Static Checkbox

Unity Engine
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1

So, what’s that new little Static checkbox at the top of the Unity iPhone inspector panel for?

2

It’s to set objects as occluders for occlusion culling.

3

Oooooooh.

I knew I should have read that page in the docs.

Thanks!

4

I found that it does not work consistently on build.

I have two scripts that draw to the GUI Layer and one is Static in that Layer. It appears to layer correctly in Unity. But, when I build to the iPhone it randomly layers the graphics in the GUI Layer even if you set one of the objects to Static.

I have already filed a bug for this feature.

5

The Static setting and the GUI are unrelated… maybe I’m not understanding what you’re saying though.

6

I have found that if I set the Value to Static it has priority when Unity draws an object that has a GUI function in it.

Maybe this is part of the issue?

7

GUI order is affected by the GUI.depth call.
If you are using GUIElement and GUIText it is affected by the z component of the transform.

If the order appears random then you are using the same GUI.depth / z position, thus it is random. It is unrelated to the static checkbox.