Save & Load

Editor

To save and load a map in the editor simply click on the ... button in the top right corner of the TileWorldCreator component.

Runtime

You can save and load a map at runtime using following code:

Make sure to have a reference to the TileWorldCreator component in the scene.

    public TileWorldCreator twc;
    // Save
    twc.SaveLayerStack(string _path);
    // Load
    twc.LoadLayerStack(string _path);
    // Load and execute all layers
    twc.LoadLayerStackAndExecuteGeneration(string _path);

TileWorldCreator does not save the whole map array, it only saves the blueprint layer stack as well as the map data like width and height, this makes the size of the save file much smaller. By saving only the blueprint layer stack, it is also easy to re-generate the map by calling ExecuteAllLayers after loading is complete or simply use LoadBlueprintStackAndExecute.

Build map

To build the map after loading, make sure to subscribe to the OnBlueprintLayersComplete event.

public TileWorldCreator twc;

// Subscribe to the event
public void OnEnable()
{
    twc.OnBlueprintLayersComplete += BuildMap;
}



// 1. First, load the map and execute the blueprint stack
void LoadMap()
{
    var _path = Application.streamingAssetsPath + "/myMap.json";
    twc.LoadBlueprintStackAndExecute(_path);
}

// 2. Second, blueprint generation is complete we can now execute all build layers.
// This is called by the event OnBlueprintLayersComplete
void BuildMap(TileWorldCreator _twc)
{
    _twc.ExecuteAllBuildLayers(false);
}

Example

Please have a look at the runtime editor demo as well.