How do I make gameobject invisible (2D)?

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Let's say I have an empty gameobject with a ton of childed objects with images making up its graphics. Is there an easy way to disable rendering on a parent so it does the same for all of it's children (like a .enabled equivalent for rendering)? Or am I forced to reference each image component in the children manually and individually enable/disable each one?

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Answer by bdubbert · Oct 28, 2021 at 10:13 PM

You could just set the parent object to inactive gameObject.SetActive(false);
If you are using UI objects and a Canvas then disabling the canvas will cause all children UI objects to not render
If you do need to disable renderers one by one you don't need to reference each one, you can just do foreach(Renderer r in GetComponentsInChildren<Renderer>()){r.enabled = false;}

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PsychoDuckArcade · Oct 29, 2021 at 09:36 PM 0

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Deactivating the gameobject stops a lot more than just the rendering. It's stops all update calls too. Not what I'm looking for.
This worked for 2D, thanks. Only problem is you'd have to add a canvas to every 2D object you might want to make invisible. And of course this wouldn't work for 3D objects. I just thought toggling rendering would be universal on all gameobjects, 2D and 3D, just like active and enabled are. Surprised this isn't a thing in unity.
Yeah that's what I meant by manually. Trying to avoid getcomponent calls and dragging in references.

Seems like toggling visibility of gameobject+children just isn't inherent in unity.

How do I make gameobject invisible (2D)?

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