Flag object to be ignored on play for unity level editing.

Hi all.

Is it possible to flag objects to truly be ignored on play.

In level editing, it is often helpful to have objects exist as placeholders and visual guides. In unity you can disable objects, but they still exist in the overall scene hierarchy.

Is there a way to flag a gameobject to be completely ignored so it does not exist in any way in the executed application?

Thanks

 

Have them instantiated by code, and then have that code flagged as editor only.
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PlatformDependentCompilation.html

 

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but wouldn't that make them unavailable in editor unless in "play" mode?

 

Yes. So if you probably want gizmos then. They will display in both edit and play mode (but only in editor). Alternately you could use the above to destroy a list of objects, but that is the long way around.

 

Thanks zombie gorilla. I'll look into creating custom gizmos. I don't think destroy on play would work too well because I believe the game would still need to allocate memory for the items.

Anyway, I'll look into the gizmo angle. Thanks.