Custom Editor lost on reload

Unity Engine
1

So I have two dictionary files the first defines a dictionary of character blueprints and the second attack blueprints, I then have a custom editor to create the character blueprints but every time I reload the scene I completely loose all the information from the character editor. I have yet to use serialization and I’m not sure how to correctly apply it to this example.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
[System.Serializable]
public class CharacterDictionary : MonoBehaviour
{
    Dictionary<string, CharacterPrototype> Characters = new Dictionary<string, CharacterPrototype>();
    [SerializeField]
    public List<CharacterPrototype> CharactersInspec;
    void Start()
    {
        //Characters.Add ("Templar", new CharacterPrototype("Templar", ));
    }
    public CharacterPrototype FindItem(string name){
        if (name != null) {
            return(Characters [name]);
        }
        Debug.Log ("given null");
        return(null);
    }
    public void DebugMe(){   
        Debug.Log ("Debug");
    }
}


public class CharacterPrototype : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string CharacterName;
    public GameObject CharacterModel;

    public List<AttackPrototype> Melee_Attacks;
    public List<AttackPrototype> Ranged_Attacks;

    public float SightRange;
   
    public CharacterPrototype(string newName, /*GameObject newModel,*/ List<AttackPrototype> newMelee, List<AttackPrototype> newRanged, float newSightRange)
    {
        CharacterName = newName;
        /*CharacterModel = newModel;*/
        Melee_Attacks = newMelee;
        Ranged_Attacks = newRanged;
        SightRange = newSightRange;
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;
[System.Serializable]
public class AttackDictionary : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Dictionary<string, AttackPrototype> Attacks = new Dictionary<string, AttackPrototype>();
    void Start()
    {
        CreateDictionary ();
    }
   
    public void CreateDictionary()
    {
        Attacks.Add ("Attack High", new AttackPrototype("Attack High", 60.0f, 0.0f, 2.0f, 0.1f, 40.0f, 1, false, 80.0f, 1.2f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f));
        Attacks.Add ("Attack Medium_Left", new AttackPrototype("Attack Medium_Left", 35.0f, 0.0f, 2.0f, 0.1f, 40.0f, 1, false, 60.0f, 1.2f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f));
        Attacks.Add ("Attack Medium_Right", new AttackPrototype("Attack Medium_Right", 35.0f, 0.0f, 2.0f, 0.1f, 40.0f, 1, false, 60.0f, 1.2f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f));
        Attacks.Add ("Attack Medium_Stab", new AttackPrototype("Attack Medium_Stab", 50.0f, 0.0f, 2.0f, 0.1f, 40.0f, 1, false, 90.0f, 1.2f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f));
    }

    public void DestroyDictionary()
    {
        Attacks = new Dictionary<string, AttackPrototype>();
    }

    public AttackPrototype FindItem(string name){
        if (name != null) {
            return(Attacks [name]);
        }
        Debug.Log ("given null");
        return(null);
    }
}


[System.Serializable]
public class AttackPrototype : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string AttackName;
    public float AngleSwipe;
    public float delay = 0.0f;

    public float MaxDistance;
    public float MinDistance;
   
    public float Damage;
    public int MaxCollisions;

    public bool Ranged;

    public float CritDamage;
    public float CritDistance;
    public float CritBracket;
    public float CritChance;
   
    public float AttackFloat;

    public AttackPrototype(string NewName, float NewAngleSwipe, float NewDelay, float NewMaxDistance, float NewMinDistance, float NewDamage, int NewMaxColl, bool NewRanged,
                    float NewCritDamage, float NewCritDistance, float NewCritBracket, float NewCritChance, float NewAttackFloat)
    {
        AttackName = NewName;
        AngleSwipe = NewAngleSwipe;
        delay = NewDelay;
        MaxDistance = NewMaxDistance;
        MinDistance = NewMinDistance;
        Damage = NewDamage;
        MaxCollisions = NewMaxColl;
        Ranged = NewRanged;
        CritDamage = NewCritDamage;
        CritDistance = NewCritDistance;
        CritBracket = NewCritBracket;
        CritChance = NewCritChance;
        AttackFloat = NewAttackFloat;
    }
}

Here is the editor which I have trimmed slightly just so it is easier to read.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEditor;


[CustomEditor(typeof(CharacterDictionary))]
public class CharacterDesigner : Editor {
    public enum tabs
    {
        Characters,
        Inspector
    };

    tabs ActiveTab;

    List<CharacterPrototype> Characters;

    int ActiveSelection;

    bool[] Attacks;
    string visRange = "", user = "";
    AttackDictionary AD;

    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        DrawDefaultInspector();
        CharacterDictionary myScript = (CharacterDictionary)target;
        Characters = myScript.CharactersInspec;
        if(Characters == null)
        {
            Debug.Log ("no list of characters");
            Characters = new List<CharacterPrototype>();
        }
        if(GUILayout.Button("Reset Attacks", GUILayout.Width(250)))
        {
            Attacks = null;
        }


        GUILayout.BeginHorizontal ();
        if(GUILayout.Button("Characters", GUILayout.Width(125)))
        {
            ActiveTab = tabs.Characters;
        }
        if(GUILayout.Button("Inspector", GUILayout.Width(125)))
        {
            ActiveTab = tabs.Inspector;
        }
        GUILayout.EndHorizontal ();
      
    }
}
2

Unity don’t serializable Dictionary use the List instead.

3

But the dictionary doesn’t actually need to save. All that needs to save is the characters list

4

Line 17 of the characterdesigner class

5

The Editor class is only a helper class to modify existing data from another class. If you what to store the data you need to move the ListCharacters to a MonoBehaviour class , Scriptableobject class or save it to a file, like XML. Then use the editor class to load the data so the end user can modify it.