Resolved Code works in the editor but breaks in build

Code (CSharp):

1. public class TestAuthoring : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public CinemachineVirtualCamera CinemachineVirtualCamera;
4.  
5.     private class Baker : Baker<TestAuthoring>
6.     {
7.         public override void Bake(TestAuthoring authoring)
8.         {
9.             var entity = GetEntity(authoring, TransformUsageFlags.Dynamic);
10.  
11.             AddComponentObject(entity,
12.                                new TestCinemachineComponent()
13.                                {
14.                                    CinemachineVirtualCamera =
15.                                               authoring.CinemachineVirtualCamera
16.                                });
17.         }
18.     }
19. }
20.  
21. public class TestCinemachineComponent : IComponentData
22. {
23.     public CinemachineVirtualCamera CinemachineVirtualCamera;
24. }

This code doesn't throw any errors in the editor, but fails in builds.

 

Not a bug. Baking happens at build. Cinemachine camera doesn't exist at build. You will need to move this out of the subscene and manually create the data entity. Additional gameobjects are destroyed at bake.

 

I was under the impression that baking happened in editor as well.
That is a pretty annoying stumbling point.

I managed to work around it by changing the type to GameObject and whenever I need a reference to the actual CinemachineVirtualCamera component I just do a regular GetComponent<T>() from the System.
Annoying though.