Persistent world with UE4 (not an MMO)

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@Daniel K.;641459

So essentially I have to do this for every type of object I am saving? If I have like 50 different kinds of objects, each having different information that needs to be persisted and then loaded, do I have to do it for each of them?

Can you also elaborate more on step 3? Do you mean something like connect wires from one property to set another? That’s gonna be super tedious and error prone, especially if adding more properties later.

This process exists, no matter how the data is saved/loaded. The application (UE4 Engine) generates (spawns) the actor (object) instance to hold the data, and the data is loaded from a local/remote source and assigned to that object. In regards, to how many actor types is a matter of actor design, the actor can be complex or simple. I personally use Arrays of User Defined Structures to store my data, which maps easily to Data Tables, which I can further format the data into SQL strings or serialize in JSON or XML.