Question !

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I need help with connecting my blender game to a data base to use the user’s same information that is needed to be saved to accomplish my goal in my game !
can any one please explain it to me in details because i search for it many times and i didn’t understand !?
Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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You can define libraries in Python and save and load their contents. Is that what you’re asking, or are you talking about networking?

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Save huh. There are many ways to save information. My favourite is… a text file. Python has some nifty functions for that and I have some code snippets over in the resources section.

But you do need to know python to be able to do it.

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@magnum am talking about saving the information of the user so that if he enter the game again he will find his information saved !
are these libraries permanent !? if so can you give me links to help define them please ?

@sdfgeoff i know python but i never used it for data base that’s why am asking
text file ! will the data be saved permanently ? if so can give some links to learn this way !
and where are the resources section that you are talking about !?

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am asking about saving the information of the user by SQL or anything that allow him to find his information any time he open the game !

are these libraries permanent !? do you have any link to help me !?

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OK, in python it’s called a dictionary. Here it is in the api:

http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_61_0/bge.logic.html?highlight=global%20dict#bge.logic.globalDict

So you have whatever variables you need (player position, health, inventory) in dictionaries, and you can use a logic brick or script to save the dictionary. Then when you want to load the data, another logic brick or script can load the dictionary, but then you also need a script to get the values from the dictionary and apply them to the objects you want to load.

For example, you could have a save script that when you press a save button, the script gets the player position and saves that vector to a “Player” dictionary. Then you can make a load script for when you press a load button, the script loads the “Player” dictionary, and then sets the player position to the vector saved in the dictionary.