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Question by IonoI · Apr 18, 2016 at 12:23 PM · animation mesh color renderer

why do animated objects not behave like normal GameObjects?

I imported an FBX file that has an animation attached to it. I made it into a prefab and managed to add some of the regular GameObject components like character controller, script, rigidbody, mesh renderer... I can make it move and scale, but not change it's color. Also tried to fix the rotation through the inpsector transform tab but it didnt do anything. When I added a mesh filter it looked like this: http://puu.sh/om8fu.jpg

How can I make it animate and color the same mesh? I want to use

 rend = GetComponent<Renderer>();
 rend.material.color = color;//set color

to affect the part that's being animated and not add a new mesh.

We want the colored worms to be flat on the ground and animate (curve like the white part), without the white part being there.

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Le-Pampelmuse · Apr 18, 2016 at 01:18 PM 2

Hi, there are a few gaps of information.

Why do you add a mesh renderer and a mesh filter to a fbx model?
When importing a fbx mesh those components should already be there, otherwise you wouldn't see the meshes.
The character controller works without a rigidbody.
Don't manually add one to the same GameObject. Check the docs. http://docs.unity3d.com/$$anonymous$$anual/class-CharacterController.html
Did you check if Unity imports the animation from the fbx file?
Why are there two worms perpenticular to each other? Is this wanted?

Q: How can I make it animate and color the same mesh?

A: Google: "Unity how play animations" & "Unity how to change mesh renderer color"

I want to use

  rend = GetComponent<Renderer>();
  rend.material.color = color;//set color

to affect the part that's being animated and (1) not add a new mesh.

Just make sure that "rend" is referring to the mesh renderer you want to assign a new color to.

(1) I don't know what you mean by that, you are not adding a new mesh with those two lines of code.

IonoI Le-Pampelmuse · Apr 18, 2016 at 07:29 PM 0

I think i fixed it, but it's probably not in the best way. And no, we don't want 2 perpendicular worms, just 1 that's flat on the floor.

when I import the fbx file it has the animation (Take 001) and a mesh (Line001): http://puu.sh/on9qi.png

but when I drag it into the hierarchy then into the prefab folder to make a prefab where I can add scripts and other components some things dissapear: http://puu.sh/on9AC.png

I kinda made it work by adding a skinned mesh renderer in the Line001 and calling it using rend = GetComponentInChildren<Renderer>();

The rest of the components and the script are in CP1. If i disable the renderer or move it to CP1 it doesnt work. The animator uses the animation file from the non prefab version of CP1.

now it looks like this: http://puu.sh/onajG.jpg, the only problem is that they're moving sideways. I tried to rotate it in 3ds max, as well as in unity by 90 degrees around the y axis.

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IonoI · Apr 21, 2016 at 12:46 AM 0

thanks, it seems to work now. I at least understand it this much now

Le-Pampelmuse IonoI · Apr 21, 2016 at 08:01 PM 2

This isn't an answer. ;) Please post answers/solutions as "answers", the rest as comments. Check the user guide if you are not sure. I've converted it to a comment.

Glad I could help!

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