Can UnityEngine.SceneManagement.Scene be serialized?

Unity Engine
1

Hi guys,

Is it possible to serialize UnityEngine.SceneManagement.Scene type of variables?

I have noticed that I cannot convert them to to UnityEngine.Object, which makes me skeptical whether or not it can be serialized.

Any ideas?

Thanks! :slight_smile:

2

Do a two second test in the editor and report back.

If they can’t be directly serialised, you should be able to tokenise them and serialise that.

3

Also want to convert them to UnityEngine.Object. Not sure what to google to find info on how to tokenize. unity3d Serialization tokenize - Google Search didn’t look useful.

4

If you’re trying to serialize a scene and hope to save progress that way, forget it. It’s much easier to serialize the name of the scene as a string and then load it later. Serialization and saving in general is a pretty difficult topic I’ve just started scratching the surface of; you really want to make it as easy as possible.

5

Found an editor only solution:

    private void setByName(string sceneName)
    {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        var scenePath = UnityEditor.EditorBuildSettings.scenes
            .Select(s => s.path)
            .FirstOrDefault(s => s.EndsWith(sceneName + ".unity"));
        m_SceneAsset = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<SceneAsset>(scenePath);
#endif
        m_SceneName = sceneName;
    }
6

There is a lot to be said for editor only approaches for strings in the inspector. Its relatively easy to build dropdown lists with all of the valid strings. Underneath its still a string, but it means you aren’t prone to human error like you would be if you manually typed in the string.