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GetEffectiveAnimatorController() - Unity 5 alternative?

Discussion in 'Animation' started by hammil, Mar 5, 2015.

  1. hammil

    hammil

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    Previously I was using this line to get the AnimatorController for a given Animator

    Code (csharp):
    1. var controller = AnimatorController.GetEffectiveAnimatorController(animator);
    However this no longer works in Unity 5. There's a method to set the controller, as shown in the API docs, but not one to get it.
     
    hammil, Mar 5, 2015
    #1

  2. Mecanim-Dev

    Mecanim-Dev

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    Effectively the function was marked internal in 5.0

    I will investigate what did happen.

    In the meantime you can use this function to do the same thing

    Code (CSharp):
    1.    
    2. RuntimeAnimatorController GetEffectiveController(Animator animator)
    3.     {
    4.         RuntimeAnimatorController controller = animator.runtimeAnimatorController;
    5.  
    6.         AnimatorOverrideController overrideController = controller as AnimatorOverrideController;
    7.         while (overrideController != null)
    8.         {
    9.             controller = overrideController.runtimeAnimatorController;
    10.             overrideController = controller as AnimatorOverrideController;
    11.         }
    12.  
    13.         return controller;
    14.     }
     
    Mecanim-Dev, Mar 6, 2015
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  3. hammil

    hammil

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    That's wonderful, thank you!
     
    hammil, Mar 6, 2015
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  4. mk26

    mk26

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    That's fabulous.

    But in my case, i want the alternate of this
    Code (CSharp):
    1.  
    2. usingUnityEditor.Animations;
    3.  
    4. [CustomEditor(typeof(uLinkAnimator))]
    5. public class MyAnimatorEditor : Editor
    6. {
    7.     private AnimatorController m_Controller;
    8.  
    9.    void OnEnable() {
    10.       this.m_Controller = GetEffectiveController(this.m_Animator);
    11.    }
    12. }
    13.  
    As, this is not working in Unity 5. And not found any solution to get the AnimatorController from the Animator in Editor scripting.
     
    Last edited: Jul 12, 2016
    mk26, Jul 12, 2016
    #4

  5. belly82

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    Thank you. I was looking for same exact solution for this problem. Thanks alot.
     
    Last edited: Sep 13, 2016
    belly82, Aug 11, 2016
    #5

  6. Diet-Chugg

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    I'm having the same problem as mk26
     
    Diet-Chugg, Nov 17, 2016
    #6

  7. Baste

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    AnimatorController inherits from RuntimeAnimatorController. At edit time, .runtimeAnimatorController is the actual AnimatorController.


    This is not documented. The naming of these things are not intuitive whatsoever.
     
    Baste, Nov 17, 2016
    #7