[Spell] Any Save/Load system that can load Integer or Real Variables?

[DatBoi]

Title says it all.

Help is very appreciated (with rep ).

 

[TriggerHappy]

all of them

 

[Dr Super Good]

By very definition of what a save/load system does, they must all be capable of it. They operate by converting everything to save into integers which are then encoded into a string. Loading works by decoding the string into integers which are then converted back into the things that were saved.

Reals can be saved by abusing type casting. A real is nothing more than a single precision float (32 bit), which is the same length as an integer (32 bit). As such you can losslessly typecast them to and from integer with a bit of hacky code. Be warned that typecasting may be fixed in future patches so you may have to fix such code in the future.

In theory it may be possible to write a more secure typecast function for reals. However it will perform a lot slower.

Since 32bits is several characters of code space, it is usually recommended to save a lossy version of a real. For example you could reduce its precision, encode it as a fixed point or even use a gamma based curve for value distribution.

 

[DatBoi]

Holy shit,you kept me entertained a while,thank you.