okay so i have a problem. some props that i have duped in the past that use wiremod don't work anymore; they fall apart upon spawning and some of their materials are missing.

however, i believe i found the cause of the problem...
whenever i spawn the broken dupes, this error appears in the console. (not that the dashes in front of the numbers are not actually there ingame. they are just space placeholders)

[Wiremod] lua/entities/gmod_wire_pod.lua:209: attempt to index local 'pod' (a nil value)
--1. SetPod - lua/entities/gmod_wire_pod.lua:209
---2. ApplyDupeInfo - lua/entities/gmod_wire_pod.lua:546
----3. PostEntityPaste - lua/entities/base_wire_entity.lua:408
-----4. oldPaste - lua/includes/modules/duplicator.lua:766
------5. Paste - lua/wire/server/wirelib.lua:1216
-------6. LeftClick - gamemodes/sandbox/entities/weapons/gmod_tool/stools/duplicator.lua:66
--------7. unknown - gamemodes/sandbox/entities/weapons/gmod_tool/shared.lua:227


now if i'm right in reading this, the problem is that the pod controllers on the dupes (they are remote control stuff) are not linked to an entity. now this is intended, and normally the dupes would spawn perfectly fine as needed. however a recent update or something has caused it to suddenly not be able to understand that the controller's aren't linked, and the whole thing falls apart.

if anyone can tell me how to fix this, i would greatly appreciate it. i worked very hard on these dupes so it is really important to me that i fix this.