GetComponentsInChildren not working with Prefabs?

Unity Engine
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Hi. I have a prefab and one of its children in the hierarchy has a skinned mesh renderer. This is the only skinned mesh renderer in the prefabs hierarchy. I am trying to hide this mesh like so,

var renderers : SkinnedMeshRenderer[] = prefabObject.GetComponentsInChildren( SkinnedMeshRenderer ) as SkinnedMeshRenderer[];

for(var r : SkinnedMeshRenderer in renderers)
{
r.enabled = false;
}

However renderers keeps returning null… I don’t understand why. I can clearly see the skinnmesh component in the inspector in real time. Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks!

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Nothing to do with prefabs. Actually you can’t cast GetComponentsInChildren to an array like that, but you can use generics:

var renderers = prefabObject.GetComponentsInChildren.<SkinnedMeshRenderer>();

–Eric