I am developing the multiplayer game in unity using photon networking. I have two scenes. First is the online scene and the other contains the game. I have a player script attached to the player object. I also have another script called ‘Initiator’. This script is attached to the empty game object in the game scene. ‘Initiator’ script initiates objects if the player is master, and master and clients both should be able to intersect with this object. When I run the game the master player has no problem running the game but the client has a null reference error in the player script. How can I fix this?
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Some notes on how to fix a NullReferenceException error in Unity3D
also known as: Unassigned Reference Exception
also known as: Missing Reference Exception
also known as: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
The basic steps outlined above are:
Identify what is null
Identify why it is null
Fix that.
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This is the kind of mindset and thinking process you need to bring to this problem:
Step by step, break it down, find the problem.
Here is a clean analogy of the actual underlying problem of a null reference exception: