im getting an error which state that it

[quiet wave]

any help would be appreciated

[stiff oak]

you cut off the liune numbers in your screenshots :((

the saddest of sadnesses

!code paste sites are better for sharing code

[simple delta]

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[stiff oak]

anyway it seems like the stateMachine variable is null

which means you didn't properly initialize it.

[quiet wave]

https://gdl.space/ejemuyozug.cs
https://gdl.space/kojuzeloci.cs

[stiff oak]

thankn you

so yeah again

it seems like the stateMachine variable is null
which means you didn't properly initialize it.

you'd have to assign stateMachine somewhere to a valid reference to your state machine

Showing the baseState code would be useful

and wherever you create or initialize these states

[quiet wave]

they're assigned in the base state script

or do i still need to do it for each script?

https://gdl.space/itesaxakor.cs

the basestate script

[stiff oak]

This code doesn't assign it to anything

it merely declares the variable

you would have to actually assign it to something

public StateMachine stateMachine; < this is just a declaration of a variable

to assign it to something you need to do stateMachine = something; somewhere

presumably this should be done at the point when you create the state

In such cases it's usually best if you use a constructor to ensure the machine is always set when creating the state.

[quiet wave]

so something like this?
https://gdl.space/luwamezono.cs

[stiff oak]

You would need to do something like:

        patrolstate = new PatrolState();
        patrolState.stateMachine = this;

but it would be better if you made a constructor

then you could do cs patrolState = new PatrolState(this);