IMPORTANT fast reply needed!

I use binary formaters to serialize data in my game, so I use the import staments:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
2. using System.IO;

These import statements are perfectly reasonable and I get no error when running my game in Unity, but when I try to compile the project Unity tells me "The type or namespace name 'Formatters' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Runtime.Serialization' (are you missing an assembly reference?)"

How do I fix this? I need to submit a demo version in 30 minutes and I don't know what to do..

 

What platform are you compiling for? Some platforms don't have the full library.

It's also worth checking the version of .NET that the name space is from. Unitys version is pretty old.

 

In your player settings for the offending platform, check what you have set for "Api Compatibility Level" you may need to set it to ".NET 2.0" rather than ".NET 2.0 subset"

 

I found a solution later, I ended up saving my data in json files instead.

 

I think the issue that you were having is that you were including too much.

So this:

Code (csharp):

1. using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

would become this:

Code (csharp):

1. using System.Runtime.Serialization;

 

I tried that, it did not provide the required classes for binary serialization. The reason I had an error when compiling with .Formatters.Binary I found out was that, having to do with the fact the fact that I was building for the windows store, the windows store does not support certain library classes. As a result I had to settle for saving everything in json format.

 

I already followed the tutorial on the data persistence, created BinaryFormatter and it compiled flawlessly in Unity, then, when trying to build into Windows Store, boom
"The type or namespace name 'Formatters' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Runtime.Serialization' (are you missing an assembly reference?)"
Any simple way of fixing that or saving stuff in json format is one of my most reasonable options?

 

you need to work around.

 

To be honest there are hundreds of tutorials on JSON, better and worse ones, ones using local databases, websites, apache servers, phpmyadmin and so on. Think I'm more confused now, after reading and watching so many videos on YouTube about that. Don't even know if I should use XML or JSON, what really the difference is. People recommend both of them, I did some digging into XML years ago, but I'm not sure which one would be better.

So my question would be: is there a good, easy, reliable tutorial to explain how to set up XML or JSON in order to save Score/HighScore and player's chosen character from a different scene?

Also found something like BSON and JSON .NET for Unity (paid), could I use one of them?

 

1. Store everything you want to save in a file in a single class (this class can have objects of other classes inside it if need be)
2. The class being serialized must have a "[serializable]" tag on it, and the classes of any objects stored inside it must also have the serializable tag.
3. Example Script:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2.  
3. [Serializable]
4. public class MyData
5. {
6.     public float[] a;
7.     public int b;
8.     public OtherData c;
9.  
10.     public MyData()
11.     { }
12. }

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2.  
3. [Serializable]
4. public class OtherData
5. {
6.     string something;
7.  
8.     public OtherData()
9.         { }
10. }

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System;
4. using System.IO;
5.  
6. public class MyScript : Monobehavior
7. {
8.     MyData data;
9.  
10.     //save data in json format
11.     private void SaveData()
12.     {
13.         string fileName = Application.persistentDataPath + "\mydata.json"
14.  
15.         if (File.Exists(fileName))
16.         {
17.             File.Delete(fileName);
18.         }
19.         using (FileStream file = File.Create(fileName))
20.         {
21.             using (StreamWriter outputFile = new StreamWriter(file))
22.             {
23.                 outputFile.Write(JsonUtility.ToJson(data));
24.             }
25.         }
26.     }
27.  
28.     //load json file into class
29.     private MyData LoadData()
30.     {
31.         string fileName = Application.persistentDataPath + "\mydata.json";
32.  
33.         if (File.Exists(fileName))
34.         {
35.             using (FileStream file = File.Open(fileName, FileMode.Open))
36.             {
37.                 string content;
38.                 using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(file))
39.                 {
40.                     content = reader.ReadToEnd();
41.                 }
42.                 MyData d = JsonUtility.FromJson<MyData>(content);
43.  
44.                 return d;
45.             }
46.         }
47.         else //file does not exit
48.         {
49.             // here you should throw some kind of error message
50.          
51.             // this is so the function "returns a value"
52.             return new MyData();
53.         }
54. }