I can't hide my object in the UI

Question

For some reason when I try to call

  renderer.enabled = false;

on a label contained in the UI, I get no warning but nothing happens.

I also tried to use SetActive or change the active property directly but unity doesn't recognize it, it will not autocomplete, and will show an error there.

Any suggestion ?

Answer 1

You can use GetComponent<Renderer>().enabled = false; to disable a GameObject's Renderer component. This will mean the Renderer simply does not render the GameObject. Unity docs for Renderer.enabled here .

If you want to make the UI element invisible you could add a Canvas Group component to it and set the Alpha channel to 0. This makes the element (and any of its children) 100% transparent.

Answer 2

There is no rendrer attcahed to UI Component so it will always give you error , if you want to hide it or show it .. access it as gameobject using label.gameobject.SetActive(true/false).

Hope it helps