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Here's a quick tip for Unity.

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In Unity, its common to use empty game objects for spawn points, and other invisible objects in our scene

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Here we have an empty game object called Spawn Point which currently only has a Transform component

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When we have the object highlighted in the Hierarchy, it's easy to see.

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but when we deselect it, it becomes completely invisible

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to solve this, we can assign our empty game object a custom icon

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the icon menu is in the upper left corner of the Inspector

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by click on it, we can choose a panel icon

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which will show the object's name against a coloured panel

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we can choose a small circular icon of various colours

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a diamond

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or we can click Other to choose a custom icon

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Here I will assign the default particle texture as the icon

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Now when we deselect the object

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we can see that the icon causes it to remain visible

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these icons will not be visible in the Game view, unless the 'Gizmos' toggle is turned on