Serializing and deserializing a world ... easily?

Hello, everyone!

Is there a simple-ish way to save a world and then rebuild it? At the moment I'm trying saving the data in an OOP structure, such as a set of Lists in a singleton on a gameobject. That can the be serialized and saved. Then when the game state is loaded, I am loading in the serialized OOP structure and then rebuilding the ECS structure. But it's a lot of code and faff and it takes time to run the routines.

Is there a better way? All I could find was https://gametorrahod.com/unity-ecs-serializing-ecs-data-252231e5b16d which makes it look horrendous.

Thank you, very much.

 

Depends entirely on your data. It could be as simple as

Code (CSharp):

1. GameObject sharedComponents;
2. using (BinaryWriter writer = new StreamBinaryWriter(path))
3. {
4.     SerializeUtilityHybrid.Serialize(entityManager, writer, out sharedComponents);
5. }
6.  
7. using (BinaryReader reader = new StreamBinaryReader(path))
8. {
9.     SerializeUtilityHybrid.Deserialize(entityManager, reader, sharedComponentData);
10. }

It is an area I believe they want to work on and improve at some point though.