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Question by Oweni · Jun 11, 2016 at 12:53 PM · gameobjectnullreferenceexceptionscene-loadingmain menuswitch scenes

Unity 5 NullReferenceException after loading new scene.

Hey, so I'm doing my first fps game and now I'm at the point of going from the start menu to my first scene. When that new scene loads, on the awake, in my pause game script, I set the pauseMenu.SetActive(false) (it's a Canvas and the pause game script is not attached to it but to a game manager object) and I set a bool that says isPaused to false (before the awake function).

Now the feeling is great, I'm thinking I've made it, nothing crashed, it is so easy! But... when I press on Escape (to pause the game), I get a NullReferenceException cause it can't find the pause menu anymore! Before I started working on switching scenes, that bit was working more than fine, SO, my question is, is there something to know when switching between scenes that breaks the scripts execution? My shooting doesn't work neither but my SwitchWeapon/Movement?MouseLook/ItemPickUp scripts work. Is there a black hole when switching between a Start Menu scene to an actual level scene? HELP :)

Here is my code on the PauseGame Script

     GameObject pauseMenu;
     bool isPaused = false;
 
     void Awake()
     {
         if (Application.loadedLevelName != "Start_Menu")
         {
             Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
             Cursor.visible = false;
             pauseMenu = GameObject.Find("Canvas_Pause_Menu");
             pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
             Debug.Log(isPaused + " " + pauseMenu);
         }
     }
 
     void Update()
     {
         // Here I use Application.loadedLevelName because I haven't found
         // a SceneManager function in the Unity docs to check here)
         if (Application.loadedLevelName != "Start_Menu")
         {
             if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape))
             {
                 if (!isPaused)
                 {
                     pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
                     Time.timeScale = 0f;
                     Cursor.visible = true;
                     isPaused = !isPaused;
                 }
                 else if (isPaused)
                 {
                     pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
                     Time.timeScale = 1f;
                     Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
                     Cursor.visible = false;
                     isPaused = !isPaused;
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 
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Answer by Oweni · Jun 11, 2016 at 02:40 PM

Here is the solution, hope it'll help others!

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