removing unnecessary canvas renderer component from text object

Im suddenly seeing this message from TMPro_Priviate.cs (textmeshpro3.0.0) "removing unnecessary canvas renderer component from text object" followed by this error, "can't remove canvasrenderer because textMeshpro depends on it".

Anyone know how I stop this? Obviously I tried removing the canvas renderer but then a popup says
"can't remove canvasrenderer because textMeshpro depends on it" etc..

so it this a bug in tmpro? or a mistake ive made? It only started happening when i went to a newer unity alpha then rolled back.. presumably due to a newer version of textmeshpro?

 

TextMeshProUGUI for Canvas using CanvasRenderer. You can't delete it, because TextMeshProUGUI require it.

 

Roll back to 2.0.0 to fix the issue.

 

It debug logs 'Removing unnecessary CanvasRenderer component from text object.' But I cannot remove the canvasrenderer from my tmp ui objects! What do I do...

UPDATE: It was actually just normal tmp GOs, not ui ones. I guess back in the day when I added them it came with canvas renderer by default

 

Same here, my prefab to display damage in the scene had Canvas Renderer on it, I guess it came with TMPro by default. Removed the Canvas Renderer from the prefab and the message is gone. Everything else seems to be working as intended.

 

So I get this problem on a prefab that has a TextMeshPro - Text object on it but not Canvas Renderer. I looked at the prefab and there is no Canvas Rendrer on it. But there are hundreds in the scene. It's so annoying. Any ideas on why this is happening with TextMeshPro - Text components?

 

Is there a Mesh Renderer on it? I seem to be getting the message when there's a TextMeshPro - Text and a mesh renderer.

Edit to add the following:

Now this is odd. When I look at my game object prefab it only contains the components Rect Transform, Mesh Renderer, and TextMeshPro - Text.

But if I look inside the .prefab file it contains the mesh renderer, but also a canvas render at the end, even though that component doesn't show up in the inspector??

Code (CSharp):

1.  m_Component:
2.   - component: {fileID: 22467808}  <-- RectTransform
3.   - component: {fileID: 2335244}  <-- MeshRenderer
4.   - component: {fileID: 3335244} <-- MeshFilter
5.   - component: {fileID: 11435244} <-- TextMeshPro - Text
6.   - component: {fileID: 22237362} <-- CanvasRenderer???
7.  
8. --- !u!222 &22237362
9. CanvasRenderer:
10.   m_ObjectHideFlags: 0
11.   m_CorrespondingSourceObject: {fileID: 0}
12.   m_PrefabInstance: {fileID: 0}
13.   m_PrefabAsset: {fileID: 0}
14.   m_GameObject: {fileID: 135244}
15.   m_CullTransparentMesh: 0

I made a backup and removed the canvas renderer reference. The messages went away and everything works fine. No idea why it was there or why it didn't display.

 

To hide warning when upgrade project to newer textmeshpro version.

Drag all TextMeshPro prefab to any scene. It will call awake function to upgrade prefab.

The prefab will say it have changed component which remove old canvas renderer.

 

Thank you!