Hi ,guys!

This is my first thread and I have been dealing with 3DGS and Lite-C for a couple of months ,so I am not a 100% newbie....

I am having an issue concerned with game saving/loading system of Lite-C:

When I wanted to attach a game saving/loading system to my project ,simply it didn't work. Every time I try to load my previously saved game (I used SV_ALL flag for it) ,the engine shows me an error message "can't load ....". When I looked that up in the Troubleshooting section of the manual ,I was surprised. It said that when I save a game and then the engine objects change ,that saved game can't be loaded. Does this mean that if I saved a game ,then closed the application and wanted to open it again later ,I wouldn't be able to load that game?

I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me how to overcome this problem and what advice I should take care of when I deal with game saving/loading.

Thank you for reading

If you use any _create function except ent_create (so if you create panels at runtime or something like that) you sadly cannot use game_save.

What kind of game are you working on, what type of levels do you have? Oftentimes it's just better to write your own save and load system.

All what I use is "ent_create" and "ent_createlayer". But, I'm sure they're not the problem



I am working on a normal 3rd person shooter game. Concerning the levels ,I don't know what you mean



I think that will be a little bit difficult but how to do it?

How can you be so sure about that? The ent_createlayer calls are most likely the problem as you can see here:


Concerning the levels, I meant if you have checkpoints/ save stations like in Metroid or only want to save after a completed level/ mission, then it will be notably easier to implement (using file_ instructions).

@Superku I'll try with the 'ent_createlayer' and see if it is the problem (I tried before and I'm sure it wasn't the problem ,but I'll see it again). But do you mean that if I saved my game using game_save instruction ,then closed my game and opened it later ,then at the main menu (before even loading a level or creating entities) I won't be able to load my previously saved game?

Also, concerning your talking about saving after a completed mission (I liked that) ,how to use file_ manipulation for it?

I don't think I understand your first question, sorry. If you don't use create-instructions, game_save usually will work pretty fine and will let you load for instance a scene where you are currently jumping over an obstacle in level 3, even though you may be in level 1 or have opened the main menu and no level loaded.

Assuming you want to save the progress in a save station in your level, you can realize this approx. as follows:

filehandle = file_open_write("save.txt");
file_var_write(filehandle, level_current);
file_var_write(filehandle, level_save_station);
file_var_write(filehandle, player_health);
file_var_write(filehandle, mission_time);
file_close(filehandle);

Then, when you want to load the game, proceed as follows:

filehandle = file_open_read("save.txt");
level_current = file_var_read(filehandle);
level_save_station = file_var_write(filehandle);
player_health = file_var_write(filehandle);
mission_time = file_var_write(filehandle);
file_close(filehandle);

if(level_current == 1) load_level("level1.wmb");
if(level_current == 2) load_level("level2.wmb");
ent_create(player_mdl,save_station[level_save_station],act_player);
...

Don't care about my first question. I really liked your method in using the saving stations & file_ instructions and I'll try hard to implement it

Thank you for helping

But wait a minute, is there a way to write the values of an array with only one single line instead of writing every value? For example:

I defined an array like that:
var a[5][5];

I don't want that:
file_var_write(filehandle,a[0][0]);
file_var_write(filehandle,a[0][1]);
file_var_write(filehandle,a[0][2]);
....

I want a single line. Is that possible?

use for(...)

edit: something like this:

@Kartoffel Thank you very much