ARFoundatiuon - Hide planes work great, but cant hide point cloud

Hi guys

I'm sticking all the planes in a list, then cycling through them and turning them off "SetActive(false)" then also disabling the ARPlaneManager. This works great.

There appears to be no similar trick for the PointCloudManager however. I can turn the manager off, but not hide the points already shown.

 

hint from the manual:
Each manager subscribes to relevant AR events, such as planeAdded, planeUpdated, and planeRemoved, and creates GameObjects for each detected trackable. The generated GameObjects are parented to a special GameObject under the ARSessionOrigin, accessible via ARSessionOrigin.trackablesParent.

 

The point cloud manager only creates a single GameObject, which you can get with ARPointCloudManager.pointCloud. Have you tried disabling that?

 

I'm using this:

m_ARPointCloudManager = GetComponent<ARPointCloudManager>();
...
...
...
void Awake()
{
m_SessionOrigin = GetComponent<ARSessionOrigin>();
m_ARPlaneManager = GetComponent<ARPlaneManager>();
m_ARPointCloudManager = GetComponent<ARPointCloudManager>();
}


then in an update, after the prefab is placed I disable the planes and planemanager, and with similar code attempt to hide the pointcloud:


m_ARPointCloudManager.pointCloud.enabled = false;
GetComponent<ARPointCloudManager>().enabled = false;

But when I run the app and place the prefab, the pointcloud is still visible. What am I missing?

 

instead of

Code (CSharp):

1. m_ARPointCloudManager.pointCloud.enabled = false;

try

Code (CSharp):

1. m_ARPointCloudManager.pointCloud.gameObject.SetActive(false);

 

This is the correct way to do it.

An ARPointCloud is just a component that holds some data (the points). It does not visualize them. The prefab you are using likely has something like an ARPointCloudParticleVisualizer or ARPointCloudMeshVisualizer on it, which updates either a ParticleSystem of MeshRenderer with the point cloud points. Disabling the GameObject will disable all its components, including the ParticleSystem or MeshRenderer.

 

Thanks its working now