How to serialized 2d array of TileBase?

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1

So i made a room script to help prototyping rooms faster and it would save all the tiles (TileBase) in a 2d array. The problem with that is when i entered play mode the array would be reset and become null. Ater a little research i knew that multidimensional array couldn’t be serializable so i tried to use binaryformatter and memorystream to serialized it but failed. Then i learned that i can only use that if TileBase itself is serializable but it’s not. So are there any ways to do this?

2

Okay i figured it out! Make a serializable class that store the tilebase (this class don’t inheritant from mono behaviour) and have reference to this class instead.
For example:

Before:

public class Rooms : MonoBehaviour
    {
        private TileBase[,] allTiles;
        private Matrix4x4[,] tilesRotation;
    }

After:

public class Rooms : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public[] SerializableTile serializableTiles;

[Serializable] // this is the class unity will save so don't inheritant from mono behaviour.
    public class SerializableTile
    {
        public TileBase tile;
        public Matrix4x4 rotation;

        public SerializableTile(TileBase _tile, Matrix4x4 _rotation)
        {
            tile = _tile;
            rotation = _rotation;
        }
    }
    }