Toggling Gizmos more easily

[evyatron]

Hello,

I believe since moving to 2021.3.0f1 expanding/collapsing a component in the inspector not longer toggles its Gizmos. I don’t think that’s necessarily bad, just need to unlearn that behaviour.

However that does mean that you can’t quickly toggle gizmos on and off. In larger projects you end up with a lot of gizmos, and you often want to turn specific ones on and off quickly.

The new searchable gizmos menu is great - but if I have 40 components drawing gizmos, along with dozens (or hundreds?) 3rd party ones, finding the correct one to toggle is still a pain. Not to mention it likely means

1. Selecting the gizmo in the scene
2. Figuring out which of the game object’s component is drawing the gizmo I want to get rid of
3. Opening the Gizmos menu and searching for that component
4. If a game object has 3 components on it, I need to keep searching for each one and toggle it until I find the right one.

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Could we maybe wave a very quick way of doing that from within the component inspector itself?
Either a toggle button (in the component header, next to the Help/Preset/Menu buttons), or a context menu option?

For reference I cobbled together using reflection a context menu option from scripts I found online that does that, and it’s instantly easier to use (to me) than searching through the menu:
This means if I have a bunch of gizmos filling up my screen I can

1. Select the gizmo in the scene
2. Right click the component header → Toggle Gizmos
   
   

(Unfortunately I couldn’t get it to work for built-in components due to them using the internal classId which, as far as I could tell, I had no way of telling given a component Type)

[evyatron]

bump - I know since this is mainly just feedback it might not get a lot of replies, but would be good to know whether this is just me or if others are missing this as well!
(also of course whether I’m actually missing a feature/toggle that does that automatically )

[spiney199]

I just remembered this thread when I stumbled upon this option:

This would be what you’re looking for.

[evyatron]

YES incredible, thank you so much! No need for any editor scripts.

(imagine if Unity support people were monitoring these forums!)

[r_chevallier]

Thank you,
This is a very useful feature and I thought Unity may have gotten rid of it because I saw a thread were they were taking a poll regarding this feature.