Preloaded scene is no longer instantiating and not sure how to diagnose the issue

[bajingus]

Godot Version

4.3

Question

I have a scene that is no longer instantiating. It was working before but some recent change must have caused it to break… Here’s the code snippet where it gets hit:

And where the resource gets loaded (in a globally loaded script)

The path is ok too:

Here’s what the global looks like in the inspector compared to other preloaded scenes…

So my question is how tf am I suppose to diagnose the issue? Is there a warning log that would help or anything?? I’ve read before that it could be corrupted scenes but again, how do I diagnose that myself?

Thanks

[bajingus]

The error in the console:

The scene and all its nodes:

The .tscn file as text:

Both of which definitely have nodes…

[sancho2]

Print out the value of Resources.weapon in the NewWeapon function.
The output will tell you if it is a valid node.

Note that pictures of scene trees and errors are good.
Pictures of code suck because we can’t cut and paste in reply.

[bajingus]

Ah yea, I should copy paste code snippets, thanks.

Well, a random shot in the dark of loading the scene within the function seemed to work… not sure why preloading the scene wouldnt work while loading does…

func NewWeapon() -> C_Weapon:
	var weapon_scene : PackedScene = load("res://Game_Objects/Weapons/Weapons/C_Weapon.tscn")
	var new_weapon : C_Weapon = weapon_scene.instantiate()
	temp_node.add_child(new_weapon)
	#var test = Resources.projectile.instantiate()
	if weapon_scene.can_instantiate() == false:
		printerr("RIP")
	return new_weapon

I will look into printing what you said out of curiosity… I’m not really satisfied with this fix.

[bajingus]

(Changing it to load from preload inside my global References also works)

[bajingus]

When the scene is loaded via load

	print(Resources.weapon)

Prints:
<PackedScene#-9223371864770868831>

Inspector shows:

When loaded via preload it prints:
<PackedScene#-9223371964343646838>

preload() inspector gives:

Pretty similar looking outputs- but load() is definitely working loading it as a PackedScene whereas preload is loading it as a generic object…? Bleh I have a feeling I should move on and not try to understand why preload is failing…

thanks though