I want to be able to change the visibility of a Unity tilemap programmatically in C#, while keeping the tilemap enabled.
Looking at the documentation of TilemapRenderer, there is a property isVisible, but it is read-only, so I cannot do something like the following:
Transform myTilemap = GameObject.Find("My Tilemap").transform;
myTilemap.GetComponent<TilemapRenderer>().isVisible = false;
It also does not have a Color property, unlike for example a SpriteRenderer, so I cannot set its alpha value to zero like one could do with a sprite.
I do not want to make the tilemap no longer enabled.
How may I do this?
enabled on the TilemapRenderer is the property you’re looking for, the main Tilemap object will still be enabled:
Transform myTilemap = GameObject.Find("My Tilemap").transform;
myTilemap.GetComponent<TilemapRenderer>().enabled = false;
This works for any other Renderer, or even any other component.
I do not want to make the tilemap [or tilemap renderer] no longer enabled.
Alternatives:
Tilemaphas acolorproperty, notTilemapRenderer. You could also set that tonew Color(0, 0, 0, 0);- Change the tilemap’s GameObject’s layer to one that is excluded by the camera’s culling mask
- Set the parent
Grid‘senabledproperty to false:tilemap.GetComponentInParent<Grid>().enabled = false - Set
TilemapRenderer.maskInteractiontoSpriteMaskInteraction.VisibleInsideMask(assuming you don’t use sprite masks)
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