Dependencies ALL returning NULL

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WOW... i am really frustrated... i cant seem to mitigate this issue... and having to continue with hard coded paths is GOING to make me burn out far too fast OR more likely break my project.

I decided to make the jump to 4.4. all was fine until i wrote a spawner to take a packed scene and instantiate it in the main scene. the spawner was for two types of objects in the long run so i made it "modular". My initial testing showed it worked ( as i knew it should ). I drag/dropped a file from the file system into the inspector and ran the scene... instantiated no issue.

I then made another scene and used the exact script as the first node... however running the project they both now returned NULL. unless i set the PACKEDSCENE = to preloaded path... it would return null. i ensured it was properly set in the inspector AND in the main scene where they "lived". tried to clear them... delete them... nothing would "fix this".

I asked on GODOT discord and was told that normally people just dont know what they are doing and then silence.... i decided it wasnt a huge issue and moved on... well....

now i tried to make my UI actually functional... set all the nodes needed as scene unique... and ctrl+drag/drop them into the script as "@ontready". i then run the scene and as soon as the values go to update from the "scene unique nodes" it gives me an error that the node is not there... when im 100% sure it is.

I then tried to run the project in godot 4.3... and it is doing the same thing. ANYONE have any idea what is going on here? is there a work around? is godot 4.4 actually STABLE... bc this is broken AF IMO.

ANY help would be greatly appreciated... this SUCKS.

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xyz

REVBENT Isn't the whole purpose of scene unique nodes to avoid specifying whole paths in the first place? So just @onready var year_slider = %YearSlider, given that the script is in the same scene as the unique node.

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i decided to move into 4.3 and i have been remaking this ui script... and the scene unique nodes are showing how you showed... that must be some bug with 4.4 trying to initialize them with the "$" path (as that is how that would be written out). I had enabled a plugin that i removed from this project... i think that must have broken the dependencies for this project.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/104769

the above i think is related to the packedscene issue... and that must have infected my decencies (?).

i really wanted to avoid remaking this whole project (AGAIN) but i think i may have to.

AS ALWAYS @xyz .... thank you for your time and help with everything. You do this whole community a great service buddy!!!!!

xyz

REVBENT No need to switch to 4.4 in the middle of the project unless you desperately need some feature that is added in 4.4 and 4.3 doesn't have it. If you can't point your finger at that feature - don't change the engine version. You'll save yourself from a lot of headache.

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no i don't need anything 4.4 related... i figured i was more future proofing myself since i I planned to rework this project entirely AND noticed 4.4 was "stable" for some time now.

i found an entirely better way to structure what i was doing... and its needed to be reworked in many aspects. I am still on the fence since i've had zero issues in 4.3

Toxe

REVBENT Can you upload a minimal project that shows this issue? I don't really understand the problem or how you could run into it.

At what point are you trying to access your nodes? Are you manually creating the parent scene by hand? Maybe the nodes aren't ready or in the scene tree yet or something like that.

Also, did you

try deleting your .godot folder before opening your project in 4.4?
try Godot 4.5?
run Project -> Tools -> Upgrade Project Files after opening in 4.4?