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Question by paschal · Jul 26, 2011 at 03:51 AM · nullreferenceexception

NullReferenceException problem

hello i am making a game following a tutorial. i was here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-oZfi4utY&feature=channel_video_title

i was trying to make a line between my player and the enemy but it doesnt show up, i did exactly as he did and i got this.

NullReferenceException UnityEngine.Transform.get_position () (at C:/BuildAgent/work/6bc5f79e0a4296d6/Runtime/ExportGenerated/Editor/BaseClass.cs:771) EnemyAI.Update () (at Assets/hach and slash scripts/EnemyAI.cs:26)

please someone help me!

btw here is the enemy AI code:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class EnemyAI : MonoBehaviour {
     public Transform target;
     public int moveSpeed;
     public int rotationSpeed;
     
     private Transform myTransform;
     
     void awake() {
         myTransform = transform;
     } 
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         GameObject go  = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
         
         target = go.transform;
         
     
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         Debug.DrawLine(target.position, myTransform.position, Color.yellow);
         
         // look at target
         myTransform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(myTransform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(target.position, myTransform.position), rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
     
     }
 }

the error came in this line: Debug.DrawLine(target.position, myTransform.position, Color.yellow);

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avatar image DaveA · Jul 26, 2011 at 06:18 AM 0
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Please post code

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can you post your EnemyAI.cs script?

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Answer by Bovine · Jul 26, 2011 at 12:13 PM

I am guessing your FindGameObjectWithTag() returned null and therefore target is null.

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Answer by Peter G · Jul 26, 2011 at 12:29 PM

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/47830/what-is-a-null-reference-exception-in-unity.html

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Answer by krsean · Jun 25, 2013 at 02:24 PM

I think you need to change your awake() to Awake(), to override the method.

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Yep the Awake() method isn't being called and so myTransform is null

Technically speaking you aren't overriding anything as the engine finds the method through its name and not through some polymorphic base class

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