null reference in instantiate

Unity Engine
1

i want to make a script that creates a new playercharacter when they land on a plane below the playarea, but when i try to refere to the playercharacterprefab
it gives the nullreference error message, any guess to why?
the script is below

var playerprefab : GameObject;
function OnCollisionEnter(){
Instantiate(playerprefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity);
}

im kind of a noob so i hope theres something really trivial that i never understood about instantiate or something like that. and if it is, please tell me.

… really, please do.

2

You’re not pointing to a prefab with this:

var playerprefab : GameObject;

You’re just creating a variable which is a GameObject type, but has no value, and then trying to instantiate it.

Try doing this:

public var playerprefab : GameObject;

Now the playerprefab variable will show up in the Inspector where this script is located. You can drag your player prefab from your Project folder and link it to this variable, so the script knows which prefab to spawn.[/code]

3

“Public” is unnecessary. Javascript variables are public by default unless you specify “private”.

–Eric

4

that worked, thx for helping