Loading contents, information, scriptableObjects from text file?!

Hello everyone,
I want to know, if the current way (or the way I'm planning) to load information is the right and optimal method.

What I'm going to create:
I want to create a game, where many information about different objects store in text files. At the start, all those information get loaded into the game and create different objects. In the finished project, there should also be an editor in the game to create your own objects.

Implementation:
There are different text files in several folders and each of them contains different informations (syntax) (such as weapon-files, enemy-files, tile-map-level-files, etc.) The GameController loads a folder which contains all the files is sub folders.

Example:
There is a simple weapon like a sword. The text file may look like this:
image:"/img/sword.png"
name:"master sword"
damage:5
range:2

Maybe use a other way?
I'm looking for the best way to load informatino to create/fill objects on runtime. What's about the scriptableObject, is this what I'm looking for?

I just want to know this, before starting creating the base of my game.

please excuse my bad english skills.

 

I do this sort of thing in High Frontier using GRFON. It's certainly not the only way, but it works well for us.

 

Thanks for the answer! GRFON looks good, I already worked with XML so this is also very usefull. But would it also be possible with scriptableObject?

 

I'm not sure whether you can get scriptableObject to save its data in any human-readable form. And even if you can, I'd stay away from it because (like most standard C# serialization) it's likely to be fragile, i.e., to break if you change the interface of your code.

But then again, maybe not — Unity objects in the editor aren't especially fragile, except for enum properties (which are stored by value rather than by name). So, it's certainly worth digging into further if that's how you want to go.

 

From the documentation for JSON serializing:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/JSONSerialization.html