From 09f14bc9a56bc7bb54c2c24a773058b9beed7ab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Alves <seth@highfidelity.io>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:51:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] guard against nullptr deferenece

---
 libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableModelEntityItem.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableModelEntityItem.cpp b/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableModelEntityItem.cpp
index 2fedc02a2f..ade96901dc 100644
--- a/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableModelEntityItem.cpp
+++ b/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableModelEntityItem.cpp
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ void RenderableModelEntityItem::update(const quint64& now) {
                                   Q_ARG(EntityItemProperties, properties));
     }
 
-    if (!_model || _needsModelReload) {
+    if (_myRenderer && (!_model || _needsModelReload)) {
         // TODO: this getModel() appears to be about 3% of model render time. We should optimize
         PerformanceTimer perfTimer("getModel");
         getModel(_myRenderer);