Null Reference Exception when reload scene

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Hello. I have a really burning question. Whenever i reload a scene or reopen a scene after exiting a another scene I keep getting null reference exceptions on my variables. Basically i am making a racing game so there will be a lot of scene switching. currently I have 5 scenes: 1 splash scene, 1 garage scene and 3 race scenes. The game is programmed to go to the garage, the user picks a race scene, then when the race is is won(or lost or quit) the user presses a button to go back to the garage scene. Whenever i reload the race scene or go back to the garage scene i get the null reference exception.

I don’t have any singletons, toolboxes, static classes or static variables. None of my scripts use DontDestroyOnLoad(). Most if not all of my scripts in the scene use Awake() and Start() to set the variables and reference each other at the start of the scene and then they do their business. I’ve when through about 12 forums and Unity Answers pages and I don’t understand anything even though most of them are marked as answered. Some recommend manually setting variables to null and some say to unsubscribe from event handlers, but I don’t think I subscribed to any in the first place. I even tried using SceneManager.UnloadScene before using SceneManager.LoadScene. Can someone please help me.

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I fixed it. What I did was set references to the variables in the editor before play. And then I also added some code like this:

Transform example;

void Awake() {
   if(example == null){
      example = GameObject.Find("Example").GetComponent<Transform>();
   }
}