godot-demo-projects/loading/runtime_save_load

Run-time File Saving and Loading

This project showcases how to load and save various file types without going through Godot's resource importing system.

This is useful to load/save images, sounds, 3D scenes and ZIP archives at run-time such as user-generated content, without requiring users to generate a PCK file through Godot.

Can be loaded and saved at run-time:

• Images (JPEG, PNG, WebP)
• 3D scenes (glTF 2.0)
• ZIP archives
• Plain text files¹

Can be loaded at run-time:

• Images (TGA, BMP, SVG²)
• Audio (Ogg Vorbis)
• Fonts (TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, PFB, PFM, BMFont)

See the Saving and Loading (Serialization) demo for an example of saving/loading game progress.

Language: GDScript

Renderer: Compatibility

Check out this demo on the asset library: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/2779

Screenshots

Licenses

• Files in examples/3d_scenes/plastic_monobloc_chair_01_1k/ are copyright Poly Haven and are licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal.
• Files in examples/audio/ are copyright Red Eclipse and are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 International.

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1. Manipulating custom binary formats is possible using the FileAccess and PackedByteArray classes, but this is not shown in this demo. ↩︎

2. It is possible to procedurally generate SVG as text and save it to a file with .svg extension using the FileAccess class, but this is not shown in this demo. ↩︎