Null Reference Exception for Animator

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Hi guys, I started getting a null reference exception when I try to do the following…

private Animator anim;

anim = GetComponent<Animator> ();

anim.SetFloat ("speed", h); //throws null reference exception error

It was working fine earlier. Both the script and the Animator are on the same game object.

Any idea what’s going on?

2

Maybe you are trying to find/access a parameter that doesn’t exist.

For example, that unity gave us. They have an animator tab like this:

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And in the code they tried to access “horizontalSpeed” varible.

m_Animator.SetFloat("horizontalSpeed", m_HorizontalMovement);

Do you have “speed” parameter on your animator?