Best way to store settings?

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Hi,

I tried to make our game as data driven as possible and for some settings that are final now, I rather to store them out of source codes in text format that would act like DOS days ini files used to do, just store settings.

I think the new days approach is XML or something but since XML is not very intuitive to edit since it's DOM-based and you have to tag everything, I was wondering if there is a simple way that lets me store some integer and floats in a text file and the game would read them upon compilation.

Thanks.

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Sure you could stick them in a .txt file and make it a TextAsset then use something like this to read them (not tested, scripted in the answer box):

   using System.Linq;
   using UnityEngine;
   using System.Collections;
   using System.Collections.Generic;

   public class Settings { 
        static Dictionary<string, string> properties;
        static Settings() {
              var contents = (Resources.Load("settings") as TextAsset).text;
              properties = contents.Split(new [] {'\n', '\r'}).Where(s=>s.length>2).Select(s=>{
                   var parts = s.Split(new [] {':'});
                   return new { key: s[0].Trim(), value: s[1].Trim() };
              }).ToDictionary(s=>s.key, s=>s.value);
        }
        static string Get(string name, string defaultValue = "") {
              return properties.ContainsKey(name) ? properties[name] : defaultValue;
        }
        static float GetFloat(string name, float defaultValue = 0f) {
               return properties.ContainsKey(name) ? System.Convert.ToSingle(properties[name]) : defaultValue;
        }
        static int GetInteger(string name, int defaultValue = 0) {
                return properties.ContainsKey(name) ? System.Convert.ToInt32(properties[name]) : defaultValue;
        }
   }

This requires the settings to be in a "Resources" folder with the name "settings" - the file looks like:

        someName: someValue
        someOtherName: 123

You read them like this:

       var myValue = Settings.Get("someName");
       var myOtherValue = Settings.GetInteger("someOtherName");

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