[PLUGIN] Savior

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@DamirH

• Does this support consoles?

This plugin have been implemented into several PlayStation titles;
But none have shared implementation code with me, because obvious Sony reasons.

@DamirH

• Can it create an arbitrary number of save states (i.e. give the player a “Create New Save State” option or is it limited to the save states defined in the editor?

You have to either pre-allocate slot classes in editor, or keep a “slot ID” variable in your single slot class to determine in which “player profile” a player is saving to.
Non coders find it easier to simply create new slot base classes in editor.

@DamirH

• Is it possible to “author” save states, i.e. preparing a specific world state for QA / cert?

You can add and remove “records” to slots at runtime from c++ or blueprints for automated testing.
Some devs use automated testing frameworks for that, I do not have the details of how they do it.

@DamirH

• Does it come with “progress” tracking? To elaborate, we use gameplay tags to track completed objectives / quests etc. and we like this workflow (AddProgressTag / HasProgressTag). How does the workflow for something like this look like with Savior?

SaviorMetaData.h is a very simple header file where many determine custom progression properties that are independent of bulk save files (they can loaded without loading a save file from this).
Then they modify / include Getters into the Savior3.h header to support their custom gameplay tags that can be displayed to player UI without performing any heavy slot data loading.

@DamirH

• How does the size scale with the number of modified objects? Say I want to keep track of every single change the player makes to the game world Skyrim style. Would I be looking at 1GB+ save states eventually?

You can use plugin API to only save what you need or use Scope filters to determine the reach of the Save World node.
In Slot Scopes you can set the classes that you want to include into save files, by default anything child of AActor or UActorComponent is accepted by the Slot Scope.