Activate and Desactivate GameObjects by toggles

Unity Engine
1

I’m making an application with Augmented Reality using ArToolkit.

It’s very simple.

I show some elements accord the toggle stage. Example, I’ve 3 elements

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When I run, one element is displayed. If I click in first toggle this element hide and the next element show. When I click in second toggle the previous element hide and the next is show.

In another words, when I run only the first element (Cube) is displayed. When I click in first toggle, each element (cube, esphere, cilinder) is show:

Step 1:

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Step 2:

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Step 3:

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This is my hierarchy:

Inside “ArControlador” are the markers. Inside “Canvas” are the toggles.

But, actually I build this project in rude way, getting each element with **GameObject.Find**. I want get the GameObjects in in elegance way, clean code and it can be scaleable.

I want get the GameObjects in an automated way, so if I have 3, 5, 10 or 20 elements the code will run perfectly.

I think in some possibilities like Array of GameObjects, List of GameObjects, create a GameObject father and get all childs like FindGameObjectsWithTag but I don’t have successfull.

This is my code, it already works but in rude way, geting GameObject per GameObject and enable/disable the GameObjects with aux variable, see:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class AlternaEntreOsPassos : MonoBehaviour
{
    private UnityEngine.UI.Toggle[] toggles;
    public int aux = 0;

    public GameObject marker1, marker2, marker3;

        void Awake()
    {
        //Find manually the objects
        marker1 = GameObject.Find("Marcador1");
        marker2 = GameObject.Find("Marcador2");
        marker3 = GameObject.Find("Marcador3");
    }


    void Start()
    {
        toggles = GetComponentsInChildren<UnityEngine.UI.Toggle>();
       
       
        if (toggles.Length > 0)
        {

            //2nd and 3rd false for not be displayed yet...
            marker2.SetActive(false);
            marker3.SetActive(false);

            for (int i = 0; i < toggles.Length; i++)
            {
               
                int closureIndex = i;               
                toggles[closureIndex].interactable = false;
                toggles[closureIndex].onValueChanged.AddListener((isOn) =>
                {
                    if (isOn == true)
                    {
                        aux++;

                        //Disabling the toggle that was clicked
                        toggles[closureIndex].interactable = false;
                       
                        if (closureIndex < toggles.Length - 1)
                        {
                            //Activatin the next toggle
                            toggles[closureIndex + 1].interactable = true;                           
                        }

                        if (aux == 1)
                        {
                            //Desactivating the actual element and activating the next element
                            marker1.SetActive(false);
                            marker2.SetActive(true);
                        }

                        if (aux == 2)
                        {
                            //Desactivating the actual element and activating the next element
                            marker2.SetActive(false);
                            marker3.SetActive(true);
                        }

                        if (aux == 3)
                        {
                            marker3.SetActive(false);
                        }

                    }
                }
            );

            }

            toggles[0].interactable = true;
        }     
    }
}

So, how I can get the GameObjects in intelligent way like the examples above (array, list, tag) or something else.

2

Well, if your markers are in an list. Just loop through the list.

public void ToggleSelected(int toggleValue)
{
    for(int x = 0; x < toggles.Count;x++)
    {
         if(x < toggleValue)
             toggles[x].SetActive(false);
         else
              toggles[x].SetActive(true);
    }
}

That could handle it for you. The int you pass in determines what toggle you clicked on and how much needs to be turned on.

3

How I can get a markers in list?

How I said, I found thing about it but I don’t have successfull