Spawning, Saving and Loading Procedurally Generated Prefabs

Hi there,

I'm currently working on a game that procedurally generates planets and the player can "discover" these planets when they get to the end of each level. Once a planet is discovered I want to be able to save it and load it into a map so the player can keep track of the planets they've discovered but also revisit the planet if they'd like.

The problem I'm having is the saving and loading of the planets. I've gotten as far as being able to get into the level, generate a planet, save the planet using serialization, load it onto the map. My happens when trying to create a second planet, save it and load onto the map and have multiple planets all with their own sizes and colors etc...

I've done a lot of Googling and watched a number of tutorials on serialization and scriptable objects but I don't think they've solving my problem. Any direction on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Editor and prefab utility is not available during runtime, if I remember correctly asset database is readonly and it's not possible to write anything there. If you want to save some data during the game you need to create save file and store your data there. You can use JsonUtility or custom serializer or tool from asset store.

If your planets are quite simple and all of them got the same properties I recommend you to create custom serializable class and use JsonUtility - it can serialize references as well. Anyway I think it would be good start.

 

Thank you this at least gives me a new direction to look. Appreciate your help.