A Simple Save On Play Script

I use Visual Studio a lot and one of the things I came to rely on is the project saving everytime I run it.

I wanted the same for Unity scenes so I created a simple little script.

To use it:

1. Add the script to your scene.

2. Go to Edit-->Project Settings-->Script Execution Order and set your "SaveOnPlay" script to execute first. (This is so it saves before any of your code runs that may modify the scene programmatically.)

Note: You'll want to remove/disable this script prior to releasing you game.

That's it. Let me know what you think.

The script:

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEditor;
3. using System.Collections;
4.  
5. public class SaveOnPlay : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7.     void Awake()
8.     {
9.         EditorApplication.playmodeStateChanged += HandlePlayModeStateChanged;
10.     }
11.    
12.     void HandlePlayModeStateChanged()
13.     {
14.         EditorApplication.SaveScene();
15.         EditorApplication.playmodeStateChanged -= HandlePlayModeStateChanged; //don't fire event on exiting play
16.        
17.     }
18. }

 

Dude, thank you so much. I too have been spoiled by save-on-run programs like MVS and I have lost a lot of work in unity because of it crashing. This is awesome.

 

Thank you lord!

 

Rather than manually removing it from builds, you could stick it in a #if block.

Code (csharp):

1. #if UNITY_EDITOR
2.     // Editor specific stuff in here
3. #endif

 

Nice snippet! Thanks a lot!