Turning a layers off

Unity Engine
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Hi All,
I’ve googled this and tried to cut and paste but the code examples to turn off layers won’t work whatever I do.
What I have is a camera on default layer. I have a cylinder on one layer a cube on the second. I’ve added my own layers and named them. Then used spacebar to hit and turn off.
The cube is on MiniGame01 layer it doesn’t vanish when I hot space.

   voidUpdate()
{
if(Input.GetKeyDown("space"))
{
Camera.main.cullingMask |=(1<<LayerMask.NameToLayer("MiniGame01"));

}
}

So I tried using a print statement to view the culling mask. This shows -1 before and after cull.

   voidUpdate()
{
if(Input.GetKeyDown("space"))
{
print(Camera.main.cullingMask);
Camera.main.cullingMask |=(1<<LayerMask.NameToLayer("MiniGame01"));
print(Camera.main.cullingMask);


}
}

from console
-1
UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:print(Object)
TurnOffLayer:Update() (at Assets/Scripts/TurnOffLayer.cs:16)

-1
UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:print(Object)

TurnOffLayer:Update() (at Assets/Scripts/TurnOffLayer.cs:16)

Can anyone advise on this?

Thanks

2

sorry misread article was turning on :s should be

Camera.main.cullingMask= ~(1<<LayerMask.NameToLayer("MiniGame01"));
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The easiest way to debug this is to try the code and then execute a Debug.Break in code, and then stop and inspect what the camera is set to see and not see, until you get it doing what you want.