Phantom object in empty scene

Unity Engine
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Hi All,

Something new and (in the theme of Halloween) ‘ghostly’ is happening in my Unity Editor.

I am seeing a set of objects in all my scenes that shouldn’t be there. Even when I create a new scene and remove everything from the hierarchy they remain. How do I get rid of it?!

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It’s there when I play too in a different scene.

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It’s quite literally on every scene I have! It was working before I upgraded NGUI from 2.2 to 2.7 and removed FastGUI.

Unity 4.3.4f1
Mac OS X 10.8.5

Any thoughts? Will upgrading Unity to 4.5 help?

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Just found another oddity. When I open up Unity to that blank scene, the phantom object is no longer there!

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But then it reappears if I go to another scene and/or come back!

The mystery continues…

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it looks like a window that’s being created by one of your editor extensions and I see you have at least a couple (ngui and prime31).

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How would I figure out where it’s coming from?

It would make sense since all I did recently was upgrade NGUI.

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delete ngui from your project and see if it goes away

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Trick is when I delete NGUI, nothing in my app works since it’s almost entirely made with it.

I deleted it, but nothing worked. When reinstalled, the phantom screen is back.

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right, well something in ngui is causing it. Either its an ngui setting or a bug. You’ll need yo read the docs or contact the ngui developer to figure it out unless someone else knows. It’s not actually an object in your scene though. Just a custom editor window.

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Best post in the NGUI forum about this problem.
My guess is that this is the debug mesh generated from a GUI and got accidentally not cleaned up.

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Maybe could make editor script to display all hidden objects,
Find all gameobjects, set hideflags to none if its hidden:

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Just posted on NGUI forums. Hope someone knows there.

@mgear I used someone else’s script to find all gameobjects from here, it looks normal to me… Do you see anything?

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Charging forward with the upgrade to NGUI 3.0.7 f3. Interestingly, the phantom panel is still there! #mystery