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I watched this video while in bed, don’t even have Unity open, and it makes sense. Thank you very much! I’m excited to get my game started

Dude! This tutorial was awesome! Words cannot express my gratitude for unwrapping a topic that had been driving me crazy so simply and precisely. Thank you!!! :D

The speed in which you typed "GameHandler" was incredible. You bow to no-one sir.

*Question* How do you use this to save multiple different systems? *Possible Answer* Each System would have it's SaveObject and a function that returns a JSON string, then you would have a master SaveObject that would contain multiple string fields for storing each system JSON save string. You would then save the final JSON from that object into a save file. For loading you would load that master SaveObject and then use the stored JSON save strings to load all the other systems.

This is the best tutorial I've seen in a long time, thank you! You explained how everything worked really thoroughly yet also simplistically. Thanks for the help!

This is thee JSON video I needed thanks for making this!!

5.42 : File.WriteAllText (Application.dataPath + "saveFile.json", json); 5.55 : File.WriteAllText (Application.dataPath + "/saveFile.json", json); Good joke :) After a few questions about this code that was not working, I was able to finish the video. Jason is a nice, accommodating little guy ...

In 5:33, You forgot to put "/" in line 18 before "savefile.json". Oddly, in 5:54, the "/" appears in line 18.

HEROE! Antes no entendia nada nadita del JSON, ahora que he usado varias apis y vuelvo a buscar tutorial (Este), si lo entiendo muy facil!

Super useful, much easier than the binary formatter system that I was initially advised to use. Thanks!

Thanks, I've been wondering about this subject for a while

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

This is the best tutorial I ever seen.

Man you are Genius and best unity teacher thank you 🙏

If you cant see your file generated under your project folder name try to replace Application.dataPath for Application.persistentDataPath. it worked for me. it will looks like: File.WriteAllText(Application.persistentDataPath + "/saveFile.json", json);

I just found thiss and it's some good info thank you I understand it a little better!

Just what I needed, thank you!

You are an absolute god!!! Thank you for this video!!!! You saved me!

bro that was super useful thanks for the help I really needed it

One of your best videos

Excellent tutorial, very helpful!!

You're such a great teacher!!!

Thank you so much man.. I will achieve my game dev dreams thanks to people like you.

Thanks for quick and awesome tut easy to follow and awesome in practice! I will use this for my twitch plays (game)

Awesome video, json files turn out to be great for storing item information

Clean and neat tutorial. Thanks and god bless you!!

This was a well made tutorial. Thank you

3: questions Do you plan to delve deeper into this? What about serializers like odin? When is better to use sqlite?

Amazing tutorial.

thank you very much, for this great tutorial

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial

Great tutorial! Is JSON + IO better than playerprefs in terms of performance? If I have to save settings, what's the best way? JSON or playerprefs? thanks.

Very clear explanation, great video ! :)

playerprefs much easy but i want to practice this concepts for cache purposes thanks

Awesome tutorial, I am new to this

Thank you!..Awsome.. the best explanation ever

Cool. Quick and to the point. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this one!!! :)

Could you make a tutorial on making a save/load system with multiple slots (Slot 1, 2, 3, etc)?

Awesome as always!!! Cheers!

How would you securely save data using json? Should you encrypt the string and if so where would you store the key in order for it to be decrypted on load again? Great video btw!

This is an example taken by wikipedia. How can you access the postalCode field, and the type of phoneNumber? { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "age": 25, "address": { "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street", "city": "New York", "state": "NY", "postalCode": "10021" }, "phoneNumber": [ { "type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234" }, { "type": "fax", "number": "646 555-4567" } ], "gender": { "type": "male" } }

this video helps me a lot , thank u

Helpful tutorial :)

TY, Good tutorial.

Nice video! Thanks for showing how to use JsonUtility inside C#.I know that it's possible to use the Json file to "send" the data to some DataBase like SQLite or MongoDb. But how could we lock or cryptograph the data inside Json, so clever and curious player's like us couldn't get inside it, giving ourselves infinity Health, Bullets, God mode, all cards available, etc... ?

Thank you

Если присмотреться, то этот способ очень хорош для сохранения больших объектов, не разбивая на составляющие, как я это делал используя PP. Урок мне понравился..

can you make a quick tutorial showing how to make the basic character controller from the tf2 demoman, including the animations

Code Monkey at around 5:43 you said about seeing if saveFile.json will show up after putting in that code.I tried what you did and that file didn't show up. I'm perplexed by this because to my knowledge changes to the actual project data only appear during runtime or in the actual build of the project and those changes are reversed after the project has stopped running in Unity. Seeing the text added to the json file outside of running the project does remind me of an old idea I had. So, If anyone else is confused about this; I created a saveFile.json in my project folder outside of unity and set an absolute path to that file because mine isn't in the base Asset folder and now it works. This video is a good start to learning how to use json and I did learn from this.

Thanks for u! And for that comment too

Is it possible to save data to a JSON file and copy then paste the JSON file to another device that has the same project (in a build) to open the JSON file up there (in the build) and have all the data? I’m making a level maker for my game and would like a way of copying the JSON file so others can open it up in the build.

JSON is easy to make save and loading, but it's really easy to read which also makes it easy to modify, so a more better way of doing this is binary. Because their binary thier really hard to read which also make them very hard to modify.

Can you do an item database tutorial? Idk if I should stick with JSON, Regular Script initialization or serialized Scriptable Objects. I need some insight... Ive tried both and Im still unsure which way is better

I was trying to figure out how to find parse nested object doing it in reverse (ToJson) help me figure out how it should be formatted. Thanks A Mill

Great tutorial =D

Hi, Awesome tutorial about JSON Thanks ! i would know if it's possible to save also gameobject ?

thx!

