Drawing "Ghosted" parts - Cloning Part Mesh Only (No Physics/Logic)

[NavyFish]

I'm trying to draw a 'ghosted' part in-flight - I don't want the drawn part to interact with physics in any way, nor be selectable etc as a normal part would be.

My first attempt was to simply clone the desired part's GameObject, and disable physics on it as seen below:

            clone = (GameObject)GameObject.Instantiate(highlightedPart.gameObject);
            clone.rigidbody.isKinematic = false;
            clone.rigidbody.detectCollisions = false;
            clone.GetComponent<Part>().physicalSignificance = Part.PhysicalSignificance.NONE;
            clone.GetComponent<Part>().PhysicsSignificance = 0

The part draws correctly (I'm rescaling it and translating it slightly in a later chunk of code), but unfortunately it still interacts with physics. On top of that, you can select it, right-click it, etc.

So, what I really want to do is to just grab the Mesh component of the part and work with that, throwing out all the logic and physical simulation. But I can't seem to find it! GameObject isn't listing MeshRenderer as one of its components. If anyone has experience with this situation or more familiarity with Unity, I'd greatly appreciate any help.

-NavyFish

[JDP]

You can get the MeshFilter thusly:

MeshFilter meshFilter = (MeshFilter)clone.GetComponent<MeshFilter>();

AFAIK that is only the mesh, you may also need the MeshRenderer (accessible through gameobject.renderer I think).

Also note that there are typically many transforms with MeshFilters contained within the part hierarchy. You'll probably have to do a bit of iteration.

Of course you could just destroy all the unwanted components from your instance (e.g.: GameObject.Destroy(clone.rigidbody) it's a bit of a workaround. but at least you wont be keeping unneeded instances around.