'NullReferenceException: Object reference not set of an object' When calling a method.

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1

Whenever I call the coroutine spawnDelay found in this script:

	public string spawnPos;
	public GameObject DataKeeper;
	public SpawnHelperScript SHS;
	public bool canSpawn = false;
	public int spawnDelayTime = 2;
	public int testSpawn  = 5;
	GruntAI GAI;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Awake () {
		DataKeeper = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("DataKeeper");
		SHS = DataKeeper.GetComponent<SpawnHelperScript>();
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {

	}

	public void spawnGrunt(int amount){
		Debug.Log ("spawnGrunt called!");
		GameObject newEnemy = (GameObject)Instantiate (grunt, transform.position, transform.rotation);
		GAI = newEnemy.GetComponent<GruntAI>();
		if (!SHS.midSpawned && SHS.enemyCount == 0) {
			SHS.enemyCount ++;
			SHS.midSpawned = true;
			GAI.Pos = "mid";
		} else if (SHS.midSpawned && (SHS.rightCount + SHS.leftCount) <= 0) {
			SHS.enemyCount ++;
			SHS.rightCount ++;
			GAI.Pos = "right";
		} else if (SHS.leftCount > SHS.rightCount) {
			SHS.enemyCount ++;
			SHS.rightCount ++;
			GAI.Pos = "right";
		} else if (SHS.leftCount < SHS.rightCount) {
			SHS.enemyCount ++;
			SHS.leftCount ++;
			GAI.Pos = "left";
		} else if (SHS.rightCount == SHS.leftCount) {
			int RandomNum = Mathf.RoundToInt(Random.value);
			if(RandomNum == 0){
				SHS.enemyCount ++;
				SHS.leftCount ++;
				GAI.Pos = "left";
			}else if(RandomNum == 1){
				SHS.enemyCount ++;
				SHS.rightCount ++;
				GAI.Pos = "right";
			}
		}
	}

	public IEnumerator spawnDelay(int D, int amount){
		for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++) {
			spawnGrunt(amount);
			yield return new WaitForSeconds (D);
		}

	}

}

From this script:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class SpawnHelperScript : MonoBehaviour {
	public int enemyCount;
	public int leftCount;
	public int rightCount;
	public bool midSpawned = false;
	public EnemySpawnScript ESC;
	public GameObject ES;

	void Awake () {
		ES = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("EnemySpawner");
		ESC = ES.GetComponent <EnemySpawnScript>();
		Debug.Log ("Awake called");
	}

	public void wave(int enemyNum, string type, int SpawnDelay){
		if (type == "grunt") {
			StartCoroutine (ESC.spawnDelay(SpawnDelay, enemyNum));
		} else {
			Debug.LogError ("Wave Enemy type non-existant!");
		}
	
	}

}

Which is being called from this script:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class waveScript : MonoBehaviour {
	public GameObject DataKeeper;
	public SpawnHelperScript SHS;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Awake () {
		DataKeeper = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("DataKeeper");
		SHS = DataKeeper.GetComponent<SpawnHelperScript>();
		SHS.wave (5, "grunt");
	}

}

It spits out this error:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set of an object SpawnHelperScript.wave (Int32 enemyNum, System.String type) (at Assets/Scripts/Game Scripts/SpawnHelperScript.cs:19)
2

It’s telling you exactly what’s wrong, on line 19 of SpawnHelperScript “type” is null. So you need to change something wherever that method is being called from because it’s passing in a string for type that hasn’t been initialized.