Save and Load Custom Nodes

ansu832001 · Post by **ansu832001** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:01 am

Hi All,

I want to Save a Scene which consists of Custom Nodes and iam aslo applying Textures and other things to the nodes, now my question is how can i save this scene so that it can be reloaded later.

I have searched the forum for this and everybody says "you have to store additional information and like that",but soory i didn't understand it.

I want to know how this can be done and from where to start this process(i mean procedure).Help Needed.

Best Regards.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:22 am

You have to write proper serialize and deserialize methods. These store all necessary values into the attributes element they are passed (or get it from there on deserialize). You will have to ensure that your node can be recreated with those values, though.

ansu832001 · Post by **ansu832001** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:31 am

Hi Hybrid,

Thank you for your quick reply,but from different posts which i saw many has to say that Serializing is very tedious rather use another way to save.

Just clearing my doubts about it,Sorry for ignorance.

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:20 am

It's not really tedious; it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to code it in.

The question is whether you actually want to serialise Irrlicht objects directly, or whether you'd be better off serialising your game state some other way and then building the appropriate Irrlicht objects once you've loaded it again. Only you can decide that.

ansu832001 · Post by **ansu832001** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:52 am

Hi Roger,

But i don't have clear Idea on either,Wanted some inputs from you,iam now little clear on what to do.

Best Regards.

ansu832001 · Post by **ansu832001** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:24 am

Hi All,

Another issue i want to bring to your notice is that in my application i have to bookmark different areas.
i would like to project the requirement this way,

1. I bookmark one area.
2. Perform various operations.
3. Bookmark Again.
4. I click first bookmark,i should load all the things till the first bookmark.
5. when i click second bookmark i should load all the things till the second bookmark.

I am planning to save scene whenever i bookmark and load them when i click bookmark.I fear this will take a lot of time for saving and loading.
Any other way i can do it,or can i speed up the process of saving and loading.

Help Needed.

Best Regards.