How to disable gameobjects in code?

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Hello there, my friends! I was having a bit of trouble deactivating gameobjects, which really was rather inconvenient! In the Unity scripting reference page, they claimed that this piece of code would deactivate a gameobject as soon as the scene was loaded:

gameObject.SetActive (false);

However, I was rather disappointed when I discovered that the code was completely ineffective! What a shame! Well, I looked all over the place, and simply couldn't find out how to do it! How silly! So if anyone knows how I can create a boolean variable, which controls another different gameobject from being activated, please tell me, it would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks indeed, and may you all have a jolly spiffing day!

Taliho!

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Answer by brimby · Aug 27, 2014 at 05:53 PM

I think things have changed since the original question was asked, because SetActive() works fine for me. And conversely, the enabled property and the function SetActiveRecursively() do not exist on GameObject anymore.

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DZapdos · Oct 23, 2014 at 05:10 AM 0

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I have also had the same issue. The enabled property no longer exists and SetActive() should be used instead.

brimby · Oct 23, 2014 at 04:23 PM 0

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@DZapdos then you should up my answer so people see that the other answers here are out of date.

DZapdos · Oct 24, 2014 at 10:54 AM 0

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@brimby I tried, but I don't have enough rep

brimby · Oct 24, 2014 at 04:49 PM 0

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@DZapdos Me too haha. Sad.

markzareal · Oct 24, 2014 at 10:37 PM 0

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I did it for you guys :D

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Answer by Theacesofspades · Jan 02, 2013 at 01:17 AM

use

 enabled = false;

or

 SetActiveRecursivly (false);

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Answer by Hank Moody · Aug 14, 2014 at 07:30 PM

gameObject.renderer.enabled = false;

Should do it

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Answer by FirePlantGames · Oct 24, 2014 at 11:43 PM

This should work...

 function Start()
 {
     gameObject.SetActive(false);
 }

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