How To Lock Layers By Editor Script?

Is there some way I can access the Layers and lock them by name or index? I can't seem to find an answer on google, so I was wondering if this is even possible.

 

Ahhh... its not like Photoshop.

I wouldnt think of it like that. Think of Layers as more of a Masking flag, for Camera use mainly.

So any GameObject can belong to just a single Category (Layer), but the Camera can show multiple Categories (Layer Mask can include many) for GameObjects belonging/assigned to those Categories.

What are you trying to do?

 

@fighder - I remember googling that some year ago, just little bit of google-fu:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1039366/is-it-possible-to-access-layer-visibility-and-lock.html

Same goes for hiding, just replace Tools.lockedLayers with Tools.visibleLayers

 

If you want to have a bit more flexibility than the built in layers, I highly recommend ProGroups. It adds great flexibility to the editor and makes locking objects, hiding objects and selecting entire groups a breeze.

 

I came across that answer, but it didn't seem to make sense to me. I couldn't find Tools.lockedLayers in the api page, and Tools.visibleLayers seem return an int? I am not exactly sure how to use Tools.visibleLayers to lock the layer.

I am not concern with masking nor fiddling with hidding objects in the camera through flags. I am just extending the Unity editor for a level editor and I need to lock game objects of a certain layers to make sure they don't get selected when I select a group of objects from a different layer.

 

I got it working. Turns out Unity just didn't list Tools.lockedLayers. I was able to toggle it with Tools.lockedLayers ^= 1<<LayerMask.NameToLayer();

 

What does this do?

Can I now make an editor menu that has the layer so I can toggle them?

 

OMG YOU THE ONLY ONE WHO FIND IT XD THX !!!