MissingReferenceException:

[anon_94419537]

I have a basic question about the best way to handle a bug like this one…

MissingReferenceException: The object of type ‘GameObject’ has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.
Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object
[/quote].

Basically I am destroying one object that is being reference by another object. What is the optimal way to unload the reference of the destroyed object??

[Mike08]

Hi

The error you get means that you try to access the deleted object with your reference to it.

Your error is like this

Gameobject obj;

....

do soth. with obj

When you then delete the GameObject that is referenced by obj then you get this error when you try to access it.

To avoid this you can add this simple line of code into your script.

GameObject obj; //Your reference

....

if(obj) //This here checks if the referenced object exists
{
do sth with obj
}

When you destroy a object your reference to it is automatically set to null and you don’t have to unload the reference manually.
The reason is that your reference is a pointer to the object and so when you delete the object the pointer points to nowhere but you don’t need to unload the pointer to make it point to nowhere.

I hope this helped you to solve your problem

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[anon_94419537]

that did it! thanks so much.