Unity saving mesh dynamically and setting it dynamically

Question

I'm using Unity Editor with C# as programming language.

My question consists of two parts. In my situation I'm trying to save everything in my scene into a JSON file. And then loading it in a new Scene for reasons. You could read this question to get a general idea why: Unity save everything (snapshot)

So I'm trying to save my mesh in scene one. Then I have scene two which is empty and I'm trying to load it from scratch from a JSON file. I need to save something of the mesh so I can point at it when I load the objects in the new scene.

My current idea of saving: I need to split because for example I have a sphere object, I get "Sphere Instance" when calling the name variable. The split will remove the " Instance" part.

    mesh = meshfilter.mesh.name.Split(' ')[0];
    sharedMesh = meshfilter.sharedMesh.name.Split(' ')[0];

So now in my JSON file I have "Sphere". So my next step is to build the new scene from scratch with this information.

So I use this code:

    meshFilter.mesh = Resources.Load(mesh) as Mesh;
    meshFilter.sharedMesh = Resources.Load(sharedMesh) as Mesh;

Unfortunately the resources.load will be null. In my test I use primitive and custom meshes.

Hopefully one of you can see what's wrong or tell me of a better way to save/load which works with the situation described.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Why are you saving a mesh? Is the mesh generated during gameplay or does it exist already? — Programmer, May 08 '17 at 14:40
In this case, make sure you have a `"Sphere"` prefab in your `Resources` folder. — Iggy, May 08 '17 at 14:43
@Programmer the mesh already exists, I need a reference to the correct Mesh — Sjoerd Brauer, May 09 '17 at 07:45
ok. is the mesh a prefab or a model file? a screenshot would be helpful — Programmer, May 09 '17 at 07:47

Unity saving mesh dynamically and setting it dynamically

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