Bug? Mesh filter not being attached to skinned mesh renderer

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Basically, my skinned meshes are being instantiated without mesh filters. The reference manual says they should be instantiated with mesh filters, but they are not. This is a large problem as I need to be able to programmatically instantiate my objects, and I can’t just make prefabs where i’ve manually dragged mesh filters to compensate for this bug.

If it all helps, these are blender models that I’m instantiating. Non-skinned meshes will have mesh filters put on as appropriate.

Dragging the models in will also result in the models without mesh filters.

This actually wouldn’t be a problem if I could just access what seems to be an inaccessible ‘mesh’ variable for the skinned mesh renderer.

-edit-sent a bug report in as well with one of these models that has this problem. Maybe it will help.

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That does not make sense. A skinned mesh doesn’t use a Mesh Filter. If it says this, then the documentation is a bug. Where is that written?

How is it inaccessible?

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Guess I"m an idiot for not seeing that variable. The ‘shared’ part made me miss it I suppose.

And where the documentation says it should have a mesh filter:

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Unless you have heard back already, you should probably follow up with your bug and request it be closed, so that the QA team doesn’t waste any time. I just reported a bug about the documentation:

Does that sound more clear to you?