From 176cb9cc8323716a0c78606ffe90292e5d32ca12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rune-scape <allie.smith.epic@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:19:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix resource picker regression

---
 editor/editor_data.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/editor/editor_data.cpp b/editor/editor_data.cpp
index f15b874c45d..e593d652ade 100644
--- a/editor/editor_data.cpp
+++ b/editor/editor_data.cpp
@@ -947,9 +947,10 @@ Variant EditorData::script_class_instance(const String &p_class) {
 	if (ScriptServer::is_global_class(p_class)) {
 		Ref<Script> script = script_class_load_script(p_class);
 		if (script.is_valid()) {
-			Object *obj = ClassDB::instantiate(script->get_instance_base_type());
+			// Store in a variant to initialize the refcount if needed.
+			Variant obj = ClassDB::instantiate(script->get_instance_base_type());
 			if (obj) {
-				obj->set_script(script);
+				obj.operator Object *()->set_script(script);
 			}
 			return obj;
 		}