From b42551db85892cbe067a0a1111e756b7f6db9979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois=20Mockers?= <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:46:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] images are serializable through SerializedImage

---
 crates/bevy_image/src/image.rs | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crates/bevy_image/src/image.rs b/crates/bevy_image/src/image.rs
index a16575b0b064a..2cf89a20ab624 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_image/src/image.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_image/src/image.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ use bevy_app::{App, Plugin};
 use bevy_reflect::TypePath;
 #[cfg(feature = "bevy_reflect")]
 use bevy_reflect::{std_traits::ReflectDefault, Reflect};
+#[cfg(feature = "serialize")]
+use bevy_reflect::{ReflectDeserialize, ReflectSerialize};
 
 use bevy_asset::{uuid_handle, Asset, AssetApp, Assets, Handle, RenderAssetUsages};
 use bevy_color::{Color, ColorToComponents, Gray, LinearRgba, Srgba, Xyza};
@@ -606,6 +608,7 @@ impl ToExtents for UVec3 {
     derive(Reflect),
     reflect(opaque, Default, Debug, Clone)
 )]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "serialize", reflect(Serialize, Deserialize))]
 #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "bevy_reflect"), derive(TypePath))]
 pub struct Image {
     /// Raw pixel data.
@@ -642,6 +645,25 @@ pub struct Image {
     pub copy_on_resize: bool,
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serialize")]
+mod image_serde {
+    use super::*;
+
+    impl Serialize for Image {
+        fn serialize<S: serde::Serializer>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error> {
+            super::super::serialized_image::SerializedImage::from_image(self.clone())
+                .serialize(serializer)
+        }
+    }
+
+    impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for Image {
+        fn deserialize<D: serde::Deserializer<'de>>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error> {
+            super::super::serialized_image::SerializedImage::deserialize(deserializer)
+                .map(super::super::serialized_image::SerializedImage::into_image)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Used in [`Image`], this determines what image sampler to use when rendering. The default setting,
 /// [`ImageSampler::Default`], will read the sampler from the `ImagePlugin` at setup.
 /// Setting this to [`ImageSampler::Descriptor`] will override the global default descriptor for this [`Image`].