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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight human-readable data interchange format. It is programming language-independent and many modern programming languages include code to generate and parse JSON-format data. JSON filenames use the extension `.json`.

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I've used FromJson in Unity/C# a dozen times, and yet for some reason I cannot figure out why this one's not working. Here's the code that does the parsing: ...
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I'm using JsonConvert.DeserializeObject to deserialize animals from the Animal list, but unfortunately they get deserialized as Animals instead of their derived classes (Cat and Dog). As you can see, ...
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I'm making a game in Unity and I'm using json format to save. I have no problem recording it on my computer, but it does not record the animals I catch on my Android phone. How can I solve this? What ...
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I'm making an Offline RPG game in Unity. I want to save some things in my game. I have heard of two recording systems for this, one is PlayerPrefs and the other is to save in json format. PlayerPrefs ...
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Task: to develop a function that efficiently places rectangular blocks in rectangular 2D container. The location of the blocks in the container should be as dense as possible in order to rationally ...
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I'm developing a RPG-game. After searching about various ways to save item information in RPG-game, I determined to save information in JSON files. The problem is that in my game, some equipment's ...
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I am trying to open a project from a company, the problem is, nobody has this problem except me, so one can replicate it. When i open the project i get the following issues: There seems to be a file ...
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I currently have a JSON file: ...
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I'm trying to create a script that parses a JSON file to get information about the levels in my project. I know this technique should work because I have the same code in two other scripts, parsing ...
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Now, I now the title is really obscure, but I have tried to solve the following problem for so long and most of it is integrated into my game so far that I can't just copy & paste it here, so this ...
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I need to create a lot of read-only text data. As far as I know storing a lot of data directly in the script is not good, so I need to create a separate json file with ready-made data to load in the ...
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I try to save game data in PlayerPrefs as JSON string. I read in documentation that I can use plain struct/class with ...
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How do online games handle creation of new entities? I currently have an EntityFactory class that requires an ID (specifying the entity type). A bunch of subroutines are executed to determine exactly ...
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I have a file which is created manually. In what folder should I put it so I can read it in a build? For example Application.dataPath in editor reads the file from ...
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I'm trying to serialize the state of play of my Unity game (Unity 2021.3.7f1) to JSON using UnityEngine.JsonUtility.ToJson, so that I can persist this state to disk ...
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i'm new to unity and i want to do a quiz using data coming from a web api I was able to retreive data from the api but i couldn't make the game logic with them This is where i arrived ...
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What I have JSON file ...
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I'm using a JSON file for loading texts and dialogs and here's my JSON file: ...
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Background: My app is a sandbox with a large number of parameters that I want to be able to easily add / selectively expose to the user, edit during runtime through the game UI or from the Unity ...
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I want my game-save to be shown with a preview image. This is often seen in City Builder games: The game-save usually has a name, a date and often also provides a preview of the build city (just a ...
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I'm trying to make an RPG style game with equipment using ScriptableObject, but whenever I equip the item, it does not register in my JSON data. Here is the script ...
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I'm having difficulties serializing lists with the built in JsonUtility. I eventually figured out this just isn't possible with its limited capabilities. As much as I'd like to use Newtonsoft, I ...
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i was wondering if you could help me with an issue i have with firebase and databases! I have a class that saves variables into an array. i have managed to send that json file to firebase and i can ...
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I want to integrate Firebase to my android/iOS game. So far in production I used JSON to save a class into the devices PersistentDataPath and load them accordingly. I did follow the firebase ...
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I have been trying to work out a subscription form for my game and thanks to you guys here, I came to a solution which works but still needs some changes. The idea is to have an input field in the ...
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I'm trying to parse a very large JSON string in Unity. I do not need all the fields and I can't create a class with all the members. It appears that all examples I have found, including the official ...
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**UPDATE: This answer has been solved and this post updated to ** I am creating an inventory system and decided to keep a master list of all the items. The goal is to use Newtonsoft's JSON.net to ...
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Greetings! I'm working on a class that loads and parses .json files and returns information from the loaded .json, but I have problems reading the nested arrays of my .json files. Turning the ...
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I'm making an add-on that lets the player step over 1-block high blocks and the foot_size property is exactly what I'm looking for. The documentation says the following: "Sets the number of ...
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Any one have any ideas on how I can serialize / de-serialize an ObjectMap<Enum, ObjectMap<String, Object>>(); (Object is usually a String Integer ...
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i have the problem that when I convert an instance of highscores through JsonUtility.ToJson the value of my value of it is always {"highscoreEntryList":[{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{}]}... ...
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I'm getting a null reference exception on "AddEmpireView()" and I cannot figure it out for the life of me. Here's the class: ...
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The following is my JSON file: ...
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Problem statement: Need help trying to load a JSON file into a table array in Lua for Corona SDK development. My Objective: Call specific data from JSON file to my application by using key value ...
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So, I'm trying to wrap my head around something. I've got my basic quest system up and running for my rpg style game. Right now I'm taking a look at NPC events and triggers that as I see it have two ...
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I have a game where a player can place GameObjects. I can save/load this GameObjects data with using JSON, for example its position, but I cannot think of a good way to tell my save-file (and my ...
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I'm building an HTML game. For this game I want to implement a save-feature that should work like in some already existing games: The user can chose export, this ...
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I'm saving game data into JSON, however basically I can't get property with just string just like in JavaScript. This makes my code to write so many if/switch statements, looks very not clean, hard ...
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I'm currently creating an external tool to generate dialogues that are exported as JSON files. The idea is that after you create a dialogue (as a JSON), my main Unity project reads that file and ...
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i am trying to practice on loading data from json files my problem is about when i try to load the sprite path from the json file to load the image icon from the floder that contain it, i manged to do ...
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I am trying to save data about various entities in each Level in my game in a JSON file and load it at Runtime(Like a Scene file in Unity). I can save simple stuff like floats and ints and parse them ...
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I am trying to use Unity's built in json serialization. It produces empty string. I do not understand why. (I was trying to use NewtonSoft Json.Net but that wasn't working either even though I was ...
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I get an error every time I try to parse this .json file. Here is the error: ...
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If I had a JSON file that had multiple objects, can the method read through without some form of exception?
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(I posted a very similar question here recently and the response I received was helpful. But I have been advised to start a new question, and here it is.) I am developing a Unity game which includes ...
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I am developing a Unity game which includes a multiple-choice quiz. I've placed what I believe is a properly-formatted .json file (the quiz question, four answer choices, the correct answer, and an ...
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I'm trying to use Json to hold game dialog in a text asset file. I've tried to make a barebones project to test this and it is failing with the Error Message: ArgumentException: JSON must represent an ...
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I've this JSON code like below. How do I parse it to the objects on code below? ...
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I have a database set up on firebase and when i run my game in the unity edtitor and as a standalone exported Windows .exe file, the call gets made correctly to the database and JSON data gets posted ...
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My settings.json (generated with JsonUtility.ToJson): { "masterVolume": 0.10000000149011612, "fullScreenMode": 1, "cheatsEnabled": false } Offending ...
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