Null Reference Exception for Animator

Question

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?

Answer 1

Answer by Zymurer · Apr 02, 2019 at 09:49 PM

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: alt text

And in the code they tried to access "horizontalSpeed" varible.

 m_Animator.SetFloat("horizontalSpeed", m_HorizontalMovement);

Do you have "speed" parameter on your animator?

animatorsetfloat.png (319.4 kB)

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