A Theory about removing Mechanim errors...

Unity Engine
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Forgive my inexperience. I’m learning as I go.

So I’ve noticed during gametesting that there are three types of errors: The red exclamation, which essentially means “you ain’t doing a thing till you fix me!” A yellow (or green? I’m colorblind) triangle that seems to say “when you get a chance, bro” and a message bubble. The message bubble usually contains a message like “Mechanim couldn’t find Transform ____. (fill in the blank)” As to the why, I’m pretty sure it’s because I’ve removed components to various 3d models I’ve imported. So, if I remove the “plane” from a house model, it makes sense why Mechanim can’t find it.
This led to a realization. Since Mechanim is the animator, and I have no intention of animating those models, will removing the animator component that was automatically assigned to those models

A: Remove the errors
or
B: Do any harm?

Thanks, and God bless.

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The errors in the console are Error (red), Warning (yellow – to me at least :-)), Info (gray). Each script or component is free to categorize their messages however they want. A really annoying component could categorize everything as a red error, even purely informational messages. The built-in components categorize them pretty well, though.

As for the Animator component: On the model’s Rig import tab, set the Animation Type to None. Then you won’t have to remove anything.

The meanings are:

  • None: Not animated. No Animation (legacy) or Animator (Mecanim) component.
  • Legacy: Animation component.
  • Humanoid: Animator (Mecanim) component.
  • Generic: Animator (Mecanim) component.