Save/Load data with Dictionary<ScriptableObject, bool> doesn't work

[Kurt-Dekker]

When loading, you can never re-create a MonoBehaviour or ScriptableObject instance directly from JSON. Save data needs to be all entirely plain C# data with no Unity objects in it.

Loading/Saving ScriptableObjects by a proxy identifier such as name:

Use the JSON serilization for ScriptableObject with asset fields in Editor and Build

We trivially work around this as follows: we recognize that ScriptableObjects cannot be serialized. we put ALL ScriptableObjects of a given type in a single directory to enforce name uniqueness we make a Repository object to retrieve these ScriptableObjects by name we modify our serializable structures so they: ----> don’t serialize the SO itself ----> they serialize the name of the SO ----> they load the SO as a reference and look it up You cannot use Unity’s “lite” JSON imple…

This does require an engineering decision of how you will identify things. I suggest keeping it simple and having 100% unique names, never renaming them, as noted in the above post. Yes you can do more whacky things in the future, but get the above working first, then go nuts later.