From efd70f3e040f883659f82b56b7e2715fc1cf911e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TrueJole <jole.koop@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:17:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add null checking to append_gltf_node

(cherry picked from commit 3078674600bcf971cde0f3e1abed65e65b18b593)
---
 modules/gltf/gltf_state.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/modules/gltf/gltf_state.cpp b/modules/gltf/gltf_state.cpp
index 667b5e5c89..de1ea267b0 100644
--- a/modules/gltf/gltf_state.cpp
+++ b/modules/gltf/gltf_state.cpp
@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@ GLTFBufferViewIndex GLTFState::append_data_to_buffers(const Vector<uint8_t> &p_d
 }
 
 GLTFNodeIndex GLTFState::append_gltf_node(Ref<GLTFNode> p_gltf_node, Node *p_godot_scene_node, GLTFNodeIndex p_parent_node_index) {
+	ERR_FAIL_COND_V(p_gltf_node.is_null(), GLTFNodeIndex(0));
 	p_gltf_node->set_parent(p_parent_node_index);
 	const GLTFNodeIndex new_index = nodes.size();
 	nodes.append(p_gltf_node);