Resolved Error in camera tutorial

Hi all,
i just finished the camera tutorial : https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/controlling-unity-camera-behaviour?language=en#
but an error occured at compile time.
I double checked my code but it is as intented in the tutorial.
Not sure what the error means neither how to correct it.

"NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
ShipTracker.LateUpdate () (at Assets/ShipTracker.cs:32)"

Thank you for helping.
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It's a null error. So you have something null, but we can't help you because we can't see your code. Show us your code with code tags. ShipTracker script. I can tell you it's on line 32 you have a null value. Learn to debug these because it's such a common error.

 

Hi Brathnann,
than k you for answering , here is my code

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class ShipTracker : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public Transform trackedObject;
8.     public float maxDistance = 10;
9.     public float moveSpeed = 20;
10.     public float updateSpeed = 10;
11.     [Range(0,10)]
12.     public float currentDistance = 5;
13.     private string moveAxis = "Mouse ScrollWheel";
14.     private GameObject ahead;
15.     private MeshRenderer _renderer;
16.     private float hideDistance = 1.5f;
17.     // Start is called before the first frame update
18.     void Start()
19.     {
20.         ahead = new GameObject("ahead");
21.         _renderer = trackedObject.gameObject.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();
22.     }
23.  
24.     // Update is called once per frame
25.     void LateUpdate()
26.     {
27.         ahead.transform.position = trackedObject.position + trackedObject.forward * (maxDistance * 0.25f);
28.         currentDistance += Input.GetAxisRaw(moveAxis) * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
29.         currentDistance = Mathf.Clamp(currentDistance, 0, maxDistance);
30.         transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, trackedObject.position + Vector3.up * currentDistance - trackedObject.forward * (currentDistance + maxDistance * 0.5f), updateSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
31.         transform.LookAt(ahead.transform);
32.        _renderer.enabled = (currentDistance > hideDistance);
33.     }
34. }

 

Sorry to bother you,

i solved my mistake, i had a child object in my player which got the meshrenderer slot,
so removing the parent solved the error, my bad , sorry for disturbing.

 

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