Why won't my animator tab show anything in Unity 4 for PC?

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I’ve been searching up and down UnityAnswers and have been unable to find anyone with my particular issue. I started using Unity 3.5 right before Unity 4 came out, so I was originally working on a scene in 3.5, upgraded to 4, and everything seemed to work perfectly. The only things in my scene that are animated is the color values, or rather the brightness values of several light sources emanating from fireplace 3D models. The animations that I created in 3.5 are running perfectly in 4, exactly as I had made them function in the animator tab in 3.5, but now I want to tweak them. I am unable to do so because no matter what object I click on in my scene, the animator tab shows absolutely nothing.

Here’s a screenshot.

I mean, I can’t animate anything, nothing shows up, but you can see in the inspector that it has kept track of my “Fire” animation. Does anyone have any ideas?

-Mike P.

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Simple answer:

First of all, you have to go to Assets-> Create-> Animator Controller.

This allows you to drag in animations and stuff. Go to this link to see how to use the animator controller (if you don’t know how to):

Hope this helps,

Hyperion

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Thanks, I’m surprised this was the issue seeing how I’m not using Mecanim at all, and this controller was not necessary with 3.5. Why is this necessary in 4 when I’m not using Mecanim?

Oh, thanks for the screenshot. It REALLY helped me understand the issue.

…Unnecessary sarcasm duly noted.