TL;DR: I want to use an external script (which will run for a *long* time) to automatically generate a YAML .unity file, which I will then use *in the editor* for further, manual editing.
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What I want to do is similar to procedural generation, in that I want an algorithm to make a few calculations and spit out a level for the game. However, there are a few key differences, which makes approaches such as an in-game script unviable. Here are three of them:
1. I want to create a static level, not something that will change every playthough; 2. the algorithm for the level-building is complex, and the levels I want to make are very large, which means the script will run for too long for the player to wait it out every time the game is booted; 3. I want to be able to manually edit the output level in the Unity Editor, so I can handcraft a few features in it, as well as playtest it.
My first idea was to write a Python script for the generation, and have it spit out a YAML .unity file which I could then open in the editor to check the resulting scene and keep on editing whatever I needed. After looking around a bit, I found out that apparently this isn't such a good idea because, among other things, manually messing with the serialization number (the one with the ampersand) in .unity files is a big no-no. My question is: what else can I do?
My question is different from [this one](https://answers.unity.com/questions/25058/writing-unity-files-for-user-level-editor.html) because, like I said, I don't want the .unity file to be used in-game (in fact I know that can't be done), I want it to be used only during development. Thank you for your time.
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What I want to do is similar to procedural generation, in that I want an algorithm to make a few calculations and spit out a level for the game. However, there are a few key differences, which makes approaches such as an in-game script unviable. Here are three of them:
1. I want to create a static level, not something that will change every playthough; 2. the algorithm for the level-building is complex, and the levels I want to make are very large, which means the script will run for too long for the player to wait it out every time the game is booted; 3. I want to be able to manually edit the output level in the Unity Editor, so I can handcraft a few features in it, as well as playtest it.
My first idea was to write a Python script for the generation, and have it spit out a YAML .unity file which I could then open in the editor to check the resulting scene and keep on editing whatever I needed. After looking around a bit, I found out that apparently this isn't such a good idea because, among other things, manually messing with the serialization number (the one with the ampersand) in .unity files is a big no-no. My question is: what else can I do?
My question is different from [this one](https://answers.unity.com/questions/25058/writing-unity-files-for-user-level-editor.html) because, like I said, I don't want the .unity file to be used in-game (in fact I know that can't be done), I want it to be used only during development. Thank you for your time.