Cannot cast from source type to destination type.

I am having a hard time figuring out how my casting is wrong. Can someone help me figure this out?

I have some sprite rigs built that consist of a EmptyGameObject and then SpriteRenderers for all the body parts of the rig as children.

I need to iterate through all the sprite renderers and set the sorting layer for each one. I am getting the "Cannot cast from source type to destination type." but can't figure what I did wrong.

Help?

Code (JavaScript):

1. var partyMember: GameObject[];
2. var activeMember: int;
3.  
4.  
5. function SetSortLayer(){
6.  
7.     var sprtRndrs_01 : SpriteRenderer[];
8.     var sprtRndrs_02 : SpriteRenderer[];
9.      
10.     for(var i : int = 0; i < 7; i++){
11.         sprtRndrs_02 = partyMember[i].GetComponentsInChildren(SpriteRenderer);
12.         for (var rndr : SpriteRenderer in sprtRndrs_02) {
13.             rndr.sortingLayerName = "Character_02";
14.         }
15.     }  
16.  
17.     sprtRndrs_01 = partyMember[activeMember].GetComponentsInChildren(SpriteRenderer);
18.     for (var rndr : SpriteRenderer in sprtRndrs_01) {
19.         rndr.sortingLayerName = "Character_01";
20.     }
21.  
22. }

 

GetComponentsInChildren returns Component[], unless you use the generic version.

Code (javascript):

1. GetComponentsInChildren.<SpriteRenderer>()

--Eric

 

Perfect! Thank you.

 

So what is the difference between using GetComponentsInChildren.<SpriteRenderer>() vs GetComponentsInChildren(SpriteRenderer)? I see that since Unity5 this code gets flagged as needing to be changed and the editor will change those over sometime and sometimes not. Guess I don't understand the difference.

 

The generic version returns SpriteRenderer[], the non-generic version just returns Component[].

--Eric