Show/hide wireframe for the current selected object?

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The wireframe selection makes it really hard to see the items being edited. A solution is to go in the preferences and modify the alpha, but this is something that requires a lot of work every time a modification is needed.

In the docs, there is a reference to SetSelectedWireframeHidden and a script at http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.SetSelectedWireframeHidden.html - unfortunately, this throws compilations errors left right and center.

 // Shows / hides the wireframe of the objects in the scene.
 
 class ShowHideWireFrame extends Editor {
 
     @MenuItem("Examples/Show WireFrame %s")
     static function Show() {
         for (var s : GameObject in Selection.gameObjects) {
             var rend = s.GetComponent.<Renderer>();
             
             if(rend)
                 EditorUtility.SetSelectedWireframeHidden(rend, false);
         }
     }
     
     
     @MenuItem("Examples/Show WireFrame %s", true)
     static function CheckShow() {
         return Selection.activeGameObject != null;
     }
     
     
     @MenuItem("Examples/Hide WireFrame %h")
     static function Hide() {
         for (var h : GameObject in Selection.gameObjects) {
             var rend = h.GetComponent.<Renderer>();
             
             if(rend)
                 EditorUtility.SetSelectedWireframeHidden(rend, true);
         }
     }
     
     
     @MenuItem("Examples/Hide WireFrame %h", true)
     static function CheckHide() {
         return Selection.activeGameObject != null;
     }
 }

Has anyone been able to make this work?

Answer 1

I just ran into this problem, and my solution was to use GetComponentsInChildren instead of GetComponent on line 25. This is necessary because the renderers I was trying to disable wireframe for were children of the currently selected object. Modified code below:

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEditor;
 
 public class ShowHideWireframeExample : EditorWindow
 {
     [MenuItem( "Example/Show WireFrame %s" )]
     static void ShowWireframe( )
     {
         foreach( GameObject s in Selection.gameObjects )
         {
             Renderer rend = s.GetComponent<Renderer>( );
 
             if( rend )
                 EditorUtility.SetSelectedWireframeHidden( rend, false );
         }
     }
 
 
 
     [MenuItem( "Example/Show WireFrame %s", true )]
     static bool ShowWireframeValidate( )
     {
         return Selection.activeGameObject != null;
     }
 
 
 
     [MenuItem( "Example/Hide WireFrame %h" )]
     static void HideWireframe( )
     {
         foreach( GameObject s in Selection.gameObjects )
         {
             Renderer[] rends = s.GetComponentsInChildren<Renderer>();
 
             foreach(Renderer rend in rends) {
                 if( rend )
                 EditorUtility.SetSelectedWireframeHidden( rend, true );
             }
         }    
     }
 
 
 
     [MenuItem( "Example/Hide WireFrame %h", true )]
     static bool HideWireframeValidate( )
     {
         return Selection.activeGameObject != null;
     }
 }

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