How To Save/Load Your Game State, The Easy Way

Every SimGroup object has a save function, which saves all the data to a text file. So, to save out my current mission, I just execute:

MissionGroup.save("MySaveFile.save"); // Where 'MissionGroup' is the name of your mission SimGroup.

In order to find the name of your mission SimGroup, just open up the mission file and it is at the top, declared:
new SimGroup(MissionGroup)


Now, to save your custom data, the easy way is to just add it to the SimGroup. Like so:

MissionGroup.MyNewPlayerName = "Tony";
MissionGroup.DoesThisReallySave = "Yes it does";


If you are wondering how to change the player spawn point for when we load the save, you need to make a variable to store the current position at save, then call the setPosition function with that variable on the player when loading your save file.

When Saving:

MissionGroup.PlayerPosition = LocalClientConnection.getControlObject().getTranform();

When Loading (Do this from server side):

%client.player.setTransform(MissionGroup.PlayerPosition);

Full Example, bound to the F3 key:

function saveOutMission(%val)
{
	if (%val)
	{
		MissionGroup.PlayerName = "Tony";
		MissionGroup.save("./SAVEFILE.SAVE");
	}
}
moveMap.bind(keyboard , F3, saveOutMission);

And to load the save file, just load it as the mission, instead of the original mission file, and Presto!

Of course, this means any important game state data must be put in the MissionGroup, at least for saving and loading.