Question Can't remove Light because HDAdditionalLightData (Script) depends on it

Hey guys,

I'm working on a game where characters shrink and grow in size, and each time they do, an effect spawns with a light on it.

Every time the effect spawns, I get a console error,
"Can't remove Light because HDAdditionalLightData (Script) depends on it"

https://imgur.com/a/8GaU9Zn

So how do I get around this message?

I can obviously not destroy the effect, but then there will be hundreds of them in the scene.


The effect is being removed from the heirarchy, so it is getting destroyed, I just don't want to see these errors hundreds of times over.

 

@davidwhiffen Have you solved it yet? I've got same scenario and same effect.
I've voted on the urp issue tracker:
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...n-destroying-certain-vfx-effects-in-play-mode

 

I was getting this error because I was destroying the `Light` component instead of the game object that the `Light` component is attached to - seems like the proper way to get rid of the light data is to destroy the game object itself.