One of the most important things for me whenever I use Unity for any experiment is the ability to store lots of information on my hard drive. I record every aspect of the program, locations and timings of events, recordings of movements and anything that could be of importance later on. By saving to a text file, it is really easy to export that recorded information into any statistical program for analysis. I created two short scripts (using JavaScript) and a video which explains their use. Feel free to send me questions and comments.
The example in the video is only meant to demonstrate the general use of these scripts for saving information. I cannot guarantee that this is the most elegant or optimized method for saving to a text file, but it worked for me in many projects so far. You can literally save anything you want and trigger the saving process with whatever you want (Triggers, Time, Button Clicks, Quitting the application, User actions, etc.). Loading information into Unity from text files is just as easy with a very similar process. The "save.js" script handles both. With loading data into your environment it's very simple to visualize your results after the experiment (or game session) is done.
-Sebas
The example in the video is only meant to demonstrate the general use of these scripts for saving information. I cannot guarantee that this is the most elegant or optimized method for saving to a text file, but it worked for me in many projects so far. You can literally save anything you want and trigger the saving process with whatever you want (Triggers, Time, Button Clicks, Quitting the application, User actions, etc.). Loading information into Unity from text files is just as easy with a very similar process. The "save.js" script handles both. With loading data into your environment it's very simple to visualize your results after the experiment (or game session) is done.
-Sebas
HD version of the video tutorial and the two Javascript scripts for download
| unity_saving_hd.mp4 |
| save.js |
| saveobject.js |
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