Question Object reference not set to an instance of an object (script name).OnTriggerEnter

I've been trying to figure out a way to fix the error Object reference not set to an instance of an object (script name).OnTriggerEnter. It does give me the line its on (14) but I am fairly new to scripting and was using a tutorial and got the error I have no idea how to fix it. Can someone help me out?


Script

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ScoringSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject ScoreText;
public int theScore;

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
theScore += 1;
ScoreText.GetComponent<Text>().text = "Pages Collected: " + theScore;
Destroy(gameObject);
}
}

 

Do you have a text attached to the ScoreText game object?

 

This is just a null ref error.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-fix-a-nullreferenceexception-error.1230297/

1. Find out what is null
2. Find out why its null
3. Fix it.

Since you're following a tutorial, go back through it and follow it more closely. Make sure you are doing every step they are doing. My guess is you either stopped early or didn't do all the steps in the inspector.

 

Yes I do