Question I want to make a save system for my level editor.

I am currently working on a 2D mario maker style game and I have no idea on how I should go about making the save system for ot, Does anyone know of a way I could do it or if there are any tutorials.

 

Think about what data you need to save:

• placed objects (type, position, scale, rotation, any other settings on them)
• player spawn position
• whatever else

Think about how to serialize it to a file.
Think about how to read the data back from the file

Think about how to set the scene back up from the deserialized data.

Solve these problems and you will have a working save system. A level editor isn't really any different from a saved game for any other game. The principles are the same.

 

Any tutorials... only about eight million of them, give or take.



Also, here are my own mumblings about load/save. Start small, iterate, don't try to save / load EVERYTHING at once, you will never get through it.

Load/Save steps:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/save-system-questions.930366/#post-6087384

Don't use the binary formatter/serializer: it is insecure, it cannot be made secure, and it makes debugging very difficult, plus it actually will NOT prevent people from modifying your save data on their computers.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/binaryformatter-security-guide