How do I know why instanciate on a PackedScene fails?

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Godot Version

4.3 beta 2

Question

I have a packed scene. when I call the _packed_scene.instanciate() in the debugger, i see a property of the scene being set; however the instanciate() function returns with null. no error message is printed.
when i try to do it at the very beginning of the _ready function of the main scene, it suceeds. I thought the packed scene may have been corrupted so i reloaded it just before calling instanciate(), that didn’t help.
** how do i figure out what’s wrong?**

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Maybe you spelled it wrong, it’s instantiate()

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Hover over the method name and click on it while holding down the CTRL key. You should be redirected to the method definition. I don’t know about an instanciate() method but I do know that the PackedScene class has an instantiate() method.

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turn out the problem was not the instantiate() but rather the down cast done in the same statement. investigating.
thanks for your advice.

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