Save and load levels in-game to be integrate with Steam Workshop

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Hello,

I want to allow players to create their own levels using Unity. Those levels should be loadable within the game. I am used to adding scenes to the build index, which is not possible with those levels being added dynamically.

I am struggling to understand how to create scene / levels for my game and properly save them to a file so that the level can be loaded and then played afterward.

I appreciate any feedback, thanks.

Edit I need to allow the players to use the inspector and link objects with one another. I'm aiming for something like the Human Fall Flat level creation, where you ...

Design the level in Unity
Hit save on a custom button within Unity
Load the level inside the game, having a small teaser for the game

Script question: How to properly save the scene in order to load it later? How to load it?

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I don't know if it will be any help because my game maybe differs too much from yours. I have levels described in a text-file and then load them to the Game-scene when selected in the Menu-scene (so I have two scenes, and about 90 levels). Have both user-created levels and built in levels. My game is a 2D game viewed in 3D.

A sample of a level:

 *MAPTYPE MISSION
 *MAPSIZE  30 50
 *MAPFILE  mission10.txt
 *TILESIZE 32
 *TILESET  ts_alien.tga
 *MAXPLAYERS 2
 *PLAYERSTARTPOS   771  1424
 *PLAYERSTARTPOS   819  1431
 *LANDINGZONE   768  1500  3 HOMEBASE NOEXTRALIFE ANTENNA
 *LANDINGZONE   608   668  3 CARGOBASE NOEXTRALIFE ANTENNA 2 20 20
 *LANDINGZONE   640  1372  3 CARGOBASE NOEXTRALIFE NOANTENNA 0
 *ENEMY 2
   *ANGLE         90
   *FIREINTERVAL  1800
   *SPEED         0
   *NUMWAYPOINTS  1
   *WAYPOINTSX     394
   *WAYPOINTSY     824
 *ENEMY 4
   *ANGLE         0
   *FIREINTERVAL  1800
   *SPEED         75
   *NUMWAYPOINTS  4
   *WAYPOINTSX    1240  1240  1388  1388
   *WAYPOINTSY     190   386   386   190
 *ZOBJECT 1   373   323 0
 *ZOBJECT 1    90   475 90

But the full source code is available here: https://github.com/rh-galaxy/galaxyvr

If you provide more info on the type of game that you are creating maybe I can help out more. However I don't use Steam Workshop, I have built a stand alone level-editor that shows the level created and you can place objects in the map and move them around.

Save and load levels in-game to be integrate with Steam Workshop

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