Can I store a mesh in a class variable ?

No soup for you, and no answer for me =[

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Of course Unity has been screaming at me : You are trying to create a MonoBehaviour using the 'new' keyword. This is not allowed. But following the Burgzerg Arcade series, he says this is ok ignore the warning. Guess I need to find out the correct way to create, declare, then assign a variable that is a class variable. I feel Bunny83 has most closely identified the problem, however I am still bamboozled.

Revised Description :

So I make a class with some variables :

 #pragma strict
 
 public class CubeFace extends MonoBehaviour
 {
     public var faceMesh : Mesh;
     public var faceMeshFilter : MeshFilter;
     
     public var cubeVerts : Vector3[];
     public var sphereVerts : Vector3[];
     public var uvs : Vector2[];
     public var norms : Vector3[];
     public var tris : int[];
 }
 
 public class CubeToSphereMap extends MonoBehaviour
 {
     // this is the main body of the script
 }

Within the main body of the script, I declare and assign :

 private var meshUp : CubeFace;
 private var meshDown : CubeFace;
 // 4 more

Then through some functions, all those variables get populated :

 theFace = new CubeFace();
 
 theFace.cubeVerts = SomeCalculatedVerts;
 theFace.sphereVerts = SomeMoreCalculatedVerts;
 theFace.uvs = SOmeUvCoordinates;
 
 theFace.tris = commonTris;
 theFace.norms = commonNorms;

After all that happens, I build my mesh with the information :

 if ( useCube )
 {
     theMesh.vertices = theFace.cubeVerts;
 }
 else
 {
     theMesh.vertices = theFace.sphereVerts;
 }
 
 theMesh.uv = theFace.uvs;
 theMesh.triangles = theFace.tris;
 theMesh.normals = theFace.norms;
 
 theMesh.RecalculateBounds();
 theMesh.RecalculateNormals();

Ok, now directly after that , the very next line, I have tried :

 //theFace.faceMesh = new Mesh();
 theFace.faceMesh = theMesh;
 theFace.faceMeshFilter = go.GetComponent( MeshFilter );

Now in anything before where I have needed to call upon the mesh reference again, I simply use theMesh.vertices = modifiedVerts; Now when I try to do exactly the same thing, except this time the myMesh variable isn't on this script, it's a variable of another class variable :

 //meshUp.faceMeshFilter.mesh.vertices = meshUp.sphereVerts;
 Debug.Log( "cacheMesh " + meshUp.faceMesh );
 Debug.Log( "filter " + meshUp.faceMeshFilter );

And it throws a null. And I throw something too ....

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Original Question

I have a class that stores the same type of information for 6 gameObjects. It creates those gameObjects and their meshes. So this is on an empty gameObject, and the 6 mesh objects have no script :

 public class CubeFace extends MonoBehaviour
 {
     public var faceMesh : Mesh;
     public var faceMeshFilter : MeshFilter;
     // etc
 }
 
 public class CubeToSphereMap extends MonoBehaviour
 {
     private var meshUp : CubeFace;
     // etc
 }

I have no problem generating the meshes, and both sets of vertices are yielding the expected results :

 function ConstructFace( theFace : CubeFace, theName : String, theRotation : Vector3, theMaterial : Material )

The problem came while trying to modify the vertices variable of the mesh reference that was stored in the variable of the class.

 theMesh.vertices = theFace.cubeVerts; // sphereVerts; // both work happily, I have my mesh
 // etc etc etc
 theMesh.RecalculateNormals();
 // NOW HERE I am trying to store a reference to my mesh
 // to modify the vertices later
 theFace.faceMesh = theMesh;
 theFace.faceMeshFilter = go.GetComponent( MeshFilter );

So the mesh is made, but when I try to modify the verts, I get the null reference to the Mesh, and after trying another approach the MeshFilter.

 meshUp.faceMesh.vertices = meshUp.sphereVerts;
 meshUp.faceMeshFilter.mesh.vertices = meshUp.sphereVerts;
 Debug.Log( "cacheMesh " + meshUp.faceMesh );
 Debug.Log( "filter " + meshUp.faceMeshFilter );

Huh ?!

• 6 variables of the class CubeFace are made.

• information is happily stored to those class variables

• meshes are happily made reading the information of the CubeFace class

• but when I try to access either faceMesh or faceMeshFilter, I get a null reference exception : NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object CubeToSphereMap.ShowAsSphere () (at Assets/_Scripts/CubeToSphereMap.js:100)

     Debug.Log( "cacheMesh " + meshUp.faceMesh );
       Debug.Log( "filter " + meshUp.faceMeshFilter );
  
  

I hope it is not something obvious, run out of ideas and need suggestions. Many Thanks =]

The image is to show I have no problem at all making my meshes, the problem is storing that Mesh/MeshFilter in a variable.