Saving Nested ScriptableObjects

[thsbrown1@gmail.com]

Hey guys, just started using EasySave and I was a bit disheartened to find out that it doesn't support nested ScriptableObjects out of the box.

It also doesn't look like there has been a tutorial or example showing this use case.

Would love some help. I created a new ES3Type but i'm thinking surely there must be a way to tell ES3 to quickly serialize all sub fields.

[Joel]

Hi there,

Easy Save 3 is capable of saving and loading nested ScriptableObjects. Please could you create a very basic project which replicates your problem and PM it over to me with instructions to replicate it?

Note that fields of UnityEngine.Object types (such as ScriptableObjects) are stored by reference, so if your inner ScriptableObject is generated at runtime, a reference to this will not exist in the reference manager.

All the best,
Joel

[thsbrown1@gmail.com]

Hey Joel I wen't ahead and sent along the example project via pm a few days ago and am eager to see how I might get this working.

Thanks in advance!

[Joel]

Hi there,

Apologies for the delay, it would seem I didn't get a notification regarding your PM. Thanks for your patience.

In your case there's actually an easy workaround in form of a bit of undocumented functionality we have. You can create an ES3Settings object which tells Easy Save's serialiser to store all fields by reference AND value:

var settings = new ES3Settings();
settings.memberReferenceMode = ES3.ReferenceMode.ByRefAndValue;
ES3.Save<Data>("saveData", gameData, "GameData.es3", settings);

All the best,
Joel

[thsbrown1@gmail.com]

This seams to be exactly what i'm looking for!

Thanks so much!

It would be great if this was documented as it would probably save someone else a headache haha

[Joel]

There are a few edge cases we need to account for, but we're hoping to get this added in a coming update

All the best,
Joel