Saving Native Container Data

[earnest hawk]

Hey There,
Im currently making a Pathfinding system with the unity jobs system, and im currently optimizing my code heavily. Now i thought about "baking" my grids, so they dont have to get generated in runtime. But when i hit play and stop playmode again, all the data is gone, is there a good way to store lots of Native Container data of multiple grids?

[wide spindle]

is it pure runtime data? save to a binary file
can it be baked beforehand? save your data in a blob

[earnest hawk]

The things i need to save are:
GridCells (Strukts with Positions and Indexes)
CellNeighbors (Strukts with Neighbor Indexes)

Couple of ints

[wide spindle]

do they ever change at runtime?

[earnest hawk]

No, its supposed to be a tool, Developers can change the grid to how the like it and then they can generate the whole grid structure inside the editor.

And in the end it should be used inside a game

[wide spindle]

well then https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.2/manual/blob-assets-create.html

[earnest hawk]

But is that a good approach if i got multiple different grids containing there own data? (Can go up to multiple thousands od structs per grid)

[wide spindle]

as good as it gets. it depends more on your implementation than the approach.

[earnest hawk]

Isnt it possible to store the data inside a scriptable object? So lets say when you click bake, all the data gets filled inside a Scriptable object, and in OnEnable OnDisable the data gets loaded/unloaded?

[iron niche]

I'd really go with a blob asset before a scriptable object