☁️Cloud Save

• Valve's Documentation https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloud

The Data Model concept is a tool that helps you manage each type of save file your game works with. To get started you would first need to create the "structure" of your file as a serializable object. This can be a class or structure ... in general, you should always use a structure unless your object specifically needs features of a C# class not available to C# structures.

Creating a model

[System.Serializable]
public struct SaveData
{
    public int difficulty;
    public string characterName;
    public int characterLevel;
    public int characterClass;
    //etc.
}

Once you have defined your data structure you can create a new DataModel object which will help you list, load, save and generally manage all examples of this file on the user's Steam storage.

[CreateAssetMenu(menuName = "My Data/Save Data")]
public class SaveMyDataModel : DataModel<SaveData>
{ }

Note that we do not need to write any code in the body of the SaveProfileDataModel class, everything is implemented for you by the DataModel<T> base class.

Once this is done you can create a Scriptable Object in your project's asset folder by right-clicking and selecting Create > My Data > Save Profile . You can use this new object to assign an extension. This extension will be added to the end of the file name if missing and is how the DataModel knows which files belong to it.

Referencing your model

With your new DataModel you can more easily list, load and save character profiles; let's assume we have a reference to our DataModel such as:

public SaveMyDataModel dataModel;

We have created a Steam Remote Storage Save Game class that extends Unreal's Save Game concept enabling it to work with Steam Remote Storage. You can use this as you would any typical Save Game in Unreal.

Steam Remote Storage Save Game is derived from Unreal's Save Game class. As a result, it does everything a normal Save Game object would and can be used for traditional to-disk save operation if you so desire. We have simply provided additional functions that can be used to read and write the data to and from Steam's Remote Storage system.

Steam Remote Storage aka Steam Cloud Save Is a drop box-like file sync system that synchronizes files written to the local disk to Steam's remote storage (aka cloud). It does work in offline mode and handles syncing data between all devices the user plays on.

Save Game Setup

Start by creating a blueprint class and here we will choose the Steam Remote Storage Save Game as our base class.

Next, add whatever variables you would like to have saved.

And that is all that is required to create your Save Game object. Creating, setting and reading values from the Save Game object is the same as you would use with any Unreal Save Game object.

We have created a Steam Remote Storage Save Game class that extends Unreal's Save Game concept enabling it to work with Steam Remote Storage. You can use this as you would any typical Save Game in Unreal.

Steam Remote Storage Save Game is derived from Unreal's Save Game class. As a result, it does everything a normal Save Game object would and can be used for traditional to-disk save operation if you so desire. We have simply provided additional functions that can be used to read and write the data to and from Steam's Remote Storage system.

Steam Remote Storage aka Steam Cloud Save Is a drop box-like file sync system that synchronizes files written to the local disk to Steam's remote storage (aka cloud). It does work in offline mode and handles syncing data between all devices the user plays on.

Save Game Setup

Start by creating a blueprint class and here we will choose the Steam Remote Storage Save Game as our base class.

Next, add whatever variables you would like to have saved.

And that is all that is required to create your Save Game object. Creating, setting and reading values from the Save Game object is the same as you would use with any Unreal Save Game object.