Reading / Writing to save game data not working? (UE4-26)

[midgunner66]

@super-squirrel

When creating a new character, the process is similar to the above. It looks to see if a Game slot exists called ‘Slot 1’, and if not it will create it. If it already exists, it checks for ‘Slot2’ and if not creates that one. It then creates a SaveGame object with all of the values for its variables set to the defaults and the variable ‘ActiveSlot’ set to 2.

Instead of that, just use a SaveGame slot called “Characters” that stores an array of all created characters. That way, you don’t have to check for each slot individually, and you can have as many characters as you want. Once the player selects a character, load the slot of that character. If the player makes a new character, add it to the character array and make a new SaveGame slot for the character.

@super-squirrel

I’m using SaveGame data files to store all of my data. I have several different ones storing fixed values for things like item data, enemy type data, and anything else that isn’t character-specific that I need to refer to during gameplay. I know it’s a bit of a ‘dirty’ method, but so far it’s the best solution I’ve found for what I’m trying to do.

If you mean you’re splitting your save game up into multiple SaveGame classes/slots, that’s good. A SaveGame is not a literal “save game,” it’s just a class with variables that can be saved & loaded from disk. You don’t have to put your entire game in one class/slot, you can use it however you like.

@super-squirrel

HOWEVER, I’m having issues reading/writing to the SavedGame data file during the game. Are there any example blueprints anyone can show me for how they:

a) pull a value from the SaveGame data file after checking the active slot (i.e. display current number of Gold coins in inventory when clicking on UI button)

and b) update a value on the SaveGame data file after checking the active slot (i.e. update character profession variable to ‘Blacksmith’ after they click ‘Ok’ on an NPC dialogue box).

Here’s documentation for it. You just get (read) or set (write) variables in it like any other class. When you want to save it, you just save it to a slot. If you need a character-specific example, I can post a simple one.