The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object '<null>') is missing!

Unity Engine
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OK this one is driving me nuts…

I created a VFX Graph. Dragged the VFX Graph into the game hierarchy, which created a game object. I then made that game object a prefab. I deleted the prefab from the hierarchy.

I created a script that is attached to this prefab. The script looks like this -

public class ParticleEffect : MonoBehavior
{
  public VisualEffect vEffect;
  private void Awake()
  {
    vEffect = GetComponent<VisualEffect>();
    vEffect.playRate = 800;
  }
}

The only thing I am doing with this visual effect is setting the play rate.

Now, I can drag this prefab from the asset window into the game hierarchy and the particle effect works perfectly fine in the scene view. What I can’t do is instantiate that prefab from another script. It gives me this warning -

“The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object ‘’) is missing!”

EDIT: It does, in fact, instantiate the object. It just doesn’t spawn any particles. What’s even weirder is that if I click on the game object in the hierarchy during gameplay, the particles will start to function properly. Shouldn’t it start to play right away? I even tried using the Play() function in code, and it still won’t play until I click on the game object…

What am I doing wrong here? Why do I need to click on the game object that spawns in order to start the particle effect?

2

For anyone googling and getting this as the first result, try closing the VFX graph editor when playing and this goes away. Nasty little bug.