Instantiated object is null in next frame

Stephen_Crookes · March 31, 2019, 5:20pm

I’ve got the following code

        public GameObject currentObject;
        
        // Start is called before the first frame update
        void Start()
        {

        }

        // Update is called once per frame
        void Update()
        {
            if (currentObject != null)
            {
                    //Do stuff
            }
           
        }

        public void SpawnObject(GameObject gameObject)
        {
            if (currentObject == null)
            {
                currentObject = Instantiate(gameObject);
            }
        }

The SpawnObject is called on a button click and adds a gameobject. When I click the button the gameobject is instaniated and I can see it in my scene but in the next update the currentObject variable is null and I can’t see why that would be.

Any help in spotting what I’m missing would be much appreciated.

Stephen_Crookes · March 31, 2019, 2:20pm

Further debugging shows that if I click the button to SpawnObject again the currentObject isn’t null but if I put a breakpoint on the update then it shows as null.

Stephen_Crookes · April 1, 2019, 2:23pm

Dammit. I had the prefab in the button click rather than the empty object in my scene which had the script attached.

Nina · April 1, 2019, 10:51am

Hi Stephen,

Does that mean you managed to fix the issue? If so, it would be great if you could mark your answer as the solution.