warning CS0649: Field is never assigned to, and will always have its default value `null'

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1

In short, I’m making a simple 2D space shooter game. For the ship, I have a basic ammo counter. It doesn’t have anything complex on it yet. Just the code stating how much ammo the player has. However, I get the warning mentioned above and I cant find out why.

    //Reference to the text mesh for the Ammo count. 
    public TextMesh ammoTextMesh; 
    //Contains a copy of the original text to be later 
    //modified for a dynamic value. 
    private string AmmoText; 

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {

    updateAmmo (10); 
    }

    public void updateAmmo (int value) {

    ammoTextMesh.text = AmmoText;
    ammoTextMesh.text += value; 
    }

This is all there is to it right now, and it mimics the exact same code I have for player health, yet the health isnt throwing a code. I do also have an ammo text gameObject, which I ensured MANY times was attached to the HUD script being used above.

2

The error means what it says. AmmoText is private and never initialized to any value. You are then trying to use ‘AmmoText’.

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