Disable selection of parented objects like LODs

Does anybody know of a way to make parented objects in the scene view unclickable. Something that is scene independent.

I know you can do this in the hierarchy panel, with the hand icon, but this isn't a good solution when building a big level as you have to manually disable the child objects every time. And then for the next level you have to do this all over again.

Example... a tree prefab with 3 LOD's..... when its selected, it selects LOD0. I never want this to happen.

In 3DS/Maya it's called freezing an object.

 

You can write a custom editor script that listens to selectionChanged , just add a callback in a static method with the [InitializeOnLoadMethod] Attribute above it.
Then a simple check, if the mouse is over the scene view window and if the new selected GameObject has an LOD-Component in it's parents -> select the parent with the LOD-Component instead.
MouseOverWindow method link.

Otherwise you could try to use the SelectionBaseAttribute.

 

Thanks for the reply! I'll give this a go!.

 

Sorry for the necro but I made a script for who needs it. Just place the script inside the Editor folder and you are good to go.

https://pastebin.com/632Ctm4b

Also is disabled by default for performance reasons, you enable it by clicking on "Tools/LOD Selection/Toggle LOD Parent Selection"