Unity Serializer to save only a variable

I want to use unity serializer by whydoidoit to save only a variable in a script and not a whole gameobject. I have looked through the get started guide, forums, and the web and I could not find how to do this. I am fairly new to unity and coding in general so I am sorry if this is a dumb thing to ask.

A public static Dictionary will hold the data for the player which is the only thing I need saved and loaded. How would I go about doing this with Unity Serializer?

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4.  
5. public class gameData : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7.     public static Dictionary<Vector3, Dictionary<int,int>> playerData = new Dictionary<Vector3, Dictionary<int,int>>();
8.  
9.     public static bool saveGame = false;
10.  
11.     void Awake () {
12.  
13.         // Load the info for playerData
14.  
15.     }
16.  
17.     void Update () {
18.         if(saveGame){
19.  
20.             // Save the info for playerData
21.  
22.             saveGame = false;
23.         }
24.     }
25. }
26.  

 

For the purpose of storing primitive variables, you might want to use PlayerPrefs.

 

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4.  
5. using System.Linq;
6.  
7. public class gameData : MonoBehaviour {
8.  
9.     public static Dictionary<Vector3, Dictionary<int,int>> playerData = new Dictionary<Vector3, Dictionary<int,int>>();
10.     public static bool saveGame = false;
11.     string playerSave;
12.  
13.     void Awake () {
14.         playerSave = PlayerPrefs.GetString("gameFile").ToDictionary(v => v, v => v);
15.     }
16.  
17.     void Update () {
18.         if(saveGame){
19.             saveGame = false;
20.             playerSave = playerData.ToString();
21.             PlayerPrefs.SetString("gameFile", playerSave);
22.             PlayerPrefs.Save();
23.         }
24.     }
25.  
26. }

How would I put this into PlayerPrefs? I tried using .ToString to change it to string and save it as string and .ToDictionary to change it back to dictionary but I can't get the .ToDictionary to work correctly. The playerData variable will aslo get very large and this website http://www.dotnetperls.com/todictionary says that .ToDictionary is very slow.

 

US already stores data into PlayerPrefs.

Take a look at the LevelSerializer.cs script. It should contain a function that lets you serialize one GameObject tree. Go from there.