there,

Please could you show me the code you are using so I can try to replicate it at my end.

EDIT: Also an issue with your CSV files, strings should be in quotation marks to be safe (but it should work without these too).

All the best,
Joel

 

Code (CSharp):

1.     void Start()
2.     {
3.         // Create a blank ES3Spreadsheet.
4.        var sheet = new ES3Spreadsheet();
5.         sheet.Load("Level_Data.csv");
6.         // Output the first row of the spreadsheet to console.
7.         for(int col=0; col<sheet.ColumnCount; col++)
8.         {
9.             Debug.Log(sheet.GetCell<int>(col, 0));
10.          }
11.     }
12.  

 

Ah I think I see it now as I paste it. its set to 'int' type because I just cut pasted from the manual to get started. DOh!

 

Glad you managed to identify the issue

All the best,
Joel

 

Hi I have a lot of .es3 files (More than thousand) that I saved unencrypted ... is that possible to create a tool to encrypt all .es3 files inside a folder? I need to encrypt for the final build.

 

Hi there,

To do this you would do something along the lines of the following:

Code (CSharp):

1. foreach(var filename in ES3.GetFiles())
2. {
3.     var unencryptedSettings = new ES3Settings(ES3.EncryptionType.None);
4.     var encryptedSettings =  new ES3Settings(ES3.EncryptionType.AES);
5.    
6.     var unencryptedString = ES3.LoadRawString(filename, unencryptedSettings);
7.     ES3.SaveRaw( unencryptedString, filename, encryptedSettings );
8. }

All the best,
Joel

 

Hi there,

I’m afraid it’s hard to understand without being able to see your FSMs.

Please could you take screenshots of each of the actions you are using so I can see what you are doing?

All the best,
Joel