How do you write code to save values changed during runtime?

I'm not sure how this is done, no clue actually. But I have seen that there are a few plugins out there that include such a feature. I want to include this in one of our plugins but don't know where to start. Any ideas anyone? I'm surprised that we still don't have a "commit" button on the prefab to do this already...

I thought we could just tell our users to make sure and create their own prefab so they can hit "Apply" during runtime, but quite annoyingly, those 3 prefab buttons disappear during runtime. Why? That would be crazy useful.

Thanks in advance!
-Brian

 

Running in the player never uses prefabs which is why the buttons disappear and the color of the game object changes to normal in the hierarchy. It instantiates each prefab when yo start the player. You need to do things while in edit mode if you want changes to be applied to the prefab.

 

Yeah, that's the normal way. Like I said, I've seen a few plugins that have things specially built to allow the player to save changes made during runtime mode. I'm wondering how they did it? It is possible, just not natively built in.

 

Seriously, no one know how to do this? Or am I in the wrong forum with this question?

 

We tested one plug-in back in the day that had a "Keep changes after Stop" feature. It is Ultimate Rope Editor, maybe you want to check it out.

 

Thanks, I may check that one out.

 

I haven't tried doing this (saving stuff in play mode), but check out PrefabUtility: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PrefabUtility.html

It might help.

 

Thanks. I tried a revert method last week from PrefabUtility, only to find out that it does nothing at runtime. I'll try a couple others.