How to serialize and save a GameObject in Unity

Question

I have a game where the player picks up a weapon and it is then placed as the GameObject variable to my player called \"MainHandWeapon\" and I am trying to save that weapon

Answer 1

Ideally you should have an object which hold the weapon data (attack, durability, etc ...) and serialize this object, it makes your save games much smaller, and is more OOP, as you can inherit from that class.