Question by scone · May 31, 2013 at 05:42 PM · prefab prefabutility

Should I be able to cast the result of PrefabUtility.GetPrefabObject() to a GameObject?

When I try, I get an InvalidCastExceptoion. When I print out the object, it's typed as a GameObject. In other words, the following code:

 Debug.Log(PrefabUtility.GetPrefabObject(g));
 GameObject prefab = (GameObject)PrefabUtility.GetPrefabObject(g);

Gives the following output:

(UnityEngine.Prefab) InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type.

UnityEngine.Prefabdoesn't seem to be a type that the compiler recognizes... what's going on here?

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