I'm trying to do this with bolt, what would be the visual scripting equivalent of creating a playerdata class for a json utility node?

I'm not all that familiar with JSON, however I noticed when it's saved in a file it's all on one line, is there a way to format it so it takes up multiple lines and is more human readable?

Very good tutorial, thank you. I saw your reply on a comment below saying that you wouldn't consider JSON as a "safe" way to store data. It is very easy to crack/access it for android apps for instance (i.e. quick editing it to hack the game). I know you wouldn't store anything really worthy on it but I'm just wondering if there's a better/safer way to keep players from cheating/bugging and keep things a little less exposed. I can't see how json would be better than making a proper encoded save system and using the cloud/database system on the platform you are using (firebase/steamcloud/google services/etc). Thank you!

How to Parse the JSON to get an array of image URLs.? So that I would be able to assign those images to their respective UI Image Elements.

I'm having trouble with arrays within the JSON object. I've found that JSONUtility isn't so good with handling that, still trying to make this wrapper solution I've found on the forum to work but no luck. Wondering if you have had similar problems with array within a json object

can u create a video on how to create json array

don't like necro threading but i tried using this and the file is not creating. i have a debug that shows string json is set to the data i expect but file.writealltext isn't writing to the file. This vid is 5 years old but did they change anything about how this needs to work since then or am i just missing something? *edit* Found the issue reading a different comment. There was a missing \ before saveFile.json but it was there after coming back from saving the file. works now!

I liked how you went into detail on how to do it, but I would like some help understanding how it does what it does, I'm just starting to make a practice app, and my friends wanted to make a dating sim. So naturally I have to learn how to make a save and load file system. I just need a little more help. Please and thank you.

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For days I have been trying to do such a simple thing as to write in the form of text on the screen the content loaded from the text file. All that works for me is writing this text to the console via debug. YT tutorials do not work because they do not take into account Text Mesh Pro. When I try to get help on websites for unity users, discord or forum, I only get "advices" to check my code thoroughly and fix it myself. I really have no more strength.

What if someone forging our json file manually and accidently delete some string & value. It could give some kind of error in the game, isn't ? Do we need some try-catch in our code or something or maybe set default value in that private classes ?

working with enum and list dont seem to work, I did convert on my enum into int, just doesn't work as expected

Is there a way to duplicate the json files? I want to create a json file everytime I start the game. This only updates de json file if it changes. How do I do that?

Nicey nice!

How do I make a list of playerdatas serializable? It always says there isn't anything in the list when I run it

despite making the PlayerData class when I save PlayerData playerData = new PlayerData(); it sais playerData does not exist in the current context. It's like; I know that's why I'm making it :S Before this, is it wise to create that variable in Start along with the save and load code? Shouldn't they be their own functions that you can call in your game?

How do you save the json data to an online storage using the "www" class?

What would be the process for saving for example a list of custom classes, that each contain list with additional custom class? What happens for me is, it only creates json with reference ID, which I actually don't need. I need the data from the classes in those lists, but I'm unable to get/save them.

But does this method support nested object as well?

Hey, i know this is a fairly old video, i wonder if you have any newer ones... I wonder if you could answer a question for me... How does one go about assigning a super complex JSON to an object without making a bunch of classes? For example, I have one I'm working on with a client, and the JSON being downloaded via an API get request he has me working with is like... "data": { "mainMenuConfig": { "booksConfig": { "content": [ { "title": "", "category_items": [ So, the only way I can figure out how to assign this is make an object for data, for mainMenuConfig, for booksConfig, for content, and for category_items, so 5 objects in total(most pointlessly holding another object lol, even the "title" variable isn't being used)?! I wonder, what is the point of these nested objects? lol, why does mainMenuConfig not just contain the "content"? But, that's besides the point, would you happen to know an easier way to assign these values without making a bunch of objects? FYI i need the Data because it actually contains another object further down(i just didnt want to make this comment gigantic lol). But it took me like 2 hours to get all the values assigning... i wonder if there's a more efficient way to do this? Besides creating 5 useless classes to hold all this info lol, this isn't the first time I've come across overly complex JSON files containing seemingly empty, useless objects that just hold another object lol. I tried using JsonNode as well, but that just makes it so you have to assign each value manually and it makes the script look kinda sloppy...

Performance wise, would it be good to use json to save every 10 minutes or so with a bunch of info like in a city builder? And can i save/load json with Jobs if performance is an issue?

How do you get this to work with webgl

How to work with array? like int [*, *, *]?

Wait, isnt it super easy to hack json data if it is so easy to read?

my json file has spaces so how do I put that in my program

why it's so easy?? Thanks

can u do it from another Endpoint server json

please make tutorial on built in json parsing specific response key

if i turn off the computer can i load my last save?

If I want to save a static variable in json file, how can I do ?

Is it possible to create objects using json in unity?

What if my class has a Sprite inside? I can't serialize it)

It works on android o IOS?

What's a Vector

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i mean the data can be easily manipulated by anyone who knows how to work with JSON?

Lol who is jason and why is he in my computer

I have a better one. Who is json ?

JESUS CHRIST!!! HOW DA FCKING USE THIS FILE!!!! I HAVE .JSON....AND I DONT KNOW HOW USE IT!!! WHY YOU DONT TELL THIS???

XML is better!

How to Parse the JSON to get an array of image URLs.? So that I would be able to assign those images to their respective UI Image Elements.