Unity Game Development Blueprints

Level editor – saving/loading levels to file

Now that we have the groundwork all placed and ready, let's get to the real meat of the level editor: saving and loading! Perform the following steps:

1. Open our LevelEditor class in MonoDevelop. The first step will be to include some additional functionality at the beginning of our file:

   //You must include these namespaces
   //to use BinaryFormatter
   using System;
   using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
   using System.IO;

2. The first thing we'll want to add is a variable, as follows:

   string levelName = "Level1";

3. Now, we'll need to add the following code to the OnGUI function:

   GUILayout.BeginArea(new Rect(10, 20, 100, 100)); levelName = GUILayout.TextField(levelName); if (GUILayout.Button ("Save")) { ...