AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview broken, anyone ?

Unity Engine
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Is it only me that encounter problems with Unity 4.3.1, whatever I do, seem can not make the GetAssetPreview to work, always return null. Can anyone help ?

thanks.

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I am seeing the same issue as well. Attempting to get a texture of a simple cube already loaded in the Scene and the function call to AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview always returns null. Also running version 4.3.1 on Windows 8.1.

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I’ve seen several post complaining about this, even the bug report that being delete, any idea why ? Unity ? Anyone at Unity is watching this ? At least, if it’s not a bug, give us some explaination and show the correct way to do. Silent is not the solution :frowning:

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Hey,

did you have any luck with it ? I am facing a similar problem.

Take a look at that link.

I am still stuck though.

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I’ve gotten it to work. The object you are passing into GetAssetPreview should be a prefab from your project, and should be assigned as either the Object or GameObject class types. If you assign the prefab as a Transform, you should pass the Transform’s gameObject into GetAssetPreview.

Here’s 3 different examples that have worked for me.

Object prefabObject;
Texture2D prefabObjectPreview = AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview(prefabObject);

Transform prefabTransform;
Texture2D prefabTransformPreview = AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview(prefabObject.gameObject);

GameObject prefabGameObject;
Texture2D prefabGameObjectPreview = AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview(prefabGameObject);