Question How can I check if UV channel exists in mesh?

I write an editor tool that gets the UV's of a particular mesh using the Mesh.GetUVs method. The tool allows to select a UV channel and this is then used to call GetUVs, like:

Code (CSharp):

1. mesh.GetUVs(selectedChannel, uvs);

... where

selectedChannel

can be 0, 1, 2 up to 7.

If I call Mesh.GetUVs with a channel that doesn't exist in the mesh, Unity outputs an error. So far so good.

The problem is I can't find a way to check if a specific UV channel exists, to avoid calling Mesh.GetUVs and triggering the error.

How can I check if a specific UV channel exists in a mesh?

 

Are you sure it actually throws an error? I haven't done much mesh stuff lately. In the past Unity only supported up to 4 UV channels and back then you could only get them through individual properties. I know GetUVs has been added and lately they increased the max supported channels. Though I think it would be strange if they would throw an error if you try to read one that doesn't exist. In my UVViewer editor window I still use the old properties. Back then the returned array simply was empty when the channel did not exist.

Are you sure that you actually created the list you pass in? What exact error do you get? Do you get an exception or just a message in the console (error or warning?).

Actually I just checked my old general purpose mesh serializer which could serialize any mesh in a custom binary format including bone weights and blendshapes. I also used GetUVs, though back then only 4 channels were supported. I actually did check if the list got filled or not and afaik, this worked as it should.

Currently I don't have Unity at hand so I can't perform any tests on this. However if you have issues with some code, it would help to see more context. So the concrete error you got and make sure you actually created the list before you call GetUVs

 

Thank you for the help. You're right,

GetUVs

also just returns an empty list. I wasn't paying enough attention to the error message before. The error was caused by my own code surrounding the GetUVs call.