Destroying props

[Hoodlum]

I created a neat "now you see it, now you don't" effect where I press a button, and a secret wall covers the statue, seconds later the statue is mysteriously gone.

It works like a charm, but about 5 seconds after the secret door reveals that it is gone, the program crashes and I'm returned to the editor with this error: "attempt to index global "dragonstatue" (a nil value) X"

I only get the error after I've tested the event.

The destroy script is:

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function destroydragon()

	dragonstatue:destroy()
	end

Anyone else having either the same trouble or any solution?

[Phitt]

I assume you have a timer running to destroy the statue. You have to deactivate the timer or else the function will activate again, which causes a crash since the 'dragonstatue' entity doesn't exist anymore (you just destroyed it after all).

[Hoodlum]

Ah! I assumed it had something to do with the function repeating itself...
Wouldn't guess it was actually the timer being the culprit.

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Thanks for the quick reply!

[Komag]

it's a good habit to pretty much always set your timers to deactivate