While instantiating getting object reference not set for no reason?

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Hello. I want to instantiate a green ball and it does work but while doing that it shows me 2 same errors that say this: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I have no idea why it would say that everything is correct and it does work like it should.

Here is the code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class SimpleBulletShootAI : MonoBehaviour {

	private GameObject playerobj;
	public GameObject GreenPlasmaBall;

	private bool allowtoshoot = false;
	private float allowtoshoottimer = 3f;
	private float damping = 50f;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	
		playerobj = GameObject.Find ("PlayerHuman");

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

		// Shoot at player
		Vector3 lookPos = playerobj.transform.position - transform.position;
		lookPos.y = 0;
		Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(lookPos);
		transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotation, Time.deltaTime * damping);

		if (allowtoshoot == false) {
			allowtoshoottimer -= Time.deltaTime;
		}

		if (allowtoshoottimer <= 0) {
			Rigidbody gunbulletinstance;
			gunbulletinstance = Instantiate(GreenPlasmaBall,transform.position,transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;
			gunbulletinstance.name = "GreenPlasmaBall";
			gunbulletinstance.AddForce(transform.forward * 5000);
			allowtoshoottimer = 3f;
		}
	
	}
}

It says that the error is on line 36 that is: gunbulletinstance.name = “GreenPlasmaBall”; if i remove that line of code then it shows me the same 2 errors on line: gunbulletinstance.AddForce(transform.forward * 5000); . Soo how can i fix this false error? please help.

2

Try replacing “Rigidbody” with “GameObject” so that your code looks like this:

GameObject gunbulletinstance;
gunbulletinstance = Instantiate(GreenPlasmaBall,transform.position,transform.rotation) as GameObject;

And then you can just set the name like:

gunbulletinstance.name = "GreenPlasmaBall";

or if you want to do it via the Rigidbody component

gunbulletinstance.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().name = "GreenPlasmaBall";