EditorOnly tag?

Hi all. i'd like to ask about the editorOnly tag. It seems that objects tagged with it won't appear in a final build/export version of a game, however they DO appear in play mode, which isn't what i'd like.

I'm wondering if there's any way to make that not happen? I have a massive object which i'd like to only show in the scene window, and not in the game window. Is that possible at all without a runtime script?

 

Put it on a layer that's displayed in the editor but not by the game view camera.

--Eric

 

Will that only cover displaying/rendering, or will it completely disable the object? the latter is what i'd like to do, (though i guess there aren't many use cases for a difference)

 

oh and out of curiosity, is there a way to do the reverse? Have something shown in game/build but NOT in the scene view?

 

Using layers will only affect rendering.

--Eric

 

So all my scenes get various GameObjects slapped in them to handle the startup of the scene. One of them is a 'DebugInitialize' script that allows me to start any scene up and have all the general stuff that needs to be wired up at start (would be in my startup scene for release) so that I can actually play the scene.

In such a script you can loop over all gameobjects and delete those that are tagged as EditorOnly.