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Gizmos no longer displaying in Scene view
My camera, directional light, and all other gizmos have stopped displaying in Scene view. Also, when grabbing the handle of a GameObject, the handle turns yellow and stays that way. Is this an issues with my GPU, unity, or just my inexperience?
I've made sure gizmos are enabled for the elements I mention above.
Answer by DAEvo · Jan 09, 2012 at 11:14 PM
OK, I solved it myself. In the Layers drop-down somehow "Default" was unchecked. Checking it brought my Gizmos, view angles, and cam preview back.
I still don't know why my handles are turning yellow when I adjust the position of a GameObject, but I am counting this as a win and a problem based on user-error.
just had the same problem, too bad it took me some time to get a search that found this page, reinstalled unity at least a couple of times before figuring this one out
Answer by domiii · Jun 25, 2015 at 06:29 PM
I had this quite a few times in Unity 5 now, and it never made any sense. Sometimes it was because I removed a whole bunch of stuff and gizmos just disappeared. The only fix is to restart, and it's all good again.
+1, I have the same problem with Unity 5.3 and restarting seems to help.
Answer by Anni2D · Nov 20, 2015 at 08:23 AM
I had similar case. My gizmo was lost. It was because I accidentally switched to 2D mode from 3D. Switching back to 3D brought gizmo back.
Answer by Linkbeck · Dec 31, 2020 at 08:11 PM
Just had the same problem, Turns out I just had to click ont the gizmo button on the scene view, kinda counter intuitive since there is no check or uncheck. just literally click on the Gizmo button ( not on the drop down arrow next to it)
Damn, that was it. WTF it is not obvious at all that the button is checkable, when you have all those checkboxes in the dropdown. thanks
Answer by ByteSheep · Jan 09, 2012 at 06:38 PM
This may not be the problem but try going to the Gizmo menu on the bar of the scene view. The scene view has a "gizmo menu" where you can set scaling etc for all your gizmos in the scene.
Yes, in the Scene/Gizmos dropdown I have all gizmos checked/enabled and the icon scaling slider full on to the right.
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