How to Save the Player Settings with ConfigFile (Godot tutorial)
402Learn how to save game data to the disc using the config file system.
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Godot has 2 features that make it easy for you to serialize data, thus write and load save games. One is the ConfigFile class, that creates INI style outputs. This is the same class that is used to generate and read the config.cfg file in every Godot project. These files have an easy to read, linear structure, with sections and key-value pairs.
It works well for simple games, where you have but a handful of variables to store. But also if you want to store the core datatypes from Godot: ConfigFile can store and retrieve variables of type Color, Vector2, Matrix32... Due to its simplicity, it’s often the preferred format for user-defined game settings.
Then, there is JSON, which we can get convert to and from a dictionary. We will see that in tomorrow’s tutorial.
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