To make a long story short, I’m using the WinForms technology as my game editor. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to send my serialized game objects from Winforms to Unity.
I’ll use a fake example to be less complex as possible.
Step one, I create a class/structure in my WinForms project. I’ll also copy that one in my Unity folders. The class looks like this:
using System;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
[Serializable()]
class My_Data_Structure : ISerializable
{
public int x;
public int y;
public string name;
public My_Data_Structure()
{
x = 0;
y = 0;
name = "This is a Unity Test, Ta-Da!";
}
public My_Data_Structure(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctxt)
{
x = (int)info.GetValue("x", typeof(int));
y = (int)info.GetValue("y", typeof(int));
name = (String)info.GetValue("name", typeof(string));
}
public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext ctxt)
{
info.AddValue("x", x);
info.AddValue("y", y);
info.AddValue("name", name);
}
}
Step Two, a bit later inside my Winforms project, I instantiate an object and serialize it:
My_Data_Structure my_unity_test = new My_Data_Structure();
my_unity_test.x = 100;
my_unity_test.y = 200;
string full_filename = "Unity_Test" + ".csdata";
Stream stream = File.Open(full_filename, FileMode.Create);
BinaryFormatter bFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
bFormatter.Serialize(stream, my_unity_test);
From this point, I have no problem to deserialize it from within my WinForms project.
Step Four, Now I try to deserialize it from Unity. First, I copy/paste the Unity_Test.csdata inside my Unity local folder > Assets\Resources\Game_Csdata\Unity_Test.Csdata
I also make sure to import My_Data_Structure class inside my Unity project.
Then I try to get my serialized object from this script inside Unity:
Stream stream = File.Open("Assets\\Resources\\Game_Csdata\\Unity_Test.Csdata", FileMode.Open);
BinaryFormatter bFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
My_Unity_Test my_unity_test = new My_Unity_Test();
my_unity_test = (My_Unity_Test)bFormatter.Deserialize(stream);
Sadly I get FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘NGINE, Version=1.0.4944.4274, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified." [the error pursue many more lines]
Anyone have an idea what to do? I’m a bit lost. I’ve spent a bunch of hours trying to figure out the best way I should serialize between WinForms and Unity without success.
Thank you in advance for your help!
