Runtime instantiated prefab doesn't animate

Questions & Answers
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I’m trying to make my character instantiate it’s model in runtime (because I have different skins for it).
What I have now is all the code, colliders and animator in a parent gameobject and I’m trying to instantiate the model related to the chosen skin in runtime.

For some reason the model doesn’t animate when I do that.

If I put the same model prefab inside the character and instantiate it as one it works without any problem.

The visual prefab does not have any components on it.

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As shown in the image, “Character_WithDefaultSkinModel” works perfectly, but when Instantiating Character_empty and then instantiating “Character_DefaultSkinModel” and setting it’s parent to the Chracter_empty, the model doesn’t animate.

#EDIT:

I just realised that acessing the Animator and enabling then disabling the “Apply Root Motion” checkbox the character starts animating again.

It’s like the component needs a reset, does anyone have an idea why? and how to force it properly

4

I just solved it, all I needed to do was to call Animator.Rebind();

2

might not be that easy, but you definitely missed a step:

3

You might just be calling Instantiate() on a gameobject in your scene rather than on a prefab (gameobject in your asset folder).