Saving and loading GameObjects and Prefabs

For information on saving and loading GameObjects without code, please see the Auto Save guide.

Your scene must have an Easy Save 3 Manager to save and load GameObjects. To add this to your scene, go to Assets > Easy Save 3 > Add Manager to Scene.

Once you have done this, GameObjects can be saved and loaded like any other object:

// Save a GameObject.
ES3.Save("myGameObject", go);

// Load a GameObject, automatically assigning it to an existing
// GameObject if one exists, or create a new GameObject if not.
ES3.Load("myGameObject", defaultGo);

// Save a GameObject.

ES3.Save("myGameObject", go);

// Load a GameObject, automatically assigning it to an existing

// GameObject if one exists, or create a new GameObject if not.

ES3.Load("myGameObject", defaultGo);

This will save and load the following:

layer, tag, name and hideFlags.
Components on the Natively-supported types list, or those which have been manually supported using an ES3Type.
All of the above for every child of the GameObject.

To save and load a prefab instance:

Right-click the prefab and select Enable Easy Save for Prefab.
Use ES3.Save to save the instance, or an array of instances if you have multiple instances.
To load, use ES3.Load or ES3.LoadInto.
Easy Save will create an instance of the prefab if it doesn’t exist in the scene.

Saving and loading GameObjects and Prefabs

Code-free using Auto Save

Saving and loading GameObjects

Saving and loading prefab instances