title: How to create a working Skinned Mesh Renderer manually?
body: <p>When manually creating a Game Object and adding a Skinned Mesh Renderer component, it doesn't show anything when it should show my model, even though the model is selected in the settings. When dragging in an fbx asset with animations into the scene, it automatically creates the necessary Skinned Mesh Renderer component, and this one shows the model. Even though my manual settings are identical to the one generated by Unity, it still doesn't show the model unless I copy the settings from the working component to the nonworking one. What is going on here? Is there some settings I cannot see that are getting copied?</p>
  <p>Edit: additional info</p>
  <p>Unity version 2020.3.17f1</p>
  <p>Steps to reproduce:</p>
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  <li><p>Create Game Object
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qIcdd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qIcdd.png" alt="Step 1" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>Create Skinned Mesh Renderer component
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRQpL.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRQpL.png" alt="Step 2" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>I set mesh and root bone here, as well as materials
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DMtiQ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DMtiQ.png" alt="Step 3" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>Mesh does not show in game or in scene view
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Cvy5.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Cvy5.png" alt="Step 4" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>Drag asset into the scene to create a Game Object
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LMB2m.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LMB2m.png" alt="Step 5" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>This shows correctly when done this way
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zcwRW.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zcwRW.png" alt="Step 6" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>Copy settings
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/I2Bhs.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/I2Bhs.png" alt="Step 7" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>Paste settings
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/75do3.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/75do3.png" alt="Step 8" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>Delete the unwanted object
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5hrxU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5hrxU.png" alt="Step 9" /></a></p>
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  <li><p>The Original object is now showing
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DR8Ap.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DR8Ap.png" alt="Step 10" /></a></p>
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  </ol>