Mirror NetworkManager null reference by other component in GameObject

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Hi - I’m trying to create a two-player game and I’m trying to create a component for my NetworkManager GameObject that references the NetworkManager component. I have something like this:

    [RequireComponent(typeof(NetworkManager))]
    public class GameController : MonoBehaviour {

        NetworkManager networkManager;

        private void Awake() {
            networkManager = GetComponent<NetworkManager>();
        }

        public bool CheckNumPlayers() { // called by button
            return networkManager.numPlayers == 2;
        }
...

However, when I call CheckNumPlayers, I get an error saying NullReferencePointer. If I call GetComponent<NetworkManager>().numPlayers directly, it gets the reference and works as expected, but I plan on using the NetworkManager component quite a bit and I don’t want to have to Get it every time. Is there any reason the reference is getting lost that I’m missing?

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Why not just make networkManager public and just drag it via the inspector?

Add a Debug.Log to Awake to verify it is being called.

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It is definitely being called in the Awake and it gets defined there. I had a Debug.Log() message and it showed the reference was received and set.

I’ll give the inspector approach a try, for some reason I hadn’t thought of that.