Question Animator is playing but object is not animating

Is there a way to restart animator from script?

What I am trying to do :

I have my player gameobject.


I want to keep everything as it is but change the Root (which is the object that has all the animated parts) to a different Root. (It's how i want it to have 1 prefab that will be used for multiple playable characters)

I achieved that with few lines of codes like below. I run the game and the old Root is gone and the new Root which I get from a scriptable object is now the new child Root of the Player gameobject.
It is changed correctly but the animations just dont work.



The thing is when the game is running and I turned the animator on and off my character animates...when I try to do it from script it just doesnt work...Any ideas?

 

Well...after a lot of research.

With the below the animator restarts and binds the new Root that contains the new animated objects.(all have the same name as the old Root)

I had to do a coroutine with slight delay otherwise the animator was not restarting

Code (CSharp):

1.     public void InitializePlayerModel()
2.     {
3.  
4.  
5.         //root contains the objects we need when we create a new character from character creation asset
6.  
7.         //get the current root
8.         GameObject currentRoot = this.gameObject.transform.Find("Root").gameObject;
9.  
10.         //destroy it
11.         Destroy(currentRoot);
12.  
13.         //get the root from the scriptable object
14.         GameObject characterModel = Instantiate(so_Player.characterCreationModel, new Vector3(0, 0, 0), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
15.         GameObject rootObject = characterModel.transform.Find("Root").gameObject;
16.         rootObject.transform.SetParent(this.gameObject.transform);
17.  
18.         //remove the characterModel that is uneeded
19.         Destroy(characterModel);
20.  
21.         //set the root position
22.         rootObject.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
23.  
24.         rootObject.transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
25.  
26.  
27.         StartCoroutine("InitializePlayerModelDelay");
28.  
29.     }

Then inside the coroutine

Code (CSharp):

1.     public IEnumerator InitializePlayerModelDelay()
2.     {
3.  
4.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.01f);
5.         Animator animator = this.gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();
6.         animator.Update(0);
7.         animator.Rebind();
8.  
9.     }

This worked for me...don't know if it's the best choice or not but it works