When I search by tag, deactivated entities are returned in the array of matching entities.
I verified this by inspecting the array and finding references to both an active entity with the tag present, and one for an (older) deactivated entity that I had kept around in case I needed it later.
This may be design, but I was expecting inactive entities to be ignored.
This is by design - imagine you might want to find an entity in order to enable it for example.
Understood. I guess I was used to the Unity workflow, where this isn’t the case.
Any chance of a variant that doesn’t (or a param that could be passed to ignore inactive)?
Appreciate the heads-up, thanks!
You could write the function yourself using the engine code: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/blob/master/src/scene/graph-node.js#L337
So you could add a findByTagActive or patch the engine function to take a second parameter.
Absolutely, yep. I’m just deciding whether to replace the original / create a differently named one / use a param.
Didn’t have the source link - thank you for that 
You should probably just make a method that only finds enabled entities, should be pretty simple
Yep, that’s totally the plan, I didn’t want to get on that if it was considered a bug (and hence might change later), knowing it’s by design is all I need
thanks!