Question by Mahunreah · Feb 25, 2019 at 09:25 PM · gameobject setactive referencing reference-other-object

Script is losing references once gameobjects get disabled. How can I fix this?

Hi :)

I have a couple GameObjects in my scene with tags attached. In my start function, I will store references to them in variables (this works) and disable these GameObjects afterwards, since the player doesn't need to know they are there yet (this works, too).

But now, I want to re-enable these GameObjects when the player presses a UI Button, which leads to "Object reference not set to instance of an object", which makes me tear my hair out.

Code-example looks like this; the Cape is tagged with "FF_Capa" and will be found and lost in the start-method:

 public GameObject superHeroCape;
 
 public void Start()
 {
     superHeroCape = GameObject.FindWithTag("FF_Capa");
     superHeroCape.SetActive(false);
 }
 
 public void capa ()
 {
     superHeroCape.SetActive(true);
 }

How can I make my script understand that it shouldn't lose its references?

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Cornelis-de-Jager · Feb 25, 2019 at 09:30 PM 0

That should work. Don't see why it would fail

Mahunreah Cornelis-de-Jager · Feb 26, 2019 at 09:06 AM 0

I kind of feared this would be the case... :/ I commented the line about "setActive false" out and it was working as intended in void capa (), so it has to do with disabling it, as far as I understand. Plus, this is not the only instance of this happening; at least three other references get lost like this right after finding the corresponding GameObjects... But thank you for your input. Guess I 'll have to hope for a miracle then ;)