Setup hide / unhide GameOjbect in unity

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I'm trying to setup a simple hide and unhide gameobject in Unity, but can't seem to get my coding to work correctly. What wrong with what I have written so far.

#pragma strict

public var myObject :GameObject;

    if (GUI.Button(new Rect(1120,930,100,50),"3D MODEL"))

    {
        gameObject.SetActive(true);

    }


}

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/ will maybe be a better place to ask (also check out http://answers.unity3d.com, the community here is fast and maybe know more about Unity3D than people from SO) ! Anyway, your code here is just to unhide the gameobject, right ? — Alexandre Beaudet, Oct 14 '15 at 12:44

Jorge Santos · Answer 1 · 2015-10-14T13:35:16.830

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There you go, this should solve your problem. http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/7776/how-to-make-an-gameobject-invisible-and-disappeare.html Good luck.

You can turn off the rendering of a GameObject by disabling its MeshRenderer component, e.g.

GetComponent(MeshRenderer).enabled = false;

You can disable a GameObject entirely by making it inactive, e.g.

gameObject.active = false;

edited Oct 14 '15 at 13:35

answered Oct 14 '15 at 13:30

Jorge Santos

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Don't only put the link, also post the code from that post ! If the post dissapear, the link will be unavailable ! – Alexandre Beaudet Oct 14 '15 at 13:31
No problem, I've been doing this alot, got flagged and stuff.. Learning the hard way ah ah ! :) – Alexandre Beaudet Oct 14 '15 at 13:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '15 at 12:45

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Try this code instead of SetActive :

renderer.enabled = true; (to show the game object)

renderer.enabled = false; (to hide the game object)

If the gameobject got children in it, this piece of code might help :

function Hide() {
    if (#condition#) {
        ToggleVisibility();
    }
}

function ToggleVisibility() {
    // toggles the visibility of this gameobject and all it's children
    var renderers = gameObject.GetComponentsInChildren.();
    for (var r : Renderer in renderers) {
        r.enabled = !r.enabled;
    }
}

( second code coming from : http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/14165/show-and-hide-a-prefab-or-gameobject.html)

answered Oct 14 '15 at 12:45

Alexandre Beaudet

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Yes, the gameobject does have children in it. maybe that the reason i can't hide and unhide gameobject. I can see the mesh renderer check box turn off, but mesh doesn't reappear. – Coder Oct 14 '15 at 12:52
Do you just want to hide the object or really set it inactive ? Those are not the same thing - Did the code I gave you worked ? – Alexandre Beaudet Oct 14 '15 at 12:54
I just wanted to hide and unhide gameobject. That it. – Coder Oct 14 '15 at 13:05

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '15 at 14:03

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A GameObject is not running scripts once it is set un-active. Which inherently means it cannot run a script to set itself active again. an outside source must be what sets it active again.

answered Oct 14 '15 at 14:03

maraaaaaaaa

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Setup hide / unhide GameOjbect in unity

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