Problem with objectpooling and getting NullReference Exception

[Hollow_Havoc]

This is my first post so I am sorry in advanced if i have laid this out poorly or posted it in the wrong section. I just tried to be as thorough and detailed as i could be.

I’m very new to unity and making a modified bullet hell game (thought I would set myself a challenge for my first game). I’ve so far managed to make a character and an object pool using an array for my projectiles, after I managed (albeit i really had to try) to get my frame rate under 1FPS, and decided against using simple instantiate/destroy.

I followed along with a tutorial on youtube to make an object pool and i can get it working exactly the same as he did (albeit it is an old tutorial using setActiveRecursively) the issue i am having is spawning (activating) the projectile at my players position. Currently i can only get it to spawn a 0,0,0.

Here is the code i am using:
Projectile Code;

***using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class projectileTest : MonoBehaviour {


	public float life =2.0f;
	public float speed = 10.0f;
	private float timeToDie = 0.0f;
	private Transform myTransform;


	void Start()
	{
		myTransform = transform;
	}

	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update ()
	{
		Countdown ();
		Automove ();
	}

	public void Activate()
	{
		myTransform.position = Vector3.zero;
		timeToDie = Time.time + life;

	}

	private void Deactivate()
	{
		this.gameObject.SetActive(false);
	}

	private void Countdown()
	{
		if (timeToDie < Time.time)
		{
			Deactivate();
		}
	}

	private void Automove ()
	{
		Vector3 velocity = speed * Time.deltaTime * Vector3.up;
		myTransform.Translate(velocity);
	}
}***

the script for the object pool.

***using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class objectPool : MonoBehaviour {

	GameObject[] projectiles;
	public int numOfProjectilesToCreate = 0;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
		projectiles = new GameObject[numOfProjectilesToCreate];
		InstantiateProjectiles ();
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
		{
			ActivateProjectile ();
		}
	}

	private void InstantiateProjectiles()
	{
		for (int i = 0; i < numOfProjectilesToCreate; i++)
		{
			projectiles *= Instantiate (Resources.Load ("projectiletest")) as GameObject;*

_ projectiles*.SetActive (false);_
_ }_
_ }*_

* private void ActivateProjectile()*
* {*
* for (int i = 0; i < numOfProjectilesToCreate; i++)*
* {*
_ if (projectiles*.activeInHierarchy == false)
{
projectiles.SetActive(true);
projectiles.GetComponent().Activate();
return;
}
}
}
}**
I have tried swapping out the Vector3.Zero for
transform.position = new Vector3(playerPosition.transform.position.x,playerPosition.transform.position.y,1);
after setting a new public variable in the inspector for playerPosition
I have also tried adding the same script at the end of the activate projectile function.
Been banging my head for 3 days trying to figure this one out, and i’ve exhausted every logical method my limited knowledge can muster. Every time i try and change the position of activation i get a NullReferenceException on the line when i try to set the x and y axis to playerPosition.
I’m sure the answer is glaringly obvious and i’m just missing it. So I thought the best place to ask was here._

[T27M]

I’m not a 100% sure on this one, but a while back I believe I had a similar issue. Although this may be more expensive CPU wise try searching for the player instead of assigning the player transform in the inspector.

public GameObject player;
public void Activate()
{
   if (player == null)
       player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");

   myTransform.position = new Vector3(player.transform.position.x,player.transform.position.y,1);
   timeToDie = Time.time + life;
 
}

Make sure the player object is tagged in the inspector.