Runtime instantiated prefab doesn't animate

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I'm trying to make my character instantiate it's model in runtime (because I have different skins for it). What I have now is all the code, colliders and animator in a parent gameobject and I'm trying to instantiate the model related to the chosen skin in runtime.

For some reason the model doesn't animate when I do that.

If I put the same model prefab inside the character and instantiate it as one it works without any problem.

The visual prefab does not have any components on it.

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As shown in the image, "Character_WithDefaultSkinModel" works perfectly, but when Instantiating Character_empty and then instantiating "Character_DefaultSkinModel" and setting it's parent to the Chracter_empty, the model doesn't animate.

EDIT:

I just realised that acessing the Animator and enabling then disabling the "Apply Root Motion" checkbox the character starts animating again.

It's like the component needs a reset, does anyone have an idea why? and how to force it properly

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Answer by CaioRosisca · Mar 14, 2017 at 06:30 PM

I just solved it, all I needed to do was to call Animator.Rebind();

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hexagonius · Mar 14, 2017 at 09:51 PM 1

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ah cool nice to know

imrankhanswati · Oct 10, 2019 at 09:30 AM 0

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Great man... This is awesome work like a charm. Thanks a lot...

ISAKUPOLY · May 25, 2021 at 06:25 PM 1

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Hey CiaoRosisca,

i'm not sure if you are still active, but I wanted to ask you where did you put the "Animator.Rebind()" exactly? You have your script for the animation in you parent object, right?

Currently i'm at the problem that I can instantiate a Prefab as a child, but (while the already instatiated object works perfectly finde) the new instantiated is not using the animations (the movement script including the animation scripts are all in the Parent).

baktubak · Dec 08, 2021 at 10:21 PM 0

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Thank you so much! I was having this exact problem. I was spawning in an object using instantiate and then immediately triggering the animator to play, but it wasn't working until I added rebind! YAY.

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Answer by hexagonius · Mar 14, 2017 at 06:12 PM

might not be that easy, but you definitely missed a step:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator-avatar.html

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CaioRosisca · Mar 14, 2017 at 06:16 PM 0

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They both use the same avatar

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Answer by lgarczyn · Mar 14, 2017 at 06:12 PM

You might just be calling Instantiate() on a gameobject in your scene rather than on a prefab (gameobject in your asset folder).

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CaioRosisca · Mar 14, 2017 at 06:17 PM 0

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I'm loading it from resources folder

Runtime instantiated prefab doesn't animate

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